Absurdities of the Bible
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Absurdities of the Bible
What follows is rooted in Absurdities of the Bible by Clarence Darrow. (Little Blue Book No. 1637, edited by E. Haldeman-Julius (Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications).
Unreasonable Belief: Superstitious, Crank or Religious-Duped from It?
Learn to think for yourself. Others may not do it very well on your behalf.Let us talk about the Bible. It is made up of 66 books over a a period of about 1,000 years. There are very many errors and inconsistencies in it. It should serve you well to know of the most vital ones, methinks. For to be taken in by Big Boss talk may not serve you well in the long run, and may actually hamper and endanger or harm your life and progress, and also "help" you to miss good opportunities.
Human reason, on the other hand, is not as bad as unreasonable and inconsistent faith marching ahead. Human reason, weak and faltering as it may be at times, could relate to the best in many persons. It is needed to run and ride a bicycle too.
If there is anything outside of your Self in the universe, maybe you will not know of it and consider it either. Your inner Self may grow and develop in time: hope there is that possibility. Maybe the best thing to do on earth is to learn how to do it, and not be taken in by others. Cheated persons can become servants of unreasonable others. Religious beliefs that cramp and almost enslave others, show how well inconsistent faith works for tyrants and their ilk.
To be unreasoning and unreasonably religious is to be bossed over by others. To be superstitions is about the same. Where do you get your religion? Is it merely based on some book or teaching? Ask yourself the sooner the better: "Those who gain by religion are served by it - who seek to be served by my own conform faith, if any?" To study it better, see where the money go, and the prestige, and who gets? But what religion? A few main subjects of the Jewish religion and Christianity are considered below.
Fact or Fiction?
That someone took one of Adam's ribs and made it into a woman, is that a fact?Adam and Eve were put in a garden, where a snake was cursed to go on his belly after that. How he went before, the story does not tell.
Joshua said to the Sun, "Stand Still." Is it true it did? Those who believe it, cannot adjust such a crooked faith with modern natural science at all. To spell it out: It would not be the sun who stood still, but the whole earth who stopped spinning, in case. If the earth had stopped spinning, and then "jerked" into spinning again, how much damage would have done I cannot tell full well.
Are Quack Righteous Ones above Us?
What evidence do we have that Jesus was born of a virgin if he had older brothers and sisters?Jesus was born in a manger according to the story. Then came wise men were led by a star. Can you, in your right mind, imagine a star standing over any house? Can you imagine a star standing over the earth even? If a star came anywhere near the earth, it would at once disarrange the whole solar system and burn up everything on the surface of the earth in a day, if not melt everything. Consider it.
Once Jesus allowed demons to enter hogs that jumped into a lake and drowned, despite that pigs ordinarily easily float and swim well. Consider the abuse of another person's property (pigs) as well.
There is not a single word contained in the Sermon on the Mount that is not contained in what is called the Sacred Book of the Jews, long before He lived - not one single thing, says Clarence Darrow, who verily says that Jesus often said what he had heard of for years in a tradition.
Many good people have managed to be spiritual over and above being religious. It does not depend on the Bible or Jesus or the sacrifice-founding, scapegoating tyrant he calls "righteous Father". No.
Literature
Ebu: Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica 2007 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD. London: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2007.
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