Time to regulate Bible and samurai sword ownership

Armistead · 11-26-10, 09:02 AM

If you study history, you'll find pagan gods were created in mass to control people. Maybe a failure of our evolution that we can't rise up in goodness on our own, maybe God exist and deemed us all born sinners with evil spirits..not sure which is worse.

Polybius, the historian, says: "Since the multitude is ever fickle, full of lawless desires, irrational passions and violence, there is no other way to keep them in order but by the fear and terror of the invisible world;

Livy, the celebrated historian, speaks of it in the same spirit; and he praises the wisdom of Numa, because he invented the fear of the gods, as "a most efficacious means of governing an ignorant and barbarous populace.

Strabo, the geographer, says: "The multitude are restrained from vice by the punishments the gods are said to inflict upon offenders, and by those terrors and threatenings which certain dreadful words and monstrous forms imprint upon their minds...For it is impossible to govern the crowd of women, and all the common rabble, by philosophical reasoning, and lead them to piety, holiness and virtue.

Bible, true or not, an eternal place of torture can't be found in it. Anyone that takes time to study can see all the purposeful mistranslations replacing the grave with an eternal hell. The early church for 400 years taught that Christ came to save people from eternal death, not eternal torture. Once government got involved, it pulled every pagan idea about hell and found a way to put it in the bible and it's been doctrine since.

Whatever is true or not, religion has caused most problems in the world because all religions believe their God or Gods will torture everyone but them. Maybe this is the only way mankind could evolve, in fear, but if we can never get past it man will destroy this world fighting over religion as we've seen in the last few years.

11-26-10, 09:02 AM	#11
Armistead Rear Admiral Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: on the Dan Posts: 10,880 Downloads: 364 Uploads: 0	If you study history, you'll find pagan gods were created in mass to control people. Maybe a failure of our evolution that we can't rise up in goodness on our own, maybe God exist and deemed us all born sinners with evil spirits..not sure which is worse. Polybius, the historian, says: "Since the multitude is ever fickle, full of lawless desires, irrational passions and violence, there is no other way to keep them in order but by the fear and terror of the invisible world; Livy, the celebrated historian, speaks of it in the same spirit; and he praises the wisdom of Numa, because he invented the fear of the gods, as "a most efficacious means of governing an ignorant and barbarous populace. Strabo, the geographer, says: "The multitude are restrained from vice by the punishments the gods are said to inflict upon offenders, and by those terrors and threatenings which certain dreadful words and monstrous forms imprint upon their minds...For it is impossible to govern the crowd of women, and all the common rabble, by philosophical reasoning, and lead them to piety, holiness and virtue. Bible, true or not, an eternal place of torture can't be found in it. Anyone that takes time to study can see all the purposeful mistranslations replacing the grave with an eternal hell. The early church for 400 years taught that Christ came to save people from eternal death, not eternal torture. Once government got involved, it pulled every pagan idea about hell and found a way to put it in the bible and it's been doctrine since. Whatever is true or not, religion has caused most problems in the world because all religions believe their God or Gods will torture everyone but them. Maybe this is the only way mankind could evolve, in fear, but if we can never get past it man will destroy this world fighting over religion as we've seen in the last few years.