and no this is not a post about porn.
I am a quarter of the way through Hitchen’s “God is not Great…” he has chapters on both the new and the old testaments.
He mentions a couple of glaring inconsistancies that demonstrate quiet plainly the falliable and human constructed bible and the god being created in the image of man, a 1st century man at that.
It got me to thinking about those wonderful Sundays spent listening to the readings in church. The Catholic Church appears to have a scheduled set of readings determined at years beginning. So they only ever present a coherent picture to the flock. They conveniently miss the bits about stoning your sons for disobedience, or Jesus hatered of the Fig tree.
I was wondering if many other denominations construct their presentation to the flock in the same way, trusting that the flock at large is too bored and busy to read the bible themselves. So they skew the presentation.
I trust it’s the same in Bible study with only select verses and chapters that make sense , being focussed on.
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Is the porn comment for me? >;P
not just you
I hang around with a group of dirty minded atheists
Nice. Makes me a bit jealous.
You are one of those dirty minded atheists : )
Sean,
I’m Ginny’s mom, and not having a label for being anything other than a “poodle handler”. I’m curious as to why most believers (in something) use their labels so much? Christians, atheists, and other folk? Maybe you need to set yourself apart, as are the others who use labels, but I cannot understand why attaching them to nearly everything they write/talk about. This isn’t a criticism, just wondering? Maybe its a “tribal” thing…man needs to *belong* to a group and be identified as such for a sense of belonging. Maybe this is too deep! lol
Sharon,
Sorry to take so long to reply to your post. I missed it in the preparations for my holiday.
Labels – well I think you are right we label to belong. If you name soomething you exert some control over your existance(whether this is real or percieved I am not sure ).
Maybe its partly technological, I label my posts, but that’s because search engines find them better that way.
There is a famous Austraian Atheist called Philip Adams, who is quiet fond of a saying
“Lets not let such a small thing as belief in god get in the way of our frienship”- or somethiing like that.
Essentially he’s right. We should search out common ground with evryone we meet. Surround ourselves with those with disenting views.
Now I am getting too deep