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cyanideandhappiness·Cyanide & Happinessbym_f 2026-08-14🔗View original on discuss.online380Comments17Reply
DupaCycki lemmy.world4Hide 4 repliesPriests wonder why people don't read the Bible, and then they keep spoiling the ending smh33Reply
schnurrito replydiscuss.tchncs.de3Hide 3 repliesI tried reading it a few times before in my life... but it's a really boring thing to read, so was never able to get very far.10Reply
Super Mega Ultra Edition DX Unleashed 64 replysh.itjust.worksI began reading it, then got to Numbers, and the endless pages of whomst is related to whom ad nauseum drained the life out of me. "Behold, 300 people!" reader: okay "They're not important individually." reader: so why... ugh10Reply
EntheoNaut replylemmy.mlRevelation is the only one I’ve read in its entirety. All the other books in it are meh. Well except for the one with alien spaceship, that one’s pretty good.8Reply
RRampantParanoia2365 replylemmy.worldProse are super flat and stilted, and the dialogue is laughable. 👎3Reply
TTruthtwopower lemmy.zip1Hide 1 replyTbh he probably never read it either. That's why he believes in it still.11Reply
lluciferofastora replyfeddit.orgNah, the issue is that you, when you read a contradiction, conclude one of the premises must be wrong. He will instead believe his understanding of the premises or his logic is wrong.5Reply
pporn_was_never_the_real_issue fedinsfw.appOr instead: ”No, it says right here in Leviticus 25 that I can keep slaves” And cut to the missionary doing hard labor9Reply
arotrios lemmy.worldThis reminds me of the time the Mormons got pissed at me for asking if the Book of Mormon was a divine footnote.5Reply
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Priests wonder why people don't read the Bible, and then they keep spoiling the ending smh
I tried reading it a few times before in my life... but it's a really boring thing to read, so was never able to get very far.
I began reading it, then got to Numbers, and the endless pages of whomst is related to whom ad nauseum drained the life out of me.
"Behold, 300 people!"
reader: okay
"They're not important individually."
reader: so why... ugh
Revelation is the only one I’ve read in its entirety.
All the other books in it are meh. Well except for the one with alien spaceship, that one’s pretty good.
Prose are super flat and stilted, and the dialogue is laughable. 👎
Remember kids, if you don't sin, Jesus died for nothing!
He went through all that trouble. May as well use them.
Tbh he probably never read it either. That's why he believes in it still.
Nah, the issue is that you, when you read a contradiction, conclude one of the premises must be wrong. He will instead believe his understanding of the premises or his logic is wrong.
Or instead: ”No, it says right here in Leviticus 25 that I can keep slaves”
And cut to the missionary doing hard labor
This reminds me of the time the Mormons got pissed at me for asking if the Book of Mormon was a divine footnote.
Spoilers for a 2,000 to 15,000 year old collections of manuscripts.
Readers of the Bible are rarely “christian”
Is his death and resurrection actually the climax of the book?
I giggled a bit