Why I Believe In The Bible And Not Evolution
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Children are idiots. This is a fact. Everyone knows this. You don't give a knife to a child and say: "Have fun!" Because they're idiots. So, okay, why are children idiots? Because we teach them to be idiots. Things like the sky is blue, grass is green, cows say "Moo," cats say "Meow." Santa Claus, the Easter bunny, and tooth fairy. If they see some "adult" truth we hide it from them. "Mommy and Daddy were just wrestling. The stork may bring you a baby brother in 9 months." How do you expect them not to be idiots? You want them to be idiots, that's why you teach them to be. That, and you are an idiot having been taught yourself as a child to be one.
Some people teach their children mathematics, music, science or something like that and we are amazed! "The kid is a genius!" we say. Because we're idiots. Spend some time with the kid with "the special gift" and you will quickly see that he/she is an idiot really good at math.
Other kids pick up on things of an unidiotic nature themselves. I once had a 5 year old neighbor kid who could tell you, more thoroughly and accurately than a sports writer, all of the baseball players and all of their stats. A friend of mine had a kid at that age who could tell you more things about space than you would learn at university. I assume he was accurate, I don't know, I'm an idiot. Space is amazing but boring. At least to me.
But even I was able to teach myself to read before I started school. I was also, at a very young age, able to pick up on some things most people never do. My dad, who was very poor growing up, had told me that rich people are evil and poor people are good. Democrats are for the poor and Republicans for the rich. Nonsense. I could clearly see that the ol' man was a poor person who got rich. He would justify his philosophy with more nonsense: the rich get rich by stealing from the poor and the poor were stupid and lazy. He hated the rich and the poor. Anyone with more or less money than he had. The truth was he just saw himself as poor when he wasn't. He wanted to be richer. More evil?
So, growing up I hated Christianity. I could say religion in general but I lived in the Bible belt and the only religion I knew was Christianity. I saw it as being moronic, myopic - hypocritical, ignorant self righteousness. And I was right. I was also taught evolution in school. My parents taught me to be an irreligious atheist. And I was. But I thought evolution was stupid. Didn't buy it. To me, it was presented much like a religion but made even less sense.
Today, I often say the only thing evolving is evolution itself, which is sort of a stupid thing to say because everything changes and the thing that repulsed me the most about evolution in school was that it was obviously not evolving, it had been designed. Built. It's built upon ridiculous assumptions contrary to observable nature. If an evolutionist sees a bump on a frogs ass he will make up some nonsense about how that bump evolved and why. Why? Yes why. Random why. That's evolution. By evolution I mean things changing into other things.
As I grew older the evolution I was taught changed but remained the same. Just different nonsense. And my suspicions about Christianity were, over and over, confirmed. I didn't need to confirm what was readily apparent. Observable. Christianity had a source though, and, I thought, if I could get to that I could really confirm it. Debunk Christianity. So, this atheist started to study the Bible.
That led me to examine the history of Christianity and how it had been grossly distorted and was misrepresenting the Bible. The immortal soul, came, not from the Bible but from Greek philosophy that had originated in Babylon. Old myths and legends. The same sort of thing with the trinity, hell, cross, rapture, Christmas and Easter. The immortal soul from Socrates, trinity from Plato, hell from Milton and Dante, the cross from Tammuz and Constantine, rapture from Darby, Christmas from Saturnalia and Dickens, Easter from Astarte/Ishtar etc.
The Greeks and Romans had a remarkable influence, not only on the Jews beginning in 332 BCE with Alexander the Great and the Christians in 325 CE with Constantine the Great, but all throughout occidental culture. Even with the Evolutionists of the industrial Revolution through ancient Greek philosophers like Empedocles, Aristotle, Anaxagoras and Anaximander. Just look around you where you are right now and you will see things named from Greek mythology and philosophy. Damn near everything in space, the calendar - days and months - medicine, terminology, product naming, religion and science.
Pretty much everything about Christianity is nonsense made up by idiots who either adopted pagan nonsense to spread "the truth" - to pony up some cash - or is some whitewashed, watered down, moronic false attempt to see everything through rose colored glasses, "convert" other lunatics though love and happiness while policing the world they are supposed to be no part of with a big, dumb, fake smile.
That is modern day apostate Christianity. It isn't the Christianity of Christ or his apostles. Not of Paul, who said, the Christians would "turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths." (2 Timothy 4:3-4) He used the Greek word mythos (myth) which was later translated to the Latin fabulas (fables).
I believe the Bible because it is, once examined without the rose colored glasses and ancient pagan mythology, very practical and observable. Modern day Christianity and Evolution, not so much.
Children are idiots. This is a fact. Everyone knows this. You don't give a knife to a child and say: "Have fun!" Because they're idiots. So, okay, why are children idiots? Because we teach them to be idiots. Things like the sky is blue, grass is green, cows say "Moo," cats say "Meow." Santa Claus, the Easter bunny, and tooth fairy. If they see some "adult" truth we hide it from them. "Mommy and Daddy were just wrestling. The stork may bring you a baby brother in 9 months." How do you expect them not to be idiots? You want them to be idiots, that's why you teach them to be. That, and you are an idiot having been taught yourself as a child to be one.
Some people teach their children mathematics, music, science or something like that and we are amazed! "The kid is a genius!" we say. Because we're idiots. Spend some time with the kid with "the special gift" and you will quickly see that he/she is an idiot really good at math.
Other kids pick up on things of an unidiotic nature themselves. I once had a 5 year old neighbor kid who could tell you, more thoroughly and accurately than a sports writer, all of the baseball players and all of their stats. A friend of mine had a kid at that age who could tell you more things about space than you would learn at university. I assume he was accurate, I don't know, I'm an idiot. Space is amazing but boring. At least to me.
But even I was able to teach myself to read before I started school. I was also, at a very young age, able to pick up on some things most people never do. My dad, who was very poor growing up, had told me that rich people are evil and poor people are good. Democrats are for the poor and Republicans for the rich. Nonsense. I could clearly see that the ol' man was a poor person who got rich. He would justify his philosophy with more nonsense: the rich get rich by stealing from the poor and the poor were stupid and lazy. He hated the rich and the poor. Anyone with more or less money than he had. The truth was he just saw himself as poor when he wasn't. He wanted to be richer. More evil?
So, growing up I hated Christianity. I could say religion in general but I lived in the Bible belt and the only religion I knew was Christianity. I saw it as being moronic, myopic - hypocritical, ignorant self righteousness. And I was right. I was also taught evolution in school. My parents taught me to be an irreligious atheist. And I was. But I thought evolution was stupid. Didn't buy it. To me, it was presented much like a religion but made even less sense.
Today, I often say the only thing evolving is evolution itself, which is sort of a stupid thing to say because everything changes and the thing that repulsed me the most about evolution in school was that it was obviously not evolving, it had been designed. Built. It's built upon ridiculous assumptions contrary to observable nature. If an evolutionist sees a bump on a frogs ass he will make up some nonsense about how that bump evolved and why. Why? Yes why. Random why. That's evolution. By evolution I mean things changing into other things.
As I grew older the evolution I was taught changed but remained the same. Just different nonsense. And my suspicions about Christianity were, over and over, confirmed. I didn't need to confirm what was readily apparent. Observable. Christianity had a source though, and, I thought, if I could get to that I could really confirm it. Debunk Christianity. So, this atheist started to study the Bible.
That led me to examine the history of Christianity and how it had been grossly distorted and was misrepresenting the Bible. The immortal soul, came, not from the Bible but from Greek philosophy that had originated in Babylon. Old myths and legends. The same sort of thing with the trinity, hell, cross, rapture, Christmas and Easter. The immortal soul from Socrates, trinity from Plato, hell from Milton and Dante, the cross from Tammuz and Constantine, rapture from Darby, Christmas from Saturnalia and Dickens, Easter from Astarte/Ishtar etc.
The Greeks and Romans had a remarkable influence, not only on the Jews beginning in 332 BCE with Alexander the Great and the Christians in 325 CE with Constantine the Great, but all throughout occidental culture. Even with the Evolutionists of the industrial Revolution through ancient Greek philosophers like Empedocles, Aristotle, Anaxagoras and Anaximander. Just look around you where you are right now and you will see things named from Greek mythology and philosophy. Damn near everything in space, the calendar - days and months - medicine, terminology, product naming, religion and science.
Pretty much everything about Christianity is nonsense made up by idiots who either adopted pagan nonsense to spread "the truth" - to pony up some cash - or is some whitewashed, watered down, moronic false attempt to see everything through rose colored glasses, "convert" other lunatics though love and happiness while policing the world they are supposed to be no part of with a big, dumb, fake smile.
That is modern day apostate Christianity. It isn't the Christianity of Christ or his apostles. Not of Paul, who said, the Christians would "turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths." (2 Timothy 4:3-4) He used the Greek word mythos (myth) which was later translated to the Latin fabulas (fables).
I believe the Bible because it is, once examined without the rose colored glasses and ancient pagan mythology, very practical and observable. Modern day Christianity and Evolution, not so much.
