Every time I hear Christian nationalists trying to get kids these days to read the Bible I can only picture Luke Skywalker telling Jabba the Hutt ‘that’s the last mistake you’ll ever make’
Presenting highlights from Robert Green Ingersoll’s ‘About the Holy Bible’
Presenting highlights from Robert Green Ingersoll’s ‘About the Holy Bible’
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You’d think they were genealogies of Jesus Christ
This shows the God of the Bible was never, by our standards, a very good worldbuilder
The texts were pillars of priestly power
They were written mostly anonymously, by the few who could read, to influence the many who could not
And more authors were involved than will ever receive credit
Nietzsche writes “It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author- and that he did not learn it better."
If we swallow their ideas whole we could end up as ignorant & as malicious as they were
Typically that’s what happens when we swallow their ideas whole
As long as that assumption was widespread, very little science could occur
But in spite of it, so much scientific progress has now happened that today people say the Bible was never supposed to be above science in the first place
With a little help, most of their students will eventually realize how wrong that is
Many will need a little help
We can help
I was that child for 20 years
That’s how long it took until I admitted I knew better & might’ve known better all along
That’s why people take their kids out of public schools & put them in private religious or homeschools
And that’s why Republicans are doing everything they can to promote corporal punishment in schools