Since you sheeple tools decided to front page that piece of crap video from the Horowitz, right-wing noise machine (http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=12491) I thought I'd at least let you see this video. Yes, the Pope believes the Bible does not condone violence, hence the jihad comment.

Thanks Joedirt, that was so apprpriate. The great thing is that there is even more examples in the bible of great atrocities like those mentioned.

omg, Joe I was just watching this one last weekend

And they looked at the Vision more closely, and because they could see into the future and were all (like every intelligent entity) rabid Laurel and Hardy fans and because they were zonked on the weed, they saw that Yahweh bore the face of Oliver Hardy. All around him, below the mountain on which he lived (his world was flat), the waters rose and rose. They saw drowning men, drowning women, innocent babes sinking beneath the waves. They were ready to vomit. And then Another came and stood beside Yahweh, looking at the panorama of horrors below, and he was Yahweh's Adversary, and, stoned as they were, he looked like Stanley Laurel to them. And then Yahweh spoke, in the eternal words of Oliver Hardy: "Now look what you made me do," he said.

From The Golden Apple, which I'm reading at the moment. It seemed appropriate.

No atheist tag?

seems a bit harsh to me...

The Bible, like any religious text, is to be INTERPRETED, and therefor, if you want to believe God is Good, you'll find that he is in the Bible, if you want to believe he is Evil, you'll also find evidence to that in the Bible.

Just as Mankind is neither Good nor Evil but both, god is neither Good nor Evil.

Remember: "God created Man in His image" or Man created God in his image however you want to look at it, it still proves my point.

This is way over the top. His arguments are false (the Pope hasn't read the bible???), and his examples, poor and out of context. The first example, from Genesis, is a creation myth. Every civilization on Earth has one, and a lot of them involve wiping out what was there before. This myth long predates Christianity and its inclusion in the bible. The next two quotes are not God, but Moses, who clearly, was one sick individual. The next quote isn't violent. It was initially just an empty threat, and now it's a core belief of those who are faithful. If hell doesn't really exist, then nobody's going there, right? And if you keep reading, in the next breath, he says his missionaries will heal the sick. Oooh. That's one real bad dude.

Also, the tone of the whole thing is unnecessarily disrespectful. The author has a bone to pick with religious people, who seem to irritate him. I can certainly sympathise with that sentiment, but it doesn't cause me to rant and rail against all religious people. There are all sorts of easy arguments one could make against Christianity and religion in general using their own doctrine as evidence. This happens to be a piss poor job. If I could downvote, I would.

I think his point was that the Bible is filled with war and killings of other people. So calling it a message of peace and other such non-sense is kind of insane. Such as slaughtering Philistines was kind of ok in the view of the Bible.

The great George Carlin put it this way: "Murder. ...when you think about it, religion has never really had a big problem with murder. More people have been killed in the name of god than for any other reason. All you have to do is look at Northern Ireland, Cashmire, the Inquisition, the Crusades, and the World Trade Center to see how seriously the religious folks take thou shalt not kill. The more devout they are, the more they see murder as being negotiable. It depends on who's doin the killin' and who's gettin' killed."

EDIT: This was also copied and pasted from another site, so I didn't run it through a spell checker as the kind person below pointed out.

Kashmir not Cashmire. Sorry just wanted to added that.

I think this video is poor and doesn't even include the best examples.. But it is better take on the Pope, than that other crappy video. This is more of my reply to that.

Well not using the bible. The historical evidence of the way that any religion can be used to start war or cause suffering is huge. The Crusades kill hundreds of thousands, The Spanish Inquisition which contrary to the Monty python view had alot less to do with comfy chairs and more the mass exicution of anyone not catholic. Or the other known facts like that in rome the brothels were owned, run and governed by the Catholic curch. The whores of rome and the Paple Writs (get to heaven with a piece of paper signed by the pope, usualy you gave up your land upon death or "gave" atleast half of your estate to the church) all paid for the work of the era's famous art (michelangelo's david, the sistien chapel, and alot more.) Or hey the forced ignorance it shove in the face of anyone who thinks the world is round, the universe doesnt revolve around us and we go around the sun. they killed or imprisoned anyone who thought that when it was so obvious if you actually checked it out but no you weren't allowed. thats why this bullshit scare's people so much.

Sortta' funny how he uses someones misunderstanding of the bible to come to the conclusion that god is imaginary.

That's like me using the narrators misunderstanding that "God" and "Allah" are different entities, to conclude that God does exist.