Hi! I'm Kevvy, and I will be your guide on this wonderful journey through the NIV Bible. My partner Lizzy and I have decided we are going to take two different versions of the Bible and read through part by part, go over our thoughts on it, and put them here!
For those of you who don't know me, here's an introduction to my religious background...
I'm atheist, mostly. While I don't personally believe there is a god, I take after Jean Paul Sartre in that I entertain the idea because I know that it is very important to many other people and I try to understand them. That being said, it isn't people's belief in God that I take issue with, if you need to believe that there is some sky daddy out there watching over you in order to make it through your day, I don't really care. What I do take a lot of issue with is the manner in which people defend their faith, debate the existence of god, etc.
When I was younger, I did a lot of reading and learning about the various world religions and pretty much settled on that Christianity was the worst of them all. The followers of Christianity are so blinded by their faith that they will actively deny the world around them in order to cling to their two thousand year old beliefs, completely disregarding the advancements of the last two thousand years as complete folly. To me, this is a smack in the face to human progress and one of the great obstacles that the human race has to overcome in order to earn its place in the universe.
Now, I don't worship science, I don't think it provides all the answers. I do prefer it over the idea that everything is "God's will", because to me that argument is the same as the "Because I said so." answer.
Anyways, I have to go bake cookies now, and that takes precedence over writing. I'll start at the beginning next time!
-Kevvy
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