Play Trap the Atheist (The atheist delusion)

by hyjyljyj , Sunday, December 09, 2012, 16:02 (4155 days ago) @ David Turell

David: "And the KJV of the OT is a translation joke. Which makes me feel somewhat sorry for the fundamentalists who soak it up. Ancient Hebrew is six times removed. It had 2-3,000 words with 10,000 total using prefixes and suffixes. Create the universe in six days? "Yom" means any interval of time, from split second to eons! But I'm sure you know all this."-NOW I do! -I mean, the first two sentences are axiomatic, but otherwise thanks for the education.-Want an ironic laugh? At age 13 in my first month of Catholic high school the communications instructor had the whole class of about 40 sit in a circle, then gave one of them a single sentence to whisper word for word to his neighbor, and so on around the circle, just to illustrate how comically it would be mutilated by miscommunication, both deliberate and accidental, by the time it got back to the first student. The result was a hilarious mangling of the original sentence (which was "There is no reverse gear on a motorcycle") into something completely unrelated. None of the original words remained, as I recall.-I took it as a poignant object lesson from the (non-priest) teacher--probably unintentional, but perhaps not--of how you'd be totally crazy to swallow a fricken word of the so-called "good" book without a great deal of cold, intellectual analysis. Amazing that the Jesuit priests running the school allowed the exercise. (Maybe they didn't know--they were agnostic!)