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Dead Sea Scrolls To Go Digital On Internet
mernil writes to mention that the Dead Sea Scrolls are headed for the internet. The Israel Antiquities Authority, custodians of the scrolls, plan on digitizing the 900 fragments to make them available to the public via the internet. Unfortunately they are claiming the project will take somewhere in the neighborhood of two years to complete.
As a Rational Christian
Where's the -1, Oxymoron mod when you need it?
Trolling is a art,
"Rational Christian"
WTH does that mean?
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Hmm, all religious reasoning is circular. It is a kind of proof of religiosity. Of course, it all goes back to Circ, the original Greek religious wizard. Her name also lives on in the Dutch (and Scottish) word 'Kerk' which is Dutch for Church, which also means Circ. So the sad joke is that the very word 'Church' admits to circular reasoning - sigh...
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
I find it fascinating that you have been modded "troll" for what is essentially the truth. All the members of the Jesus fan-club must be as sensitive as they are stupid.
here && here are 2 of the best sites on the issue that I have seen .I was raised as a Catholic but have never been very susceptible to brainwashing or cultism. It is still amazing to me that people believe their own set of fairy tales (e.g. Xtianity) but will scoff and mock those of others (Islam, Roman Mythology etc), when they are, in fact, essentially the same thing.
Debian FTW
never said that atheists were doing anything of the kind, I was merely following the logical out-workings of the original post's line of reasoning, which placed the DSSs in the category of worthlessness due to their religious nature.
The OP, DogDude, was not trying to say that the documents were "worthless", but that Christian FAITH really isn't based on the authenticity of the ancient documents. Whether they are fake or real is far less important that whether or not they are consistent with existing Christian "tradition".
If Christian tradition says that Jesus was the son of God it doesn't matter that the Gospels and numerous other early Christian texts describe Joseph as his father. Modern Christians utterly rejected the revelations in the Nag Hammadi texts that revealed the suppressed views of Gnostic Christians, who predated "orthodox" Christians. Christians have totally ignored the revelations of the Dead Sea Scrolls which show that, at best, Jesus ripped off John the Baptist (and confirm that John the Baptist was a MUCH more important figure than Jesus).
Christians aren't fazed by these revelations because their faith was never really based on the Bible to begin with. It is based on highly effective indoctrination as children.
Valid point I guess, thought there are plenty of stupid fucks which belives all those tales as the truth, just as they are written, which is the bad thing so why spread that bullshit?
If not spreading them makes us lose a story about a guy with a boat and some animals on it who cares? He's long gone and dead, if he ever existed.