Posted: Sat 08 Dec, 2007 12:14 am
It saddens me when I see people take scripture out of context in order to twist it.
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It's a very old and very big book. It's bound to be full of stuff that seems morally incorrect today.King Harold wrote:Useful moral lessons?
One only needs to look at http://www.evilbible.com/ to learn(or confirm the suspicion) that the bible is not so morally-correct after all..
leofox wrote:Guys.. the bible is just a book. It's been translated a couple of times, and it's about 2000 years old (let alone the old testament).
The bible has some useful moral lessons in there, but you cannot read everything in it as fact! Regardless of being religious or not.
digitan wrote: Low blow, leofox. Low blow.
All kidding aside, inorder for leofox's comment to be a low blow it has to hold water to some degree. As far as king Harold's goes, it's a rather empty blow hard.king harold wrote:Well, my history-senses tell me that you are right about it having been morally-correct long ago (long as in "about 2k years"), which that shows how twisted crazy and barbaric people were back then
It's still 'in there' though, so that won't help people who believe the bible is a "book of truth" (aka 'extremists')< and you're a Cotton-Headed Ninnymuggins
But by saying "God did it" you are not explaining anything at all. In fact, you're raising an even bigger question - who made God?Homestar wrote:As if mere life itself wasn't enough, I still am amazed how things as complicated as DNA, a written language which an impossible progression of chances aided by natural selection theoretically could have caused, can be viewed as anything less than an act of God. Even a language that is founded, created, or made by chance is completely worthless without a valid interpretation. I can read Japanese, French, and Arabic all I want, but it won't mean anything to me because I can't understand or interpret those languages. How does Darwinian chance provide an interpretation for the cells making up our bodies to read the archives of DNA contained within them. Languages cannot happen, They must be created by a being who assigns meaning to combinations of characters.
The beautiful thing about science is that it needs no faith, it just needs your eyes (i remember this being a quote of someone but i can't remember who said it). It doesn't give you a 'God did it' explanation of everything, but instead tries to find a logical explanation. In that sense, religion is stopping us from finding the truth.Homestar wrote: It takes little "faith"* (*belief that is not based on proof) to believe in God, but it takes a lot of "faith" to believe there is no God.
Then why does religion keep getting brought up? I'm merely responding to what was said.leofox wrote:Homestar wrote: But i remember this being about Al Gore...