sethosayher Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 I've spent the last few days looking at apologetic literature concerning "apparent contradictions" in the bible. I've realized something about apologists who try to resolve the hundreds of contradictions and errors in the bible...they really don't care about preserving their holy text. They will butcher narratives, contort the meaning of words, rearrange the chronological order of certain events, even concoct innumerable hypothetical persons, places, and things to avoid the possibility that the writers of the Bible...simply got it wrong. Instead of accepting the Bible as it is, all they care about is assuaging what must be unendurable cognitive dissonance. If we accepted every single explanation provided by an apologist for every single contradiction we see in the bible, it would be a radically different book telling a very different story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Davka Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 If we accepted every single explanation provided by an apologist for every single contradiction we see in the bible, it would be a radically different book telling a very different story. That's exactly what Christianity teaches; a radically different book, telling a radically different story. Unfortunately, they cannot divorce themselves completely from the Bible, and Christians will insist on reading the damned thing, so they keep having to "explain" all that killing and racism and mythology and other weird crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qec Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 People who believe in UFO's will do the same thing. Big Deal. Belief in the infallibility of the Bible and all the accompanying dogma that usually tags along with it can be reduced to a multiple out conspiracy theory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeptic Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 I've spent the last few days looking at apologetic literature Well, there's your problem. Don't read that codswallop. It's not worth the paper it's printed on. I'd stick to 8-Bit Theater (nice avatar, by the way). It makes a hell of a lot more sense than apologetic "literature". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sethosayher Posted July 14, 2009 Author Share Posted July 14, 2009 I've spent the last few days looking at apologetic literature Well, there's your problem. Don't read that codswallop. It's not worth the paper it's printed on. I'd stick to 8-Bit Theater (nice avatar, by the way). It makes a hell of a lot more sense than apologetic "literature". Sound advice, and yes, I'm also a 8-bit theater fan =P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
★ Citsonga ★ Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 Those contradictions are what got me to start questioning my faith. I do think that *some* of the apologetics arguments are valid, but many others are simply jumping through hoops. After finally realizing that the Bible is a bunch of bullshit myself, I have to wonder how many ministers, theologians, apologists and such realize that it's nonsense but don't want to acknowledge it because they've made those their careers. While I think that a high percentage of Christians in general really believe the Bible to be true, I have to think that the percentage almost certainly has to be smaller among those higher up in the church. Many of them have to see that there are serious holes in what they present. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thegodthatfailed Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 People who believe in UFO's will do the same thing. Big Deal. Belief in the infallibility of the Bible and all the accompanying dogma that usually tags along with it can be reduced to a multiple out conspiracy theory. Actually, People who believe in UFOs have firmer ground to stand on. At least there is some good anecdotal evidence for there being unexplained objects in our atmosphere. The Bible on the other hand is just a mass of contradictions, false history,and fairy tales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thurisaz Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 To be fair, a single apologetic claim is often at least possible. Quite unlikely but possible. What morontheists either fail or don't want to understand is that this unlikeliness quickly grows into the absurd when you (have to) use several such "arguments". And poof, suddenly da wholly babble is about as "likely" to be factual as it is likely that you win the lottery for a whole year, every single fucking day. Ooops! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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