New View on Christianity

RollTide555 · August 31, 2011, 08:56:23 PM

The Good News: How Revealing Delusions In Christianity Will Bring Peace To All was published yesterday. This book offers a new, fresh take on Christianity by using scripture to reveal the "delusions" in present-day Christianity. Anyone searching for truth or just wants some good bible verses to shut-up "holy-roller" Christians would enjoy this read.

Tank · August 31, 2011, 09:02:20 PM

Shay

You don't appear to be dumb, so why didn't you read the rules?

Just because you're 'on-topic' give me a good reason why I shouldn't ban you along with the hundreds of other spammers we get here every day?

RollTide555 · August 31, 2011, 09:38:07 PM

I'm not spamming. I am unable to join any discussions that I would like to join as I am a new member. I did not know I was breaking rules, but do what you need to do.

Tank · August 31, 2011, 09:40:29 PM

Quote from: RollTide555 on August 31, 2011, 09:38:07 PM
I'm not spamming. I am unable to join any discussions that I would like to join as I am a new member. I did not know I was breaking rules, but do what you need to do.

You are spamming. Why don't you edit the link out of your post and demonstrate that you have come here to do more than spam?

RollTide555 · August 31, 2011, 09:47:19 PM

I did not know that was considered spamming. It is edited out.

Tank · August 31, 2011, 09:49:33 PM

Welcome aboard Mr Dawkins.

I must say I never expected to type that!

Asmodean · August 31, 2011, 10:32:06 PM

I want a cool last name too... $:-\$

Something with a little punch to it. A certain... What the French call a... a... I don't know. But I want it. $:-\$

BullyforBronto · September 01, 2011, 01:13:39 AM

Hello, RollTide.

Just a question or two:

You mention searching for truth. Can you give more insight to what this truth is? Is truth even attainable, and, if so, how?

I read the description on the "e-jacket" of your book. What makes your interpretation of the Bible any more authoritative than any other, using your label, "holy roller?"

I'm not trying to be argumentative, just wanting to learn more of your perspective.

By the way, Go Gators. (This may be the side of me being argumentative.)

The Magic Pudding · September 01, 2011, 04:09:10 AM

Quote from: Asmodean on August 31, 2011, 10:32:06 PM
I want a cool last name too... $:-\$

Something with a little punch to it. A certain... What the French call a... a... I don't know. But I want it. $:-\$

Just add a La to your existing name, or a De, or a Da if you prefer.
I don't recommend combining all of them though, more isn't necessarily better.

Hello Roll

Asmodean · September 01, 2011, 08:14:02 AM

A la or a da..? That could be combined to Lada. Truly horrible cars made out of anvils, those.

Tank · September 01, 2011, 09:05:30 AM

Quote from: Asmodean on August 31, 2011, 10:32:06 PM
I want a cool last name too... $:-\$

Something with a little punch to it. A certain... What the French call a... a... I don't know. But I want it. $:-\$

Asmodean D'Cool

OldGit · September 01, 2011, 01:44:39 PM

Le Comte d'Asmodée

Gawen · September 02, 2011, 01:27:31 AM

From The Good News Website:

QuoteWorking from the most widely accepted text, the King James Version, Dawkins examines what the Bible really says...what its literal messages are, free of any denominational agenda.

Woo...

QuoteThe result is an eye-opening return to the most basic roots of faith, and a deeper, broader understanding of God's Word. Read with an open mind, knowing that while changing your way of thinking can feel uncomfortable, change can bring freedom, hope, and new understanding.

Woo woo.

Good grief....

What the KJV bible really really really and extra really says...metaphorically....analogous...
With literal messages to boot from the official Bible known for its mistranslations (you know it really means "virgin" and not "young girl".

A deeper and broader understanding in what ancient superstitious people passed orally down the generations until written down somewhere around 300BCE! Follow these goat herders through time from the stone age through the bronze age to end in the early iron age!

Jeeeez....Reading the Bible with an open mind, yet predisposed to faith and wanting a deeper understanding of it is still delusion. What a dolt.

Asmodean · September 02, 2011, 02:46:55 AM

Quote from: OldGit on September 01, 2011, 01:44:39 PM
Le Comte d'Asmodée

This. Although I think it would be cooler with a subtle German shading, but still... This.

Melmoth · September 02, 2011, 04:04:10 AM

I'm going to have to re-read Monte Cristo now, imagining him a grey blob. That's what 15 years of being locked in a French dungeon does to a person.