If you think Christianity is a fairy tale, then where did the Bible come from?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It didn’t take Hitler that much time to write Mien Kampf nor for Mao to write his little Red Book. They were able to convince millions of people to worship them. Heck, you don’t even need to be literate to get people worship you, look at what the Pol Pot did with the Khmer Rouge.

So the idea that someone or a small group of people started to write down historical events and beliefs, that were built on by others over hundreds of years so that they can command power over them, doesn’t seem that far fetched.

Mao and Pol Pot had guns to do the talking. People did not worship them willingly.

Wow, please open a history book (non fiction!) once in a while. You think jesus floated down and everyone just started worshipping??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So a bunch of bored people just wrote the entire document and convinced.people to believe it? Or what about Christianity becoming the official religion of the Romans? Did the Emperor one day say, "this sounds good" and decide to make it official?

If you are a nonbeliever, I respect you. But how do you answer this?

Would love to hear your answer of the opposite. Where did this book come from and who agreed that it was true and told people to believe it?

[Anonymous]

We all don't believe in a lot of gods, and a lot of religions. Atheists just don't believe in one more than you, OP.

Atheists AND you don't believe in the Hindu gods, or shamanism, or pagan gods, or the old Egyptian gods, or the old Roman or Greek gods, and on and on.

I've yet to hear you answer what you think happened with those religions -- do you think
a bunch of bored people just wrote the texts and convinced people to believe it?

How do you answer this?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have secondhand embarrassment from this question.

Maybe OP is very young.

or very dumb or very indoctrinated

of=r all three

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
We all don't believe in a lot of gods, and a lot of religions. Atheists just don't believe in one more than you, OP.

Atheists AND you don't believe in the Hindu gods, or shamanism, or pagan gods, or the old Egyptian gods, or the old Roman or Greek gods, and on and on.

I've yet to hear you answer what you think happened with those religions -- do you think
a bunch of bored people just wrote the texts and convinced people to believe it?

How do you answer this?

I'd guess that OP either has no answer, or has long since abandoned this thread, realizing how dumb their initial question was.

[Anonymous]

Does OP not have Google? There are entire fields of study dedicated to how and where and why the bible came about. Why do some people think that all the answers are just floating around somewhere in their ignorant brain? Do some research OP. Don't be so ignorant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess all of us wonder whether Torah, Bible and Quran are great pieces of literature or divine revelation. If there are any unbiased and agenda free studies, please share links.

Go back even further the Gita

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess all of us wonder whether Torah, Bible and Quran are great pieces of literature or divine revelation. If there are any unbiased and agenda free studies, please share links.

Don't speak for "all of us" as I don't wonder sh*t about any of them. They are most definitely not great pieces of literature with inconsistent story lines, characters, and narratives, nor are they divine revelations.

They're amalgamations of bronze age stories created by people with little to basic understanding of the natural world. They shouldn't be treated with reverence or anything more than the fables that they are.

[Anonymous]

There were few/no? books
There was no TV
there were no movies
No phones / social media
Gasp - no DCUM

How would you fill your time? Easy to be creative!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jesus was so important that they restarted the calendar from 0.

Like the Gulf of Mexico? 🇲🇽

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jesus was so important that they restarted the calendar from 0.

Like the Gulf of Mexico? 🇲🇽

All it takes is one powerful Wacko to change things.