The formatting problem has been noted by others, you are not alone in experiencing the problem.

 

However the problem with using the Bible to illustrate anything is that one can find in it whatever one wants to find, it is no more than a collection of writings chosen from a great number by a committee of politicians to suit their own ends and those writings were obviously written by people who had very little knowledge of the world or of the cosmos, their world was very small and limited to countries around the eastern end of the Mediterranean if even that much, plus many of them were rewrites of earlier stories or used myths and legends as a basis.

 

On the other thread I illustrated how a biblical quote was used to justify punishing babies with a stick and how religion can allow people to advise parents to do just that without those people having anything on their conscience.

 

There are politicians in the US who will use Bible quotations to show that we can ignore global warming, one example.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jman-Dkjv3Q

 

I would also suggest that Revelations has more to do with the local mushrooms than anything divine.

 

The Creation story can be totally ignored if for no other reason we know that the order in which it says things were created was simply not so.

 

We know how stars are formed, it can be observed happening, the sun is just a main sequence star of which there are billions like it, it is nothing special and we know the planets were formed after the sun and the moon after the earth, not as the story makes out, the other way round.

 

We may indeed be damaging the earth but it will be no good looking to an imaginary being for which there is no evidence of it's existence, to help us. we have to do it for ourselves.

 

As for the Sermon on the Mount, it contains some of the stupidest advice that anyone could give and directly goes against the concept of looking after the earth.

 

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

 

Not bothering about tomorrow is what got the earth to the situation it is in today but that's what you get for listening to a fool, only a fool would say that.

 

 

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