The bible. PHHBBLlllpptt. I’d sooner use the Anarchists Cookbook as a guide to how to lead my life. People who say they follow the guidelines of the bible are liars, because nobody could follow all the commands in the bible and still exist, it’s impossible. We’re not saints or angels and we were never meant to be.
We’re the rough smut of beasts, as Walt Whitman put it. We’re human animals and we shouldn’t pretend to anything more, we need to start helping each other and realizing we’re in this mess together and no fictional supernatural being is going to come to our rescue or provide us any sort of comfort.
Exactly growing up I knew a woman who try to follow all the rules in the bible. She went crazy and was instutilized.
Here they want to force all schools to have the Ten Commandments posted on every wall. Because god knows, kids aren’t already feeling puny and guilty enough, we need to show them just how much they don’t measure up to god’s standards at every turn.
If there is a human alive who has never broken a commandment I’ve yet to meet them. And I don’t live my life by a fictitious set of rules anyway - let alone a list that no one, not even Jesus, could actually succesfully live up to. (and to my mind, no one with any intellect would want to anyway).
Worse than that, no-one could follow all the commandments of the bible for the pure simplicity that the book of vile darkness has mutually exclusive commands. For example: One cannot kill apostates (Deuteronomy 13:7-12) and not murder (Exodus 20:13). At least in any modern society.
No one with any self worth or dignity should try to live their life by what the “bible” says. No real human could, and it is totally full of contradictions and hypocrisy at every turn.
