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ThaChozenWun;682195 said:Because the people who wrote it and thought it up knew fear was the strongest emotion to man. As long as they were able to invoke fear into people they would have control on the majority because very few people fear nothing. To a parent a kid is the most sacred thing to them, so how do you get people to chill on that side, tell them if they fuck up Gods is gonna kill your newborns. People are always scared of it all ending, how do you keep the fear? Tell them eventually the world will end, and you will die a very harsh painful death that is unless you follow our book word for word then you will get a pass and get spared. Its nothing new really, since the beginning of time until now powerful people have used fear alongside deception to control large groups of people.
ThaChozenWun;682195 said:Because the people who wrote it and thought it up knew fear was the strongest emotion to man. As long as they were able to invoke fear into people they would have control on the majority because very few people fear nothing. To a parent a kid is the most sacred thing to them, so how do you get people to chill on that side, tell them if they fuck up Gods is gonna kill your newborns. People are always scared of it all ending, how do you keep the fear? Tell them eventually the world will end, and you will die a very harsh painful death that is unless you follow our book word for word then you will get a pass and get spared. Its nothing new really, since the beginning of time until now powerful people have used fear alongside deception to control large groups of people.
alissowack;682431 said:But can you truly say that when the Bible was written, that it was done so with the intentions of provoking fear? What does that say to those who read the Bible and are not left trying to hide in fear of their lives? You can't say that everyone who believes in the Bible ends up adopting the violent nature or that a "Christian" has this right to violence. God or no God, violence would still exist.
alissowack;682171 said:It is very obvious that the Bible doesn't read like a book of love, peace, and happiness. God is showing His Anger here and there and is either bringing wrath upon those He condemns or calling His People to carry out His Will. A question that I don't think most of us ask is why is all this stuff there in the first place? Why write a book as such that it includes violence? It could of just been written as a self-help, theraputic guide that makes everyone feel warm and fuzzy inside but it wasn't.
ThaChozenWun;682466 said:People who take the bibal seriously fear god, dont give me that. If they didnt fear god they wouldnt really be a christian. And yes the bible was written with an agenda. Who said anything about every christian adopting the violent side? You are trying to make something else I never said anything about it making every reader violent or that they had a right to violence. The OT and the NT have both led to Christian invasions to take over land though so yes it was a recruiting tool and they used fear as the prime tool.
alissowack;682904 said:Well, who are you to say who takes the Bible seriously or not? Who are you to say what "fear" looks like in respect to God? You are assuming that anybody who takes the Bible seriously automatically adopts this moralistic view of God that you set forth. You are also assuming everyone that does violence "in the name of God" is actually doing so. Unless you claim to have a truth that no one has, then you don't have that right.
ThaChozenWun;683195 said:People dont fear sin because its bad, they fear it because of the consiquences set forth by god, and you can tell those who take it seriously and those who just your average christian, their are levels of seriousness. If somone kills an abortion doctor because he feels its killing gods creation its in the name of god, if people invade land and kill because a rock is holy that is done in gods name, if someone enslaves millions cause the bible says so its in gods name, if someone tries to exterminate a whole race because their religious book tells them the next mans race, religion, or world views is wrong thats done in the name of god.
Conspiracy therosit claim to have truth that no one knows, alien theorists do, satanist do, crackheads do, my grandmother knows shit bout everyone in the projects that they dont even know, whats the last bolded really have to do with this?
