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Re: Bible API

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Post by thdrdt »

TomMarius wrote: post #7

Meh. I would really love to see the day when religion stops being more than a fantasy fictional story. The project is nice, but I dislike its promotion of religion, and christianity in particular. This story has caused way too much suffering already. I wonder who will first use this project for children indoctrination.

There are some nice talks from Jordan Peterson about the significance of the Bible and it's stories. It has a lot of positive reactions even from atheists.

Maybe you also can appreciate them.

Re: Bible API

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Post by TomMarius »

jefflombardjr wrote: post #16
TomMarius wrote: post #7

Meh. I would really love to see the day when religion stops being more than a fantasy fictional story. The project is nice, but I dislike its promotion of religion, and christianity in particular. This story has caused way too much suffering already. I wonder who will first use this project for children indoctrination.

I think this book should be required reading along side the bible: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17568801-zealot Jesus was an incredible person. The bible taken out of context as it is in corporate christianity, really truly doesn't do Jesus justice. If you love Jesus, read that book - it will only make you love him more. If you are an atheist - read that book, it will give you a historical basis on which you c…

Jesus is dead for some time and I don't care about him at all. I care about the people that are damned by their peers just because they had sex with their mate; I care about the children that are taught literal bullshit instead of science; I care about the families that fell into dysfunction just because someone told them a perfectly OK thing (such as homosexuality, science, some kinds of biology/medicine, etc) is wrong; I care about the women that are taught that patriarchy is what God wants, and so on. I don't need context of Jesus to recognize the behavior of Christians as seriously messed up.

Re: Bible API

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Post by fartpooassbutt »

jefflombardjr wrote: post #16
TomMarius wrote: post #7

Meh. I would really love to see the day when religion stops being more than a fantasy fictional story. The project is nice, but I dislike its promotion of religion, and christianity in particular. This story has caused way too much suffering already. I wonder who will first use this project for children indoctrination.

I think this book should be required reading along side the bible: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17568801-zealot Jesus was an incredible person. The bible taken out of context as it is in corporate christianity, really truly doesn't do Jesus justice. If you love Jesus, read that book - it will only make you love him more. If you are an atheist - read that book, it will give you a historical basis on which you c…

He's incredible in the same way all protagonists in story books were incredible.

Re: Bible API

#26

Post by Intermernet »

lordleft wrote: post #12

This is neat. This makes me curious about the licencing around popular translations, like the Jerusalem Bible or the NIV; is it not legal to post those translations??

Apparently, the Bible is the Word of God. I'm not sure if copyright applies.

Romans 13:1-2 says: "Obey the government, for God is the One who has put it there. There is no government anywhere that God has not placed in power. So those who refuse to obey the law of the land are refusing to obey God, and punishment will follow."

Acts 5:29 says: "Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than human beings!""

The US copyright act (chapter 3 section 302) states: "Copyright in a work created on or after January 1, 1978, subsists from its creation and, except as provided by the following subsections, endures for a term consisting of the life of the author and 70 years after the author’s death."

Re: Bible API

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Post by jariel »

TomMarius wrote: post #23
jefflombardjr wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this book should be required reading along side the bible: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17568801-zealot Jesus was an incredible person. The bible taken out of context as it is in corporate christianity, really truly doesn't do Jesus justice. If you love Jesus, read that book - it will only make you love him more. If you are an atheist - read that book, it will give you a historical basis on which you c…

Jesus is dead for some time and I don't care about him at all. I care about the people that are damned by their peers just because they had sex with their mate; I care about the children that are taught literal bullshit instead of science; I care about the families that fell into dysfunction just because someone told them a perfectly OK thing (such as homosexuality, science, some kinds of biology/medicine, etc) is wr…

It's definitely fine to disagree, but it'll take more than something you read on a reddit thread; such glib articulations are probably better served on Twitter.

The API is pretty sweet, it's surprising we don't have a kind of standardised API for the entire Western Cannon and then some.

Re: Bible API

#28

Post by brightball »

millerm wrote: post #20
TomMarius wrote: post #7

Meh. I would really love to see the day when religion stops being more than a fantasy fictional story. The project is nice, but I dislike its promotion of religion, and christianity in particular. This story has caused way too much suffering already. I wonder who will first use this project for children indoctrination.

I am sure both of us risk getting our accounts flagged or banned for having an opinion, but perhaps you could use the API to display what concerns you. I can say pretty much all of it concerns me. I don't believe in cherry picking "the good stuff" while avoiding all the atrocities that in there. It's amazing how most don't read their "most important book". They just wait for others to tell them the pretty verses they…

You’re 100% right about people not reading. I actually teach an adult Sunday School class in my spare time because it’s really fascinating to read and get into the history.

My slogan for the class is “You cannot be misled if you’ve read.”

We spend a lot of time talking about man made traditions that aren’t biblically supported as well as the cherry picking without context that often happens.

Christianity can withstand plenty of scrutiny and it does. It’s the man made rules that claim to be based on it that don’t hold up.

You also get to see major themes in the Bible when you read the entire thing. Themes are reiterated over and over. That type of context is very important when you realize how much people may latch onto something mentioned once.

Re: Bible API

#29

Post by thomasfedb »

saos wrote: post #13
TomMarius wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't take advice from a book that has caused so much physical and mental pain, ruined lives and families.

Explain further?

I'm sure there are many passages that people can point to in the Bible that can be quite fairly charged with being unhelpful or morally objectionable - for example those that relate to what fathers should do to daughters who act out in particular ways, or about homosexuality.

Of course you can reasonably argue that it is not so much the words themselves that cause harm, but the way that they are wielded by people. You can say similar things about all sort of words or things people wield - from the US constitution through to assault rifles, and such assertions are to various degrees sensible or ridiculous.

Others might point out other important passages in the bible that encourage peace, or kindness, or other good virtue. Of course these passages might also be wielded in more or less virtuous ways - there are many acts done in kindness that are not kindly received for example.

Personally I'm not a big fan of the Bible, but I'm not sure it is intrinsically a bad object. I think that the claims of knowledge and systems of power created around it are highly concerning and that power in all forms provides the opportunity for abuse, the manifestations we are far too well acquainted with today.

Re: Bible API

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Post by overhero »

saos wrote: post #13
TomMarius wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't take advice from a book that has caused so much physical and mental pain, ruined lives and families.

Explain further?

take Galileo Galilei as an example. And all the people after him that were robbed of his potential further inventions.
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