How to explain disbelief in the all-important Bible?

I see what you mean.Funny true story. A while back a Muslim friend of mine gave me a copy of the Koran. Half the book was in Arabic and the other half in English. I began to read it but it made no sense to me. From page to page it was so confusing... Then one day I turned the page backward to the previous page to read again and I noticed that it made sense. Moral of the story? If you want to read the Koran, read it backward. The first page is actually the last page on the right Anyway, to answer the OP's question, I see the bible as like the Iliad and the Oddysey. They all make great mythologies. 1 parallel I could draw out of the bible and greek mythology:-The greeks killed all the men, threw all the children off the walls, and enslaved all the women of Troy.-The Jews killed all the men, women, and children of Jericho except for the virgin 12 year old girls.The parallel is for the longest time the greeks justified the act as moral. The christians are still justifying what happened to Jericho as a moral act. How? You see, the people of Jericho were sinners. Even the 2 year old little boys were going around raping the other 2 year old little girls, so they deserved to die. As Gen said, god is always just...

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Owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have occasionally used the academic jargon generator to produce phrases that even I don't fully understand. The jargons are not meant to offend anyone or to insult anyone's intelligence!

*Blink*You did not just say that did you?The bible is absolutely not free. In fact, when I was still a christian I once met an asian student who was a christian. One time he came to one of our prayer sessions with a Vietnamese bible. Someone jokingly said that he should have brought an English version, and the asian student said he couldn't afford it. A few days later, I gave him one of my copies and he was so happy he thanked me many times.If it's freely distributed, that guy shouldn't have been made to wait until he met me.

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Owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have occasionally used the academic jargon generator to produce phrases that even I don't fully understand. The jargons are not meant to offend anyone or to insult anyone's intelligence!

Um, because most people in the world are not christians? In other words, you're really a Buddhist at heart, right?There's a joke about this actually. It goes like this. I believe in freedom of religion. I believe that everyone should be able to worship any god he wishes as long as he accepts Jesus Christ as his savior.Your comment is just another way of saying the same thing.

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Owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have occasionally used the academic jargon generator to produce phrases that even I don't fully understand. The jargons are not meant to offend anyone or to insult anyone's intelligence!

You honestly believe the majority of the world are christian?

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Owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have occasionally used the academic jargon generator to produce phrases that even I don't fully understand. The jargons are not meant to offend anyone or to insult anyone's intelligence!