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As soon as Bill pays everyone, he's going to write the new bible,
distribute it through Microsoft and make all that money back.
posted by
saul_relative
on January 29, 2007 at 11:07 PM
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Cee, I'm going to have to read those books someday
posted by
SuccessWarrior
on January 28, 2007 at 9:50 AM
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SW-
I read Conversations with God Books 1,2,3 and I do not doubt that it was God speaking to Neale Donald Walsch. There are and have been prophets living and walking in each generation. They didn't suddenly cease to exist a thousand or two thousand years ago.
People are afraid to trust the powers that God gave them. They quit thinking because their natural childlike inclinations and thoughts were said to be "child's play" and were therefore wrong.
You have to grow inwardly when your thoughts and the rules just don't jive. You can't be afraid to think outside the box.
The teachings of Jesus are all about having faith. Common prostitutes and cripples believed with such complete love and trust, they were blessed and healed.
Jesus tried to teach men to revere their women. Somehow by the time the Bible was written, the denegration of women was in full swing. Mother God was forgotten about for years and is just now being "seen" in all sorts of places. Whether you see God and not shut your eyes and hearts to His/Her is an individual's choice. As long as you recognize that there IS a universal power who reigns over us all, beings in His and Her forms, on planets all over the universe, then He/She is pleased.
CeeMarie 
posted by
LadyCeeMarie
on January 27, 2007 at 7:04 PM
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I, personally, wonder if we really have outgrown the need for either a scripture (like the Bible or the Koran) or an organized religion. After all, look what happened when the Roman Catholic Church loosened the rules after Vatican II. They made eating red meat optional on Fridays (one can still eat fish if one wants to, but one must sacrifice somewhere else if one wants that hamburger), except during Lent, but people (particularly in America) took that to mean they could do whatever they wanted, including eating as much of whatever they wanted as they wanted, without necessarily leading an ethical life. In other words, lift the rules, and when the cat's away, the mice will play. People will do whatever they see fit when they feel the higher-ups aren't watching. As a result, there are any number of things that have "gone wrong." Once the rules were lifted, and people started having to think for themselves rather than having someone else tell them what to do, all hell broke loose. People just don't like to think for themselves, for some reason.
posted by
kidnykid
on January 26, 2007 at 10:10 AM
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The problem isn't with the book
It's how it's used. What we've outgrown is the need for organized religion, it's counter productive. It is very difficult for an individual to find it's own way on the path when they've already been programmed to follow specific steps.
All religious material should be spared so that the seeker can have as much information as possible. What we do not need is organizations that try to engrave their beliefs onto the minds of children who haven't had a choice in the matter.
Outlaw the churches not the material they use.
posted by
Whysper
on January 26, 2007 at 9:53 AM
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Whysper, can we do that when so many people are touting the bible
as the be all, end all of wisdom? It's a story that has outlived it's usefulness and yet people want to control other people and force them to live by its edicts.
posted by
SuccessWarrior
on January 26, 2007 at 8:34 AM
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the only saviours we need are personal ones now
The reason this tale kept getting rewritten over time, is that the common person was uneducated and the ability to write things down for future generations was limited at best. The local shaman was as close to a media form as they had. The purpose of the tale is to teach people to look beyond themselves to the greater good in being.
There is no need for a new bible, just a better understanding of the lessons to be learned and the desire to apply compassion to our daily interactions with the universe.
posted by
Whysper
on January 26, 2007 at 8:18 AM
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