The Bible?, historical acocunt or a political agenda Options

[sadolakced acid]

we all know this book. we've at least seen it in hotel rooms. this is the book with tissue-thin pages, the book that was first printed. this is a book that people rally to.

and it is a political agenda.

in the early years of christianity, there were many, many sects that called themselves chistian. one sect decided they were the real christians, and condemned the rest as false sects.

this sect evolved into the church. In order to make all other sects wrong, they edited the bible. they threw out the parts they didn't like, added parts they liked. The bible is a manual for how to live your life- so, why not add in a bit about who you should give money to?

over the years, the bible evolved as it's editors saw fit. It was changed, in the case of the king james bible, to help conquer ireland.

It was rewritten to support values the political leaders wanted supported.

want a reason to allow slavery? put in a bit about cain and able.

want to be able to get precious farmlands in the middle east? put in a bit about that being the holy land.

the bible, it seems, is nothing more than a written propoganda tool; too far edited from it's original text to be considered anything more than a pamplet that's designed, not to ensure truth of history, and that all sides are protrayed, but to get the godless heathens to convert to christianity.


now; you can either flame me and tell me how i couldn't understand, and cite bible quotes and give me something to laugh at,
or you can prove me wrong with a bit of rational debate.

i'd enjoy it emmensly more if you'd pick the first one, although the second is nice.

have a nice day!

[sammi rules you]

^ well that's just swell!

just so we don't go mad on this thing, i agree with you, saying that it is ridiculous.  recently, i've seen areas (school, neighborhoods, etc) where it is not cool to be christian. for example, in health, our curriculum is based off abstinence. many students believed this was because the author was christian (which i don't know) and therefore dubbed christianity a stupid religion. many other students heard about this and agreed.

i guess it's just different in different areas. here, it's DEFINITELY cool to be christian, and if you're not christian, you're just weird. now, not being a christian isn't that bad, JUST AS LONG as you still believe in God. however, if you're atheist, then you're just stupid. seriously, people say "well that's stupid, how can you not believe in God?" and every single time i just have to roll my eyes and say "forget about it.." cause i've heard it all so many times before..

now, that's not to say it's cool to follow the christian ideals. i gurantee 60% of my school, at least, has already had sex. yet they are all christians (most, at least). it's not cool to follow christianity, but it's cool to be a christian.

but this really has nothing to do with the debate, so i'll stop ranting.