Feeling The Wonders Of God's Word

THE FACEBOOK POST was from a friend of mine and his wife, a high school classmate who became a diabetes doctor. Nice post. It has a depiction of a pair of hands, feminine, holding an opened book, which appears to be a Bible, judging from the tightly organized words into the all familiar small square parcel packages lined neatly up and down the page in two columns. The caption said: "May the wonders of The Word of God fill your heart today". You can see why I assume the depicted book was a Bible. Being an inveterate smart ass and trouble maker of the pseudo intellectual kind, I had to chime in. I commented: The wonders of the one hundred and thirty seventh psalm". And then, a few minutes later, filled with blood lust, I came back for a second strike, much like the Zeros at Pearl harbor. "The wonders of Mathew chapter fifteen verse four" I typed. Yes, I will return yet again to the scene of the crime, like any amateurish common petty criminal, but not to do more harm. God willing, the creek don't rise, and if I can control my evil impulses, I will not strike again. Haven't I already done enough damage to someone else's good intentions? I will return to see how they are cleaning up the mess I made, how they are responding, if at all. They are a lively pair; I can expect retaliation. They are a smart pair of wise and mature well educated people, I might expect to be ignored, which would serve me right. But if they choose to retaliate, and to show anger in so doing, it may start a war, because I actually had, and have, a point to make. For anyone wanting to know what that point is, simply consult the scriptural passages I cited. The Psalm, if memory serves, says something about smashing a baby's brains out against a boulder. The verse in Mathew has Jesus admonishing that whoever curses the father and the mother must be given the death. The Psalm is recited after one of the many destructions and diasporas of God's chosen people, and their lamenting and anger and despair resulting therefrom, and their desire for revenge against the enemy's infants. Righteous retribution against the most innocent. In the Mathew verse, Jesus is merely reiterating what we are told in Leviticus I believe it is; that children must honer and obey their parents, under penalty of death. My point is best made by Mark Twain, the noted author, stand up comic, and atheist, who said: "The Bible contains come noble poetry, clever fables, a great amount of obscenity, and no fewer than one thousand outright lies." Or something like that. A few facts about the Bible. For one, mark Twain was right. So was Thomas Paine, the founding father of America who wrote "Common Sense", which motivated the colonists to start the revolutionary was, and then later wrote "The Age of Reason", a withering attack on the Bible in particular and the Christian religion in general. Paine said that the Bible contains so much obscenity, violence, and obscenity that for him it was much more the word of a demon than of a benevolent deity. Both of Paine's famous pamphlets are must reads for students of history. Paine went from being a hero of American independence to being an outcast whose funeral was attended by no more than six people, owing to his atheism. In America, atheists have historically been treated like outcasts, much like gays, lesbians, transgenders, blacks, and several other non white non male non Christian types we needn't mention here. Another Biblical fact: if God truly intended His Word to be contained in a book, any book, God is an idiot, because there is no worse method known to man and woman. We the children of God do it that way because we don't know any better. God has far better means; just take a look around you, at the universe. The Bible has been translated, edited, plagiarized, added on to, and otherwise altered so many times that it bears little resemblance to its original version, and in fact every century has its own version, ever since its compilation, by people, at the council of Nicea in 325 A.D.. Like Goethe said: "Behold the phenomena, for they are the doctrine". Another Biblical fact; the bible is among the most violent books ever written, and Thomas Paine was right about that. The bible is, and should be treated as nothing other than a valuable compilation of ancient literature and history,the most important book ever written, nothing more, and nothing less. but as for the "Word of God", I'll take a star filled sky, a sunrise, a sunset, a mountain vista, a new born babe, a litter of kittens, electromagnetism, gravity or a million other magnificent manifestations of nature, any day of the week, and twice on Sunday.