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. |
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... man's psyche into a God, may be the most insidious aspects of superstition. In other words, its most long-lasting and far reaching harm may well be intellectual. An example of this mental damage involves the warping of young minds by ...
... man's psyche into a God, may be the most insidious aspects of superstition. In other words, its most long-lasting and far reaching harm may well be intellectual. An example of this mental damage involves the warping of young minds by ...
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... man's rib, that our dead bodies will someday rise again intact despite having moldered in the grave, that a virgin can bear a son and remain a virgin, that three gods are actually one god, that one god is actually three gods, that a ...
... man's rib, that our dead bodies will someday rise again intact despite having moldered in the grave, that a virgin can bear a son and remain a virgin, that three gods are actually one god, that one god is actually three gods, that a ...
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... man's double need, partly for help and support, partly for occupation and diversion. While it often works in direct opposition to the first need, in that, with the occurrence of accidents and dangers, valuable time and strength, instead ...
... man's double need, partly for help and support, partly for occupation and diversion. While it often works in direct opposition to the first need, in that, with the occurrence of accidents and dangers, valuable time and strength, instead ...
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... man's bones to be disinterred, burned, and the ashes scattered into a river. Eventually other translators followed Wycliffe's lead. In 1525 William Tyndale (1484?-1536) translated the New Testament into English [which, by the way, led ...
... man's bones to be disinterred, burned, and the ashes scattered into a river. Eventually other translators followed Wycliffe's lead. In 1525 William Tyndale (1484?-1536) translated the New Testament into English [which, by the way, led ...
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... man's proneness to error, it is difficult to believe that a heavenly communication could make any kind of transit through a human medium undistorted. Furthermore, this indirect revelation actually has the effect of substituting man for ...
... man's proneness to error, it is difficult to believe that a heavenly communication could make any kind of transit through a human medium undistorted. Furthermore, this indirect revelation actually has the effect of substituting man for ...
Inhalt
10 | |
I | 245 |
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 |
God Omnipotent Loses a Wrestling Match | 310 |
4 | 424 |
Salvation through the Passion | 441 |
Theophagy and other Scripturally Based Rituals | 449 |
Creationism and Intelligent Design | 457 |
Beshrew the TwoBacked Monster | 495 |
8 | 496 |
Thou shalt not Think | 503 |
Phinehas Javelin Throw | 520 |
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 |
Thoughts of an Unregenerate Apostate | 533 |
9 | 556 |
An Apologia for Religious Infidelity | 566 |
Postscript | 586 |
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