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Originally Posted by Baltar  This looks very much like a rigid system for the control of the masses to me. |
To be absolutely fair, most Christians today probably have no idea this stuff is in their Bible. They've taken all those wonderful little books and condensed them into about a paragraph that sums up their beliefs. Maybe two paragraphs. To take a gander at it...
"God exists. He made the world in seven days. The Israelites went into slavery in Egypt, but Moses brought them out by parting the Red Sea. Then there were a couple kings. Later, Jesus, the Son of God, was born. Jesus talked about a lot good things, but because the Pharisees were haters, they got Judas to betray him, so he went and prayed in some garden, and then got nailed to the cross. He died, and then rose again in three days.
"All the important stuff comes after that. The sermons only cover that part, so the rest is irrelevant. Oh, and David had a bunch of songs earlier."
The irony is that the second sentence is only there because of the creationism debate, and the third only because they show that damn movie every Easter. No one actually
reads the Pentateuch. Which is understandable. I tried once, and I barely managed to hold on through Leviticus and gave up when I hit Numbers.