Religions are mostly wrong

Cypress said:
I always considered Falwell a particularly insidious spawn of Beelzebub
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A fair assessment and agreed.

Once in the 90s I was visiting my Mom. She lived in Roanoke and we went over to Lynchburg to visit some of her friends. At lunch in a restaurant his name came up and I made an unkind remark. My mom looked a little nervous and said "keep your voice down" then looked around. It was then that I immediately took an even greater dislike to the scumbag.
 
Doc Dutch said:
A fair assessment and agreed.

Once in the 90s I was visiting my Mom. She lived in Roanoke and we went over to Lynchburg to visit some of her friends. At lunch in a restaurant his name came up and I made an unkind remark. My mom looked a little nervous and said "keep your voice down" then looked around. It was then that I immediately took an even greater dislike to the scumbag.
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It's important not to embarrass Mom, but I understand being pissed at the cult of Falwell
 
BartenderElite said:
If you really look at most of them, so many of the tenets & principles are from a "human" perspective, and tie into human emotions like fear & hate, and also human reactions to that, like worship & sacrifice.

It always begs the question: why do we put SO much on words that were written by ancient peoples, who had no understanding of the world or universe around them, and were largely ruled by fear & superstition? I mean, just looking at the Bible - it's a mess of contradictions. And God is sometimes portrayed as this immature, easy-to-anger being, who is all kinds of sensitive and needs to be adored & worshipped all the time.

It doesn't take a big leap of logic to realize that a timeless being wouldn't be like that. Even most who have lived long lives aren't like that.

There is a basic undercurrent through all of the religions that is probably the truth - and that is love. But the rest of it deserves more scrutiny. I believe that organized religion holds us back as a civilization, and often keeps us from realizing the truth about who we are, and why we are here.
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The Bible does not have contradictions. There ARE bad translations into English running around, even in the KJV.

The problem with translating is that while the words many translate, the idioms do not.

Let me give you a modern example:

A device was created recently to translate from English to Japanese and back again. One of the tests was to use the phrase, "Out of sight, out of mind." Translated into Japanese and back again it came back as, "Invisible idiot". Yeah, technically correct, but the idiom was lost.

This happens when translating all the time. The Greeks used a term for 'zero', but Latin did not have a word for it or even a symbol for it. So they used a symbol of an empty space to represent the concept of 'zero'. How else are you going to write something about nothing? :D

Was the world created in six days? Quite possibly. Remember the word 'day' translates from a Hebrew word where 'day' could mean ANY time period, from a solar day to many days to even thousands or millions of years.

In other words, it all depends on what you call a 'day'.

Was the staff of Moses 'magick'? Why not? God modified that staff (as described in Exodus). God has a hell of a lot more understanding of natural laws than we do! What is to prevent God, who created this world, from modifying a stick that grew upon it?

Be glad that Pharaoh was forced to release the people of Israel. Though some in Israel fought against God, still he save them as a nation, bringing destruction to those fighting against the very entity that brought them their freedom.

Later this month, the Jews will be celebrating Sader, a touching remembrance of what God did for them that fateful day in Egypt so long ago.
 
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Into the Night said:
No guns,
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You don't know that. Maybe he was sporting some of these guns:

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Into the Night said:
... but Jesus did rather rudely eject the merchants from the temple!
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They shouldn't have tried to sell oxen. That crossed the line.

Also, oxen leave big messes in temples, and nobody cleans it up.
 
Doc Dutch said:
Anyone besides me notice how Sybil is civil with his socks and an obnoxious asshole to everyone else?
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I've often described this of you, Sock....or should I simply start calling you Sybil? That does seem to be your favorite imaginary friend here. Perhaps that's your real name.
 
Into the Night said:
I've often described this of you, Sock....or should I simply start calling you Sybil? That does seem to be your favorite imaginary friend here. Perhaps that's your real name.
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You’re free to play that game all you want, but sane people can see right through you.
 
Into the Night said:
Too bad you're not one of them, Sybil Sock.
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That’s not what you mommy would say, son.

gfm7175 said:
Sybil isn't here.
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Into the Night said:
Sybil isn't here.
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IBDaMann said:
Is Sybil transgender?
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gfm7175 said:
There was no 2020 election TO lose
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Into the Night said:
There was no election in 2020.
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IBDaMann said:
Summary of the stolen election:...
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Into the Night said:
YOU think you are omniscient, Sock. Many times you have attempted to speak for everybody.
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IBDaMann said:
You don't get to declare any lack of extraterrestrial life. You are not omniscient.
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gfm7175 said:
I am dubious of the cognitive reasoning abilities of any mere mortal who claims that he is omniscient, like you constantly love to do and are doing again here.
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