What do you think of this? Do you really need a book with seas parting, evil gods punishing people, lame stories about talking donkeys and parting seas? MOST of the 10 commandments you can keep for being moral guidelines, but really, I think when all is said and done, you're left with a book a quarter the size of the bible when all the flack is removed. Shall we let the nonbelievers edit this as they are after all a neutral party in this case?
2006-09-26 02:40:07 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I got no problem with fiction as long as everyone agrees it IS fiction... people that start believing fiction is reality are the issue.
2006-09-26 02:52:48 · update #1
Look up Jeffersonian Bible. It's been done.
Thomas Jefferson was about as close to atheistic was one could get in that day and age. Even as a deist he had nothing but contempt for the Creator... akin to saying, "Yeah, you created the universe? SO WHAT?! You sure did a crappy job of it, you suck, deity!"
2006-09-26 02:43:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Generally speaking, atheists and agnostics don't require a bronze age book to tell them how to behave. This is demonstrated by the fact that atheists, representing between 8-16% of the population, are disproportionately less in the prison populations at a mere 0.21%. Consider that the majority of the prison population are Catholic or Protestant, and I'd say that maybe there's something wrong with using the bible as a moral guideline. Perhaps the 0.21% of atheists in prison are those who tried to base their morals on the writings of the bible?
2006-09-26 09:58:11 · answer #2 · answered by digitalquirk 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ooh good idea. I mean creation, parting the seas, miracles?? How ridiculous. Its MUCH more believable that billions of years ago, nothing existed but then that nothing Exploded and came to life all by itself, then a tiny little cell crawled out of some primordial ooze which also created itself and then you had a rat, a pig, a dog, a boy. Cool! Your right, take the stuff out the bible that you don't like. While were at it , we should have a big buffet of all the foods that are good and lets just take all the minerals , vitamins, and nutrition out of them. Your worried about talking donkeys, when you believe that you are not more than a talking ape???
2006-09-26 11:29:09 · answer #3 · answered by Coco 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The bible says that cursed be the person that adds or removes from the word of God.
By the way if you claim to be atheist/agnostic why do you want to read the Bible??
You might as well read it from start to end and believe. it the only true you will find in this world!!
2006-09-26 10:05:19 · answer #4 · answered by Commander 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
humm........if you just want a guideline for good behavior style then yes. But to do this would change it from a book of faith and miracles to a book of moral ethic and laws. The source for those same ethic and laws would no longer be valid leaving the interpertation of these things open to no boundries with new definition.ummmm.......I don't know about that. What do you think.......uh.......never mind since you would no longer think in the way you do now.........ummmm
2006-09-26 10:04:44 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, i agree.
Please do a rewrite of the whole fantastical
and contradictory mess.
No, i don't agree with letting the atheist and agnostics do it. Atheist and agnostics did not muck it up. Make the religious folks fix it. The agnostics and Atheists can then act as proofreaders and auditors of the finished new Bible.
Religion, away with them all.
2006-09-26 15:09:24 · answer #6 · answered by zurioluchi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isn't this kind of what Unitarian Universalists try to do? Take the lessons of all religions, without the superstition or bigotry?
Thomas Jefferson and most of our other Founding Fathers were UU, and tried to do what you suggested about taking the good and leaving the rest.
2006-09-26 09:44:43 · answer #7 · answered by Buffy Summers 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. I say if they are non believers then they really have no need for a bible, edited or not. And if you removed all that they think is nonsensicle there would be nothing anyway.
2006-09-26 09:45:17 · answer #8 · answered by mortgagegirl101 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2006-09-26 09:42:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you such a drag that you have never enjoyed parables and fanciful stories? Leave the talking donkeys in there, I love that story. Let me guess, you never read fiction?
2006-09-26 09:43:23 · answer #10 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋