I fear people who have read the bible. Religion seems so crazy like believing in Santa or the Easter bunny. I don't need the idea of Santa only giving presents to good kids to make me good I just do it because it's common sense. If I see someone wearing a cross I won't even talk to them. Thoughts on the bible?
I fear people who have read the bible. Religion seems so crazy like believing in Santa or the Easter bunny...
Michael White
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Asher Roberts
My thought is you have never read it. Just read the gospels and make another thread. Like all 4. Shouldn't take more than four days.
Jacob Taylor
It's a beautiful and important book, but probably not of any greater spiritual consequence than any comparative spiritual text. And indeed, if you look at everyone who's read and understood the bible, you can see plainly that it doesn't lead to good character with any real reliability. But then I suppose texts in general rarely alter a person's character.
Bentley Brown
>I fear people who have read the bible.
...why?
If you're such a brainlet that just READING something will make you believe it, then...I don't know what to tell you.
It's not even as if the Bible makes a great case for the existence of God. It's just a collection of rules, advice, and stories, more or less.
Juan Jackson
I feel bad for them for reading some of the worst prose of all time. Only the torture scenes are any good, for a single line at a time
Justin Green
The form of the Bible regards the form of life, which is necessarily represented through a certain pictorial content. The mistake people like Carlin makes is to only engage with the religion on the level of content, i.e. the "man in the sky", the "magician who gives out bread", and so on, and fails to understand them as myths and to relate them to the form of his conscious life.
Jaxson Thompson
The message depends on the person. I personally extracted two ethical rules from the bible myths that i find extremely beautiful and live by.
The first being the idea of eternal love. If God exists and is omniscient, then he knows the inner nature of every human, and also why they do the evil that they do, and therefore forgives every human for their sins (e.g. wrongdoings), 'cause in the end they can't help it. --> "To fail is to be human"
The second, being the christ myth, introduces us to the idea that humans can go through great pain and suffering and come out of it, not destroyed, be reborn as a better person. That if you willingly take on the pain and misery of being alive it will NOT destroy you and you will rise again, essentially "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger"
but you know, you could also read it very damning and homophobic, but then you'd be an asshole and a idiot IMO
James Rivera
I don't agree. In my experience people who have read the Bible and go to church are much closer with their families and kinder to strangers. They also seem to be less tainted not to put too fine a point on it. Like you would hardly expect a bible thumping Christian to be among us in this godless dump.
Eli Barnes
Bingo.
Nathan Brown
The older I get the less funny I find Carlin. How come?