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Quertol said:History...
.... or fiction?
Quertol said:History...
Naughty Nurse said:.... or fiction?
Quertol said:It has yet to be proven that the bible is false... In any aspect...
WiseRufus said:schiz·o·phren·ic
n. One who is affected with schizophrenia. (See also Quertol)
-WiseRufus
Naughty Nurse said:And will never be proven to be true. Accept it and move on.
Let's avoid the personal attacks. Thanks!WiseRufus said:(See also Quertol)
Urethra Franklin said:Far more dangerous is the bible, which is often pushed on children as fact. That is dangerous, and extremely evil.
Urethra Franklin said:Confused christians squabbling amongst themselves, not knowing which fairy story to take more seriously. How can the rest of us trust what they say?
Quertol said:I have no malice to seeing some one do well. I do have a problem with a Satanist writing a book that is made specifically to entice children into certain behaviors that are intolerable. I don't like quite a few books, including those written by Rowling...
As far as the Bible being more dangerous, how is that? Give some examples of empirical proof that the bible is wrong in any way. Show me what you are talking about...
Quertol said:Hard to imagine eh?
It is just a story, but how about all these impressionable young minds... There is more between the lines than just a story, thats all I'm saying...
Quertol said:I have no malice to seeing some one do well. I do have a problem with a Satanist writing a book that is made specifically to entice children into certain behaviors that are intolerable. I don't like quite a few books, including those written by Rowling...
walrus said:But in the end it all comes down to the same thing. This is America. J.K. Rowling is free to publish her books. Tim LeHay is free to publish his books (which to me are far more harmful and contain even less biblical truth than Harry Potter).
walrus said:Outside of the theological differences I have with the "Left Behind" series (which are legion) the fact is they are simply very poorly written books. The characters are shallow, cliched, uninteresting and thoroughly unbelievable. The books themselves are written on about a fifth grade reading level. Only due to the fact that they are about what to me is an interesting subject (the end of the world) was I able to hold interest for the first three books.
Say what you will about Harry Potter, they are marvelously written books. They are certainly not written at a fifth grade level. Rowling is, in my opinion, in the same league as Lewis Carroll and Roald Dahl. I wish that more people who are so set against them would actually take the time to read them (and get to at least book 4, that's when they get really good).
Bigbird said:well not that im saying the bible is evil, but there are parts where it says you can sell your daughter into slavery and stone your neighbor to death if he works on the sabbath (while simulatneously saying "shalt not kill") and also that a man shall be put to death if he sleeps in the same bed a woman has had her period in.
Just something to think about......
And the bible is written as truth not fiction like Harry potter
Fu_chick said:Many of the Bible stories are very violent. After David knocks out Goliath, he beheads him. Just think of the violence before and during the Jews flight from Egypt. In addition, much of these details are at least mentioned in children's Bibles. I STILL remember being deeply troubled by the pictures of the Red Sea closing in on Pharaoh's chariots (I was very disturbed the God would drown the innocent horses pulling the chariots :lol: ). I also remember being bothered by the fact that the first borns were killed, even if they had done nothing wrong (I myself am a first born and even at that age realized that I would have been one of the children killed). In fact, my mother stopped reading the children's Bible to me because there were so many questions I asked her that she just could not answer.
Fu_chick said:Many of the Bible stories are very violent. After David knocks out Goliath, he beheads him. Just think of the violence before and during the Jews flight from Egypt. In addition, much of these details are at least mentioned in children's Bibles. I STILL remember being deeply troubled by the pictures of the Red Sea closing in on Pharaoh's chariots (I was very disturbed the God would drown the innocent horses pulling the chariots :lol: ). I also remember being bothered by the fact that the first borns were killed, even if they had done nothing wrong (I myself am a first born and even at that age realized that I would have been one of the children killed). In fact, my mother stopped reading the children's Bible to me because there were so many questions I asked her that she just could not answer.
Quertol said:History is full of violence...
Urethra Franklin said:Most of it committed in the name of religion.
Quertol said:I agree, a lot of violence has been committed in the "name" of religion. Not that the religion condoned it...
Bigbird said:Religion doesn't Condone Judging anyone either, but its done all the time.
Quertol said:You don't understand the scriptures... Who can judge another man's sins, except God?
We can know and say however what is sin...