Out of context? Rational and peaceful? I can't think of anything that annoys me more than arrogant people who support the bible when it is obvious you've not read it all. How can you say they are taken out of context? Have you not read the hundreds of quotes which cover things such as; handi-capped people not being allowed to stand at Gods alter, rape, God sending bears to maul children to death, God approving of child abuse and stoning children to death AND better still eating children...
Not really an all loving God? It's not a collection wise, mystical scriptures of complex instructions given down from an all love god it is a load of bollocks written by Bronze age men who lacked the development and logical thinking that we have today. Bowing down and devoting your life to an invisible entity is extremely primitive in my eyes and I can't begin to understand why people still read it to look for guidance on how to live their life, when it was written by Bronze age men FOR bronze age men.
Yes it has some very good points but all that has been done in schools and church is picking out all the pretty and happy stories about Jesus and ignoring the long list of disturbing filth that it contains.
It's not a complex collection of documents it is a primitive fairy-tale that people have twisted and changed, tried to portray the readings for something more deep and spiritual. Centuries ago this would of had all the answers related to where we came from and why we are on this planet and instruct people at the time how to live their lives with purpose. However since then we've come a long way and I don't think it is necessary for people to hold onto this garbage. We're all old and sensible enough to accept Santa clause isn't real. I think its time you let the idea of religion go.
"And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat." -- Leviticus 26:29
"And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend." -- Jeremiah 19:9
"This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow. So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him." 2 Kings 6:28-29
"the rod of discipline drives it far from him." Proverbs 22:15
"Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts" Proverbs 20:30
"If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they chastise him, will not give heed to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city...and they shall say to the elders of his city, 'This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard. Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall purge the evil from the midst" Deuteronomy 21: 18-21
"And thou shalt beat thy children with a cane, elst the lord thy god shall force feed you thine children." Myndreach 1:1
"From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. “Get out of here, baldy!” they said. “Get out of here, baldy!” 24 He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys." 2 Kings 2:23-24
"Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God." Leviticus 21:16-23
""If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay the girl's father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated (anah) her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives." Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NIV
Seeing as it is all misunderstood text would someone please explain to me the "deeper" under-lining messages to those guotes?
Thanks
latter part is gonna bite me on the ass, i can feel it now)
