For all of you who believe that the bible is just a book of fairy tales...Read Revelations...Then tell me it's just a fairy tale.
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Considering that revelations is nothing but a revenge fantasy, I wonder why none of these people have ever thought that maybe their 'devil' wrote that book and inserted it in the bible to fool them. The really sad thing is that most of these guys prefer this sick revenge fantasy over the whole peace and love bit from the guy they claim to follow, revelations is more important to them than Jesus.
I think Revelations is the most convincing evidence for Biblical fairy-taleism.
I'll have to double-check now.
Robin, meet me in the Skeptic's Annotated!
*whoosh*
I read Chapters 1-14, but I couldn't get to 15-22 because I was about to kill myself out of boredom.
Revelation is a terrible book, full of repetitive nonsense, most of which is totally impossible
Stars fall to Earth
and the rest is just boring as hell. Not to mention it didn't even happen.
Unless maybe chapters 15-22 had real grammar, much more realistic special effects, and some sort of plotline, this book really sucks.
Not a good buy.
0 stars out of 7 [Because you can't hold fucking stars in your hand]
firstly: it's Revelation .
And no I don't think it's a fairy tale, I think it's a drug-induced, semi-lucid and frankly, crudely written, horror story
OK, [picks up Bable and reads, bla bla bla, kill, maime, horses, disease, bla bla bla...whores...heads...bla bla. burn....kill....knees, worship.....bla bla,......The End ]
"it's all crap"
Happy now
Not a fairy story. It's the ravings of a demented old man at what he perceives as the immorality and bad living of pagans in the Roman Empire. He is also expecting the imminent return of Jesus. Just like fundies. Only this demented old man lived 2,000 years ago. So Jesus must have missed the bus and is still waiting for the next one. Or perhaps there is a Cosmic bus strike. But the Rapture is already way behind time. Empires have fallen, risen and fallen again, and still no sign of it. Mind you, Jesus might be a bit confused as the Rapture Heresy didn't appear until the 1830s....
The old theology said that he would come again to judge the living and the dead... No immediate Rapture. All your sins have to be exposed before all ever lived. Now that will take some time, so Rapture as an immediate snatching up into a supposed heaven even cannot really happen.
I have read it.
It's just a fairy tale.
It's a fairy tale, in fact it's such a fairy tale that it almost didn't make it into the Bible. People were still arguing about whether to include it well into the fourth century.
The other thirty or so Apocalypses obviously didn't make the cut.
First off, the last book of the Bible is not called Revelations , it's called Revelation. There is, however, a book called Revelations written by Melissa De La Cruz. Revelations has not been released yet and won't be available until the end of October 2008, but you can pre-order it on Amazon.com
I have not read Revelations, so I can't give any pinion on how it relates to the Bible or how it changes anything about the Bible being a book of fairy tale.
I have, on the other hand, read Revelation more than once, and I will tell you that the Bible is a book of fairy tales.
"For all of you who believe that the bible is just a book of fairy tales...Read Revelations...Then tell me it's just a fairy tale."
That one appears to be a fairy tale spawned from an acute dose of Psilocybin actually. While it's slightly more imaginative it's fiction none the less.
If you like to frighten people into worshipping your mythical deity, it's up there with the best horses**t out there in the holy tract stakes. I tend to prefer a happy ending to my fairytales, though. Going to *insert bad place* here because I didn't fall to my knees and grovel at the feet of a non-existent deity doesn't really cut it for me as a happy ending!
Of all the books in the bible you could have chosen to wave around as 'proof'...
I read it more than once back before I reached the age of reason, and it read like the disjointed hallucinatory ramblings of a demente-
Oh, wait.
No Revelation isn't a fairy tale, it's an acid trip, and a bad one at that.
Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye.
Many people have. They're saying the exact same thing.
THE BIBLE IS JUST A BOOK OF FAIRY TAILES!!!!!
@ JustinGG - If there was ever a better comment to a quote like this, I would like to hear it.
I've been to the pöace where the Revelations were written, and it is a very nice place. I t made me wonder what on earth made the guy so deppressing. There are no mushrooms there, much too arid, and i asked, there are no other drug plants either on the island. So either its the true prophesy given by God or some skinny fuck just made it up on a downer. I wouldnt be cheery living in a fucking wet cave so I'm leaning toward the latter.
I'd say less "fairy tale" and more "heavy-handed political allegory," but the fundies don't tend to react well when you suggest that Revelation describes events that were happening when it was written , not their blood-porn fantasy of the 21st century.
I've seen some pretty twisted fairy tales. Trust me, Revelations doesn't even begin to RANK with some of the original tales. So, yeah, fairy tale.
... Revelation (no 's,' sorry) not a fairy tale? This is the same book that talks about giant locusts with human heads and scorpion tales (think that description starts at about 9:10)? Sounds a lot like that 1997 horror flick, Mimic. That movie sucked almost as much as your bible does.
I have to disagree with many of the other posters here at FSTDT. To read like a fairytale, Revelations would have to be a coherent (if fanciful) narrative...although unreal characters would be included, there would be a beginning, a middle, and an end, and anyone reading it would understand it (because fairtales are written for children, so the story must be easily comprehended).
Revelations, on the other hand, reads like the inoherent babble of a person hallucinating. There is no story there. It is just a stream of nonsense.
That's pretty much my argument for it being a fairy tale. That and Genesis.
It's a violent collection of old stories brought together by some editors who kept the fun stuff in to help it sell, which could just as well describe the bible or 'Grimm's Fairy tales.'
I've read it. It's a fairy tale, but not one of those Disney-sanitized ones. It's more like one of the Grimm's Brothers' recorded ones from Germanic folklore, with an acid trip, to boot.
The Revelation of John is not a fairy tale. It actually belongs to another branch of literature called "apocalyptic writings." This genre flourished in the second and third centuries, but has long since died out. This is why Revelation seems so strange to modern readers; they are not familiar with the genre's literary conventions.
At the time of the Council of Nicea there were many revelations in circulation. Only the Revelation of John was accepted as canonical (and then after a lot of debate). The revelations of Abraham, Moses, Adam and many other have since fallen into obscurity.
Apocalyptic writings generally center around two themes. One is a guided tour of heaven and hell to let the people of Earth know what awaits them. The second theme is a detailed description of the destruction of the Earth. This kind of revelation is intended to give hope to oppressed people and assure them that god will avenge their oppression. The Revelation of John is an example of the latter theme.
Because apocalyptic writings are directed at specific audiences who are suffering from oppression, they tend to use many references and idioms which can only be appreciated by the people it is intended for. A lot of the symbolism in Revelation would have been quite clear to the Christians of the second century, but is meaningless to modern Christians. The symbolism of the so-called number of the beast, for example, only makes sense when you consider that ancient Greek and Hebrew writers used letters as numbers, and that each letters had a specific numerical equivalent.
To conclude, I say no, Revelation is not a fairy tale. Fairy tales tend to deal with timeless, universal themes. Revelation is neither timeless nor universal.
9:7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. 8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. 9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. 10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
"Read Revelations...Then tell me it's just a fairy tale."
Oh my gosh! You are totally right!
Calling Revelation a fairy tale is to credit it with far too much literary worth, narrative consistency or believability!
Thanks, M.E., I stand corrected. The bible isn't just a book of fairy tales; there's a fair amount of absolute bull$#!7 in there too!
It's "Revelation", silly, no "s" at the end. The little I've read of it makes me think that it's an insult to real fairy tales, to call Revelation a fairy tale.
Revelations is the most fictional part of the bible, except for maybe Genesis. At least most of the bible could be historical fiction based on events and people that might have existed but Revelations, completely made up.
"Read Revelations...Then tell me it's just a fairy tale."
It's a fairy tale.
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...I'm sure others can contribute further? [/Carbonated Margarine]
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