| | The BIBLE is America's all-time favorite book?? Are you kidding me?? Do Bible lovers ever sit down and actually READ the book from cover to cover? If they did, I don't see how they could view this piece of garbage -- and "garbage" is too good a word for it -- as being anything more than a collection of the most horrific, obscene, atrocious, absurd and nonsensical myths and stories ever to be assembled in a single volume. The fact that witnesses swear to tell the truth, and politicians, to uphold their oaths of office, using this book as their moral sanction and authority is ludicrous.
You don't have look any further than the initial pages to find contradiction after contradiction.
In Genesis, we find that God created light on the first day, even though he didn't create the sun until the fourth day -- that trees were created before man was created and that man was created before trees were created -- that birds were created before man was created and that man was created before birds were created -- that animals were created before man was created and that man was created before animals were created -- that man and woman were created at the same time and that man was created first, woman later.
We read that God was pleased with his creation and that God was not pleased with his creation. We are told that God is jealous, vengeful, angry and furious. Then we are told that the spirit of God is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness and self-control. We read that God changes his mind and that God does not change his mind -- that God sows discord and that God hates anyone who sows discord. We are told to take "a life for a life, an eye for an eye" -- then to turn the other cheek and to love our enemies.
We are told that children are to suffer for their parents' sins -- that death is passed to all men by the sin of Adam -- and that children are NOT to suffer for their parents sins. We are told to love our neighbor as ourselves, yet we are also told to put our neighbor AHEAD of ourselves. We are told not to lend money AT interest and not to lend money WITHOUT interest. We are told that God prohibits the killing of the innocent and that God approves the killing of the innocent -- that God is merciful and that God shows no mercy.
And these contradictions barely scratch the surface. For more of the same, see:
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/donald_morgan
America's favorite book?! Give me a break!
- Bill
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