Is the bible brainwashing people?
149960
Obviously. A bible is like a bubonic plauge virus. As an object, it is nothing. But under the right conditions, it has the power to destoy millions, even billions of lives.
879037
I think some are, you ask if anyone agrees that Christians are trying to impose their view on the rest of us and they will say no it's just the Bible requires them to do this...so really they are saying yes they are trying to impose their beliefs on the rest of us but can't bring themselves to admit what they are doing, they provide an excuse and a fudged answer. So they are either very conniving or a bit la-la.
1039306
Are their beliefs actually hurting them ?  Or is it that their beliefs are causing them to rethink their lives and the changes that they are making are changing the dynamics of your relationship?  Is what they believe making them better people or not?  Obviously they believe very much in the bible and do not share your feelings in regard to the bible being a piece of fiction.  What in life are they missing out on?  Your question is very vague.  You can't judge someones beliefs based on your own.  We are all free to worship as we want.  Obviously they are happy serving God they way that they are or else they wouldn't be worshipping in that fashion.  You should be happy that they are happy!!!  Maybe you might want to get to know a little more about their beliefs in order to understand them better.
51838
You know, YOU take the Bible more literally than we ""Bible-thumpers"" do! You here, not us, seem to be claiming that every single verse in the Bible MUST be taken literally, and we believe that, yes, there really are verses that are meant only to be taken as allegory. Did Gd actually ""walk"" in the Garden of Eden? YOU seem to say that this, too, must be taken literally, and not us!\n\nSo, it is possible, FOR US, to ""Believe in"" the Bible without taking Every Single verse literally, although you seem to say this verse must be taken literally for us to believe in it....
405103
Because they were brainwashed from birth. Religion is such a crock of shit. It is funny how many people preach this garbage, and try to push it onto you. I for one do not need this in my life, I have enough complications! And if it is so great, why are there so many priests etc. raping young children? How ethical. Take your bible, shove it where the sun doesn't shine, and roll your holy asses into church where you can join your fellow wack jobs!
137711
Never forget that many a nation was colonised with the Bible in one hand and the "slave's whip in the other"!!\nThis slavish mentality is splashed across our Tv, Press and other media and influence or lives so much that we just can't live without them!\nTelevangelist do more harm than good  and that is a fact.\nIt is a "rat race" to use the Bible and the church to enrich themselves financially and otherwise and at the same time to wield power by waying the opinion of the masses.\nIt is a sad fact but one that would ahve to be studied carefully and with the passage of time " televengalists" have gone morally from bad to worse and we are yet to see the worst!
1156472
I asked this same question and the answers were hilarious. You are dealing with an irrational brainwashed mass of idiots. The bible was stolen from Pagans, Romans, Greeks, all kinds of people. And, used to cause more death and destruction than all wars combined (heck, most wars were caused by christians)
668676
Now stop J Man, you're not looking at life from a "logical" view. Obviously those crazy Christians (like me) have got you brainwashed! The God we love and adore, why, we need to give all that up, because some dude on Yahoo showed me the error of my ways.
659563
The bible actually condemns what these television evangelists are doing.  I'm not sure where I read it in the bible, but it does say that using religion for profit is an inexcusable offense.
434024
Contrary to what a lot of Englightened people on here will have you think, the Bible isn't just for scholars or spinners. If it is true, the Bible is God's Word to man, then I think it is safe to take the book at face value assuming that most people were quite illiterate at the time of its first use. \n\nGod would not make his only word to man undicipherable to all, save the rich intellects of the world. This seems like the biggest, most obvious trap, out there! The rich have the key to salvation, but of course they do! The rich Europeans, to take it even further and make it better! Give me a flippin break. This is getting stupid.\n\nThis is one of the major "flaws" in the entire idea of the Bible being God's Word. Does God not know that most people on Earth are hardly literate, can't understand Hebrew or Aramic, and by inspiring a 3,000 plus page text, he has put the salvation of nearly everyone on earth in the hands of a very few who can actually READ who came from Europe and were bent on ruling the world at all cost??! Impossible for God to do such a thing to 90% of the rest of his own creation!\n\nSo, read the Bible just as it comes to you. Yes, God asked God why he forsakened himself. That is the surface interpretation, no spin. Unless your parents could afford to send you to private school, where they teach you how to spin, I mean interpret the Bible, or unless you were born into Christianity where there are churches all around you that teach these spin techniques, you would never know that when you read page 2,198 in the Bible, that it is ACTUALLY refering to page 1,328 which REALLY means what page 498 said in the third paragraph referring to page 20.\n\nThe logical or face understanding of the text, is that God called out to himself(strange indeed), in a manner that seemed  much like begging of himself to help himself. It's ridiculous.
559608
You're quite right - and you have to consider how many of these people ahd political agendas of their own to fulfill. If there is any more doubt - how about the fact that the Bible has been editted to include and exclude certain items?
395681
Who said He would endlessly torture you?  Someone is perverting what the Bible does say, don't believe them.
372149
now let me think about that for a nano second...yes!\nlets face it, the bible was a collection of STORIES...and if anyone thinks that people get turned into pillars of salt, then they are more stupid than i thought
809124
Well done for starting to think like a human.\n\nIt is pretty obvious that the bible is not true. It is a packaged product designed to create a religious truth with which to bind (and blind) people. \n\nBind in that you believe in 'God' and you have to take the bible wholesale (imperfections, contradications and everything). Blind int hat you have to ignore the real evidence of history in order to 'believe' and be saved.\n\nArcheologists do not tend to use the bible as source material because so much of it is false. There is no historical reference to Jesus outside of a few books in the bible. \n\nIn the ancient world myths were not seen as untrue in quite the way we see them today. Myths were a way of spreading a spritual idea or 'truth' through the telling of an allegorical tale that could work on many levels. \n\nThe Egyptians, for example, were prodigious record keepers. We have found written accounts for the tiniest minutea of their daily lives, and records for nobles and royal families stretching back many thousands of years. We even know the names of those kings that that they tried to have 'erased' from history. \nYet nowhere in any of these records is a high nobleman called 'Moses' recorded. And there is no mention anywhere of the Jews being held captive in Egypt, or of thousands of Jewish 'slaves' suddenly up and leaving via the red sea. \n\nRead the bible, by all means. But do not take it literally!
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Yes. But not the contorted, twisted, taken out of context versions that were edited to fit someones personal desires. Somethings in the bible dont quite sound right, but when you understand it and read the whole story of whats going on it all makes sense. Its like zooming out from just a few threads to see the big beautiful quilt. Its all interlinked and beautifully orchestrated. Its hard to see the whole thing when you focus just on a couple threads here and there.\n\nFaith is essential for belief.\n\nI find it neccessary to rebuke this blisschameleon,"Evolution proves adam and eve wrong." Evolution is not proven. Also why are we not still evolving. The bible says God made each one according to its kind. \n\n"And our knowledge of other solar stystems proves that there isn't just one sun in the entire universe." God has one Son, Jesus Christ. He made light and darkness. Please direct me to the scripture where you claim it says "God made one sun, and one solar system."\n\n"Humans traveling to space proves the tower of Babalon wrong." The destruction of Babylon was not over how far from the Earth the Babylonians were making themselves. It was about their attitude. Their wanting to build the tower to make themselves equal to God. Certainly this would not make it so, but it had nothing to do with a tower.\n\n"Jesus' story having similarities to osirus and Hercules.God condoning slavery,racism,sexism,violence... revenge in some scriptures and disaproving them in other scriptures." God is the author of all things. My dear chameleon, you have failed to grasp the concept. God does not condone these things. He allows us to make decisions which results in our sin. You have failed to understand what is going on in the Bible. You are so far from the truth. Sexism????!!! Come on, did you even read the Bible? Women are to be submissive to their husbands, yes. But there is even greater responsibility from the husbands to the wives. And I am not sure you understand the sort of submission God is conveying here.
1007869
Good point. That's all they do. Brainwashing people specially young and naive. and they always use a form of religion to do that. Don't forget religion could be very dangerous.
691244
Anyone who has read and understands their Bible knows you are not the real deal. Please get some help for your delusions of grandeur.