(06-10-2014 02:58 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  

(06-10-2014 02:48 PM)vandiver49 Wrote:  

(06-10-2014 02:35 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  

(06-10-2014 02:24 PM)vandiver49 Wrote:  

(06-08-2014 11:20 AM)bitcruncher Wrote:  I'd be willing to bet that most of what we know about history is actually incorrect. History is written by those in charge, and those not in charge have no say in the matter of official records.

I'd chalk up most of the inaccuracy to the fact that most recorded history started out as verbal.

Including the Bible.

Using The Bible as a history book is a dubious proposition in itself.

That hasn't stopped Creationists and other similarly ignorant Christian groups from thinking that everything in that book is the literal truth.

I was just talking about this with my wife last Sunday. She dragged me to the church of her youth and it reminded me why I tend to say out of such places these days. The congregation believed that the KJV essentially was handed down by God himself and is literal truth. Its hard to get even Christians to acknowledge the basic historic truth about the creation of the Bible. to say nothing about the facts that the books' sole purpose is (if you believe) a guidebook for the salvation of your sole.