Posted by
Sue on Monday, January 30, 2012 9:42:04 PM
01/30/12 6:30pm PST
Anyone on any side that brings in the Bible as part of a column or
discussion had better have a better grounding in that book versus what I
see in just the first few comments. The Bible is, in my humble,
opinion, the early historical (5-10K) years of the Semite people known
as Jews. Mayhap the reason Jews have been persecuted so dramatically for
so long by so many cultures on the planet is that they brought the
novel idea of one god for all beings for all time, past, present and
future. Seems to me that it cost lots of people of "position" and
"power" the loss of same. I mean, really, unlike the Pharaohs or later
monarchies, could simply demand your service, money or material things
and if you refused kill you and take same.. But priests had to create a
system wherein the supplicants had to supply them with their living and,
the prestige and ultimately the power that allowed them to become
wealthy! No wonder they put Jesus Christ thorough the horrible torture
and ultimate despicable method of death. We need to talk about what the
bible really is, not what every person perceives it to be.
I mean, you take my "stuff" away and I'll kill you....this seems to be the human response to most things.