Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was created by him. Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98. Could anything—anything—be more ridiculous? And yet, this would be no more ridiculous than the world we are living in.
(Sam Harris, The End of Faith, p. 36)
Han Shot first.
Amen.
Yes! Death to the Greedo-heretics!
Greedo shot first but missed, just like your pitiful theology!
The scary thing is that I can indeed imagine people killing each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98 in a couple of thousands of years. I imagine it won’t be much different from what’s been going on for the last couple of thousands of years …
OT == Bible v1.0
NT == Bible v1.0 SP1
Quran == Bible v2.0
Book of Mormon == Bible v1.0 SP2
….
Looking forward to getting my copy of Harris, along with Dennett and Hitchens (already read Dawkins).
Daniel, Daniel. God doesn’t make movies. Except for maybe Mel Gibson’s religious movies. You should know that a perfect, all-powerful god only makes himself known through a book. Written by ignorant men 2000 years ago, in another language, from another culture, translated many times by other men, into an old version of English. This is the only perfect communication to humankind. Obviously.