Posted on 06/25/2005 12:30:52 PM PDT by Alusch
Who wrote the Bible?
The Bible is an Extraordinary Book: A book which claims infallibility; which aspires to absolute authority over mind and body; which demands unconditional surrender to all its pretensions upon penalty of eternal damnation, is an extraordinary book and should, therefore, be subjected to extraordinary tests. ..
The Truth is that the Bible is: A Collection of Writings of Unknown Date and Authorship Rendered into English From Supposed Copies of Supposed Originals Unfortunately Lost.
And if you understand, then you will recognize the truth. And he who understands will keep silent. What do we see as the result of this silence? Over eight hundred years of Crusades, the Inquisition, and general suppression, and in our present day, the wars between the Israelis and Palestinians based on the claim that Israel is the Promised Land, and that it belongs to the Jews.
Religion is a form of coercing obedience.
The Old Testament is []written down from oral sources of myth and legend with some history mixed in ... it is also entirely likely that there never was a united kingdom of Israel in Palestine, but that these stories of a great kingdom were tribal memories of something else altogether. The author of J is estimated to have lived between 848 and 722 BC and the author of E between 922 and 722 BC. Thus it is that E is probably the older document and J represented either a different perspective, or changes that were added.
.. Two hundred years of intensive excavations and study of the remains of ancient Egypt and Palestine have failed to support the Exodus story The Kingdom of David and the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem never existed as described by the Bible. ..
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/biblewho1.htm
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Good luck with your propaganda.
The funny thing is .. when a person gets born again .. their whole view of the Bible changes to: "the Word of GOD".
Sorry.
Check out it's other posts.
Troll be gone.
From his other posts, he doesn't seem to have much regard for the Jews either.
Is there any way that this discussion ends well? I think not.
Without religion there is no moral basis for our laws. Prior to the arrival of religious faith, justice was the good of the strong - by virtue of having, say, better skills with a club, you were entitled to take that which belonged to your neighbour. What was there to stop you?
Religion created a system by which the highest of the high and the lowest of the low were bound by a common set of rules, set by the Almighty. Justice was no longer the good of the strong, but the will of God. We are fortunate that the Judeo Christian tradition focuses on the individual's relationship with God, which means that the individual is free and also accountable - in both the church or synagogue, and in a court of law.
Even if you are an athiest, you should be grateful for the inheritance of liberty that religion has provided.
However, I suspect you're a moron, so I'll suggest you simply shut the bloody hell up.
Ivan
777 hits on Google! Oh man, this guy MUST be speaking for God, eh? LOL
Nor the Brits.
I don't think he stuck around to play,
Pity. Fresh Troll is divine.
George W. Bush: Current President of the United States, although not really, since he stole the election with help from brother Jeb and his daddy's friends. Semantic aphasia, obvious joy in death and destruction, misguided belief in his great exploits, and his direct line to "God" point to the fact that he is a psychopath. Comes from a long line of psychopaths and Nazi supporters.
Using the excuse of 9/11, Bush is pushing the Patriot Act through and is declaring perpetual war. Further Reading: Bush Wars, Bush Family Values Photo Album, DUBYASPEAK, George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography, Bush and Hitler: Compare and Contrast, Timeline of Treason: The Bush Family Connections to the Nazis
Karl Rove: The guy who shapes all the speeches and carefully crafts all of Bush's appearances for the best hypnotic effect on the sheeple. Recently promoted to deputy White House chief of staff. The promotion expands his power from politics and strategy to also include coordination of foreign and domestic policies. Karl Rove's grandfather helped run the Nazi Party, and helped build the Birkenau Death Camp. Further Reading: Fourth Reich?
Alusch - member since June 21, 2005. Disruptor Alert
You have been Zotted
Guess he's not crazy after all.
Our "FreeThinker" has been zzzzzotted. ~giggle~
ping for later
This one didn't last long.
A supposed copy of a supposed original unfortunately lost: this sounds very much like the definition of a troll.
At the very time that the Ten Plagues brought Egypt to its knees, it was in the middle of its Golden Age. Nor are there any records (and the Egyptians were fastidious about keeping records) of Jewish slaves at any time.
That is very troubling.
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