Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA): Evolution, Big Bang ‘Lies Straight From The Pit Of Hell’

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153. Bible ?????

Of course the bible is not a book of scientific reference. That's what we keep telling those creationist nimrods who insist on using it as such. It's ok to have faith in something but to put all of your eggs into one basket defies the ability to think As for the bible being around for 2,000 years, it might interest you to know that it came about being chosen arbitrarily during the Council of Nicene by the addition of certain books and chapters and the omission of others, with many more delegated as Apocrypha, or outside writings with many hundreds burned along with the Christian sects that practiced them. The gospels themselves, as is all the bible, is fraught with inaccuracies and contradictions. When was Jesus crucified? Was it at the third hour as it says in Mark 15:25 or was it in the sixth hour as it says in John 19:14? Who was the father of Joseph? Was it Jacob as it says in Matthew 1:16 or Heli as Luke 3:23 states? How about the generations between Abraham and David? Matthew 1:17 says fourteen; Matthew 1:2 says thirteen.

What was the nationality of the woman who approached Jesus to cast out the devils that possessed her daughter? Was she a Canaanite as Matthew 15:22 states or a "Greek, a Syrophenician by nation," as Mark 7:26 says? When did Jesus heal the leper? Was it after he visited Simon Peter's house according to Mark 1:29 or before as Matthew 8:13 says? Not to mention that there are two accounts of creation and two accounts of how Judas Iscariot got killed; one of suicide by hanging and in the Acts of the Apostles by falling in a field long after Jesus died and bursting his guts open.
Nonetheless a large group of 'Repukelicans' feel larger than life when they jump on that religious bandwagon of the oppressed. Remember Religion and Politics are like oil and water....they don't mix well. Passions run high when you get involved with either one but you can't use them together and argue intelligently.