The bible used to be true (but not anymore).
One of the fantastic things about the human species is that every time we gain knowledge, we enrich our lives. We throw away the old ideas that seemed plausible for a while, and the new ones work better — because they fit in better with reality. Maybe we’ll improve upon them later, but for now we have at least shed some ignorance.
Even Christians do this — to a point. They have finally accepted that the earth orbits the sun (albeit after committing murder in defense of their wrong ideas), and more and more Christians accept the truth of the fact of evolution. This is good, because the evidence is so overwhelming on both points that only an idiot or someone who intentionally refuses to be educated could disagree if they were presented with the facts.
Why is it, then, that when “truths” of the bible are utterly discredited, the Christians go on believing everything else that hasn’t been shown to be absolutely incorrect — yet? They believe in God because he created man in his own likeness and image — literally. No man — poof — man. Now that they must accept evolution, they just claim that God created the beginnings of life and set evolution in motion. Why the need to insert a god at all?
The bible was the indisputable word of God for a while. Now it’s not. But it’s somehow still “true” in some sense, and the increasing number of holes in its claims don’t seem to diminish that idea in some people’s heads. I still believe that most self-proclaimed Christians haven’t read the bible — they listen to a man in a pulpit tell them what certain small parts of the bible say, and then spend an hour telling them what they should believe it means. Apparently it can’t be taken literally — then you’d either have a bunch of Christians going on murder sprees or becoming atheists.
Christians: Nothing you believe about Jesus has any provable basis in reality. Many things you believe about Jesus and the bible have been conclusively shown not to have happened. Why are you clinging to these stories? Many religions, believed just as strongly as yours is, have long since been abandoned because they are no longer relevant to this world. There was no less evidence for those than Christianity, and many of them were older and lasted longer. It’s time to give up the big Santa Claus in the sky and become grown-ups.
