Animals in the Bible.

If you say so.

You didn't answer my question though.

 

I can't suppose your thoughts for you. If you want to talk about cats, rabbits, crows .. go ahead.

What's your goal? That on the basis of cats and crows, the Bible is bad / wrong / fraud?

Weird.

 

The correct question is the correct answer. What does that mean?

It means, if the question is wrong .. there will never be a right answer.

 

I'm saying it's incomplete, and it's weird that although cats are one of the animals closest to humans they are not mentioned whilst dragons which very likely don't exist are mentioned 34 times.

It makes me wonder if this is a book on which people should be basing their belief system.

 

How vastly ignorant are you going to pretend to be playing childish turns?

I am sure even you know that bible occurs in languages and that those languages have words for your items of discussion. It is actually purported to be a "limitless" language, but really, that last one was such a pathetic effort that I'm sure we're all past taking you in any way seriously at all. No one is asking you to understand or requiring it. Why should people waste their time and effort when you have stated you won't and are really just enjoying some sort of head game you want to play with others and it seems to me that you are really just playing with yourself. Who wants to see that?!?

Bye Bill ~ I really think this is one of your most epic fails and I have pot to replant and mushrooms to get going.

 

As you wish.

But I actually think I have a point here. Dragons don't exist. Yet 34 mentions.
Why should we then take the rest of it seriously?
At one time no doubt credulous and ignorant people believed in dragons. Equally credulous people believed that a special man/god had to be nailed to a tree to placate an angry god.

But actually, the culture which has grown out of the Christian era, capitalism, has devalued the whole thing anyway, to the extent that it's now all about bunny rabbits and chocolate eggs.

 

No, you're just prosetylizing your own belief system by trying to negate others.
You're not really someone I am going to think should even be bothering about what other people believe and you can't even trash it intelligently, so why would someone even consider your opinion unless they were just as ignorant and half-assed as you talking about it "authoritatively" at all?

I really had to point out your primary motive of steering people away from something based on your ignorant opinion instead of letting them find these things all on theit own?
You must be with the "nwo catholics" I guess. Bible warns pf people trying to tell you what to think about it at all and seals everyone's right to all they can get from it and G-d, so it alreadyslved that problem.

 

<< But actually, the culture which has grown out of the Christian era, capitalism, has devalued the
whole thing anyway, to the extent that it's now all about bunny rabbits and chocolate eggs.>>

Only for the dead. The dragon is real, you have been serving it poorly here today and going on and on about the dragon as if that somehow validates your other arguments is only the best evidence a scholar could offer that they exist. Go look in a mirror. Go look at the un. Bible will survive both and already has that written in it see?
Good luck chasing that dragon don quixote! Might help if you'd quit biting off your own tail tho ~ ?

 

I'm not promoting any particular belief system, just wish people would think a little bit more critically.

I'm certainly not with nwo catholics, whoever they may be.

And who are you to say my opinion is ignorant? Do you posses absolutely certain knowledge? I don't claim to. But I am not really into simply repeating the tired old patterns of the last 2 millenia.

It's typical of supporters of Christianity to get into insults if one doesn't agree with them. A reaction I've noticed many times.

 

And you speak of intelligence?

 

after further research I found that the "dragon" was only used 13 times. also, only in the book of Revelation. The dragon is symbolic for Satan the Devil

 

Ha, take that OP

 

Kindle said 34. But 13 would still be 13 too many. And an accursed number according to Christian superstition.

 

Well, doesn't it depend on the bible book? I mean in revelations it isn't too bad. If you simply take one thing out of the bible and go proclaim around how silly it is to find it in the book of truth you are kind of taking it out of the context.
If there were 13 dragons on the ark of Noah you might have a point.

 

Also if the Ark stranded on Komodo you might have a point.

 

I wouldn't call those komodo beasts dragons myself. Actually, I really don't see why others do either. Is that how they picture a dragon?

 

It is because they are actually called dragons in English.
Dragon is also a herb in Dutch, so the bible might have meant the herb and not the animal (you know how old scriptures can get translated a bit sloppy).

 

As I said at the outset, it's not my kindle or copy of the Bible. I don't want to have to download it onto my own kindle to check out the details.

Also, just because it's in the Revelation does that make it OK? Because the rest of that book is equally unintelligible?

There are also the other animals not mentioned, such as cats. It seems to me that assuming the ancient Israelites were in Egypt, they must have encountered them. Maybe they didn't like them, but we'll never know because they're a non-canonical animal, or so it seems.

Along with this, I have also read that in medieval times, some animals were thought of as being the work not of God, but the Devil, cats being among them. I also read that cats were sometimes persecuted back in that good old Christian world, sometimes burned alive.

This gives me cause for concern.

 

Well it's hard to beat a case like that.

On behalf of all cats and cheeseburgers everywhere, let's protest and get all the Churches shut down at once and for all!

Now, what are we gonna do about them Chinese people with their fancy dragons?

 

We should keep our asses out of other peoples businesses and let the Chinese do whatever the fuck they want with their dragons.