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Thread #142452 Message #3324267
Posted By: Don Firth
17-Mar-12 - 04:21 PM
Thread Name: BS: Young Earth Creationism Eureka!
Subject: RE: BS: Young Earth Creationism Eureka!
The NPR interview with Alain de Botton that Jack the Sailor linked to at 17 Mar 12 - 12:26 p.m. is the one I heard yesterday morning.
de Botton said some very good things. I decided to order the book. Amazon tells me it will be delivered on Tuesday.
I've mentioned her before, but a former pastor of the church I attend, held up a copy of the Bible and said, "This is NOT the Boy Scout Manual. It is NOT a book of answers. It is a book of QUESTIONS. And that is what we are here to discuss."
This is where Iona goes off the rails. The idea that this ancient, and often random, collection of scrolls and manuscripts, which has been translated and retranslated time and again, and has been cut, added to, and generally messed with by dozens of people, oftentimes for short-term political purposes, is the Inerrant Word of God, is asinine in the extreme.
Parts of the Bible raise some good issues, but in most cases, it fails to provide answers that are acceptable to moral, thinking human beings. And these parts definitely make God look like an all-powerful, but feckless and egotistical thug.