Einstein: Bible is childish, God is product of human wkness

hummerwar921 · **Posted:** May 13th, 2008, 5:22 pm

http://www6.comcast.net/articles/news-w ... 0513/einstein.bible/

Adbot · **Posted:** May 13th, 2008, 5:22 pm

Brad · **Posted:** May 13th, 2008, 5:27 pm

I think one of the comments on digg where this article was posted is most fitting;

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Why do we care? Are we attempting to make a saint of Einstein? Think for yourself. Einstein would be the first person to tell you to think things out on your own.

As much as I think the bible is a load of rubbish, I'd respect somebody if they thought something through themself rather than believing it just because Einstein said it.

hummerwar921 · **Posted:** May 13th, 2008, 5:32 pm

Agreed.

Religion is belief alone.

Ranging God · **Posted:** May 14th, 2008, 7:26 am

Yeah, the Bible is not rubbish.. if you don't belive in God you still have to belive what happened to a point in the Bible..i mean it IS a HISTORY BOOK.

murdererdood · **Posted:** May 14th, 2008, 8:19 am

Ranging God wrote:

Yeah, the Bible is not rubbish.. if you don't belive in God you still have to belive what happened to a point in the Bible..i mean it IS a HISTORY BOOK.

Except a lot of it is not historically accurate at all.

It's a fallacy and a book of lies.

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** May 14th, 2008, 8:34 am

Claiming it's a history book is wrong and calling it a book of lies is equally wrong. It's something that brings some people comfort and tries to create a better life for people, that in itself isn't a bad thing for people to follow. Some divine power being real or not isn't the issue, in fact all arguing over that has ever done is create war, fighting and unhappiness.

Adbot · **Posted:** May 14th, 2008, 8:34 am

Bogrollbloke · **Posted:** May 14th, 2008, 9:36 am

Nice little saying at the end of that song, "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him". And I think it was Karl Marx who said religion is the opiate of the masses.

God is a human condition, we are the only species clever enough to be so stupid as to believe in something so preposterous.

EnglishPenguin · **Posted:** May 14th, 2008, 10:02 am

Just because Einstein says it doesn't make true, granted I agree with that view...

Yazackie90 · **Posted:** May 15th, 2008, 4:54 am

Yes, I have seen that a lot of people glorify Einstein just because he was smart. He was smart, but not THAT smart.

Anubis · **Posted:** May 15th, 2008, 5:14 pm

The Bible's been translated so many times that it's obvious the content is not the same as the original. You can call it "lies" or you can base your life around it but regardless of your opinion - you can't deny the book could have been stories to make children behave nor can you deny it was written to describe the path of a God. Why? Because there's no evidence to disprove either, and there never will be.

If you're the kind of person who gets worked up over religion; either you beliving and people saying you shouldn't or vice versa - just.. grow up. Believe what you will and don't force your opinions on anyone else.

Saying that; the world would certainly go a lot smoother if that were more widely practiced.

Ranging God · **Posted:** May 15th, 2008, 6:35 pm

CreepyPirate wrote:

Claiming it's a history book is wrong and calling it a book of lies is equally wrong. It's something that brings some people comfort and tries to create a better life for people, that in itself isn't a bad thing for people to follow. Some divine power being real or not isn't the issue, in fact all arguing over that has ever done is create war, fighting and unhappiness.

Not really.. If you dont take a religious view of the book, it is a History book.. I mean it a book for hundreds of years that have events out our past in the middle east... I dont see how it can't be a History book

Anubis · **Posted:** May 16th, 2008, 1:31 am

Ranging God wrote:

Not really.. If you dont take a religious view of the book, it is a History book.. I mean it a book for hundreds of years that have events out our past in the middle east... I dont see how it can't be a History book

Like I said, it's been translated from very diffrent languages and altered to make it readable. Without being able to read in fluent hebrew and have access to the original bible it's pretty safe to say (99.9%) that the contents of the bible are not historically accurate.

Bogrollbloke · **Posted:** May 16th, 2008, 1:16 pm

Anubis wrote:

Ranging God wrote:

Not really.. If you dont take a religious view of the book, it is a History book.. I mean it a book for hundreds of years that have events out our past in the middle east... I dont see how it can't be a History book

Like I said, it's been translated from very diffrent languages and altered to make it readable. Without being able to read in fluent hebrew and have access to the original bible it's pretty safe to say (99.9%) that the contents of the bible are not historically accurate.

New testament was written in Greek.

And, what you said earlier about not being able to prove nor disprove it, I could say I believe that so many years ago, Lord of the Rings, all of the people in that were real and a truth. not being able to prove nor disprove it still wouldn't mean I wasn't talking *******.

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** May 16th, 2008, 5:28 pm

Ranging God wrote:

CreepyPirate wrote:

Claiming it's a history book is wrong and calling it a book of lies is equally wrong. It's something that brings some people comfort and tries to create a better life for people, that in itself isn't a bad thing for people to follow. Some divine power being real or not isn't the issue, in fact all arguing over that has ever done is create war, fighting and unhappiness.

Not really.. If you dont take a religious view of the book, it is a History book.. I mean it a book for hundreds of years that have events out our past in the middle east... I dont see how it can't be a History book

I'm going to disagree with you here. It has never, and can never, be known whether or not the Bible is historically accurate. For example, the Pentateuch is what seems to be Moses' explanation to the Jews why they must leave Egypt and go to Canaan. From these very first books, you can see that it was never meant to be written as a history book, law book, or whatever. It was most probably written for that current audience using ideas and words that were applicable to that time period (as well as easy for them to understand).

Jaden · **Posted:** May 16th, 2008, 10:21 pm

Mushroom Queen wrote:

I'm going to disagree with you here. It has never, and can never, be known whether or not the Bible is historically accurate. For example, the Pentateuch is what seems to be Moses' explanation to the Jews why they must leave Egypt and go to Canaan. From these very first books, you can see that it was never meant to be written as a history book, law book, or whatever. It was most probably written for that current audience using ideas and words that were applicable to that time period (as well as easy for them to understand).

If you think about, most history that's written in books are ever so slightly twisted or even dramatically twisted depending on the country in which one lives in. Not everything is exactly accurate. Yes, the bible has been altered, but it still summarizes the events that may have happened long ago, and to me I consider that as history whether it's inaccurate or not because almost all history can be inaccurate but yet it's still classified as history.

But yeah, then again a lot of other history has prrof to some extent (eg. letters, interviews, etc) so you are also right.