Originally Posted by Robbie

I can't believe you guys are debating it.

Mutt, hit the nail on the head by pointing out the absurdity of modern man "worshiping" anything.

I'll say it again: it was a small tribe of people who had ZERO education (not even any education for the time they lived in: The Bronze Age). They told "stories" to their kids.

Hundreds of years later...actual people who could read and write sat down and wrote the stories down.
Back then, people believed in "magic" and "miracles" and other assorted nonsense.

In 2014...I can not fathom why people would believe in any of this crap. Or the Muslim religion. Or Buddhism. Or anything else.

The only conclusion I can come to is that human beings are self-aware. And we know of our own mortality and can't stand the thought of it.
So we make up stories of an "after-life"

Deep down we all know it's bullshit. That's why we grieve when a loved one dies.
If we REALLY believed in an afterlife then "dying" wouldn't mean shit to any of us.
Matter of fact we would all be hoping for that to happen as quickly as possible.

But deep down we know better.

I think most people are like I USED to be. Hedging their bets.
lol

I used to have the attitude that "it couldn't hurt" to "believe" in God "just in case".
heh-heh

And if it makes people feel better then so be it.

But "The Bible"?
As I said...stories told to kids from a primitive tribe. Written down hundreds of years later.
Then, believe it or not...an EGYPTIAN decided which books of the bible to include and which ones NOT to include. Kind of hard to believe that a guy from a culture that would soon after turn full Muslim once did that.

And then, of course...hundreds of years after all of that, it was re-written again at the order of King James to fit HIS idea of what it should say.

The whole thing is just ridiculous.