Is there anything more weak-minded and meaningless than having "faith"?

[doodab]

see if you had gone to school assembly instead of reading the Beano you wouldn't ask questions as stupid as that

Well, I've read quite a bit of the bible too, and I don't remember anything that would prohibit group sex, although I can understand that wife swapping might be a no go.

[xoggoth]

You never know, the Beano might be the future bible.

Or Star Wars. We laugh at the Jedi now, but given a few millenia and a breakdown of society so the true origins of the story are lost and who knows? Lucas transmutes to a Messiah figure and the Jedi code becomes God's will. That's how religion starts and it is perpetuated because those brought up to believe in it never question what they are taught.

[contractor79]

You never know, the Beano might be the future bible.

Or Star Wars. We laugh at the Jedi now, but given a few millenia and a breakdown of society so the true origins of the story are lost and who knows? Lucas transmutes to a Messiah figure and the Jedi code becomes God's will. That's how religion starts and it is perpetuated because those brought up to believe in it never question what they are taught.

what a load of nonsense

[doodab]

You never know, the Beano might be the future bible.

Or Star Wars. We laugh at the Jedi now, but given a few millenia and a breakdown of society so the true origins of the story are lost and who knows? Lucas transmutes to a Messiah figure and the Jedi code becomes God's will. That's how religion starts and it is perpetuated because those brought up to believe in it never question what they are taught.

Have you read The Book of Dave?

[minestrone]

"Is there anything more weak-minded and meaningless than having "faith"?."

I just hope Ponting can start playing cricket.

[Platypus]

And why would he give us the capacity to think for oursleves and then expect us to blindly follow what religious teachers tell us?

In my opinion, if there IS a God, he would NOT want us blindly following self-appointed religious teachers.

Isn't it a sin to suppose the mind of God?

[Spacecadet]

Have you read The Book of Dave?

Yes.... not a bad book, although it takes a couple of chapters to get used to the language

[minestrone]

In my opinion, if there IS a God, he would NOT want us blindly following self-appointed religious teachers.

Isn't it a sin to suppose the mind of God?

So you question the existance of god but then tell the board what God should do.

[xoggoth]

what a load of nonsense

You ARE Chico. He simply refuted without a shred of argument either. I suggest you look at how stories from more recent history evolve, the Arthur Legend perhaps. Take a fair smattering of fact and the subsequent tellers embellish such that over time it is hard to distinguish which is fact and which is fiction.

Writers have always tended to support fiction with invented and apparently credible histories or else embroidered in real facts in order to give the tale more credibility and depth. What would the film "The Mummy" be if the mummy simply popped up in the desert with no explanation of who he had been, how he came to be an evil creature etc?

Involve religion and you then get vested interest in showing the story to be true and reality is used selectively to "prove" it. How often is some other reference cited to show the truth of the Bible? It may well demonstrate the truth of that part of the Bible, it is very probable that much of the bible is based on real events, but nothing else proves any supernatural aspect of it. The cuckolded Pharaoh in "The Mummy" was a real character but does that make the rest of it true?

[xoggoth]

Is The Book of Dave any better than that other Will Self thing where a bloke woke up to find he was a monkey? Crap.