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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: Oeconomicus who wrote (21133)7/10/2005 1:31:54 PM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) of 28931
 
"which were themselves written versions of even more ancient oral accounts based on even more ancient historical events that may or may not have happened at all, much less as they are told today. They were told and then written to convey a message and not as purely factual histories. If you don't understand that, then you are an idiot."

Then YOU are the idiot. Because I have always espoused the position that these are just creation myth stories that did not happen or have little basis in fact. It is greg or e's position that the bible is inerrant and that every word is revealed and absolutely reliable scripture from a Supreme Being.

"You also seem to have trouble with the simple notion that society and its standards of morality have evolved over the millennia since the men in those stories made war on each other and treated the women of their society as property"

Again...that is ludicrous. I know you are new to this thread but I have argued over thousands of posts that morality has evolved as people have evolved. Get with the program, Kid!

"That you think out of context bits of Old Testament stories prove your apparent belief (or rhetorical point you are obsessed with making) that Christianity today (and by extension Judaism and Islam since these texts are part of those religions, too) is evil only proves your ignorance"

You apparently do not understand what "out of context" means. And I said nothing about the evils of Christianity. I spoke to the outrageous depravity of the acts which I quoted from the bible. Not all passages from either the Old or the New testaments are cruel or repugnant to modern thought.

It is clearly my opinion that the bible is a a creation myth accompanied by the oral stories that grew up around it. During the middle ages one was not permitted to even question the Divinity of the Christian Scriptures. It was heresy and such people who rationally questioned the obvious myths of the bible were put to death. The primitives who starred in their own biblical myths knew next to nothing of science or geography and when Europe went into the Dark Ages of Faith--progress came to a stop until the Renaissance. The search for Eden was a serious issue right up until past the time of Columbus. Columbus sincerely believed he had found Eden and wrote: "I am convinced that it is the spot of the earthly paradise whither no one can go but by God's permission."

If we wish for society to continue to evolve morally, then we must continue to recognise and discard the primitive myths that have been so zealously defended and so reluctantly admitted by the Church over centuries. Your little fit of temper does not assist in that.

"You can write all the lengthy, ranting, incoherent posts you want, but you will only expose the greater depth of your arrogance, intolerance and ignorance."

I don't need to be lengthy: YOU ARE A MORON!
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