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The Holy Bible (King James Version)
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As a work of fiction it's laughably bad and poorly conceived. Giant logical fallacies, poor character development, and all the plots are scuttled by a magical, invisible entity that's petty, cruel, tyrannical, and amoral. There is no central narrative that is worthwhile (or even believable), and each of the chapters seem written by committee rather than a singular voice. Clearly the book was so bad to begin with a team of editors had to step in and make major changes - which means no part of this book is even meritorious or reflects an author's vision. Frankly, I don't see this book having much of an impact.
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Jul 23, 2009 07:22am
Too bad you're wrong. In fact, it's made so much of an impact that our Nation was built upon it.
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Actually, our country wasn't built upon it, that's a myth. And I just finished this "good" book myself - thank goodness our country wasn't built upon the utter horribleness that's in this book - and they saved the most messed up for last! I laughed out loud at the book of revelation - man, someone had a bad acid trip a few thousand years ago!
The Bible is true, but some people just wont believe that. I am really happy I'm one God's followers.
What is wrong you people!?! This is how the world came to be! This is the history of the world! You may not like it, but you can't change history: You can't change the fact that JFK got shot! You can't change the fact that the WW1 and WW2 happened! But guess what? YOU CAN'T CHANGE IT!!! Wake up, realize the connections between the Holy Bible and the real world! Please! Come on people, PLEASE!!
This is not the history of the world. The world began roughly 14.5 billion years ago. Proven by science. Adam and Eve were not the first humans. Evolution created humans. Proven by science. Anyone that believes in the bible is driven by faith whereas others are driven by science, knowledge, and factual information that can be tested against.
I think people should respect each others beliefs and traditions. This review is too insulting! It makes people that believe in God and Jesus mad, and sad. The Bible means a lot to many people, and I think all people shall respect each other's opinions :)
Andrew wrote: "This is not the history of the world. The world began roughly 14.5 billion years ago. Proven by science. Adam and Eve were not the first humans. Evolution created humans. Proven by science. Anyone ..."You should do a little more research into the term "theory".
Theory is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experimentation. So where's your body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed shannon?
if you want to get really technical about it, a theory is a set of assumptions, not facts, that can be used to create hypotheses which can be tested and used to further expand said theory. but anyway,...to answer your question...both :). have an awesome week.
If we could know everything, we wouldn't need faith. The beauty of it is, we do need faith. You don't know everything, do you? :)
All I'm thinking about when reading some of these very rude and purely based conclusions by some of these reviews is that, did you read the book or did you skim it, take what you wanted to to make the conclusions you wanted to make? This historically accurate, most well put together piece of literature that is the most sold book every year ever since its been accessible to the mass public, has obviously caught the attention of so many people for a good reason. But I do see where some misconceptions are coming from, because without a good understanding of the reasons for Gods actions in some situations, to the supposed science/religious contradictions which actually don't contradict at all. Maybe you should think about sitting down with someone that does understand how to explain such a complicated book in a more than a 10 line review. No disrespect was meant by this review by the way, just some observations that I thought would stop some arguments and start some actual logical, brain powered reasoning. And not anger ridden, rude, misconceptions that are in some of these previous reviews.
Joel, this is no where near historically accurate! It doesn't even make sense in the first place. For example the great flood. Noah took two of every land animal blah blah blah, but why? A lot of animals reproduce asexually, plus the rain that fell for that amount of time would be freshwater, thus mixing with the salt water and kill most of the creature in the "one large ocean." Also if it was historically accurate someone would've found a skeleton of a giant by now (e.x Goliath). The "holy" bible is just a work of fiction with a fan base that has gone out of proportions.
