Bible bashing (26 Viewers)
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All major faiths with written scriptures seem to be subject to a form of internal historical revisionism over the centuries. The same stuff has happened with Christianity.
For example, many religious scholars and leaders justified the crusades and the inquisitions by reinterpreting old scriptures with an intent to seek religious grounds to support their political causes.
Also, hell and the devil were pretty much New Testament concepts. But in fact, most of the detail as referenced today by all the evangelical bible bangers has less to do with what was originally written in holy scriptures and more to do with their re-interpretation after the arrival of poets like Dante and his Comedia and Milton with Paradise Lost.
For example, many religious scholars and leaders justified the crusades and the inquisitions by reinterpreting old scriptures with an intent to seek religious grounds to support their political causes.
Also, hell and the devil were pretty much New Testament concepts. But in fact, most of the detail as referenced today by all the evangelical bible bangers has less to do with what was originally written in holy scriptures and more to do with their re-interpretation after the arrival of poets like Dante and his Comedia and Milton with Paradise Lost.
There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
-- Ezekiel 23:20
This is meant to describe the sins of the flesh for those two prostitutes, whose names I forget. But I want to know who wacked-off the horse in order for an individual to know what a horse's emission is like.
-- Ezekiel 23:20
This is meant to describe the sins of the flesh for those two prostitutes, whose names I forget. But I want to know who wacked-off the horse in order for an individual to know what a horse's emission is like.
I am a muslim and we believe in all people of the book( jews and christians). We believe that the torah came first , than the bible, than the Quran. The problem with the bible is that it is not the original one. If you read the genesis you can tell that no superior being could have created it. In European History we even learned that the real bible was burned by a man with great power and influence who created the trinitarian church. If you want to learn a little more about this, read " Inquries about Islam" by Imam Mohammad Jawad Chirri. You will get a better understsanding about our religion instead of the $&it you hear about on t.v. I didn't even know that much about my religion until. I read it. The interviewer that does the book was christian, so the book is neutral.
Easy now, snoop. It's a proven fact that books as old as the Bible or the Torah or the Quran are distinctly different from their original versions nowadays because of numerous translations.
Throughout history, books like those suffered wars, fires, floods, corruption, religious conflicts and censorship from their own faithfuls. The original books of the Torah, Quran and the Bible are vastly different from the ones we read today.
Throughout history, books like those suffered wars, fires, floods, corruption, religious conflicts and censorship from their own faithfuls. The original books of the Torah, Quran and the Bible are vastly different from the ones we read today.
I seem to recall Muslims here claiming that the Quran is unaltered and untranslated. The Bible, of couse, isn't a book so much as an omnibus edition of the early holy books of the various Christian cults, with a large number left out for inconsistancies with the then dogma of the unified (ie Roman Empire-controlled) church. Umpteen translations later, there's bound to be a bit of confusion.
I saw him on Portuguese TV last night before the Portugal-Egypt match (he's visiting Portugal right now -- apparently his first formal trip from the Vatican). The man does have the look of the undead. 
If I was five years old again growing up Catholic, it would only take a close-up image of his countenance to scare me into a holy and pious life. Maybe that's what all the white smokers were thinking?
If I was five years old again growing up Catholic, it would only take a close-up image of his countenance to scare me into a holy and pious life. Maybe that's what all the white smokers were thinking?