It's silly of me to be annoyed by this, given that I'm an atheist. Nonetheless it annoys me considerably.
Thanks to the Noah movie and to today's date*, there has been a spurt of references to the Bible in the online places I frequent. I keep seeing the Flood and Psalms, both in the Old Testament, referred to as being in the Christian Bible.
No, sirree. They're in the Old Testament, a.k.a. the Hebrew Bible.** The fact that Christians have incorporated the OT into their religion is irrelevant. Moslems have incorporated much of the OT and the NT into their religion, too, but that doesn't make those two books part of the Koran.***
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* I'm referring, of course, to the obnoxious "joke" that today is atheism's holiday because "The fool has said in his heart, there is no God."
** Yeah, yeah, I know, Pentateuch. As far as I'm concerned, the whole shebang counts.
*** Maybe it does to Moslems, who I gather consider the OT prophets and Jesus to be Moslems, but that's just weird, and I haven't encountered any Moslems in the online places I was referring to.
1 comment:
Now we just need to get the Christians to understand. :) As for the Muslims, yes they believe in all the prophets, they just believe Muhammad is the last prophet like the Christians believe Jesus and The Mormons believe......uhm well whatever alien stuff they believe while wearing their godly underwear.
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