If God can make anything, why use a book?
I don't understand people who believe that a creator who is in possession of such traits as "omniscience" (knowing everything, all the time without fail) ~ "infinite creative capacity" (the ability to make anything you want, no concept is beyond this character's grasp) ~ would think that a book... is sufficient evidence of that creator's existence. I mean think about it... why a book? If you know that it's just going to get "misinterpreted" or "misused" or "taken out of context" by people who want to use it for stuff like discriminating against gays, or people of another racial heritage, or women who want to be able to vote, or mixed race couples who want to get married... why give us that book?
Why not give us something much much better, like say.... a Holodeck (the cool thing on Star Trek: TNG that let's Picard and the gang experience stories with all their senses). Or why not use something where you could just upload all that crap into people's heads like how when Neo downloads Kung Fu directly to his brain in The Matrix? Why use text? Text is a limited medium with many hindrances. For instance, you cannot gauge my emotions from what I am writing right now. You also would not be able to understand it if you didn't already know English.
And if you're blind... well you're just screwed. And yeah, they got Text-To-Speech programs nowadays, but they didn't have that stuff back in Ye Olde Bible times. You had to rely on some d-bag preacher to read it to you, and they could just make stuff up. Oh, and blind ~AND~ deaf? Double screwed. So seriously, a technological device would have made way more sense, and also ensured way more converts and also lessened the chances of people "misunderstanding" it and doing douchey crap in your name. Or at the very least, if he still had to keep it as a book, he could have had it done up in Doctor Who's "Psychic Paper" so that way it would automatically translate to whatever language the person reading it understood best.
Oooooh, or if it worked like The Never Ending Story, you remember that movie, right? How the book had all this new stuff in it every time Bastian would read it? Like the book and its characters directly talked to him. Man, imagine if the Bible worked like that! I guess maybe it might, if I went off my pills for long enough. And here's something to think about... (if you're still reading, though I imagine at this point you're about to call this post "TL;DR" ~ I say what's really TL;DR is a book of some 1,900 pages that I need to follow 100% or I'll go to Hell.)
Religious beliefs are very much dependent on factors such as - where you grew up... - who taught you what as a child - and what time period you live in. I grew up in Ironton, Ohio and was raised Southern Baptist by my parents. Buuuut, if I had grown up in the Middle East, I very likely would have been raised to be Muslim, and I'd have believed in the Koran with just as much ferocity and conviction as I had believed in the Bible (before reading it and realizing that it's a load of crap). Back to that "time period" stuff... Okay, let's say that in the future, there's some big "event" that causes humans to lose connection to and awareness of their previous technology.
Basically like the plot to that anime "The Big O" where the residents of the city lose all their memories. Well, in this scenario, humans revert to highly superstitious nomadic tribes who wouldn't understand what a cellphone is anymore than someone from the 1700s would. So when they come across a stash of the old tech in some of the ruins, they find a DVD of The Care Bears (the 1987 Nelvania series, the good one - not that crappy remake crap on The Hub). They watch this thing on the magic glowing glass box that paints the moving / talking pictures, and they think that this is direct communication from a race of anthropomorphic bears with magic powers who live in the sky and watch everything humans do...
...instead of parents teaching their kids about how "If you don't believe in God and Jesus, you won't go to Heaven, instead you'll go live with Satan in Hell" ~ they teach their kids "If you don't be nice and believe in the Care Bears, you won't get to go live with them in Care-A-Lot, instead, you'll go live with No Heart the evil Wizard in his big gloomy castle." Meanwhile, other factions of nomadic tribes are stumbling across other stockpiles of technology and forgotten pop culture, so you got the Care Bears religion going to war against the My Little Pony religion, and the Dukes of Hazard religion going to war against the Knight Rider religion, and it's all just a big mess.
All of them think that ~their~ chosen pop culture deity is the best and they're killing each other over that stuff cuz they think it's real. Meanwhile, nobody is killing over the Bible or the Koran, cuz those things were just stupid paper and ink, and they already deteriorated to dust a long time ago. This is kinda how I view Christians, Muslims, Jews, etc.
Did you get through all of that? Cool. Now go listen to Greydon Square.
The Mandlebrot Set is a fantastic album.
https://greydonsquare.bandcamp.com/album/type-ii-the-mandelbrot-set
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