Post 124 again - forgot to add following:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Note that the Catholics, given the same question, did not tell him/her:
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Go Read the Bible. Old Testament and New Testament. In Aramaic and Latin.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->And with good reason! Have you read that manual for terrorism lately? In whatever language, whatever (accurate) translation? It never comes out looking good. Nothing can save that drivel and make it look shiny.
(See http://freetruth.50webs.org/B4.htm for instance)
No wonder many former christians swear that reading this book is what turned them into utter apostates. This is similar to the effects that actually reading the Koran had on islamics: they became ex-adherents.
I mean, what kind of 'merciful, loving' gawd would be advocating genocide of men, women, including old people, children and <i>livestock</i> for some puny transgression. Heavenly retribution upto the nth generation, which, if gawd's feeling momentarily benevolent, might be reduced to a sentence of 3 generations. Yay.
That throws to the wind all of that lovely 'self-sacrifice' jeebus supposedly made to himself (he is gawd after all) to satisfy his own anger at humanity. Yawn.
The hysterical jeebus character's repeated threats of 'eternal damnation' in the NT is also another something they don't tell you about until you read the 'Good' book... Then we wonder where the communists learned their double-speak from.
Is it any wonder why catholic schools in Europe make sure kiddies only get access to the 'Kids bible'? Or why christianity is doing a lot of PR for their latest catch-phrase: 'christianity isn't a religion, its a personal relationship with gawd-jeebus-holy spook'. This is certainly something the original streams of christianity never contended and in fact vehemently opposed (as 'personal relationship with Gods' was always a heathen thing). The mainstream churches still admit that the 'personal relationship' spin is an entirely recent invention. More fool the evangelicals who are ignorant of their own religion.
Reading the babble was the finishing touch for me to realise that it wasn't 'some christians who were evil and behaving unchristian'. No, it's their ideology that's evil and has made so many of its adherents behave miserably, whilst the others are bad followers for not following suit. I quote someone I know: "Reading the babble is the fastest cure to christianity". I wouldn't say 'fastest' - it took me a hell of a long time to get through that compilation of horrors.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Note that the Catholics, given the same question, did not tell him/her:
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Go Read the Bible. Old Testament and New Testament. In Aramaic and Latin.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->And with good reason! Have you read that manual for terrorism lately? In whatever language, whatever (accurate) translation? It never comes out looking good. Nothing can save that drivel and make it look shiny.
(See http://freetruth.50webs.org/B4.htm for instance)
No wonder many former christians swear that reading this book is what turned them into utter apostates. This is similar to the effects that actually reading the Koran had on islamics: they became ex-adherents.
I mean, what kind of 'merciful, loving' gawd would be advocating genocide of men, women, including old people, children and <i>livestock</i> for some puny transgression. Heavenly retribution upto the nth generation, which, if gawd's feeling momentarily benevolent, might be reduced to a sentence of 3 generations. Yay.
That throws to the wind all of that lovely 'self-sacrifice' jeebus supposedly made to himself (he is gawd after all) to satisfy his own anger at humanity. Yawn.
The hysterical jeebus character's repeated threats of 'eternal damnation' in the NT is also another something they don't tell you about until you read the 'Good' book... Then we wonder where the communists learned their double-speak from.
Is it any wonder why catholic schools in Europe make sure kiddies only get access to the 'Kids bible'? Or why christianity is doing a lot of PR for their latest catch-phrase: 'christianity isn't a religion, its a personal relationship with gawd-jeebus-holy spook'. This is certainly something the original streams of christianity never contended and in fact vehemently opposed (as 'personal relationship with Gods' was always a heathen thing). The mainstream churches still admit that the 'personal relationship' spin is an entirely recent invention. More fool the evangelicals who are ignorant of their own religion.
Reading the babble was the finishing touch for me to realise that it wasn't 'some christians who were evil and behaving unchristian'. No, it's their ideology that's evil and has made so many of its adherents behave miserably, whilst the others are bad followers for not following suit. I quote someone I know: "Reading the babble is the fastest cure to christianity". I wouldn't say 'fastest' - it took me a hell of a long time to get through that compilation of horrors.