The Bible Summed Up In One Short Sentence

[Asmodean]

Well...that was fun!!!

Washed my hands of this thread before the fun was ended, but yes, my evening was quite agreeable yesterday 

[DeterminedJuliet]

Woah! I missed all of this.

Darn.

[xSilverPhinx]

So you simply believe in everything you are told that you don't have proof to the contrary on.
Critical thought is seen as a negative to you?

No in answer to both questions. I never believe what I am told, I'm always skeptical, I demand evidence in making a rational decision. Either I'm informed or I am admittedly ignorant or incapable of understanding. I suck at math and grammar (if you haven't noticed). I have very little interest in science because I see it as speculation often abused in the guise of absolute knowledge. Empirical evidence, peer review all of that stuff is a good idea, and I think that science is important so long as it doesn't, in the manner which I describe, become religious in nature.

Critical thought and fairness with an open mind is my way of going about things. I fuck up. I learn from my mistakes.

That's...what science is and does. ???

If what you're talking about is the way that science is taught in schools, you have to realise that schoolchildren are not exactly qualified to judge whether a model is correct or not. Things such as the whole 'teach creationism in science classand let them make up their own minds' is flawed, because a) they distort evolutionary theory anyways and teach an absurd caricature and b) creationism is not science, is based on what is believed to absolute knowledge and not open to sceptical inquiry and correction in the light of new evidence.

The facts you call 'absolute' (which, quite frankly, is odd) have been peer-reviewed and come to through the scientific method, which is the best tool for creating models of reality that actually explain vast observations in a cohesive model. It's not up to a school teacher with limited knowledge to tell people that a theory is wrong without being able to show that it's wrong.   

This cartoon describes it very well:



I do agree that people don't really learn how to think in school, but you shouldn't confuse that with what the valid facts that they're taught. 

[Stevil]

No in answer to both questions. I never believe what I am told, I'm always skeptical, I demand evidence in making a rational decision.

So where is the evidence about all of these gods that you believe in?
You said that Jehovah created us, where is the evidence?

[Velma]

I'd like to know your thoughts, Earthling, on why it was such a sacrifice.  Thirty years on earth out of eternity.  A death that while unpleasant, wasn't nearly as prolonged or bad as the deaths of countless others.  Even if, as some theologies teach, he was cut off from his father during the hours he was 'dead,' it was only a few hours out of eternity.  All-in-all, it adds up to a bad weekend, but hardly a 'sacrifice' when he was fully restored to his position in heaven.

The price was perfect blood without sin which he paid in full. The point wasn't how much he suffered.

I know you've been suspended for a week, but I still want to reply to this. 

God needed a human sacrifice?  He couldn't just forgive?

[Whitney]

a better summary:

Guy claiming to be god sacrifices himself to himself in order to save his friends from himself but only if they believe he's not just insane.

[Sandra Craft]

a better summary:

Guy claiming to be god sacrifices himself to himself in order to save his friends from himself but only if they believe he's not just insane.

Put that way, it makes the bible sound entirely worthless.

[xSilverPhinx]

a better summary:

Guy claiming to be god sacrifices himself to himself in order to save his friends from himself but only if they believe he's not just insane.

Put that way, it makes the bible sound entirely worthless.

Definitely one of the weirdest ever.

[Heisenberg]

I've got the shortest sentence yet... FICTION

Hell it's barely a fragment.

[Asmodean]

I've got the shortest sentence yet... FICTION

Hell it's barely a fragment.

I can beat it for shortness:

[Too Few Lions]

I've got the shortest sentence yet... FICTION

Hell it's barely a fragment.

that's perfect! If I worked in a bookstore I'd definitely have to put all the Bibles in the fiction section

[Xjeepguy]

I've got the shortest sentence yet... FICTION

Hell it's barely a fragment.

that's perfect! If I worked in a bookstore I'd definitely have to put all the Bibles in the fiction section

They already have a section for it at my local mall.

[Asmodean]

The bibles. They are IN that section, yes..?

Because if so, then Asmodean will save that mall for last on his Burn-a-mall-with-kerosine spree 

[xSilverPhinx]

They're probably in the "absolute Truth" section, along with the Koran, the Bhaghadvat-Gita and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 

[DeterminedJuliet]

They're probably in the "absolute Truth" section, along with the Koran, the Bhaghadvat-Gita and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 

In all fairness, I think the Hitchhiker's Guide belongs there.