C3PX said:
sean wookie said:
I purchased that Kindle Bible you recommended C3PX along with a copy of Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion (I had a copy but I can't find it).
I just bought a copy of The Greatest Show on Earth the other day, looking forward to getting the time to sit down and read it.
I have a few questions:
- What's up with the Kings James only movement?
- Why would people need Bible plans? I don't find it hard to read a few chapters everyday. Maybe they're too busy.
1. Fear of change. The KJV is a very old and very outdated text. There is really no reason to be using it today. Sure, it was very accurate in its day, but we have more accurate English translations today.
2. You are probably right about the too busy thing. Like I said in my other post, it seems most Christians really don't even bother to read their Bibles. A year seems like an excessively long time to read a book even as thick as the Bible (seems most reading plans I see are one year plans), but I guess a lot of people who don't read a lot can't really be bothered with more than a few verses a day. Seems silly to me. Can't imagine reading a book just a few paragraphs at a time.
The Kindle is great, but I wish it had To Kill A Mockingbird.
Warbler said:
Ziz said:
you know if made jokes like this using any other religion's holy book, people would call you a bigot. Can you imagine the outrage in the Islamic world if it found out there was a pic of the Quran with a label on it that said "this is a work of fiction"? If you had made this joke using the Tanakh, you'd be accused of antisemitism. But for some reason, its socially acceptable to do this with the Christian Bible. nice.
I was going to post a nice and thoughtful comment on how Atheists seem to be mostly threatened by Christians because they are the majority. Explain that we feel they encroaching on public space and government. Then say This is why they are attacked so much.
But i'm posting this image:
