Everything and its opposite
Small Sampling Theory
M. Onfrey
The Old Testament comes to roughly 3,500 pages, 900 in the New Testament, the Koran to 750, ie a total of a little 'more than 5,000 pages that says everything and its opposite.
In each of the 3 books founding contradictions abound: one thing is almost immediately opposite, triumphs idea, but also its opposite, is a prescribed value, but a bit 'far its antithesis. A
nothing is definitive establishment of the work, the construction of a coherent, nor the decision to include three Synoptic Gospels because they read one beside the other. The jew, Christians, Muslims may, in accordance with their wishes, to draw from Torah, the Gospels and the Koran, and to find arguments to justify the black and white, day and night, the vice and virtue, according to their needs.
A military leader is looking for a verse to justify his actions? It is in incredible amounts. But a pacifist who hates the war, determined to triumph over his point of view, it can as well wield a sentence, a quote, a word the opposite!
One draws on the text to justify the war of extermination? The books are the texts as well. Another calls for universal peace? Find also the maximum of his choice. One wants to justify his anti-Semitic hate hysterical? A believer, his contempt for the legitimate Palestinian with the help of the Bible? A misogynist demonstrate the inferiority of women? The texts abound, and permitting. But a word taken from this mess also permits to conclude otherwise.
Equally, if you want to download the conscience justify hatred, massacre, contempt: there are many legitimate arguments for their baseness that profess an indestructible love of neighbor.
Too many pages written in a period of many years by too many strangers, too many remakes and too many regrets, too many sources, too many arguments in the absence of a single inspiration of God, the three holy books require too many scribes, brokers, copyists. None of these books is consistent homogeneous and unique.
(...) In this
excavation site in the open air, taking reigns supreme. As each of these books supposed to be inspired or dictated by God, can not be perfect, absolute, final. (...) Since everything is perfect, so are the component parts. (...) The Bible is true, then so is each of its fragments, a phrase taken as well. (...) One piece says the opposite? Yes, but another says the opposite of the opposite.
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