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Originally posted by MaskedAvatar
Everything should be questioned, especially anything that comes packaged and repackaged as the "word of god".
Originally posted by MaskedAvatar
You're right!
Blind dogma isn't me.
And thanks for your well wishes, which I reciprocate heartily!
Originally posted by Pisky
Yes, the Bible should be questioned. There are many good points within it and some historical facts, but in order to truly understand it, the Bible should be questioned.
If you were to read another book, written by an author after a certain amount of research, would you automatically believe it ? - if so, then feel free to automatically believe every word of the Bible too.
If, however, you would question the beliefs of the alternative author, then it is only fair that you question the Bible as well.
The Bible has been shown to contain some inaccuracies. That doesn't mean that the whole book is flawed. People should read it, research it and, having done so, then make up their own minds.
Originally posted by MaskedAvatar
Everything should be questioned, especially anything that comes packaged and repackaged as the "word of god".
Originally posted by James the Lesser
Well, what about witchcraft? They have no book, so how do we know they were right? At least they believed in things that existed, not all mighty powerful invisable people that live in the clouds. At least witches had trees, animals, each other to believe in, not a magician who has been upshowed by David Copperfield or Lance Burton, who have done more than just walk on water(Copperfield) one into many(Uh, thousands if not millions can do this, hell, I can do that trick) water into wine(Both, and probably millions of others) and coming back from the dead(Houdini, Burton, probably a few hundred others).