i havent..... i guess am a bad mexican catholic :O) i do beleive in god but i no longer consider myself "catholic" i guess. lately ive been trying 2 watch every sunday on trinity broadcasting joel osteen he is AWESOME.
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i havent..... i guess am a bad mexican catholic :O) i do beleive in god but i no longer consider myself "catholic" i guess. lately ive been trying 2 watch every sunday on trinity broadcasting joel osteen he is AWESOME.
When I'm reading a book or story based on another work, such as another book or movie, I like to check out the earlier work first. So I read the Book of Revelations because I had wanted to read a short science fiction story based on it. Scared the shit out of me. That and the predictions of Nostradamus kept me in a constant state of panic through the ages of 8 until about 20. And you wonder why I'm as weird as I am? LOL!
My thoughts on the Bible are this, and no disrespect meant to anyone who is a firm believer...
Take a work of literature written about 1900. Look at the cultural differences in the text from the way things are worded now and the differences in the social, economic and political norms of that time compared with now. It's quite a difference. People read the original Alice's Adventures in Wonderland like it's some really avant garde children's story, but all the bizzarre characters and situations were really simple parodies of victorian life and not quite as outlandish as they seem to us.
Now consider the huge changes in a work that was made around a hundred years ago and try to imagine the differences in a work that was made over a thousand years ago. Then think about the way words and sentences are warped when trying to translate them from one language to another. So here we have a work that was made over a thousand years ago, in a different language, that was probably quite different than that language is even today. How can you take this book word for word and run your life by it. The book you are reading has to be so vastly different than the book that was written, regardless of wether you belive it was written by the guidance of divine hands or not. Them divine hands would have had to see the book through countless translations, reprints and interpretations to get it to being what it is today.
Since they believe it's straight from the robed-ones own mouth, they think it's unchanging and indisputable. It is impossible for them to believe that anything in the bible could be mistranslated, because that would defeat the beliefs behind the book.Quote:
Originally Posted by WWC-DonMike
I know what you mean about those stories making you nervous, my mom had one of those huge hardback bibles full of scary paintings. To this day I have yet to read a book full of so much blood, violence, and all around nastiness. I mean, pretty much everyone on earth dies in it, more than once! Even the hero is beaten and bloodily murdered.
One of the things that struck me as most crazy and fear inspiring about it, was a particularly nasty story where in the end, a woman is murdered just for trying to sneak one last look at her home as it's being destroyed.
Yup, evil subversive shit.
Designed (and honed) to justify oppression (as are all religions, including buddhism)
Should be forbidden for children under the age of 18.
Had it read out loud during two years in "regular" school, second & third grade.
- And it's taken me till now, not to flinch, when renouncing the drivel.