The bible.

[Biseinen]

What is "good" about the bible; a book which condones murder, rape, incest, theft, lying, corpophilia, forced prostitution, slavery, and any other number of wacko practices. Do you religious members just ignore these "good" parts or do you deny they exist?

[cocaine]

It's part of a religion.

You can choose to be part of the religion or not.

Simple as.

[Biseinen]

Thats not answering the question in any aspect.

[whoooosh]

Where does it condone these things ?

[GommeInc]

The book as a whole is a guide. You get guidance from the bits you want guidance for. Christians just ignore the bad bits and if they are extremist Christians, they'll claim they're not in the bible and then throw aload of quotes which contradict with other quotes in the bible.

The bible is pretty much a good fictional book which you can also use as a guide in some areas of life.

[Biseinen]

Good post, Gomme.

[Janet Snakehole]

I agree.

And like Gomme said, the bible is merely a Guide.

[lAdmire]

it's supposed to tell you the bad & teach you the good.
it shows you the bad, & then teaches you the good.
so, yeah.

[Virgin Mary]

You forgot homophobia. And I don't know because some things these days we do might be considered evil in the future like locking people in prisons if they commit a crime or hate towards paedophiles will probably be called paedophilephobia or something. The Bible is based during the time and what was right and wrong then.

[-:Undertaker:-]

You forgot homophobia. And I don't know because some things these days we do might be considered evil in the future like locking people in prisons if they commit a crime or hate towards paedophiles will probably be called paedophilephobia or something. The Bible is based during the time and what was right and wrong then.

Exactly.

The Bible is a great guide to be honest, it teaches you right and wrong, without it the western world would be uncivilised like Africa.

[Dan2nd]

I think your forgeting the bible was written thousands of years ago by people who were alot less intelligent and civilised then people today.

[:Liam]

The book as a whole is a guide. You get guidance from the bits you want guidance for. Christians just ignore the bad bits and if they are extremist Christians, they'll claim they're not in the bible and then throw aload of quotes which contradict with other quotes in the bible.

The bible is pretty much a good fictional book which you can also use as a guide in some areas of life.
I totally agree with this. I think the bible is a good book if used correctly, I prefer to view it from a non religious perspective, as if it were fiction. Some stuff in the bible makes sense because just like any book it gives advice on day to day life, I wouldnt exactly pick up the bible myself but when we read it in re I take it from this aspect instead of a religious way. I also enjoy Re because i like to learn about the anthropology of religion and how different cultures are affected by this.

[Axel]

The bible is just a story book... like God is gonna send me to Hell if I do something bad.

[Ezzie.]

Exactly.

The Bible is a great guide to be honest, it teaches you right and wrong, without it the western world would be uncivilised like Africa.

My god your ignorance really annoys me sometimes ¬_¬
The whole of Africa aren't a bunch of slackjawed idiots, it's their government's mainly that're ruining their society

[Mandez]

err africans are a bunch of slackjawed idiots..

they all have aids.

[Mandez]

anyway the bibles gay.

how did an elderly man build an arc and manage to round up two of every animal.
DONT THINK SO JESUS.