Post A Random Fact About Yourself..

[Cato]

Not more than any other type of floklore
The Bible is not a book but a library of many books with different genres.
Also not more absurd than many liberal secular myths

You of all people saying this? Tradismo, out the window then?

[Hess]

Not more than any other type of floklore
The Bible is not a book but a library of many books with different genres.
Also not more absurd than many liberal secular myths

We can philosophize all day about the symbolic meaning of the tales of the bible, my assertion is that none of them ever actually happened. At least the secular myths are based on real, tangible concepts rather than metaphysical drivel

[Malva]

We can philosophize all day about the symbolic meaning of the tales of the bible, my assertion is that none of them ever actually happened.

It's not that simple, the Bible is NOT a book written by a single person and under a determined style BUT a library written by different people at different stages under different genres and with different purposes. You don't read a poem like a legal treaty, for example. Your assesrtion is only partly right, some action in the Bible actually happened and historians and scientists have bothered to prove it did, others, on the other side were actually symbolic legends. The New Testament is not an biography of Jesus as a fact but a way of showing a particular teaching linked with an idea of trascendence by particular men using legends and literary devices of their culture and time.

At least the secular myths are based on real, tangible concepts rather than metaphysical drivel [/B]

Myths are always fiction by the way, they can't be tangible concepts, but supposing that you really mean "secular principles", I will answer: they are not only NOT tangible concepts but they are pretensions of absolute truth no different than the so-called religious dogmas, eg, the universal goodness of liberal democracy. Having said this, the absolute truths of liberal nation-states, like the above mentioned "goodness of liberal democracy" are decided a priori and seem immune to empirical verification but what's tangible about the principles of liberal democracy for example?; they are mere absolute and abstract principles, as intangible as they come.

[Cato]

I hate am stressed out by friends.

It should say, I hate it when I am stressed out by friends who give me grief that I don't need. It feels like I'm being emotionally mugged.

[Karl]

Very unfortunate comment, I hope you know, you are free to think whatever you want though.

[Duckelf]

I can't believe that a 'proud' European is belittling the religion of our European forefathers in such a crude manner. Have some respect.

[The Lawspeaker]

Heathenry is the religion of our European forefathers. Christianity (despite having had a huge cultural influence that is not always malicious) is a Semitic invader.. that just nestled itself deep into European culture after wave after wave of violence against those with different believes (or no believes).

[Malva]

And who has said that the Bible is an history book? nor the principles on what Estonia is built on are ; don't worry, nothing of what's attributed in that "warning" to the Bible is particular or exclusive to Christianity but also to your atheism.

[Malva]

Heathenry is the religion of our European forefathers. Christianity (despite having had a huge cultural influence that is not always malicious) is a Semitic invader.. that just nestled itself deep into European culture after wave after wave of violence against those with different believes (or no believes).

Paganism is the tradition (as it's quite difficult to state whats religion and what's not) of the people that lived before European Civilization, actually.

[Hess]

And who has said that the Bible is an history book? nor the principles on what Estonia is built on are ; don't worry, nothing of what's attributed in that "warning" to the Bible is particular or exclusive to Christianity but also to your atheism.

St. Paul said that the bible is a history book. In acts, he said that 500 people saw Jesus after his LITERAL resurrection. He made a historical assertion that, to this day has not been proven. Also, Jesus referenced Moses an Abraham as real people, not symbols. However, Moses's experiences in Egypt have to this day not been verified. I can go on and on listing all of the historical assertions that the bible made, but it would take me all day.