The great and all powerful religion thread!

[cookiecutter]

Are you asking me this?

I am asking in general

 

[knives]

I am asking in general

Ok. Well, I would say that much like any book, there are parts that are not meant to be taken literally. In the Bible, I think these parts are fairly obvious (such as the Jesus's parables). Besides instances like these, I do take the Bible literally...hopefully that answers your question, I'm having a hard time writing out my thoughts...

Edit: I have to get off the computer now, so I will continue this tomorrow.

 

[Tallerthanatree]

By a great majority most Christians aren't stupid enough to take every word of the Bible literally and seriously. I'm sure there are plenty of fundamentalists who do though.

Too true. Westboro Baptist Church anyone?

 

[zabu of nΩd]

GOD HATES FAGS

It says so in the Bible.

 

[Matt]

Get out while you still can, dude.

Tis the plan. I don't feel like explaining every opinion I give.

 

[cookiecutter]

Ok. Well, I would say that much like any book, there are parts that are not meant to be taken literally. In the Bible, I think these parts are fairly obvious (such as the Jesus's parables). Besides instances like these, I do take the Bible literally...hopefully that answers your question, I'm having a hard time writing out my thoughts...

Edit: I have to get off the computer now, so I will continue this tomorrow.

Cool. I agree the Bible is not all true. I would just like to point out that the reason we now don't take the Bible literally is that our morals have progressed past the point of slavery, rape and stoning. Therefore the statement that bible guides you or gives you morals is untrue.

 

[Blue_Jay]

GOD HATES FAGS

It says so in the Bible.

Omg really? Where at I haven't heard of this. HAven't reached the part of the bible where it starts to talk about gays, bisexuals, and lesbians.

 

[cookiecutter]

Leviticus

 

[Blue_Jay]

Leviticus

Wait what? But I already read through that. There's nothing about gays at all in that book. Just a bunchy of sacraficial rant.

 

[cookiecutter]

I believe the line reads like "Two men shall not lie together..."

 

[Blue_Jay]

I believe the line reads like "Two men shall not lie together..."

Ah, that only says that men can't sleep together.

 

[Rabid Headbanger]

your forgetting the part at the end of the verse about killing them.

 

[Blue_Jay]

Two men that sleep together = gays

not neccessarly

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Why the fuck else would the author of the Bible not want two men to sleep together?

 

[Pessimism]

Why the fuck else would the author of the Bible not want two men to sleep together?

He was obviously jealous, thus his vindictive nature within the writings.




p.s.: I know there are multiple authors to that damned book, go correct someone else who cares.

 

[Nehebkau]

I know this is going to come off stupid, but...

Could anyone give me a break down (or even a link explaining) all religions and their beliefs etc out their?

and... what the fuck is a pagan?

 

[cookiecutter]

Pagan means believing in multiple Gods, often dealing with nature. When it is talked about here it usually refers to the European pre-Christian gods.

 

[Ender Rises]

I thought Pagan meant non-Christian originally but then changed to mean worship to the European pre-Christian gods.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

I know this is going to come off stupid, but...

Could anyone give me a break down (or even a link explaining) all religions and their beliefs etc out their?

and... what the fuck is a pagan?

http://www.krysstal.com/wgods.html

Only seems to cover the most well-known ones; however, there is a really cool chart at the bottom of the page showing an evolution tree of the major religions.

 

[thisisaformicatable]

and... what the fuck is a pagan?

Any non-Abrahamic religion is pagan.