Is the Holy Bible Relevant in Modern American Society, or Just Un-American?
What is the relevancy of the Holy Bible in modern American society? One century ago, the Bible was a tool through which morals and science were taught. The Bible explained how and why the Earth, the universe, and mankind came into existence.
As physical science progressed, and we as a race began to learn and understand the natural origins of our solar system, the Bible can no longer serve in any capacity as a scientific tool. This leaves the Bible only applicable as an apparatus to teach morals. Now the question is, is the Bible a relevant tool to teach morals in American society? To answer that question we have to determine if the morals depicted in the Bible agree with the morals of our society.
In US society, (for the most part), the highest morals are respect for human life, or as the Declaration of Independence puts it, the rights to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
American society advocates a citizens' amount of personal freedom as its greatest national treasure; the rights of freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion, the right for a woman to do what ever she damn well please with her own body, or even the rights of gays to be, well, queer.
In an astonishing number of cases, the text of the Bible contradicts these very American rights. If it is not the Biblical text that makes the contradiction it is a religious organization which makes and teaches their own interpretations.
Not only does the Bible contradict the laws of men, but it's self. Due to bad translations and an immeasurable number of authors who remain anonymous, there are many instances where the collection of books completely contradicts itself.
Moreover, since the time that the King James Version of the Bible was introduced, there have been over fifteen new versions of the Holy Bible in English alone. In some cases, these versions contradict each other in the exact same passage.
So, is the Bible relevant in today's changing society? Ask yourself, would a manual about how to operate an Apple II be relevant to a modern Windows based PC? The answer is no. The manual about how to run a society 2000 years ago is as applicable to today's society as a ten year old Apple manual is applicable to my modern PC. Not only that, the Bible is in complete oppositions of American ideals, morals, values, and most of all, American freedom.
Published by Robert Vinciguerra
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1 Comments
Post a CommentAgreed. The bible has some good sentiments in it...but so do many books, be they scriptures of any faith or not.
I agree with the analogy, too. While there are certain, human-element similarities that exist in all cultures, the bible just isn't relevant to our day and age in a lot of it's details. Not to say it should be thrown away, but it shouldn't be idolized either, no more than any book should be. Good article.