Easter

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(04-03-2016, 08:41 PM)tigerseye Wrote: You started this thread saying that Easter is insignificant and now you have moved on to basically saying that the Bible is insignificant.

You obviously have an agenda against the Bible and Christianity. To the point where you started a thread and persist.

Your opinion. So whatever.


I must be reading a different Bible than you.

I hope you keep reading the Bible though. There might be a point for you when it starts making since.

I hope so.

You could not be more wrong if you were on an acid trip. Somewhere in Missouri there is a family celebrating a birthday right now. This birthday is not a big deal to me, but is certainly a big deal to them. In saying it is not a big deal to me I am not saying it is insignificant. I am saying it is quite significant to them, and maybe to lots of other people, just not to me. If this deep in the thread you still don't get that you are the person who obviously has an agenda.

For what it is worth, I have read at least four different versions of the Bible, but my go to version is the King James Version. I've read the entire Pentateuch aka the Torah, and about 80% of the remainder of the Old Testament, as well as all four Gospels and over half of the remainder of the New Testament. I've studied the Bible in grade school, high school, college, and graduate school.

While I acknowledge there are lots of Bibles out there I also acknowledge most people haven't read a sentence of it, and the more people profess a love of it the less likely they are to have read it. That doesn't mean I have an agenda against the Bible. It means I have an agenda against stupidity and hypocrisy, like when people want the 10 Commandments posted in public spaces and can't name the 10 Commandments.

Likewise, I have no agenda against Christianity or any other religion. I am sure there are as many jackhole Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists on a percentage basis as there are jackhole Christians. I do find it sad that many people of many faiths, including Christianity, have such a fragile faith that any comment that is not a dogmatic recitation is concerned an assault on the faith or an agenda against it. I guess that means I arguably have an agenda against fragile faith and poor ego strength, but I would really say it is more I pity it than am against it, and that is the case for Christians, Jews, or miscellaneous (as Rev. Lovejoy once said.)

A final thought. There has been extensive and exhaustive debate for centuries about what belongs in the Bible, and what the Bible means. If it makes so much "since" to you I would encourage you to write a book or go on a speaking tour and set everyone straight. A lot of religious disputes and even wars can be avoided once you have told everyone once and for all what the Bible means.