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Has any one ever clearly understood the celebrated story at the beginning of the Bible--of God's mortal terror of science? . . . No one, in fact, has understood it. This priest-book par excellence opens, as is fitting, with the great inner difficulty of the priest: he faces only one great danger; ergo, "God" faces only one great danger.--

The old God, wholly "spirit," wholly the high-priest, wholly perfect, is promenading his garden: he is bored and trying to kill time. Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.21What does he do? He creates man--man is entertaining. . . But then he notices that man is also bored. God's pity for the only form of distress that invades all paradises knows no bounds: so he forthwith creates other animals. God's first mistake: to man these other animals were not entertaining--he sought dominion over them; he did not want to be an "animal" himself.--So God created woman. In the act he brought boredom to an end--and also many other things!

2007-12-01 08:20:50 · 11 answers · asked by Guts 3 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

Woman was the second mistake of God.--"Woman, at bottom, is a serpent, Heva"--every priest knows that; "from woman comes every evil in the world"--every priest knows that, too. Ergo, she is also to blame for science. . . It was through woman that man learned to taste of the tree of knowledge.--What happened? The old God was seized by mortal terror. Man himself had been his greatest blunder; he had created a rival to himself; science makes men godlike--it is all up with priests and gods when man becomes scientific!--Moral: science is the forbidden per se; it alone is forbidden. Science is the first of sins, the germ of all sins, the original sin. This is all there is of morality.--"Thou shalt not know"--the rest follows from that.--God's mortal terror, however, did not hinder him from being shrewd. How is one to protect one's self against science? For a long while this was the capital problem. Answer: Out of paradise with man! Happiness, leisure, foster thought

2007-12-01 08:21:22 · update #1

and all thoughts are bad thoughts!--Man must not think.--And so the priest invents distress, death, the mortal dangers of childbirth, all sorts of misery, old age, decrepitude, above all, sickness--nothing but devices for making war on science! The troubles of man don't allow him to think. . . Nevertheless--how terrible!--, the edifice of knowledge begins to tower aloft, invading heaven, shadowing the gods--what is to be done?--The old God invents war; he separates the peoples; he makes men destroy one another (--the priests have always had need of war....). War--among other things, a great disturber of science !--Incredible! Knowledge, deliverance from the priests, prospers in spite of war.--So the old God comes to his final resolution: "Man has become scientific--there is no help for it: he must be drowned!". . . .

2007-12-01 08:21:31 · update #2

written by Nietzche.

I am requesting that people at least question their so called blind fate.

2007-12-01 08:22:50 · update #3

written by Nietzche.

I am requesting that people at least question their so called blind faith.

2007-12-01 08:23:10 · update #4

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I agree. Plus all this people who feel hurt and offended don't have the capacity to think for themselves and think logically. They just take guns and start shooting their religious whining without rationalizing their thinking.

2007-12-02 05:40:49 · answer #1 · answered by Devils advocate 1 · 0 1

I just feel sorry for people that are so narrow minded that they have no concept of Truth.No appreciation for the awesomeness of creation.
Just because you cannot wrap your imagination around the true events that caused our existance doesn't mean it didn't happen that way also nothing boring about Jehovah,hang around long enough to experience the second coming and we will see if your knees shake a little.
The Bible is meant for believers it won't make sense to non-believers because you don't have the Holy spirit to open your eyes to the interpetion of the WORD. Therefore ,you don't know what you are talking about,sir.

2007-12-01 08:36:15 · answer #2 · answered by rjm 4 · 0 1

The Virgin Birth
The Virgin Birth

Walking on the water of the life before the birth of pain.
Seeking to become the savoir of a World become insane.
Coming to this planet not inside a golden spacecraft.
Coming to this planet from a place of quietness.
Using the life of Spirit to explain the life within.
Poetical remembrances of virgin birth await us soon.
Future is often just repeated past.
Only once is Grace afforded us.
Please dont let it lapse.
This Christmas remember Christmas Future
while enjoying Christmas past,
and Inn this Christmas Present
please say Jesus of the Virgin Birth.
When people cry for saving this one will,
The City Of The Nazerene is always on a hill.

2007-12-01 08:26:08 · answer #3 · answered by charlax.hice 3 · 0 0

In view of Deutertonomy 4:35; it seems futile to attempt a logical definition of God. It is obvious that, strictly speaking, God cannot be classified with other like objects; He is in a class by Himself, absolutely sui generis
What Scripture reveals about God serves to gives us a description of Him adquate to our present powers of conception and to our present needs. The up-shot of this description is [1] that God depends on no one for His existence and has everything else dependent upon Him for its existence; 2] that He is the most exalted Being, than whom no better bring can possibly exist, or be imagined. By
metonomy, the term "god is sometimes applied to persons
exercising a God-appointed authority [Exodus4:16; Psalm 82:6; John 10:34; 2Thess.2:4]

2007-12-01 08:49:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

I was wondering when you will get to the source of the quote. But from the first few sentences, I could guess. Eventually, you arrived at "written by Nietzsche."

Sorry, but I accept the Bible any day over Nietzsche. Or Darwin, for that matter.

2007-12-01 08:38:59 · answer #5 · answered by flandargo 5 · 0 1

Hmm. Since animals were created before people, your logic is flawed.

No faith is blind.

2007-12-01 08:24:22 · answer #6 · answered by Skunk 6 · 2 1

Oh for the love of fsm...

It's people like this that makes me want to be nice to christians...

Complete tool.

2007-12-01 08:54:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Is there a question somewhere in this useless diatribe?

2007-12-01 08:24:50 · answer #8 · answered by enamel 7 · 1 0

Wow. This isn't a question, it's a statement. Post your religious beliefs elsewhere.

2007-12-01 08:24:03 · answer #9 · answered by Hubris 2 · 4 2

My faith is not blind. It is you who doesn't understand what you hate that is blind.

2007-12-01 08:30:41 · answer #10 · answered by Tessa 5 · 1 1

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