Trying to Understand and Save my Soul

Last night I read in bed with The Commander. My book was The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins. Lord Kadizzle highly recommends the book. Dawkins gets carried away trying to explain everything with evolution in the first part of the book, but if you can make it to the tail end, there is some very good reading. If someone has strong faith, I highly recommend you read the book, it should be a test of your faith, and if you are still faithful after reading it, you should be very happy. Dawkins puts religion up against logic, and the results are very amusing. As I read last night it occurred to me most people who claim to be Christians in our society surely have never closely examined the Bible. The Bible is packed with contradictions, and bizzare stories that make no sense what so ever. Last night Dawkins was debunking the idea that the Bible is a source of morality. Some of the strange things the Bible recommends no one today, would even consider. For example, if you are visited by angels, and everyone in town shows up and wants to have sex with the angels, the Bible recommends you let them rape your daughters. This theme appears more than once in the Bible.

In another strange Bible story, God tell Joshua, or someone that if he wants a good victory in an upcoming battle, he should promise to kill the first living thing that comes out of his door when he gets home. Sure enough Joshua has the victory, and wouldn't you know it, his daughter is the one who comes out the door. Dawkins says poor old Joushua rents his pants, I am not sure what that means, but I have a good idea. Jousha got him self in a big mess bargaining with God. What is the lesson in this? I don't know but this stuff is endless in the Bible.

Picking up sticks on Sunday is not a good idea. God recommends killing anyone who does it. Of course this is all Old Testament stuff, and we are to take it with a grain of salt. Dawkins point is which part of it do you take with a grain of salt, and which part do you believe. You just believe the parts that suit your needs it turns out. What a wonderful system. The New Testament does not turn out a whole lot better under close examination. If someone would like to explain this stuff to me and save my miserable soul, please come forth.