alternetive bibles

by highdose 3 Replies latest jw friends

  • highdose
    highdose

    a thought has occured to me that could any book at all be used in the same way as the bible? Could people read prohceys into it etc?

    I remember the Wilkie Collins book " the moonstone" theres a character in that story who belives that reading Robinson Crusoe can predict the future, thus he reads it every day and claims on numerous occasions that the book was correct in its predictions!

    Is the bible just what mankind has made of it or read in to it? Could any of us write a wine fueled epic and say 1000 years from now have people claiming its profecys have changed their lives etc etc?

  • maninthemiddle
    maninthemiddle

    Quackery: religion based on a fictional book.

    see: L. Ron Hubbard Dianetics

    also see: Scientology

  • Gordy
    Gordy

    When the "Bible Code" came out and there was all that fuss about a hidden code.

    Someone did exactly the same thing with "Moby Dick" to show that you could do it with any book.

  • kurtbethel
    kurtbethel

    The Book of the Subgenius has changed a lot of lives, though not particularly for better or worse. Just weirder.

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