If you believe in god, you're an idiot...

[Zereh]

Originally Posted by Alawen Everywhere [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I've also read the Bible. I'm less impressed with that. It's so butchered from hundreds of years of willful manipulation that it's pretty much gibberish.

Indeed. Compare bibles that were published 50 years ago to those available today. Then go back 50 more ... it's pretty amazing how things have changed between the now and thens. It's also pretty blatantly obvious how things are worded (sometimes subtly other times not so much) to support whatever the current Christian agenda is at the time of the re-write.

It's a story book, albeit one with some great parables. It's also used as a sorry excuse to persecute people. I can't take it seriously when it's used for the latter. There is enough common ground on the good points of all religions that it comes across as very myopic to me when they continue to insist that one of them is absolute truth over another.