God or Not?

The Current Split in the Anglican Church.

Posted on July 5th, 2008 by admin.
Categories: Ranting.

On Jul 4, 10:39 pm, Nothanx wrote:
> > Many Christians feel that Biblical Literalism is a prerequisite
> > for salvation.
> > Who are you to say otherwise?
> > How do you know which parts of the Bible are safe to ignore and which
> > are to be taken seriously? Is there not a danger that god will judge
> > you poorly if you only chose to observe the easy stuff?
>
> By the same token, is there not a danger that god will judge you
> poorly if you choose to observe the ridiculous and hateful stuff? Is
> there not a danger that god will judge you poorly if you choose to
> observe the letter rather than the spirit of the law. Is there not a
> danger that god will judge you poorly if you choose to respect the
> literal minutiae of the old testament (which apparently wasn’t meant
> for you anyway), at the expense of the second of the two great
> commandments. And who said that any of this was easy, no matter which
> book you go by? The one thing that seems obvious to me: there is no
> danger that God will judge you poorly if you choose to ignore the
> biblical commandments which are immoral. There are quite a few
> commandments that all but the most rabid biblical literalists will not
> defend (burning witches, parking menstruating women outside the house/
> tent for a week, commandments for dealing with skin diseases that may
> or may not be leprosy, allowing women to speak during church services,
> allowing men to wear long hair, working on the sabbath to feed
> yourself if you are hungry, &c).
>
> What I find objectionable is the hypocrisy and absurdity of
> selectively insisting that one’s own particular barabarisms are
> “absolutely required by the dictates of biblical literalism”.

Well this surely just points to the whole absurdity of the bible and
those that assert it to be the will of god.

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