In an upside-down world, with upside-down understandings of morality and of the value of love,
... their interpretation of the bible and the debate about its relevance sure sounds familiar, in an upside-down-ish kind of way. [
Read on...]
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Listening to a radio discussion from a few years back featuring
Richard Dawkins on the morality of the old testament (
Premier Christian Radio (UK) "
Unbelievable?" program: https://goo.gl/mg6lU6) and what that meant for the value of the bible generally as a source of morality, I was struck by how the bible is so fundamentally muddled within itself, and indeed such a useless source of guidance on matters of morality, that it would be about as much use in a crazy world that valued hatred over love, violence over compassion, and death over life.
Insert the bible into a world where the goal is to cause the maximum misery and suffering to one another, and it fits right in: and the debate sounds almost exactly the same; just... upside down.
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The image of the bible in the opening minute:
Flickr user Amy Allcock.
Creative commons license 0, public domain. https://goo.gl/gvLPna
I neglected to grab a citation for the world map clip art image used in the opening sequence. The reason I chose that one, though, was that it was
CC0, public domain, otherwise I wouldn't have. I do that stuff right, now.
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- published: 10 Oct 2015
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