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# You know, people say this
and generally they're the people happy to ignore massive swathes of hte Bible. Either it is or it isn't - or if we're not believers we can feel free to cherry-pick the few bits that *are*. Enormous amounts of the Bible are boring twaddle filled with an historically-inaccurate account of the founding and running of ancient Israel interspersed with tedious 'prophecies' that are either so vague as to be meaningless, not actually prophecies at all, or conveniently written down a few hundred years after the events they prophecy (Isaiah, I'm looking at you.) Amongst the guides to social behaviour are wonderful recommendations about murdering your enemy and stealing his woman (but if you keep her for a year you have to marry her; if you only keep her for six months you can kick her out of the tent to die in the shit though) and the entertaining valuation of Jewish life where women are worth significantly less than men are. Then you move into the New Testament and find a mixture of Jesus occasionally saying something useful, then blowing his own trumpet, then blowing his own trumpet, then listening to others blowing his trumpet for him while he nods approvingly and says 'Damn right, I *am* the Son of God', then saying he's not come for peace but to start wars, then contradicting himself once or twice, then dying. Followed by Paul's insane misogynist ramblings.

Great guide to social behaviour, that one.

Sorry, in a bad mood :(
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Wed 22 Sep 2010, 9:58, archived)
# Would you like a hug?
the New Testament is mostly Buddhism mixed in with a bit of Judaism and possibly Druidism, anyway.
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Wed 22 Sep 2010, 10:04, archived)
# Buddhism?
Does the fat man know about this?
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Wed 22 Sep 2010, 11:47, archived)
# well
some (paul) of the new testament is simple misogyny and some (revelation) seems to be the result of a bad trip. but otherwise, yeah, why not?



edit: also, i'd love a hug.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Wed 22 Sep 2010, 12:12, archived)
# Wow I'm so glad strikethrough came to the rescue!
anybody would think I endorse the bible.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Wed 22 Sep 2010, 10:10, archived)
# well i thought it better than just deleting it
once it's been said and out there and all that, no matter how stupid or irrelevant.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Wed 22 Sep 2010, 12:11, archived)
# All theories about the origins of the universe suffer from infinite regression.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 22 Sep 2010, 10:10, archived)