A Subject That May Take a While (Part 2).

Why believe in the bible so enthusiastically? Once again the "blindness" issue comes into play here. People (I guess) become so enthusiastic about their faith that it automatically translates into believeing every word dropped in the bible. That's not the way it should be at all. People have proven that parts of the bible are one hundred percent fiction. Until 1440 there wasn't such a thing as a printing press so everyone had to write the entirety of the bible by hand. Why don't people make sizable room for error here? Instead, every word is clung to like the last sheet of toilet paper when you have food poinsoning. Everything is important , everything is true. This book has been in the hands of scholars, kings, apprentices, and everyone in-between. Of course errors have been made and of course some stories were made up.
Perhaps the most popular story that has been proven to be fictitious is the story of a woman being brought before Jesus by several men. The men say the woman has committed adultery and by Roman law she must be stoned. Jesus looks on the woman and says to the men, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." Bullshit. That story was never in the bible for the first, I don't know, 1000 years or so. Yeah, I understand how it's a great lesson for us all to learn, but that doesn't mean that it has to be held up as a glowing example of the truth that christianity has to offer. It's a story. One that didn't happen.
Aside from the parables in the bible, the gospels themselves are inconsistent. These are different people (the disciples) giving their own accounts of things they have seen. It's all perspective and most of the viewpoints they have will more than likely not mesh with another disciple just through the simple of idea of different people interpreting events differently. They have different pasts that impact how they all take in current experiences in their lives. Luke, for one, has a completely different account of what happens as Jesus is cruxified. The other disciples tal;k of him being in intense pain and having a hard time dealing with it. Luke makes it seem like Jesus was treating cruxifiction as some kind of Corona commercial. Just chilllin', dropping lyrical gold while, you know, he has nails going through his hands and feet, his legs are broken, he hasn't eaten or had anything to drink since his ass was strung up, and let's not forget that some asshole stabbed him in the side for good measure. I don't care if you are the son of God and you know all about the whole "gonna raise from the dead plan", you aren't gonna say shit other than "Fuck Rome" and "I wish I had some water and wasn't on a stick".
Once again, while typing this I'm becoming increasingly aware of how uninformed I am since I can't really conjure anything else to discuss. I'm gonna go get a hot dog and a couple of beers and watch TV. Oh, and thanks for dying for my sins, Jesus.