Unholy Writ:: An Infidel’S Critique of the BibleAuthorHouse, 07.11.2011 - 824 Seiten During our brief and perilous journey ex irritum ad irritum, how are we to find, what the German philosopher Martin Heidegger (Sein und Zeit) would call, the true approach to being? How do we answer the question posed by the Apostle Thomas when he asked how can we know the way (Jn. 14:5)? In other words, how should we fill that parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity, which James Joyce (Ulysses) maintained, demarcates each of our lives? The Bible has often been put forth as a supposedly infallible guidebook charting the correct path to an authentic existence (e.g. 2 Tim. 3:16-17). According to its proponents, Scripture is an absolutely dependable life-manual because it is the word of God (Summa Theologica, First Part, Q. 1, Art. 10). However, close inspection of the Bible calls into question its divine authorship; and, thus, its reliability as an accurate roadmap for the soul. In fact, under close examination it proves to be nothing more than a mundane and cobbled together collection of archaic superstitions beginning with the outlandish speculations of Moses concerning the creation of the world and ending with the maniacal ravings of John regarding its destruction. Exposing the true nature of Holy Writ was the main purpose for writing Unholy Writ. The modus operandi for this expos involved a thoroughgoing critical analysis of Scripture. The results from such a careful consideration of its contents clearly demonstrated that any claim that the Bible is some sort of sacrosanct ethical vade mecum is completely invalid. Specifically, the multiple contradictions and absurdities contained in the Bible confer an unreliability upon it that undermines its function as a guide for anything, let alone as some sort of moral map for the journey through life. Furthermore, many of the ideas that are promoted in Holy Writ are actually spiritually harmful. In addition, unless the condoned misogyny, violence, intolerance, injustice, and cruelty can be removed, then it is difficult to view the Scriptures as anything like an unwavering celestial beacon that clearly lights the way through the moral fog that at times engulfs our lives. Moreover, the many errors that it contains, including those about the natural world, undermine the pivotal claim that the Bible is divinely inspired. |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 77
Seite 14
... Augustine of Hippo (354-430 A.D.), this supposedly supernatural provenance invested the book with “paramount authority.”2 Based on this tenuous fiat, Scripture has been used by Christian fundamentalists, among others, to support their ...
... Augustine of Hippo (354-430 A.D.), this supposedly supernatural provenance invested the book with “paramount authority.”2 Based on this tenuous fiat, Scripture has been used by Christian fundamentalists, among others, to support their ...
Seite 29
... Augustine ( 354-430 ) once warned that " there are some passages which are not understood in their proper force , or are understood with great difficulty , at whatever length , however clearly , or with whatever eloquence the speaker ...
... Augustine ( 354-430 ) once warned that " there are some passages which are not understood in their proper force , or are understood with great difficulty , at whatever length , however clearly , or with whatever eloquence the speaker ...
Seite 34
... Augustine (354-430 A.D.), Bernard of Clairvoux (1090-1153 A.D.) and Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274 A.D.), etc. Furthermore, over the centuries there were exegetical disputes that at times erupted into schisms and heresies. But these were ...
... Augustine (354-430 A.D.), Bernard of Clairvoux (1090-1153 A.D.) and Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274 A.D.), etc. Furthermore, over the centuries there were exegetical disputes that at times erupted into schisms and heresies. But these were ...
Seite 39
... Augustine drew our attention to this fact in his book, The City of God, when he pointed out that there were “many instances in which the seventy interpreters may be thought to differ from the Hebrew”63 original. For example “the ...
... Augustine drew our attention to this fact in his book, The City of God, when he pointed out that there were “many instances in which the seventy interpreters may be thought to differ from the Hebrew”63 original. For example “the ...
Seite 49
... Augustine deals with this discrepancy in his book The City of God when he states that “it is not to be supposed, because this [Abraham's departure from Haran] follows in the order of the narrative, that it also followed in the ...
... Augustine deals with this discrepancy in his book The City of God when he states that “it is not to be supposed, because this [Abraham's departure from Haran] follows in the order of the narrative, that it also followed in the ...
Inhalt
12 | |
27 | |
45 | |
Melting Snails and Other Absurdities | 121 |
The Ravings of a Maniac | 158 |
False Prophets and False Prophecies | 170 |
Breaking the Commandments with Impunity | 187 |
Cruelty Mayhem Murder | 200 |
God Omnipotent Loses a Wrestling Match | 310 |
Deus Caritas Est a Contradictio in Adjecto | 319 |
God as the Source of Evil | 325 |
the Transmogrifying God | 344 |
Believe or Be Damned | 355 |
Dear Einstein God Plays with Loaded Dice | 362 |
Salvation Damnation and the Immortality of the Soul | 370 |
Salvation through the Passion | 441 |
the Bible as Gods Rap Sheet | 212 |
the Bitter Water Test | 227 |
Sexual Ethics or the House of him that hath his Shoe Loosed | 243 |
the Craving for a Community of Worship | 265 |
As a Drunken Man Staggereth in his Vomit | 274 |
Cloven Footed Cud Chewers and Road Kill | 282 |
Stoning the Ox | 294 |
Such Language Less than Edifying Biblical Imagery | 303 |
Theophagy and other Scripturally Based Rituals | 449 |
Creationism and Intelligent Design | 457 |
Beshrew the TwoBacked Monster | 495 |
Phinehas Javelin Throw | 520 |
Thoughts of an Unregenerate Apostate | 533 |
An Apologia for Religious Infidelity | 566 |
Postscript | 586 |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
according Acts animals appears Arthur Schopenhauer atheist Augustine believe Bible biblical body Book of Mormon brain cause Chicago Christ Christian Church claimed concept contradicts David dead death divine downloaded earth editor-in-chief Edward Gibbon Encyclopedia Britannica eternal evil example existence Ezek fact faith father Friedrich Nietzsche Furthermore God’s gods Gospel hand hath heaven hell Holy human idea immortality Israel Israelites Jean Meslier Jesus Jews John kill king living Lord matter means mind moral Moses nature neurons Nietzsche Old Testament passage Paul person priest prophets punishment Qur'an R. M. Hutchins reason religion religious resurrection Schopenhauer Scripture sense soul spirit Summa Theologica thee things Thomas Aquinas Thomas Paine Thou shalt told translated truth unto verse Walter Kaufmann Western World woman women words wrote www.gutenberg.org