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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"Newton Joseph" |
| Date: |
18 Feb 2004 08:48:31 PM |
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A GOOD SET OF ENCYCLOPEDIAS IS WORTH MORE THAN 100 BIBLES |
A GOOD SET OF ENCYCLOPEDIAS IS WORTH MORE THAN
100 BIBLES
By Newton Joseph
How is it possible that today in the most technologically advanced country
in the world,
most people make a distinction between bedtime stories read to children and
the fables read in
the Bible. "Perhaps" if the fables found in the books by the Grimm Brothers
were popular today,
it would be apparent as to the connection between these two books of
Fairytales (then again
perhaps not).
Whether one believes in the literalness of the Bible stories or not, all
concepts of a God
come from the Bible. How much confidence can one have in a person who finds
God in this
obsolescent artifact called the Bible? No matter how abstract or irradiate
religious concepts may
be, they all originate from the same primitive and ignorant source. You
cannot turn an ignorant
concept into an intelligent one no matter how hard one tries without a
sacrifice.
The case I want to make is those who are in anyway influenced by the Bible
are
encouraged to sacrifice one's own observation, experience and the reality
testing to others. To
have doubts of one's own thought process makes one easy victims to religious
authoritarian
control.
It's a sad commentary that current society is led to believe their life is
bereft of meaning
unless they look back to an archaic past found in the Bibles. Do people
really want to live by
the injunctions of biblical times? Do people rally want to go to an immoral
past for their morals?
Do people of this century really want to hold slaves? Do husbands and
fathers really want
exclusive rights as arbiters of morals to fit their personal agenda? Do
husbands and fathers
really desire to hold their wives and children as chattel? Do fathers and
husbands really want
the authority to kill members of his father with impunity as the Bible
stories indicate? Do
husbands and fathers really want to go back to the time of the Bible where
there is a list of
offenses found in the Bible that deserved capital punishment that rational
people today would
find ludicrous?
Is it not true that those who read the sagas of biblical times are in the
same group as
those who are addicted to soap operas and People Magazine? Would you not
advise these
people "to get a life" of their own?
Is it not true that many do not trust their own sense of morality and have
to be told by
others what is moral or not? Is this not true of Christian
Reconstructionists? "The substitute
for self-confidence is faith; the substitute for self-esteem is pride; and
the substitute for
individual balance is fusion with others into a compact group."
"To the frustrated a mass movement offers substitutes either for the whole
self or for the
elements which make life bearable and which they cannot evoke out of their
individual
resources."
—The True Believer, by Eric Hoffer
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