Twisted Religion

A couple weeks ago, I was looking for a book on one of my bookshelves ... and I stumbled across a book that I got back in 1989 but I never actually read it ... because I was taught that the Jehovah's Witnesses were a cult by my Southern Baptist church. I decided to open up the book titled "The Bible: God's Word or Man's?" It made me wonder if the invasion of Iraq was nothing more than an attempt to take control over ancient Babylon and Mesopotamia. The book lays out the history of the bible and tries to convince you that the bible is God's inspired word ... but for me ... knowing what I do now ... it dealt a damaging blow to the believers of Christianity. The book shows a 15th century image of a man being burned to death ... and the image is labeled "As this 15th century woodcut illustrates, many were burned alive for the "crime" of reading the Bible." The image is very revealing .. because it is obvious that the man being burned is the only one who is not a Christian. The others are wearing the fish type hats (like the Pope) and have scepters with crosses on them. The man being burned looks like a Buddhist. What a shame that they even said this ... it is clearly a lie. In this book they say that "no such book has been the target of so much vicious opposition and even hatred throughout history. Bibles have been burned on public bonfires, from the Middle Ages down to our 20th century. And reading or distributing the Bible has been punished with fines and imprisonment and even in modern times. In past times such crimes often led to torture and death." These statement are not exactly true. The real punishments were imposed on those that did not believe the bible ... as they were imprisoned, tortured and fined. Throughout our history you will see that the Christians were the ones that did these very actions and were the book burners. You need to look no further than the Mayans ... as all their books were burned.