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Subject: Isaac Asimov On The Bible
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tinytaxi 29.04.13 - 02:07pm
To be sure, the Bible contains the direct words of God. How do we know? The Moral Majority says so. How do they know? They say they know and to doubt it makes you an agent of the Devil. And what does the Bible textbook say? Well, among other things it says the earth was created in 4004 BC (Not actually, but a Moral Majority type figured that out three and a half centuries ago, and his word is also accepted as inspired.) The sun was created three days later. The first * +

tinytaxi 29.04.13 - 02:07pm
male was molded out of dirt, and the first female was molded, some time later, out of his rib. As far as the end of the universe is concerned, the Book of Revelation (6:13-14) says: And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. * +

tinytaxi 29.04.13 - 02:08pm
And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly. * +

intended 29.04.13 - 04:18pm
LoL ! You are a joke , go take a look in a mirror and you will see a clown . * +

dgsn 29.04.13 - 05:55pm
That is all pretty much true. * +

iilmadme 29.04.13 - 06:07pm
it sounds specifically directed at the christians he was encountering,who are out there.there isnt much forcing of beliefs or young earth creationism around in my country but i can see why others' experience is diffrent * +

tinytaxi 30.04.13 - 03:23pm
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul. I would also want a God who would not allow a Hell. Infinite torture can only be a punishment for infinite evil, and I don't believe that infinite evil can be said to exist even in the * +

tinytaxi 30.04.13 - 03:23pm
case of Hitler. Besides, if most human governments are civilized enough to try to eliminate torture and outlaw cruel and unusual punishments, can we expect anything less of an all-merciful God? I feel that if there were an afterlife, punishment for evil would be reasonable and of a fixed term. And I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.- Isaac Asimov * +

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