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Nobel Winner Calls Bible "Handbook of Bad Morals"
Unspun America ^ | October 22, 2009

Posted on 10/22/2009 11:07:40 PM PDT by PatriotJG

At the launch event for his latest book, Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago attacked the bible, saying that the world would be better off without it. The writers latest book "Cain" is an ironic retelling of the story of Cain and Abel from the book of genesis. Looks like President Obama is in great company. ...

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TOPICS: Religion
KEYWORDS: atheism; nobelprize

1 posted on 10/22/2009 11:07:40 PM PDT by PatriotJG
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To: PatriotJG

Maybe this idiot, Saramago, can say that to my face. He’ll be calling for God to protect him.

I guess this is what the libs love, attacking Christians. I wonder when he is going to say the same thing about the koran.


2 posted on 10/22/2009 11:18:35 PM PDT by ABQHispConservative (A good Blue Dog is an unelected Blue Dog. Ditto Rino's!)
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To: PatriotJG

Whoever this clown is, he’ll be forgotten in a few years. The list of Nobel Literature winners is, for the most part, not exactly distinguished.

The list of non-winners (Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Chekhov, Ibsen, Zola, Henry James, etc.) stands in contrast to nonentity Nobel laureates like Salvatore Quasimodo, Halldor Laxness, and Frans Silanpaa.


3 posted on 10/22/2009 11:25:52 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("I'm sure this goes against everything you've been taught, but right and wrong do exist"-Dr House)
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To: PatriotJG

Without the Bible there would be no Koran. So this dufus just implied that Islam is useless too; will the imams and ayatollahs denounce him?


4 posted on 10/22/2009 11:27:28 PM PDT by rfp1234
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To: Sharondownunderinnz; Quix; GiovannaNicoletta; AmericanGirlRising
Though sane people no longer take the Noble Prize seriously, we are no longer in a sane world.

There will be some who cannot think for themselves, who will figure that since he is a Noble Prize winner, he must know what he's talking about, therefore must be right.

Things are building rapidly.

Everyday that goes by, I'm listening for trumpet music.

Time is running out. Time to impact those around you.

5 posted on 10/22/2009 11:36:29 PM PDT by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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To: ABQHispConservative
I wonder when he is going to say the same thing about the koran.

One should definitely *not* hold one's breath while awaiting that possibility. Asphyxiation is hazardous to one's health...

the infowarrior

6 posted on 10/22/2009 11:41:32 PM PDT by infowarrior
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To: ABQHispConservative

>> I guess this is what the libs love, attacking Christians

And Jews.


7 posted on 10/22/2009 11:42:25 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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To: PatriotJG

Nobel Winner Calls Bible “Handbook of Bad Morals”

but does he have the balls to call the Quran the same?


8 posted on 10/22/2009 11:54:33 PM PDT by Ancient Drive (DRINK COFFEE! - Do Stupid Things Faster with More Energy!)
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To: PatriotJG
Read this one from The Ignorant Fisherman:

"Obama and the Left-Lucifer's Wrecking Ball"

http://www.theignorantfishermen.com/2009/08/left-lucifers-wrecking-ball.html

I especially like this statement:

"when the laws of nature and of nature’s God are rejected, violated and trampled on, and when lawlessness and non-absolutism are sought in their stead, expect to reap the whirlwind of mass decadence, violence and anarchy (Psalm 11:3; Isa. 5:20; Rom. 1:18-32)."

9 posted on 10/22/2009 11:55:35 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Obama Administration is a blueprint for Fabian Socialism.)
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To: PatriotJG

With hateful idiots like this guy running about, I’m so blessed to not be of this world. He got his prize here, we get ours for eternity. Kinda shows who the real winner is.


10 posted on 10/23/2009 12:05:26 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: denydenydeny
"Salvatore Quasimodo, Halldor Laxness, and Frans Silanpaa."

Who?

11 posted on 10/23/2009 12:08:26 AM PDT by shibumi (" ..... then we will fight in the shade.")
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To: denydenydeny

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a very worthy and deserving winner, back in the early/mid seventies. I cannot think of too many since who I consider meritorious enough...Gabriel Garcia Marquez (100 years of Solitude) was skillful, but quite on the left!

A.A.C.


12 posted on 10/23/2009 12:21:35 AM PDT by AmericanArchConservative (Armour on, Lances high, Swords out, Bows drawn, Shields front ... Eagles UP!)
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To: mountn man

Been feeilng that way for several decades.

Certainly increasingly intensely for 20-30 years.

And still . . . STILL some !!!SOME!!!! FREEPER “CHRISTIANS” are clueless.

Thx.


13 posted on 10/23/2009 12:43:07 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: presently no screen name

INDEED.

RIGHT YOU ARE.


14 posted on 10/23/2009 12:51:45 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: mountn man
Thanks for the ping!

The spirit of Antichrist is alive and well and is getting stronger and stronger in our world and we can expect this trampling of Christianity to continue.

All things having to do with Jesus Christ must be eradicated for Satan to have his seven years and the blotting out of Christ from this world will get more and more fanatical as we get nearer to the Tribulation.

That's what this is.

15 posted on 10/23/2009 1:12:17 AM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta
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To: PatriotJG
The Bible is a handbook of bad morals.

It is also a handbook of good morals. A major portion of it tells the history of the Israelites - the good and the bad. Sure, it contains lessons about life - both positive (what to do) and negative (what not to do).

The ten commandments have both positive (Thou shalt) and negative (Thou shalt not) injunctions.

16 posted on 10/23/2009 3:16:43 AM PDT by reg45 (Be calm everyone. The idiot children are in charge!)
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