A one time deal from a perfect all loving creator? to kill his child? LMAO...
it's as clear as day, ALL holy books are books written by morons, morality does not come from the bible, this is a fact. We know where morals come from, reason and logic, that's it. As we get more intelligent as a civilization our collective morality (ethics) improves, slavery is no longer acceptable, it was in biblical times, how can you derive your morals from a book which is patently bullshit?
You fuckers want to take us back to the stone age(not you lol), talking about sacrifices, sins and all other made up bullshit the goat herders believed in.
It's laughable any grown human could look at this book objectively and find it helpful in any manner, if I put it next to the documents of scientology, how would you determine which is true? by corroborating the evidence, snakes don't talk, people don't walk on water, no contemporary historian mentions any of these miraculous feats. Imagine if he went to the asians, who actually had a civilization, not the backward nutbags in the middle east received the message.
You make some valid points.
I once dated a woman who's 6 year old told his teacher that the reason snakes don't have legs anymore is because they tricked Adam and Eve, and the teacher was polite and told the rest of the class snakes never had legs.
I totally understand why people have complete opposition to the bible. There are claims that we can't verify (snakes with legs, where is the garden of eden today, the ark...).
There were cultural practices and events that occurred that of course are obsolete. As I've said before slavery has been and is a staple of the human condition. Just because modern society has "outlawed" it within the last 180 years doesn't mean it isn't practiced (again I'll refer to debt and the sex trade).
We live in a culture where we publicly admonish racism, sexism and bigotry yet privately many practice it. During biblical times they were blatant with their judgements.
To say one way is better than another is subjective, both systems have their strengths and weaknesses (Of course I'm talking about the American justice/court system).
If someone were to take anything from the Bible it would be the primary principle that Jesus taught that we should love others as we do ourselves. But so many despise their own self it's near impossible for then to love someone else.
Again great perspective.
