Bible Rewritten

[Kujii]

I think Frezal missed the meaning of Scourges post.

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

That's your personal opinion, but the fact of it is, they're basically defacing a history book by doing this. It's like taking a book about the Middle Ages and making it so it isn't sexist

If you think the Bible accurately depicts history, you are ****ing retarded.

Now that wasn't very nice, Frezzy. The Bible actually agrees with other ancient records in many cases.

This, but yes, he did miss my point

[NFX]

On the subject of historical accuracy, there is evidence that there WAS a man called Jesus roughly 2,000 years ago in the sort of Middle Eastern area, but there is no evidence that he was actually the supposed son of God.

Even though I'm not a religious person at all, I don't think that changing the Bible to reflect the modern idea of political correctness is the right thing to do. I think it's basically butchering it, personally. It's a bit like the discussion about censoring Huckleberry Finn to remove the word "nigger". I can understand some people would be sensitive about it, but it completely changes the meaning and message of the book.

[Kujii]

Bingo! Thats what I believe was meant by it being a 'historic' text, the way its written meant something

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

Yep :D

That and, if you get past all the god stuff, most of it is actually historically accurate. There's enough evidence to support quite a good portion of it - there was a man called Jesus, he did annoy the Pharisees to , and he did get killed on order of Pilate of the Roman Empire. History supports this, and other parts of the Bible too.

[Jack Daniels]

The whole point is that it is God's word, why change it?

We have no solid proof of this.  The bible is a book written by man who claims it is the word of god.  Man does not have the mental capacity to even interpret the word of god, and thus taking God's word and putting it into a book form seems ludicrous to me. 

If god wanted to communicate with us via a book based on his/her word, then god would write the book and bring it to us in a flash of magnificent light to indicate that we need to read it and trust it as the infallible source.  If that happened I would take it more seriously. 

But until then the Bible is a series of stories written by man, translated by man, edited and changed over time by man.  We can learn from it, yes... but no differently than we can learn from a book like "Catcher in the Rye." 

If you are upset about the edits they are making to it now... you should be upset about all the edits they have made to it in the past... But the unfortunate thing is that the reason they make edits to this literary work is because people take it too seriously  (so they feel the need).

People don't take books by Socrates seriously enough (unfortunately) and, to my knowledge, there have been no significant edits of his work.

[freeziez]

Can we just lock this topic?

[frezal]

Yep :D

That and, if you get past all the god stuff, most of it is actually historically accurate. There's enough evidence to support quite a good portion of it - there was a man called Jesus, he did annoy the Pharisees to , and he did get killed on order of Pilate of the Roman Empire. History supports this, and other parts of the Bible too.

There was a man named Jesus. The census ordered by Julius Caesar that required everyone to return to their homeland didn't ever occur. Quirinius wasn't the governor of Syria at any point during King Herod's life. Those are but a few historical inaccuracies surrounding just the birth of Jesus.

My favorite historical inaccuracy of the Bible is located in the Old Testament. There is no record of there having been any Jewish slaves in Egypt.

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

The census was ordered by Augustus Caesar, not Julius

[123savethewhales]

Yes I have, it's what I did rather than listen to the crap the girls talked about at Bible Study (they would just talk about clothes and shoes and make-up and other disgusting girly things when we were SUPPOSED to be learning)

Sounds like they are learning something more useful with their time.

[martymidget]

The bible is a case of manipulating history/story to suit the causes needs. This is further compounded by the amount of edits made to the text- each one carrying its own fair share of bias. I'd love to get my hands on the first bible ever to compare them to see what has changed over time. However, there are historical facts (forgot the word I wanted) in there, though these themselves are probably imbued in bias from the writers point of view.

I've never read the bible myself. I'm too biased (being a wannabe astrophysicist), and would find myself unable to read it indifferently. I do own a copy though. I will read it at one point. Though I said that about the dictionary, and I still haven't read that all the way through yet..

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

Yes I have, it's what I did rather than listen to the crap the girls talked about at Bible Study (they would just talk about clothes and shoes and make-up and other disgusting girly things when we were SUPPOSED to be learning)

Sounds like they are learning something more useful with their time.

Even if they are, I'm anti-female, so I hate that kind of thing.

[123savethewhales]

Even if they are, I'm anti-female, so I hate that kind of thing.

Do you hate yourself or something?

I don't understand your use of "anti-female".

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

I use the term "anti-female" like people use the term "anti-hero"

[NFX]

I think she's trying to say that she's not a stereotypical female. Not the one who spends her time shopping for shoes and makeup and fashion crap.

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

I think she's trying to say that she's not a stereotypical female. Not the one who spends her time shopping for shoes and makeup and fashion crap.

This, but I'm also against those things, not just not doing them

[123savethewhales]

Lol sounds like the Chappelle Show gag, A Black, White Supremacist.

[Enigm@]

Lol sounds like the Chappelle Show gag, A Black, White Supremacist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wITchV88Gjk&feature=related#

[Meganerdbomb]

I think by "anti-female", she really means "tomboy". I'm not sure why she doesn't just say that...

She's like Rainbow Dash

[frezal]

The census was ordered by Augustus Caesar, not Julius

It wasn't ordered at all. There was a census 4-6 years after the supposed year of Jesus's birth, but there was no such mandate that people return to their town of origin. You're clinging to Bronze Age myths because that's what you were raised to believe. Had the adults in your life been Muslim, you'd be explaining to me how the Qur'an is the way.