Skip to main content

Captive to Myth

Many of our religious friends are held captive by an alleged holy book.  They claim, "God's existence is proven by scripture."

There is no inherent value to the bible, quran or any other religious text. These documents are not self-authenticating in any way. There is no historical, archaeological or scientific evidence to support many of the stories in the bible and the quran.
Ultimately, the bible, quran, and other religious texts are man-made products of whimsy, poetry, mythology and some history woven together into a new story. The texts come from many oral sources over many years and are combined arbitrarily into a single document.
It's impossible for every religious book to be true.  It's far more likely that every religious book is equally fictitious and unreliable.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular Post

complete absence of any supporting data whatsoever

"I've sworn off agnosticism, which I now call cowardly atheism. I've come to the position that in the complete absence of any supporting data whatsoever for the persistence of the individual in some spiritual form, it is necessary to operate under the provisional conclusion that there is no afterlife and then be ready to amend that if I find out otherwise." James Francis Cameron , interview with the Hollywood Reporter (March 23, 2010) Cameron directed two of the highest grossing films of all time: "Titanic" (1997) and "Avatar" (2009). Cameron has also written and directed several other blockbuster movies, including "The Terminator" (1984), "Aliens" (1986), "The Abyss"(1989), "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (1991) and "True Lies" (1994). Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering
Post a Comment
Read more

don't care enough about religion to call themselves atheists

“As you learn more and more about the universe, you find you can understand more and more without any reference to supernatural intervention, so you lose interest in that possibility. Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists. And that, I think, is one of the great things about science — that it has made it possible for people not to be religious”  Steven Weinberg (quoted in Natalie Angier, “Confessions of a Lonely Atheist," The New York Times, Jan. 14, 2001) Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering
Post a Comment
Read more

If you believe in god and no god exists

“If you believe in god and no god exists, then your belief is an even greater wonder. Then it is really something inconceivably great. Why should a being lie down there in the darkness crying to someone who does not exist? Why should that be? There is no one who hears when someone cries in the darkness.  But why does that cry exist?” Pär Lagerkvist in “Om du tror på gud och någon gud inte finns,” "Aftonland," 1953, translated by W. H. Auden and Leif Sjöberg in "Evening Land" 1975 Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering
Post a Comment
Read more