Poor victimized Christians, have had it their way so long they can't see the advantages they have had. Now it time to level the playing field and they are "being mistreated"...lol

When you see the bible verse on the government building I bet you don't think, "how come there isn't a verse from all of these texts:"

Ancient Greece

Homeric Hymns
Theogony

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Havamal
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Great Hymn to the Aten

[edit] Ayyavazhi

The Akilathirattu Ammanai
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The Kitáb-i-Aqdas
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[edit] Bön

Bon Kangyur and Tengyur

[edit] Buddhism
Ancient style of scripture used for the Pāli Canon
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Abhidhamma Pitaka

East Asian Mahayana

The Chinese Diamond Sutra, the oldest known dated printed book in the world, printed in the 9th year of Xiantong Era of the Tang Dynasty, or 868 CE. British Library.

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Diamond Sutra and the Heart Sutra
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Infinite Life Sutra
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Tiantai, Tendai, and Nichiren
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The Donghak Scripture
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Cover page of The Book of Mormon from an original 1830 edition, by Joseph Smith, Jr.
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[edit] Ancient Egyptian religion
Pyramid texts from Teti I's pyramid.

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Vaisheshika Sutras of Kanada

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Sakta Tantras

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64 Bhairavagamas
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In Shaiva Siddhanta

28 Saiva Agamas
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Brahma Samhita
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[edit] Manichaeism

The Evangelion (Greek, Coptic: Ευαγγελιον, meaning roughly "good news"). Also known as the Gospel of Mani and The Living Gospel
the Treasure of Life
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the Book of Mysteries
the Book of Giants
the Epistles
the Psalms and Prayers. A Coptic Manichaean Psalter, discovered in Egypt in the early 1900s, was edited and published by Charles Allberry from Manichaean manuscripts in the Chester Beatty collection and in the Berlin Academy, 1938-9.
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[edit] Meher Baba
Cover of God Speaks

God Speaks

[edit] New Age religions

Various New Age religions may regard any of the following texts as inspired:

A Course in Miracles
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The Bible
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The Amritbani Guru Ravidass Ji

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The Samaritan Torah

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Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
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The Kojiki
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[edit] Spiritism

The Spirits Book
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[edit] Sumerian

The Barton Cylinder

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The Bible
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Tao Te Ching
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[edit] Thelema

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[edit] Unification Church

Divine Principle

[edit] Wicca

Book of Shadows
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[edit] Yazidi

Yazidi Black Book
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[edit] Zoroastrianism
Yasna 28.1 (Bodleian MS J2)

Primary religious texts, that is, the Avesta collection:
The Yasna, the primary liturgical collection, includes the Gathas.
The Visperad, a collection of supplements to the Yasna.
The Yashts, hymns in honor of the divinities.
The Vendidad, describes the various forms of evil spirits and ways to confound them.
shorter texts and prayers, the Yashts the five Nyaishes ("worship, praise"), the Sirozeh and the Afringans (blessings).
There are some 60 secondary religious texts, none of which are considered scripture. The most important of these are:
The Denkard (middle Persian, 'Acts of Religion'),
The Bundahishn, (middle Persian, 'Primordial Creation')
The Menog-i Khrad, (middle Persian, 'Spirit of Wisdom')
The Arda Viraf Namak (middle Persian, 'The Book of Arda Viraf')
The Sad-dar (modern Persian, 'Hundred Doors', or 'Hundred Chapters')
The Rivayats, 15th-18th century correspondence on religious issues
For general use by the laity:
The Zend (lit. commentaries), various commentaries on and translations of the Avesta.
The Khordeh Avesta, a collection of everyday prayers from the Avesta.

Or how about swearing you in court. How come these books are not used since all religions are equal in this country?

When there is a prayer at the ball game how come there isn't one said for all religions?

When someone in the government speaks of god, how come they don't say god, gods and goddesses or whatever you believe in, instead of just saying one god for the Christian god?


Poor poor Christians, having to concede some of their advantage in order to be fair. Sad days indeed.

encourage the young men to be self-controlled. 7 In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness 8 and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us

But they are not qualified to teach.

That is the problem.

They have too much to learn before they are able to teach.

Bible verses although interesting, are not the truth and light in no way.

But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless. 10 Warn a divisive person once, and then warn them a second time. After that, have nothing to do with them.

You need milk, not solid food! 13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. 14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.

Trying to beat them down with the bible again huh? Figures. When all else fails just keep repeating the same things from a book of fables until everyone stops listening and shuts down so you can be rid of the nay sayers who threaten the mind training that has been done.

Christians may consider others disbelief in the biblical fables to be 'unwholesome', but that's nonsense. There is nothing unwholesome about questioning nasty ideals put forth as though they have something to do with some God.



Now he's just proselyting his belief in a religion that based on sin and redemption.



We can do that without religion. Also to question ancient superstitions is in no way "bitterness, rage, or anger and slander", or anything at all like that.

It's just a genuine challenging of unhealthy superstitions.



Again, beating home a very negative religious view that everyone is in dire need of being forgiven by some highly judgmental God who would hurt people if they don't obey him without question.

It's clear that Paul himself believed in those negative concepts.

And that's understandable. Paul had a lot of guilt. He was a very troubled man. He felt a dire need for "forgiveness" because even he recognized the dastardly nature of his own previous behavior.

So it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that this man would eventually turn to a religion that promises salvation for his previously horrible behavior.

If everyone had been like Paul, then maybe there could be some valid arguments given for this religion. But clearly that's not the case. Everyone wasn't as nasty as Paul was when he was Saul.

Saul was a desperate man who was evidently so ashamed of his own behavior that he even changed his name to Paul to try to rid himself of his past.

Give careful thought to your ways. 6 You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”

we have the freedom to speak for ourself, not EVERYONE else,

nor does everyone else have the right to dictate whom we speak for


the logic here is like griping about why we choose to print literature primarily in english(hint, english is the predominant language spoken)

or why we print 'e pluribus unum' on our coins instead of
uno formato da diversi
de muchos, un
aus vielen, ein


,, or any other number of things that would have had the SAME MESSAGE

,, it seems the message is to be discarded if it can be tied in any way to literature which is 'religious',, which is a sad way of censoring some valid and relevant lessons and messages

Or maybe it is to reassure the mind control that the repetacism is needed.

And to distract away from the real issues.

They know that they can't argue against the obvious absurdities that are in the Bible, so they start shoving the brainwashing tactics of the dogma itself in the faces of others in the hope that it might actually work on other people like it worked on them.

The whole brainwashing technique is to try to make it appear that anyone who questions these religious teachings is just a negative troublemaker.

It's just supporting religious bigotry using a false notion of "love" as a weapon.

Basically the most underhanded brainwashing technique ever devised by mankind.

Not the same analogy anyway but no matter, if we are to respect all religions, we need to respect and acknowledge them all. If we cannot do that in order to respect them all we need to remove them from any public arena and all government period.

We cannot just acknowledge/practice/show homage to one when we are aware of hundreds.

And all religious books hold the same importance.

So if we are to have them printed on things then we need to include them all or none if we cannot do that.

Spoiled Christians sure have a hard time seeing outside of their advantage, that is for sure.

I so love the Bible.

Not having it would seem so shallow. I guess for myself I see so much good and think "I could spend easily a life time on all the peace parts of the books". I would never get to the parts that people claim as cruel or bigot. Maybe it's just my nature to want to reap what is good from something.

For myself it's like this, if your the kind of person that looks for bad in life you will find it. If your the kind that looks for good you will find it.

Hopefully the responses that you put up in response to me simply quoting scripture will give you some idea of what type of person you are. Do you look at bad, or do you see good.

have a blessed day

You must have me confused with maybe someone else you have talked to in the past.

my name is michael, hope you are well

Look at the watch, your getting very sleepy, your eyes are getting tired, soon I will be injecting you with a bunch of great writings, you must listen, now except and go tell the world.

how was that lol

Agreed. I can't help but be reminded of those who are mentally challenged and when they feel threatened or uncomfortable they go into a repeating dialog for example in Rainman, Dustin Hoffman playing the autistic repeated a Costello excerpt to calm himself.

But repeating it doesn't make it more valid. Proof of validity does. And using the item itself to prove validity very seldom shows any proof of anything.

If the bible were to be passed off as a book of fables that has some life lessons in it, I would be more likely to consider the information in it. But because it is passed off as some kind of be all end all, it loses its validity and becomes a method of control which should be rejected until it is put back into context of being a book written by men for men. And literally for Men chauvinistic men . It is not a book that has much good information or encouragement for women at all. It is a control mechanism for men to control women and should be discarded by any woman who really wants to claim her rights and live a valued life.

Come here you!! Let me hit you with this bible!

Take that you you Innocent by stander. And don't come back till you repent!

Repent I say for I'm wearing sandals and carry this big book.

Please do people even do that any more?

Is that what people think Christians are?

how funny

Context is everything.

If the bible were presented as just a read for men, chauvinistic men then it would be just a book, like it is. But it is presented in the context of the proof (unverifiable)that all non Christians are wrong and that the Christians are the golden children.

Of which the bible is not proof of anything other than men have thoughts/imagination and write them down once in a while.

Maybe you should take a look at who I am and what I did before jumping into the hate pool for Christians demise mode again. I am quoting the bible as a cool book that I would hate to live without.

Your fights with others are up to you but they have little to do with me unless you are picking a fight directly with me on some issue.

Do you have a problem with me directly?

Seems like I have to keep going there with people because they have become so reactive up here on these forums.

Bigotry my dear is when you put someone in a camp and then judge them, which ,as I confronted Abra of this before, is exacting with you are doing with me.

not cool

If you, like Abra was so kind enough to do, find a working relationship with me as a person you might find that there is a world to talk about and still have different beliefs.

Certainly you know not to judge me in with any "them".

Don't be a bigot dude, we've been through this.

It's me talking about parts of a book I love and nothing else. Don't make it in to something that it is not again.