@spendius,
spendius wrote:
Quote:Neologist wrote:
Supposedly God created mankind in his own image.
Where did you get this from?
Such an idea has similarities with evolution idea in the sense that they both can say what, when and where but have no explanaion of the how and the why.
The mankind created the gods mankind wanted idea can say what, where, when, how and why. And describe the anomalies and difficulties the idea involves when you get down to the reality of the passing world at its usual pace rather than mooning about with age-old abstractions for the purpose of proving that infractions of Chritianity's rules regarding rumpy-pumpy are quite respectable in this day and age and that even the raising of an eyebrow on hearing of one constitutes intolerance and a violation of human rights.
It is a FACT that the Bible is the holy book of the civilisation that achieved success on such a scale that no other culture produced a single Ray Bradbury to attempt suggesting even its most vague outlines and, and it is even more telling, never even thought of doing.
The success is so great that this civilisation now creams the best talent from the others because they are all beating our increasingly strong doors down to get in here and share it and we can take our pick. And do. A good half of our doctors deserted their own people to come and take care of us.
I can't think that many people could imagine a world without Rupert Murdoch and he is said to be a bastard as well.
This is such a bunch of rose bush fertilizer; I am almost embarrassed to deal with it.
A reasonable case could be made that we would have arrived where we are right now…centuries ago if it were not for that “holy book” and the people who used it the way they did.
Rome, was a thriving civilization that was making huge strides in art, architecture, law, philosophy, poetry, medicine and science. It was, I acknowledge a pagan society…filled with debauchery and violence. But it was moving civilization along…just as the Greeks had done before them. And the Roman society was in full ascendancy for 500+ years.
Then Christianity, and that “holy book” came along…and the world was plunged into 600 years of nothingness so stark people still refer to it as the Dark Ages. Law stayed static, philosophy, art, architecture and all the rest of society stayed static or REGRESSED.
The notion that the world owes that “holy book” some debt is ridiculous. That “holy book” may very well have set us back centuries rather than be a help.
