Llyricist

Get things straight???

heh heh heh

brighid

That made me laugh this morning - thank you!

Brighid

Fred

As far as I'm aware, Viagra will help straighten things out, but there will still be a slight bend.

Bumble Bee Tuna

Although it would be hard work, perhaps priests should try to erect new temples to give God burnt Viagra offerings.

Well, God's been hardening our hearts for so long, it would only be fair if we hardened something for him, too!

-B

Infidelettante

Thank you CX, it was right where I left it.

Mt 13:13 "Therefore I speak to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand."

I think this is not the only verse the Rev. doesn't understand.

JT

Sojourner553

One issue I have is to assume the "flatness" of the earth is the worst error in the Bible.

How about the biblical verse that declares witches exist and should be killed.

How much morality during the Dark Ages/Reformation did we see from society executing innocent people from this superstitious belief?

How much morality do we see from right wing Christians harassing OTHER religious Christians who happen to be gay.

S'exuse me on the morality part...I don't see it.

Other examples:


Examples where God Told the Ancient Hebrews to Kill

Within the Old Testament, God's benevolence is generally reserved primarily
for the hebrews, with God urging them to destroy their rival Canaanites
in the region. Some examples will illustrate this:

In Numbers 31:17-18 God commands Moses to kill the Midianites. Moses later
interprets this to his commanders as follows: "kill every male among the
little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.
But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him, keep
alive for yourselves."

* When Jericho was destroyed, God ordered that all of its inhabitants be
killed, "both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and ass".
Only Rahab, a woman of ill-repute was spared.

* According to Joshua 11, when the hebrews invaded Canaan, "The Israelites
plundered all these cities and kept for themselves the cattle and any other
spoil they took; but they put every living soul to the sword until they had
destroyed every one; they did not leave alive any that drew breath."

"It was the Lord's purpose that they should offer an obstinate resistance
to the Israelites in battle, and that thus they [the Canaanites] should
be annihilated without mercy and utterly destroyed."

* 1 Samuel 6:19 recounts how over fifty thousand people of Bethshemesh were
struck dead by God, because a few of them, who were working in the field,
happened to peek inside the divine Ark of the Covenant, "And he slew some
of the men of Bethshemesh, because they looked into the ark of the Lord;
he slew seventy men of them, and the people mourned because the Lord
had made a great slaughter among the people."

* I Samuel 15:3 God commands Saul to: "go and smite Amalek, and utterly
destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman,
infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." (God is later reported
angry with Saul because he did not kill all the animals--and therefore has
Saul killed in battle, replacing him with King David.)

* 2 Kings 2:23-4 tells how Elisha cursed a group of children in the name
of the Lord for making fun of his bald head. Two bears arrived on the scene
and ate the children up in punishment: "He went up from there to Bethel;
and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the
city and jeered at him, saying, 'Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!
And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of
the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the
boys."


Many more examples here:

http://mac-2001.com/philo/crit/ETHICS.TXT
http://mac-2001.com/philo/crit/index.html

keyser_soze

Not many assume the gaffs about flat earth's and cud chewing rabbits are the worst part of the bible...Most of us, like you, would point to the various atrocities and the blatant "in your face" hatred that the xian god represents.