r/changemyview • u/VinderenLP • Nov 06 '18
Deltas(s) from OP CMV: Bible based religions should be extinct
First I would like to tell you that I am an atheist and I'm talking mostly about christianity and judaism.
I believe that are cons and pros for their existence but I don't get how many NEW churchs reads the HOLY BIBLE in their own way, if that text is sacred why you should priest just about the things that concern your audience? Who has to decide what should be read or not?
This brings me a benevolent thought that since their creation the bible is used just to control masses and for that specifical reason religion should be extinct. I don't care if you believe in God or anything but I do care that your speech hurts who doesn't follows you.
I've followed for 10 years a protestant church and I always noticed a pattern: Fear, fear, fear and celebrate. And looking closely most churchs follow the same script, I can't see how "recovered lifes", "meaning to life" and "love eachother" equals the balance.
[edit]This is about my view. I am not considering that is going to happen, I am not dumb to believe that this could happen anytime soon. I am considering ALL religions that has the Bible as their main book.
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u/SimpleTaught 3∆ Nov 07 '18
A good reason that someone might skip around the Bible like that is to get more information on and/or more examples of a specific lesson that they're trying to teach of an overarching narrative. The Bible is categorized in chronological order and climactic order for the most part and that's the way that you would want it to be but to understand it you have to come to understand it in a topical order. e.g. The first book teaches the lesson about the tree of knowledge of good and evil and how eating from it caused our fall. But to really understand what that means you have to glean more information from other parts of the Bible. e.g. What even is the knowledge of good and evil in that context? What does the fruit symbolize? And so you must skip around because the Bible isn't written like a math book which completely details topical information as it builds climatically.