Comments on: happy easter – is the easter bunny real?

By: Dral

Dral — Mon, 26 May 2008 01:14:30 +0000

www.universallight.org/open_letter_from_god.htm

God never wrote the book. Hence why half of it is named after the apostles who wrote their versions.

By: reboot

reboot — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:17:01 +0000

How do you expect God to answer your prayers if He can’t even maintain editorial control over His own work? God supposed killed a guy just for trying to keep the Ark from tipping over, He should be able to bitch slap a monk for making a typo.

By: AlecDalek

AlecDalek — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:59:50 +0000

Tiki’s right. You can walk into almost any Christian bookstore and purchase “interlinear” versions of the Bible that have the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.

Also, if God exists, I’m sure he’d exercise some influence over the transcription of the text to ensure his original message gets through. Without this assumption, how can a Christian believe a single word of it?

By: tiki god

tiki god — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:48:47 +0000

@rattybad
“o yeah, there could be some contradictions, but whether those were in there originally or not is impossible to say.”
uh, no.

For the most part the original scriptures are still available, and ready for anyone to go back and translate / interpret them

By: rattybad

rattybad — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:34:51 +0000

I don’t think it’s fair to assume that the contradictions are God’s…considering the text was written in several languages originally, and then transcribed and retranscribed over the ages, with Middle Ages monks purposefully changing the text to make themselves “immortal,” so to speak, and that’s only accounting for purposeful mistakes–how many people post here and misspell words that or say things that they don’t mean to? And then you have the King James Bible which was published with the express purpose of making the text more artful, and New Age Bibles that are meant to simplify ideas. So yeah, there could be some contradictions, but whether those were in there originally or not is impossible to say.

By: Ando

Ando — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:17:00 +0000

@TANAKA-3
“One really canÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t prove one way or the other.”
That old chestnut.
The burden of proof lies with the party making the ridiculous claim – see FSM.

By: TANAKA-3

TANAKA-3 — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:51:59 +0000

I would have to agree on that point too. One really can’t prove one way or the other. Makes these arguments kind of frustrating. and yeah, Christians need to stop trying to bring about a perfect world here.

By: AlecDalek

AlecDalek — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:50:48 +0000

It’s ironic that the only place you can get booze on Easter Sunday is at the Easter Service itself.

By: reboot

reboot — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:16:16 +0000

“I just wish religious groups would stop imposing their beliefs on others ”
I would be content if they didn’t close the liquor stores on Easter.

By: AlecDalek

AlecDalek — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:01:44 +0000

You’re absolutely right. But would think that if god gave us a book, it would be a lot clearer. He would have divine insight into how people would try to bend his words, and nip them in the bud by adding more details (like when exactly does a fetus become “human”).

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not an atheist, and I hope there really is a god or gods. I just haven’t been convinced. I don’t think you can prove there is a god and I don’t think you can prove there isn’t.

I just wish religious groups would stop imposing their beliefs on others (in a seemingly blatant attempt at convincing themselves). None of the major religions agree on very much, so civilization and human development get dragged down while a few closed minded “believers” drag the rest of us into wars and oppression. Given the track record, I think we may have been better without any of these “holy” documents.