Ladies and Gentlemen,

A while back now I began a discussion delving into the problems I saw with Christianity, and started by pretty much attacking the creation story. I didn’t get much past there because the person I was debating the topic with chose to descend into vulgar semantics and modern forensic tactics of not addressing the basic essence of the arguments but just the substance (the structure, the words I chose etc…) So I lost all stomach for the fight and abandoned the field.

Now, I have had the fortune to come across the “Skeptic’s Annotated Bible”. It is the KJV online with skeptical commentary in the margins. VERY interesting just how many holes and questions there are in only one chapter of one book that I took the opportunity to look at. I can imagine how many there are with every single book of the bible.

I should let it be known that I am not against the philosophy of God. I am a Christian, still even though I have a million problems with how the Church has truely distorted the teachings of Jesus, and use them to control people. I still follow the philosophy of Jesus. As a philosopher, then, I am entirely comfortable with having faith in Jesus’ teachings, and still being able to question just about everything writen about him (like Socrates, he can not be proved to actually have written anything himself…). We should always question things, even our most deeply held beliefs.

So without further ado, here is a link to the Skeptic’s Annotated Bible. It is not to convert people away from religion, just provoke the sorts of questions people need to address for themselves before they put their faith in something as serious as “religious belief”. Only when you are able to comfortably say you are alright with religion even though these questions are all very valid, do you truely have faith…