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Originally Posted by Kolle  How about the Jews when they slaughtered countless women, children, and old people with god's help? That's quite a trick too.
But, you're right. God killing so many unborn babies and children is one of the reasons why I wouldn't worship him. Therefore I wouldn't be Jew, Christian, or Muslim. If I was going to worship a diety I would prefer them to not kill so many people. |
I should have noted that I was mainly interested in the New Testament, not so much the Old. Also, bearing in mind that the contents of the Bible were transmitted verbally for centuries before being written down, so that could account for some of the factual discrepencies. Lets keep this in perspective; this thing is old, Jesus and his followers were illiterate peasant folk, and everything was told in stories by travellers, so anything written about him likely came about in the year 200 A.D. if memory serves (I had a friend who was really into the historical Jesus stuff, so he was a fountain of useless info on this sort of thing). The factual correctness of contents of the Bible, I don't have any interest in debating; the historical truth or non-truth of the Bible doesn't interest me; I'm much more interested in the meaning conveyed in the stories.
Complete non-sequitur: try going around and telling people Jesus was illiterate and watch their heads explode. It's good fun, and its true.