general anti-bible thread

Most intelligent men of faith will cheerfully but openly admit "maybe I'll turn out to be the world's biggest fool", or something to that effect. These people realise that what they have IS faith, not just a proof that they can't explain to anyone who doesn't already agree with them.

Gullibility is fine. I think the world would be a much better place if more of us were less scared of looking gullible. It's that fear that leads us to assert things that we merely suspect, and which inspires baseless certainty in cynicism.

 

Joke's on him, as an enormous Jack Skellington head appears to be presiding over the bookburning.

I am glad that someone has spoken out in that link. It's the tacit support of "normal" Christians that makes the zealots and extremists seem different from some homeless schizophrenic raving on a street corner about how Sally Jesse Raphael has been eating his dreamwaves.

 

I think I am following you. If you are saying that cynicism should be a tool rather than a destination, I am with you.

 

I'm saying that people shouldn't be so afraid of being made a fool of that they'll believe anything as long as it sounds bleak and horrible enough. Witness exhibit A: http://www.************/group.php?gid=99927123685&ref=nf

 

I like what the psychologist said lol.

 

"But what we've got going wrong is we've got a kind of bifurcation [in cultural development]:
You take your classified telephone directory, and open up "Churches", and have a ruler in your hand. And you will find that the longest space is occupied by authoritarian, Bible-banging churches. And these people are barbarians, who take the written word of the Bible literally. Because they need terribly, they have a personal need, for something to depend on.
[...] The government realizes that there is a very large number of people like that; and therefore, to keep their votes, they have to pander to those kind of people. And these are the boys who never grew up; they always need Papa.
[...] The trouble is that the boys who need Papa, are violent. They have the guns. And they are the types of people who like to be soldiers, policemen–tough guys. And therefore they have a great deal of power."-Alan Watts

 

How can you tell that someone's a Bible-thumper from their phone number?

 

He's talking about yellow page ads.

 

it won't have 666 in it

 

i wish i had said that ! i probably will the first chance i get.

 

Yee haw.

 

my sister has 666 in her number... not surprising

 

stretch any concept to its logical breaking point


you have to admit as human beings we are pretty fucking good at this

 

I'd say. I've managed to stretch my bullshit to fill 1000 posts, in a little over 4 months.