thepsychedelicpsychotic:religion-is-a-mental-illness: thepsychedelicpsychotic:religion-is-a-mental-i
The “truth” of the bible could have been so easily proven by simply describing a South American capybara or an Australian kangaroo.
Instead, we get a book of nonsense that reflects the primitive superstitions and concerns of the people of the time, such as demons in pigs, and how much to sell your daughter into slavery.
There aren’t even any dates, and most people are unnamed.
Okay I was with you till the last line.
Have you *read* the bible??? The old testament is a helluva lot of just lists of names.
Like page after page of who begat whom
Like….generation after generation of just names.
The names are an integral part of it.
Name Lot’s wife. Name his daughters (this one is possible, but not using the Xianbible).
Name the boys who were killed by the bears.
Name Jephthah’s daughter.
Name the man who was killed for picking up sticks on the Sabbath. Name anyone from that story other than Moses.
Name the man who offered up his concubine to be raped and then cut her up into pieces. Hell, name anyone from that story.
Solomon had 700 wives. Name two or more.
Name anyone from Samson’s storyline other than Samson and Delilah.
Name the woman Jesus called a “dog.”
Name one person from the 500 witnesses of Jesus’ return.
The bible goes into specific detail about what these people did and said. Yet can’t name any of them.
The bagats are boring but irrelevant, because very many of them are named only in the begats and never do anything or do very little outside or all the begetting. But almost nobody outside of the begat family line is named.
Re-read your bible and take a drink any time someone is mentioned without being named.
But first, put the poisons control hotline on speed-dial.
Name all the characters at Hogwarts or all the background characters in Titanic
Not every character in a story has to be named.
Correct. And that’s exactly the point.
If Harry Potter was a historical record, we would know the names of everyone who attended the school. We would have enrolment records, class lists, staff records, student reports, etc. Especially if we know precisely where they went and what they said.
There is no chapter in Harry Potter where one named character spends the entire chapter interacting exclusively with three unnamed characters, much less one where one of them dies. And the other two get pregnant. And still never bothering to tell us their names.
If someone wrote a historical record where, in one chapter, they didn’t name a single figure, despite supposedly knowing, for example, that they got up early, traveled from here to there, stayed somewhere, almost got into a fight, one of them died, and then they cut the body up and how many pieces it was cut into, you’d be rightfully questioning that history.
The bible is not a historical record. It doesn’t contain factual information about the real world. Like Harry Potter, it’s a story people made up, set in a fictional universe, and never bothered to name even the secondary characters, much less the background characters.
And it reads exactly as such.
And we know from the Titanic’s records exactly who traveled on it, who survived and who did not. Which is why - other than the fact they tell us up front - we know the framing story of Jack and Rose in the movie is fiction. We know, for example, that the character of Jack Dawson was loosely based on someone who did survive named Jack Thayer. So, again, my point.
If the bible is a book of history, then it has failed to provide the, y’know, history.
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