WOTMQ: Ignoramuses
This is kind of... a companion piece to WOTMQ: Why God Is Hidden. As many of you know, I'm constantly referring to the shepherds in the field, who were getting high and writing their vicious, misogynistic, homophobic poetry (AKA: the Bible authors) as ignoramuses. I don't even mean that as an insult. They were just completely ignorant of what the world was and how it worked. Unfortunately, billions of modern humans follow the teachings of these ignoramuses, who, had they actually been in touch with divinity — with the transcendent, would be known as truly Holy men (yes, men) who brought the world the brilliance of their transcendent God. Of course, that didn't happen. Enjoy! I command it! B
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To be sure, some passages in the Bible contain a few nuggets of wisdom--as do the writings of ancient Greek, Roman, Chinese, Hindu, and other thinkers. However, upon reading the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament), I saw that it made about as much sense as ancient Greco-Roman mythology. Upon reading the New Testament, I realized that it could not have been written by the same people. If the Bible were the work of an all-knowing deity, it would have been much shorter, more coherent, and more logical.
Typo: I think you misspelled "Ignoranuses."
Yikes! Those of us unfamiliar with the Book of Mormon have so much to learn!
The rationale that the Bible and BM thumpers will resort to can give you vertigo. I recall that one of my daughters once asked me why I no longer believed that the BM was true. I told her there were many reasons, but I'd give her just one example: that the Jaredites reportedly took their "flocks and herds" with them in their "submarines" while floating to the New World for 344 days at sea. Well, just one cow consumes 50 pounds of dry food and 40 gallons of water per day. So for that amount of time, the Jaredites had to haul 17,200 pounds of grain and 13,760 gallons of water for it. And that's just ONE cow, let alone a herd, let alone a flock of sheep. And what did they do with the… ahem!… excrement and urine? Uncork the top of the submarine and shovel it out? Better hope the wind wasn't blowing that day. Can you imagine? Impossible! It's a made up story! To which my daughter replied: "Maybe god just changed the cows and sheep so that they didn't need food or water." Ah… of course… magic!
Ah yes, magic. Of course, if that had happened, you'd think the authors would mention the miracle of it, as people of that time would know the difficulties, and that would be highly notable. Of course, Joe had no clue. So he wouldn't have even thought of the miracle required for that to actually happen. So much nonsense!!!