Thread: Russian Pirate Church formally requests to be an official religion

the Christian Bible has a lot of really cool ideas about how to live together peacefully but I also know it was written by people who lived thousands of years ago and didn't know very much about science

That's the fundamental phrase in there. It was written by people. But if you ask me who else could have written that but people it would be a really good question untill you think about that it was also adjusted by many people throughout the centuries. That is the scariest thing for me because I'm not ready to beleive in a book written by people and more than that adjusted to other people's needs after that. As I see it now this book is a great tool to manipulate people, to make them be like one big flock that thinks, acts the same, never questions and blindly follows everything it is said. What a great means for those who hold power. And I'm more than sure that those adjustments had only one purporse to match the needs of those in power.

Call me a heretic or apostate but that is the way I see things.

Originally Posted by iCake

... a book written by people and more than that adjusted to other people's needs after that...

besides something has been lost due to translation to many languages and due to versions and adaptations (I've seen that exactly the same verse can be translated slightly different in the Russian text compared to that of a English version. It may well be suggested that the original script might differ as well).