respectfully disagree. The Bible is God's Word written by men God chose to deliver His Word on paper (probably more like scrolls back then). What happened is an accurate recording of history as it happened. I would love to be able to go to Israel and other countries and see the remains of buildings, archaeology digs, and places marked that back the history of His Word.
"It truly boggles my mind that a big percentage of people in the year 2001 in the U.S. of A., one of, if not the most socially advanced country in the world, believe in a goofy book that was written by people that lived thousands of years ago. It really just completely freaks me out when I think about it. They lived in a time when the world was flat, and the earth was the center of the universe. They wrote a book, said it was the word of God, and two thousand years later people are still buying their bull.
That is one incredible human accomplishment.
The fact that a book filled with stories too dumb to make it into an episode of Xena Princess Warrior continues to be used as the guide for human behavior after all this time is truly mind boggling.
We as a society, if we are going to accept the concepts of organized religion realize that we must put aside normal, natural, human skepticism and questioning in order for ANY of it to make ANY sense whatsoever. Now how did they cover their *bleep* on that one? How do they get you to NOT think, and NOT question? They get you with one simple word: FAITH.
Now if that ain’t a hoot and a half, I don’t know what is. They actually got rational, intelligent people to put aside THINKING and LOGIC just by saying you have to have faith.
And silly as it is, people bought it, and continue to buy it, hook line and sinker. The fact that these stories take in SO many people is what’s really disturbing to me. Simple, dumb, ridiculous stories that only a little kid should be able to believe.
Like Noah and the Ark, for instance.
Now, please… with any knowledge of science whatsoever and a grade school grasp of the food chain, how the hell could you buy into that one? If you put 2 of each animal on a boat for 40 days, all you would have at the end is a couple stuffed crocodiles and a few nervous hippos and rhinos. Animals EAT other animals.
And even if they did put off eating for 40 days, what the hell are they going to eat when they get off the boat?
It’s such a simple puzzle that it’s actually quite confusing to me that people still believe it. It was designed to trick the people of 2,000 years ago, and yet today with all of our science and wisdom it’s still accepted by a frightening number of people.
Want even dumber? How about Adam and Eve.
Two people were created by God, these two people screwed, and their kids screwed each other, and that’s where we came from. Life was supposed to be perfect, pure and holy, but then that Eve chick went and ate the fruit that God said not to eat, so now we’re screwed up forever.
Now, if that isn’t the most retarded thing I’ve ever heard in all my life, I really don’t know what is. Yet, there’s many intelligent people with important jobs and kids, that take that story as a fact."
- Joe Rogan