I don’t believe blindly something that was written in a book – any book (this includes the Bible). Unless it makes sense to me.

And well, the bible just doesn’t. You can say what you want but I just don’t buy the stories. Well, they are nice fairytales – very violent ones – but really? Seriously? Turning water into wine (umm, was that red wine or white? since if that was white wine – that may not have been water after all)? Walking on water (hint: stones under water and exact knowledge where they are)?
Do you really believe that today?

And what I especially don’t get about the Bible is how restrictive it really is…

I was religious (Lutheran Christian) as a child, well, up until I was about 6 or 7 – when I started questioning everything. It just didn’t make any sense anymore.

And what I really don’t like about religion is the fact that everybody believes their own god(s) is the only one. Seriously? There are all these religions around the world. Why is yours any different?

By the way – how can you not believe evolution? It’s basically been proven, but in the United States of America (the only place in the whole world where this still is a problem) they don’t want it taught in schools.
If this didn’t happen – then why do most animals have junk DNA left? Why are the races different? I mean, there’s a scientific explanation why the races are different – and that’s also according to evolution.

Evolution is nothing more, nothing less than just simply progress. People were much dumber 100 years ago than they are now – we have evolved into more intelligent human beings.

All in all, the Bible is a nice book to read – but I wouldn’t take everything you read seriously if I were you.

First published as a reply to this thread:

http://geeks.pirillo.com/forum/topics/how-holy-is-the-bible