<li><a href="r/r-tikkunolama.html">Tikkun Olam</a></li> BE LIKE IF....

When you consider that the Bible is now widely regarded as the most influential piece of literature ever written, as well as the bestseller of all time, with over 100 million copies sold every year, what are we to make of it?
We might ask: What would the world be like if...we hadn't received this famous book, the most famous book on earth?

I'm talking about the BIBLE, and I'm asking around me: has anyone thought about this question? I don't think so.

The BIBLE has been taken for granted and nobody, except perhaps some atheists, has raised this point.
We have to say and believe that, in spite of ourselves, the BIBLE has made us what we are. How can we get rid of so many laws brought to us by the BIBLE? How can we imagine a world other than our own?

Let me raise a sympathetic point. If there were other beings living on another planet, who in my opinion have not known this BIBLE, how do they live? We'll have to take a closer look, and if we can't, let's use our imagination.

Before going any further, let's stay on earth and look at the effects this dear BIBLE has had throughout the world. If on the one hand it has given good advice, on the other, it has caused its followers to provoke endless wars.

As early as 1099, the Catholic Church embarked on the Crusades.leaving Europe towards Jerusalem to restore what it thought was the norm, namely to promote Christianity across the planet. Isn't that what it did centuries later, first in Africa and then in the Americas?

The church used the same Bible, old and new, to spread the faith. And we know what happened: the disappearance of ancient civilizations that lived peacefully in their own lands. Was she right?

I can already see many people rising up and shouting their anger, questioning belief in the sacred BIBLE and imagining a world without it.

Curiously, when we read the Old Testament carefully, we discover the slaughter and massacre of civilizations that existed to allow a new people to come from Egypt and settle in Canaan. And all with the help of a very powerful God.

In the same book, there are scenes of incest and adultery that seem normal, situations that are horrifying today. And yet, it's all there in black and white. And we've been taught all this, day and night. If it's all part of history, did we need to know so much about it? Would the world have been different without the Bible? That's my question!

I dare to hope that at some point, someone will raise this point, my point, and shout out to the world: "Have you seen what the Bible has made of us? Are you proud of it?

I'll stop here to avoid too much controversy.