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rotard wrote:tuna55 wrote:In reply to triumph5:
Dude, you didn't read anything I actually wrote. I have seen others that sound awfully familiar and they were rubbish, get it?
You seem very open-minded and enlightened.
I restated my opinion, and you give a personal insult. This thread seems pretty good so far, if you'd like to continue this, we can take it outside (in a PM sense, not a fighting sense).
This is when we hunt for eggs, right? 
I saw a rabbit yesterday and didn't even think about a rabbit gun.
tuna55 wrote:triumph5 wrote:Interesting you ask these questions, as NOVA had an interesting program on recently, "The Bible's Buried Screts: The Old Testament and how the concept of one God emerged." I'm an athiest, but it was fascinating how and WHO wrote the bible. And did touch on the OP's question.
The second one was also on PBS's "Secrets of the Dead" series (dumb name, but good quality) on the history of the English Bible, split between catholic and english church, power struggles for control of the church, and a gentleman called William Tyndale who wote the first english language bible, which was considered so controversial, single pages at a time were smuggled from europe to england. Very even handed treatment of the subject, and answered a lot of questions as to how we got so many different interpretations of the bible. It was really well done.
I consider these pieces of literature, nothing more, and these two documentaries answered more questions about the origins of "The" bible and it's history to the current day than any I've seen. Really good stuff. The Secrets of the dead is available on DVD for $25, but, you may catch it on your local PBS channel, or maybe local library.
As I said, I'm an athiest, but was always curious about who "wrote" the bible, nothing else was on, and these are two programs well worth seeing for insight. My 2 cents.
Try PBS.org, and start from there to find these programs.
I have not seen this, but if it's anything like other similar series, please don't watch that rubbish.
Oh I am guessing that is because it is that spawn of Satan (at least for teapartiers) TV station
93EXCivic wrote:tuna55 wrote:triumph5 wrote:Interesting you ask these questions, as NOVA had an interesting program on recently, "The Bible's Buried Screts: The Old Testament and how the concept of one God emerged." I'm an athiest, but it was fascinating how and WHO wrote the bible. And did touch on the OP's question.
The second one was also on PBS's "Secrets of the Dead" series (dumb name, but good quality) on the history of the English Bible, split between catholic and english church, power struggles for control of the church, and a gentleman called William Tyndale who wote the first english language bible, which was considered so controversial, single pages at a time were smuggled from europe to england. Very even handed treatment of the subject, and answered a lot of questions as to how we got so many different interpretations of the bible. It was really well done.
I consider these pieces of literature, nothing more, and these two documentaries answered more questions about the origins of "The" bible and it's history to the current day than any I've seen. Really good stuff. The Secrets of the dead is available on DVD for $25, but, you may catch it on your local PBS channel, or maybe local library.
As I said, I'm an athiest, but was always curious about who "wrote" the bible, nothing else was on, and these are two programs well worth seeing for insight. My 2 cents.
Try PBS.org, and start from there to find these programs.
I have not seen this, but if it's anything like other similar series, please don't watch that rubbish.
Oh I am guessing that is because it is that spawn of Satan (at least for teapartiers) TV station
Seriously uncalled for, man. I guess this makes three threads I am done with, and this one doesn't have Iggy in it.
tuna55 wrote:93EXCivic wrote:tuna55 wrote:triumph5 wrote:Interesting you ask these questions, as NOVA had an interesting program on recently, "The Bible's Buried Screts: The Old Testament and how the concept of one God emerged." I'm an athiest, but it was fascinating how and WHO wrote the bible. And did touch on the OP's question.
The second one was also on PBS's "Secrets of the Dead" series (dumb name, but good quality) on the history of the English Bible, split between catholic and english church, power struggles for control of the church, and a gentleman called William Tyndale who wote the first english language bible, which was considered so controversial, single pages at a time were smuggled from europe to england. Very even handed treatment of the subject, and answered a lot of questions as to how we got so many different interpretations of the bible. It was really well done.
I consider these pieces of literature, nothing more, and these two documentaries answered more questions about the origins of "The" bible and it's history to the current day than any I've seen. Really good stuff. The Secrets of the dead is available on DVD for $25, but, you may catch it on your local PBS channel, or maybe local library.
As I said, I'm an athiest, but was always curious about who "wrote" the bible, nothing else was on, and these are two programs well worth seeing for insight. My 2 cents.
Try PBS.org, and start from there to find these programs.
I have not seen this, but if it's anything like other similar series, please don't watch that rubbish.
Oh I am guessing that is because it is that spawn of Satan (at least for teapartiers) TV station
Seriously uncalled for, man. I guess this makes three threads I am done with, and this one doesn't have Iggy in it.
Sorry. You are right. It was uncalled for. I was in a bad mood when I posted that. I have generally found NOVA is a well thought out program. What did you not like about it?
See my comments in the "Birthers" thread if you're wondering why this thread is locked. As scripture tells us, grow up and play nice or piss off.
Edit: Sorry that came off so harsh. What I meant to say was, "Thanks for getting this back on the rails, but I'm not comfortable with this thread on the board given the current, uh, mood."
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