….unfortunately those who profess to value this book the most derive the least benefit from it. They mistake the meaning and purpose of its writers. They accept as facts its most palpable fictions. Its most laughable stories are read with the most solemn visages. This serious method of treating the ridiculous has produced an army of morose dyspeptics who mistake indigestion for religion and intolerance for virtue.
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I agree. Often I listen to people try to defend the bible that have little knowledge of what is in it. On call in shows you can hear their voice change when they are directed to parts they had no idea of and they realize the preachers lied to them. Hugs
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Most people I have interacted with tell me they believe in the bible until we start talking about it and they say they need to go read.
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You… mischief making, rascally, scalawag!
I like it 🙂
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I can’t help it.
How can one claim a belief in something they know little to nothing about
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Oh that’s easy. Through indoctrination and constant threats of eternal damnation.
Read? You encourage them to actually read? I suppose next you want them to comprehend? 😉
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Next I want them to stop telling me they believe in the book coz for certain they don’t.
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Good question, Mak. But they do it all the time!
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Or the people who own the book, but it lives unopened on the book shelf.
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And there are many such
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Here’s a fun definition for ya’: A Bibliobooty: “Someone on whose buttocks is written the entire meaning of life; yet it cannot be read for they are wearing pants.”
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Haha
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….Or sitting on it! Hahaha.
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:-))
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This is one fantastic quotation, my Kenyan brother, blogging buddy and most unholy Sanctified Exalted One! I am certain of one thing, there are many believers out there who are now rolling over in their graves! Naked hugs!
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The unholy one likes the quote too.
Hugs and nice weekend
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As one for whom the word “God” has meaning, I do value the Bible simply because it provides an insight into how (a) one tribe developed their concept of God, and (b) the development of ideas during the early days of a new religion.
It teaches us nothing about God, but a lot about how humankind developed a mythology around the concept of God.
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No contest there Barry.
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Very well said. Great quote.
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Thank you my friend
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Proof positive that ignorance is an exalted virtue for far too many.
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In another thread a guy has told me I need to stop using my brain to understand stuff, I should use my heart, only then will I understand god stuff. Ignorance is exalted as the highest virtue. Questioning the highest vice
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He has no other argument to make because knowledge isn’t on his side. But, even his “heart” argument is fallacious because there is no causation between experiencing human emotion and the belief in god(s). Such beliefs are wholly dependent upon faith; or, in other words, the acceptance of an idea as true without sufficient supporting evidence or reasoning.
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I should have told him this. In fact that’s what I shall do.
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🙂
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Your “heart” only represents a metaphor anyway. It’s a muscle. It can’t understand anything!
It is not a separate path to truth
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Exactly. I interpreted the metaphor as representing subjective emotions.
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