10 Things The Bible Doesn’t Say

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

The bible has been a great population controller...I mean come on, it's been used to rationalize the killing of millions throughout time.

But in all honesty, if there wasn't a bible we'd kill over something else.

Its funny to me that God seems to have become an absentee landlord about the time we murdered his son. Seems like he's not over that just yet.

If there is a god, I think he realized he created an insane asylum and then moved on.

There are still a few apparitions over the centuries. The Muslims and Mormons will suggest God and His angels did not stop with the early followers of Christ. The latest apparitions of Mary began in SFR Yugoslavia in 1981 and continue today. This has been recorded and examined with modern scientific equipment, although the Roman Catholic Church has of yet to come to any definitive conclusion.

[RGinWA 816]

Sounds alot like the Mariel Boatlift.

Haha...

[RGinWA 816]

There are still a few apparitions over the centuries. The Muslims and Mormons will suggest God and His angels did not stop with the early followers of Christ. The latest apparitions of Mary began in SFR Yugoslavia in 1981 and continue today. This has been recorded and examined with modern scientific equipment, although the Roman Catholic Church has of yet to come to any definitive conclusion.

There is what looks like a virgin Mary in a tree stump at my employer. I took a pick of this, but won't show anyone because the inevitable shrine would take up my good parking spot.

I know, a little self serving...

[spookyturtle 9,466]

This is hokey at best. I don't even believe in the bible and this is rediculous. I hope you don't consider this as a real source for anything. Trying to link a book like this in one way or another to inherently modern day ideas like capitalism or guns is laughable. Swords are still around. Guns are different than swords. No ones debating whether or not people should be able to keep swords in their house.

Take the whole Old Testament and thow it in the trash. If you want a message to live by that will enhance your life, live by Christ's example in the 4 gospels. Love your neighbor as you would love yourself. Are you supposed Christians doing that? No, you're using other parts of the bible to justify not doing it.

Whether you believe or not, this is the best philosophy to live by.

[Pooky 3,834]

Puritans. Blame the Puritans for that uncomfortable monkey suit people have to wear to work, and the bluenose attitude that still permeates much of the nation today. When Mother England created the colonies along the northern Atlantic coast, it was an opportune time to rid the crown, (and much of neighboring Europe), of deadbeats, petty thieves, political malcontents, con artists, smugglers, religious zealots, disenfranchised nobility, and other assorted undesirables.

Nah, we used Australia for that.

[GandD 5,966]

Whether you believe or not, this is the best philosophy to live by.

It certainly is a good one. It was his central message and I think solid advice.

[GandD 5,966]

Puritans. Blame the Puritans for that uncomfortable monkey suit people have to wear to work, and the bluenose attitude that still permeates much of the nation today. When Mother England created the colonies along the northern Atlantic coast, it was an opportune time to rid the crown, (and much of neighboring Europe), of deadbeats, petty thieves, political malcontents, con artists, smugglers, religious zealots, disenfranchised nobility, and other assorted undesirables.

Hey, even the Austrialians formed a functioning country.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Nah, we used Australia for that.

Yes, after that little tax revolt in 1776, although that didn't stop many folks from being "encouraged" to seek their fortune in the New World. If it wasn't for all those Irish immigrants, the Union never would have defeated the Confederacy. Frankly, most of the good native Sons of Liberty could care less what happened in Kansas, or south of the Mason-Dixie line, and those of means, bought their way out of conscription.

Edited June 10, 2013 by The Patriot

[GandD 5,966]

Nah, we used Australia for that.

Sorry, copied you.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

This is hokey at best. I don't even believe in the bible and this is rediculous. I hope you don't consider this as a real source for anything. Trying to link a book like this in one way or another to inherently modern day ideas like capitalism or guns is laughable. Swords are still around. Guns are different than swords. No ones debating whether or not people should be able to keep swords in their house.

Take the whole Old Testament and thow it in the trash. If you want a message to live by that will enhance your life, live by Christ's example in the 4 gospels. Love your neighbor as you would love yourself. Are you supposed Christians doing that? No, you're using other parts of the bible to justify not doing it.

you got it. Nothing turned me off from Christianity more than hanging with Christians during my single years. Never been around an amoral group of people. The whole lot of them is so obsessed with sex and alcohol they can think of nothing else.

I always found it amusing that a group with such a high divorce rate could think marriage is under attack from the gay community.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

It certainly is a good one. It was his central message and I think solid advice.

I have found this verse served me well thru the years.

Proverbs 25:24

Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.