God on DVD?

Take a trip back in time to the 1400's. You're a pagan farmer living your life the best you know how. This trend called "reading" is starting to catch on in your area, especially with the recent advent of the printing press. However, life is tough and you don't have much leisure time to learn reading. Despite your own busyness, reading has become the popular way for educated people to express and share ideas with each other over wide spans of distance, rather than having to travel themselves and give public speeches. Your educated friends tell you about this book called The Holy Bible, the first book printed in mass quantity. They explain its page turning tales of David and Goliath, Noah and his Ark, Joana and the whale. Most importantly, the book has taught them that you're responsible for the mistakes of your ancestors, but a man has recently died to take the heat for you. All you have to do is accept his sacrifice, and worship him to maintain your rights of forgiveness.
The book has everything you need to live your life properly, including listed instructions, and the origin of human kind. You ask who wrote the book and how one author could possibly know so many things with such certainty. Your friends say it was written by multiple authors, all of whom were divinely inspired by the almighty creator of the universe himself, despite the book's outlandish claims and multiple contradictions. Everyone seems to be doing it so you jump on board, because you don't know any better. The scientific method isn't there to challenge the claims, and the book was written by people smarter than you. Of course, you can't read, so in order to get this information you have to go to building every Sunday and pay people to read and interpret it for you. It saves you time, and it's worth the money to learn about what will either lead you to the eternal paradise or eternal suffering the book promises.

Fast forward to the present day.
In humoring the existence of God/Jesus, what if Christ had came to mankind during this current, modern generation, rather than a couple millennia ago? What median would be used to spread the word of his sacrifice and the other fantastic events that nobody has historical record of or evidence for? Surely it would have made more sense for Christ to arrive during this era of mass communication, globalization, video recorders, internet capabilities etc. People in the modern age could have learned Christ's story no matter what age, education, or socioeconomic level they are, through radio, television, DVD's, books, pod casts, youtube videos etc. Even if God had waited until the tape recorder was invented, his inherent, inspired words could have been recorded for audio book in a way that would be much harder for people to alter or deny the original format. So why not wait until now when so much doubt could have been alleviated, or at least make a second trip at this time to clear up any errors, or misinterpretations?

I'm also curious that if Christ were to have come during this era and a more modern method of information sharing was used to tell his message- would you believe it? If multiple script writers were to come together with multiple divinely inspired actors/actresses to tell the tale of a modern messiah, and publish it in a DVD for all to see, would you consider the words and scenes of that DVD to be the inspired word, and inherent truth of an omniscient God? Theists: if your answer is no, in this age of more legal transparency, scientific education, and free exchange of ideas, then why believe the words of a holy text penned in an age when only the rich were educated enough to read and write, the masses believed what they were told at face value, and science was so decrepit that the concept of microwaving popcorn or placing a phone call would have seemed like dark sorcery. You tell me.

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• Grappling
• Ignorance
• God
• on
• DVD

[killswell]

i really do love all of your work, maybe one day i will be able to speak to the masses in the way that you have spoken to youtube and convince them of the truth.

[GrapplingIgnorance]

@killswell Thank you. Keep making videos, and it can happen.

[barnzee1]

You should write a book... LOL

[myteethareshiny]

@barnzee1 I second this motion. Write a book, GrapplingIgnorance! I'll buy it!

[realigiousrayne]

Amazing deduction.

[AntiMatterWave]

@1Lanavis1 true however it wouldn't be to quarrel with religion, just the bible. even if theists declare it to be non-applicable the point would be that more people would be aware of the bible and it would stop being read to kids as if it's some kind of morality handbook, people would have to practice religion without the bible. This would also mean that when theists spout good quotes people would know it's full of evil and stop accepting the bible on the basis of it being the bible

[1Lanavis1]

@AntiMatterWave I know. My point was that there would still be willfully ignorant theists who would refuse to acknowledge the accounts of the Bible Movie as applicable to their religion. Like how many Christians say that the Old Testament doesn't matter b/c of Jesus, but still use the Old T to justify homophobia. It's abhorrent and willfully dishonest or plain stupid, but there are theists like this.

[AntiMatterWave]

@1Lanavis1 thats my point though, they cant say it was desecrated because they wouldnt change a single word of it

[1Lanavis1]

@AntiMatterWave That won't work. Many people would just purposely ignore/block out the messed up elements and probably blame the movie company for desecrating their Bible by making it so f-ed up.

[AntiMatterWave]

We should put all the books of the bible into the form of movies but not change a single word of it then when everyone goes to see it in movie form (since it's easier to watch than read more people will go see it than read the bible) they can see it for what it truly is

[bobby472]

@CreedChrist just like how the earth is the perfect distance from the sun? umm no. As the sun ages it burns hotter and hotter. So down the road the earth will be nothing more then a burnt rock. what about the fact that the andromida galaxy is on a collision course with the milky way? All of the planets in our solar system formed where they did because it is what happened. The conditions were right for them to form at that time and place. Just like life formed on earth, and evolved. chance....

[Digityus]

C'mon man. Of course god hasn't chosen our time. The scientific community would rip his work to pieces. MUCH easier to get your work published in a time where people could barely comprehend their own fecal matter. Wait...I take that back. There are still a few Catholics out there that have this same problem.

[rollingcube]

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