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Post by KTJ on Apr 14, 2019 11:54:17 GMT 10
…and is therefore considerably superior to those bullshit books written by human beings, each of which claims their god is REAL.
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Post by Occam's Spork on Apr 15, 2019 0:46:06 GMT 10
Did you wash your hands after that post?
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Post by pim on Jun 12, 2019 10:44:42 GMT 10
Did Quasimodo wash his hands? And no Quasimodo we realise that you'll attempt a non-response with your diversionary irrelevancies about a character in a Victor Hugo novel and pretend that this is the answer that gets you off the hook. Newsflash: it doesn't. We're all on to you and have been for a long time.
But back to the hand washing. One is put in mind of Lady Macbeth in the sleepwalking scene in which she washes her hands over and over again. But in vain because "all the perfumes of Arabia" will not get rid of what has sullied her hands. In Quasimodo's case it's the religion bashing trolling.
If Quasimodo's religion bashing had a bit of intellectual rigour and at least made an attempt to be fact-based and insightful then that at least would be a point in its favour. Instead he opts for ignorance and gratuitous blather. As in his OP to this thread which is an attack on the Bible. Note this well: Quasimodo doesn't just attack the Bible as the wellspring and expression of Christian faith. We know his views on that so there's nothing new here. Same old boring tendentious trolling. But what's new is that Quasimodo attacks the Bible as a work of literature which puts him on very dangerous ground. Here's what Melvyn Bragg, not a religious man but a very scholarly cultural and linguistic researcher, has to say about the"Book of books":
For the last 400 years since it first appeared as an officially authorised English translation, the KJV Bible has never been out of print. It has rightly been called the most seminal publication ever to have been published in the English language and the global vehicle of Protestant Christianity for English speakers.
No other religious document comes close. Or for that matter no other book on any subject. The Communist Manifesto has had a fair print run and even today new editions keep being churned out. But that goes back to after the 1848 revolutions in Europe so we're talking about 170 years. But as prolific a writer and as influential as Karl Marx has been, his works just don't stack up against the KJV Bible in power and influence. Sorry but they don't! And even if you regard the Bible as a work of fiction - and it certainly has never been received as a work of fiction but I accept that for Quasimodo it's a work of fiction so let's see how well it stacks up against other works of fiction. Shakespeare? Yes I agree that his impact on English has been immense and important. I love the works of Shakespeare and have taught them enthusiastically to secondary school students. In fact there's strong evidence that the Bard himself was part of the team of writers and scholars that King James tasked with the mission of producing the very first Authorised - and under royal authority no less - Bible in English translation. It did for the English language what Luther's German Bible did for the German language. Each of them had a profound impact. Each of them unified the language. The KJV became the yardstick for Standard English just as Luther's German Bible standardized German from a loose collection of dialects.
No other piece of written literature comes close to the Bible in cultural social and political significance. And that's without even starting on its religious significance.
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Post by KTJ on Jul 2, 2019 16:22:10 GMT 10
Gods are alright as a fantasy in fairytale stories.
'cause that's all they are until proof is offered to prove otherwise.
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Post by Occam's Spork on Jul 5, 2019 1:55:57 GMT 10
Gods are alright as a fantasy in fairytale stories. 'cause that's all they are until proof is offered to prove otherwise. KTJ is an ignorant bigot, who doesn't know how the scientific method actually works. Truth, or just a blatant fact? Discuss... |
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Post by Occam's Spork on Jul 5, 2019 2:01:59 GMT 10
Gods are alright as a fantasy in fairytale stories. 'cause that's all they are until proof is offered to prove otherwise. I guess...Neither does Australia unless you can prove it.  Just goes to show, absolute denial doesn't necessarily make a position rational. |
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Post by pim on Jul 5, 2019 7:19:50 GMT 10
You're casting pearls before swine, Occam  |
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