Those people also think the bible was written by god.
Isn’t that the Torah? The Bible was composed by a council using selected books from the Torah and various writings from the apostles.
The majority of Christians in the USA think that the Bible is the complete and inerrant word of God, as written by divinely inspired humans. Just Google up the mission statement for a local mega-church and I’ll bet 50DKP it says something to that effect on their About Us page.
Oh, the US. In my country all those crazy denominations were just called “sects,” and considered heresy.
Edit: but don’t they read the Bible? It says in there who wrote what.
Many, many self-proclaimed Christians in the United States have, at best, cursory Biblical knowledge. Insofar as reading, they may have opened the book in their lives. That does NOT equate to critical analysis, or even perfunctory understanding the contents in even a general sense.
If this a Poe? I can’t tell. In case it’s not…
The gospels were not written by the people with their names on them. Part of the problem of just reading the Bible is that it’s incredibly inaccurate. It’s authorship is up to a lot of debate.
I’m just saying that if someone claims the Bible has been written by God Himself then they must not have even looked inside, because the Bible itself assigns clear authorship to each book. I’m not talking about historical accuracy here.
Most of them don’t know anything veggie tales didn’t tell them.
Are you from Eastern Europe, by any chance?
Us people of the ex-USSR have a habit of calling evangelicals and other fanatics “sectarians”.
Not ex-USSR, but yes
Edit: in my country when I was growing up, the common perspective was simple: there are two main religions - Christian Orthodox and Catholic. All other Christian denominations were “sectarians”. Non-Christian religions were not even considered, those were “pagans”.
I was born in Tatarstan. For us, the division was Christian or Muslim. “Christian” was assumed to be Orthodox, but Catholics were considered to just be a kinda weird foreign flavour of Christianity. Pretty much everyone else made their presence known by proselytizing, and thus earned the title of sectarian for being a crazy evangelist (a chill immigrant who happens to be a Buddhist or Anglican doesn’t really talk much about their religion, so thus the only small religions you notice are the ones headed by people who don’t mind their own business).
How could it be anything else than divinely inspired humans for believers? That seems to be a core belief of every book religion.
To be fair most Christians have never read the Bible and don’t even know what’s in there.
The crazier part is that Abraham almost certainly didn’t exist, so people made up a guy who starts hearing voices, tries to kill his kid, and then starts cutting off the tip of their dicks.
The more interesting part of the patriarch period in the Bible is how it is poorly masking the matriarchal tradition underneath though, from Abraham’s wife’s name change (from ‘chief’ to ‘princess’) and being the first gebirah (“great lady”) to the way her son Isaac’s blessing on his sons is the only place the male form of gebirah is found in the Bible, in a blessing that the recipient’s “mother’s sons” bow down to them (pretty odd for a patriarchal blessing).
But the more fun prophet story is the one of the guy who can suddenly talk to God after discovering a burning bush and subsequently creates a double layered tent in which he continues to talk to God and everyone knows that’s happening because a cloud of smoke appears. Not only is the anointing oneself and going into a tent how the Scythians hotboxed cannabis in Herodotus, but as of its discovery in 2020 an 8th century BCE Judahite temple’s holiest of holies is the earliest archeological evidence of cannabis use in a solely religious context.
That second guy I can at least get a bit behind. He certainly seemed to know how to party.
That’s not exactly what happened. Circumcision was already a custom, but the rest is spot on.
What do you mean? Do you believe Abraham actually existed? Because according to the Bible God invented MGM with Abraham. And I thought we were talking about what the Bible said and how it was crazy, not whatever a historical Abraham might have actually done.
Not sure what a movie studio has to do with anything, I was just pointing out that circumcision was probably a custom in that area already.
MGM is an acronym of male genital mutilation
What an odd name for a movie studio. No wonder they shortened it.
It used to be Shithouse!
If I were a woman who had undergone FGM I would slap the shit out of any man referring to a circumcision in this manner. It’s just so detached from reality and insulting.
You think that ‘circumcision’ is not genital mutilation?
Correct.
Well what is it then? I suppose you’re also disregarding that fact that type 1 and 2 FGM (the most common kinds) remove an equivalent amount to MGM. I am not trying to minimise the experience of FGM survivors, but it is ludicrous to say that cutting off parts of the male genitalia is not male genital mutilation, just as it is female genital mutilation if it’s done to females.
At some point people have to get over the memey catch phrases and start to talk like adults about this situation.
man, acronyms be gettin’ out of hand ngl
Bueller, what does ngl mean?
lol nice
You’ll have to specify the location and year you think this all took place in.
Not really.
Circumcision randomly starts in many places. None of them related to hygiene.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision
The procedure is associated with reduced rates of sexually transmitted infections[6] and urinary tract infections.[1][7][8] This includes reducing the incidence of cancer-causing forms of human papillomavirus (HPV) and significantly reducing HIV transmission among heterosexual men in high-risk populations;[9]
Why would we be born with something you’re supposed to cut off?
Atavism. We were evolved for different conditions. Likely different climate and definitely not wearing clothes.
But I do not claim that it is better to do that. Only that there were medical reasons to do so (even if possibly overall not beneficial).
(when administered as part of a single
missionstudy in Zimbabwe funded by Bill Gates)
Another dude climbed a mountain and reappeared a month later with a rock and yelled at people having a good time around a golden statue of an animal, pointing at how his rock is better.
Egypt man known for talking with a bush found guilty of theft of multiple tablets and destruction of community funded livestock statue.
Genesis 22 is a great story.
It might speak to an older rites of passage for boys to become men among pre-Iseralites of Cannan.
“Here I am.” … is also an astounding way to respond back to a god. And 22 is neat because it uses both ELOHIM and YHWH but the change is mid story. It links to perhaps two stories pushed into one.
Really don’t be such a party pooper. The Jewish take on this so I’m told is that their god requires obedience and a sense of duty. The Xian one sees it as an fact of blind faith in their Lord. Islam even has dibs on this story. So I took time to find why it is meaningful. And learn to address that meaning instead of the story.
All these religious nutties are more interesting when you can offer them more about their texts than they can.
There is a Greek story where one god wants someone to sacrifice their son and another god intervenes. In that story God is a lot less schizo than in the ot. It could simply be lifted from there.
You got some interesting comments there. I’ll add that child sacrifice seemed endemic to Canaanite society (archaeologists Found evidence to back up Roman claims in Carthage), and this story seems more about how we do NOT sacrifice children anymore.
Also, the whole sacrificial system seems to have something to do with reciprocity, so you tell me who is more fucked up: Abraham, or 8 billion people acting like they can rape the planet without any consideration for evening the balance.
… as for chopping off your penis’s toque: don’t know why you’d do that.
Abe’s got a sick kukri there.
Assuming the illustrator was attempting some degree of historical accuracy, it’s more likely Greek Kopis.
I would agree if it was some random dude but the fact that actually a great Nation came out of him and then even all nations where blessed in him and now worship the God of Abraham is strong evidence that he was right all along.
No evidence has been found to indicate Abraham was a real person
And yet, no one would have ever thought that the God of this small country, Israel, who did not intend o spread their religion, would be worshipped by people of all the world but yet it was prophesied and yet it happened.
Isreal isn’t a country. Also, if you look at history it’s pretty common that some random person and some random text can start religions. It just takes people wanting to believe and be a part of something that other people around them are a part of. There is nothing special about any one religion.
It looks like you want to believe that
Meaningless
Don’t be so hard to yourself.
Boy howdy do I have a bridge to sell you.
Citation needed.
