eagle@OK PLUS.COM,Internet writes:
No wonder so many people feel that the Bible is full of " it "....
I'm not a believer, and I have a lot of problems with a lot of what is in
the Bible. But in all fairness, I must say that the Bible also contains
some truly great literature and more valid philosophy and morals than
anyone really needs. I read mine. It also contains a lot of crap. The
problem is that it was written over a long period by a variety of men.
Each and every one of them had his own personal axe to grind. Then there
were the editors. This thing as been censored and amended repeatedly.
Let's look at one example. Reincarnation was once part of early Christian
dogma. It was voted out at (I think it was) the Council of Nicea. All
references to reincarnation in scripture were stricken. But the censors
missed one. At one point Jesus asks his disciples who the people think he
is. Peter answers "Elija." There are many, many such inconsistencies in
scripture which can be directly related to the enormous changes it went
through when Christianity was adopted by the Roman empire as a tool of
state social control, and the state censors got ahold of it.
The other problem with the Bible, and also with the Koran, and the
Bhagavid Gita, and to a lesser extent the Pali Sutras, is that they all
contain enough vagaries and contradictions that ambitious and amoral
people can manipulate them to their own political ends by selectively
choosing those passages which reinforce their own opinions and prejudices
which they wish us to adopt. How many, I wonder, of these people who are
so worked up about Leviticus keep kosher? How many religiously avoid
wearing garments made from more than one kind of thread? How many grow
beards with unrounded corners? Those that don't, and yet denounce
homosexuality, are hypocrites.
The very essence of Christianity is supposed to be love. Where is the
homophobes' basic Christian love? If in fact sin is a valid concept at
all, does not their own Bible admonish them to "love the sinner and hate
the sin"? If in fact Christians, Jews and Muslims are right and the
Creator and Creation are separate, then the only reason imaginable for
Creation to exist is the Creator's love. The god of Christians, Jews and
Muslims is, by their own account a loving and merciful god. So emulate
him, already. And if he is also a just and vengeful god, does it not make
sense to avoid ticking him off by disrespecting some of his creations?
And where's the conspiracy angle in all this? Simple. The tiny handful of
men who rule this planet don't want us talking about what they're up to.
The want us to talk about something else. Sex is an easy distraction.
Everybody like to talk about sex. So we did, as soon as it was brought up.
And if we want to talk about it some more, the Net is full of places to do
it. But this list isn't one of them. So let's get back to the topic of
this list and talk about that here and talk about sex somewhere else.
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