Opinion of the Bible?

[TheReckoning]

What would you say?

[Хahar 🤔]

I wrote a little post a couple years ago about my experiences reading the Bible. Even if I leave aside entirely any discussion of its religious importance, it's the best and most important representation of our shared cultural heritage. Its influence permeates the way that we write, even.

The continuous narrative starting from Genesis and running through 2 Kings is unlike anything else in the history of human creative endeavor. You need only look at how many contemporary works of fiction are pale imitations. Everyone here could do with more biblical literacy, especially the people who think they don't need it.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

Horrible Book

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Horrible Book

God is cause and effect and we  pray to eradicate negative caused if you live a life free of religion you have no one to rely on Satan can disguise himself as Free will and if you do Free will you are never looking at yourself

Lesson on Adam and Eve is about Free will they ate the fruit and got a negative effect

[Ferguson97]

Having actually read it, Horrible Book.

[DaleCooper]

Love it

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

People that discount the Bible you are gonna go thru trials and tribulations anyways unless you are rich, because it's cause and effect, so just because you don't have any Religion doesn't mean freedom from cause and effect

[TML]

The book itself is good; the problem is that throughout history people have interpreted various sections of it to justify illegal and/or unethical actions.

[Vice President Christian Man]

Freedom Book

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

The book itself is good; the problem is that throughout history people have interpreted various sections of it to justify illegal and/or unethical actions.

It's not particularly hard to "interpret various sections of it to justify illegal and/or unethical actions" when God is often the one outright commanding those actions, including numerous genocides, war slavery, extremely outdated gender and social roles and so forth

[°Leprechaun]

I certainly don't think of any version of the Bible (Roman Catholic or Protestant) as "The Word of God".
The problem is that a lot of people do.

[UWS]

Freedom Book

[Kleine Scheiße]

the idea of having an up or down "opinion" on the bible strikes me as a little absurd

[Georg Ebner]

For us Christians it is not a Freedom Book, but a Horrible Book - because freedom is only given to us to get consciously unfreed by the tremendum majestatis.
ST.MARY: "I am the slave of the master." (he doule tou kyriou)

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

As I said it's a good book and everything but take the miracles as inspiration the could of happen or not happen like Resurrection, there are Ossuary boxes and there are no such thing as ghost they have the same power as aliens

I am not saying Resurrection didn't happen but put it into context of miracles happen with conjunction of ancient aliens

[vitoNova]

I regard it as I do the Book of Mormon, L Ron Hubbard's Dianetics, The Satanic Bible, Tarot cards, Ouija boards, the Quran, or any other religious text.

For Entertainment Purposes Only.

[°Leprechaun]

I regard it as I do the Book of Mormon, L Ron Hubbard's Dianetics, The Satanic Bible, Tarot cards, Ouija boards, the Quran, or any other religious text.

For Entertainment Purposes Only.

I don't how historically accurate the movie "Inherit the Wind" is but the Scopes Monkey Trial was equally the Bible on trial. A literal interpretation of the Bible is at odds with evolution and science in general.

For us Christians it is not a Freedom Book, but a Horrible Book - because freedom is only given to us to get consciously unfreed by the tremendum majestatis.
ST.MARY: "I am the slave of the master." (he doule tou kyriou)

If that is true that type of Christianity is slavery of the mind. Is it not healthier to be a free thinker?

[Georg Ebner]

For us Christians it is not a Freedom Book, but a Horrible Book - because freedom is only given to us to get consciously unfreed by the tremendum majestatis.
ST.MARY: "I am the slave of the master." (he doule tou kyriou)

If that is true that type of Christianity is slavery of the mind. Is it not healthier to be a free thinker?

"Termini without apperceptions are blind." (KANT)

[°Leprechaun]

For us Christians it is not a Freedom Book, but a Horrible Book - because freedom is only given to us to get consciously unfreed by the tremendum majestatis.
ST.MARY: "I am the slave of the master." (he doule tou kyriou)

If that is true that type of Christianity is slavery of the mind. Is it not healthier to be a free thinker?

"Termini without apperceptions are blind." (KANT)

I'm sorry, but I am not familiar with that quote. Would you like to elaborate?

[Georg Ebner]

For us Christians it is not a Freedom Book, but a Horrible Book - because freedom is only given to us to get consciously unfreed by the tremendum majestatis.
ST.MARY: "I am the slave of the master." (he doule tou kyriou)

If that is true that type of Christianity is slavery of the mind. Is it not healthier to be a free thinker?

"Termini without apperceptions are blind." (KANT)

I'm sorry, but I am not familiar with that quote. Would you like to elaborate?

We men can and should not remain "free thinkers" alone, encapsulated in an abstract subject; it is "healthier" for us to get also overwhelmed - although a distance and selfAwarness must remain! - by the graces, by THE LOVE.

[°Leprechaun]

I agree, but those two things are not mutually exclusive.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

I regard it as I do the Book of Mormon, L Ron Hubbard's Dianetics, The Satanic Bible, Tarot cards, Ouija boards, the Quran, or any other religious text.

For Entertainment Purposes Only.

I don't how historically accurate the movie "Inherit the Wind" is

Not very. It's an excellent movie but sort of a hit piece in its presentation of Bryan, and various other players to lesser extents.  By the playwright Jerome Lawrence's own admission Inherit the Wind was meant to be more "about" McCarthyism than "about" the real Scopes trial.

[Vosem]

I am in the rather happy position of having a strongly favorable view of both contemporary American evangelicalism and New Atheism, while belonging to neither.

Freedom Book; it was to read the Bible (or sections of the Bible) that literacy initially spread, without which we would not have any of our various modern conceptions of what exactly 'freedom' means.

[they don't love you like i love you]

I am in the rather happy position of having a strongly favorable view of both contemporary American evangelicalism and New Atheism, while belonging to neither.

What about hipster Christianity then?

[°Leprechaun]

I regard it as I do the Book of Mormon, L Ron Hubbard's Dianetics, The Satanic Bible, Tarot cards, Ouija boards, the Quran, or any other religious text.

For Entertainment Purposes Only.

I don't how historically accurate the movie "Inherit the Wind" is

Not very. It's an excellent movie but sort of a hit piece in its presentation of Bryan, and various other players to lesser extents.  By the playwright Jerome Lawrence's own admission Inherit the Wind was meant to be more "about" McCarthyism than "about" the real Scopes trial.

That may be so, and I didn't know that (interesting).. but it also has a lot to do with "the Bible on trial" as well as "Evolution on trial". I also don't know if the arguments by Darrow were similar to those by the Spencer Tracy character.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_trial

"Why I Am An Agnostic":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Darrow

and of course,

William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jennings_Bryan

Bryan, as most people (at least those at atlas) know was both a prominent religious and political figure.