Guy McLaren

I have stayed out of religious arguments for a while now, but thought I would do something interesting over the next few weeks. I am not going to try and prove the existence or otherwise of God. I after doing some reading have come to the following conclusions about the issue. There is no way of proving or disproving God’s existence. The only people that know for sure are the dead.

Saying that God does not exist takes as much faith as saying He is. Seriously If you don’t think atheism is a belief system you are as deluded as Christians that claim that God speaks to them. I am not talking about the ones that find hidden meaning in bible verses, but those that have real conversations with him.

Religion is a personal issue, Chances are that if you were born in Saudi Arabia you are a Muslim, If you were born in India, you may be Hindi, and if you were born in Israel… you get the point. Very few people change religion in the course of their lives.

I read a book by Andries Theart and have had a good number of conversations with him. The book is called, God’s final call and can be found here. He believes that all these religions are a conduit to God and should not be attacked. He studies Revelations in detail.

Now I am not a firebrand Christian, As many know I have proclaimed myself atheist, but the box is not totally correct. As far as the matter goes I am undecided. Does God exist or doesn’t he. So what I am going to do in the coming weeks is show you the wisdom in the Bible. The basic concepts in the book are good. I don’t know that I would accept it all as being gospel. It is my belief that much of the Bible is allegorical.

You need to understand that at the time most of it was written, people were not very literate and many needed guidance. I am not going to study creation, nor am I going to go through all the begats and so forth. I am going to take a logical look at the bible and do a logical translation without all the thees thous and alleluias.

In effect I am going to show you how the Bible was designed to enrich and make the world a better place. I will not cherry pick verses. You see cherry picking allows you to make stupid statements like “Money is the root of all evil” when the actual verse refers to greed ie : “The love of money”

My next post is going to start with the book of Leviticus which many Christians use to justify their bigotry. I probably will not get into the whole fag issue for a few days but we will discuss the real issues.