Letter: Bible can’t solve life’s big questions

Mr. Hylden (TCH, Nov. 1) thinks the answers to life’s big questions have been solved by the Bible.

Hylden credits the Christian god with creating our complex universe.

You only have to read Genesis chapter one, to see that such a task would be well beyond the Christian god’s understanding of our universe. He created plants and trees on day 3, but did not create the sun until day 4. Oops.

Regarding evil, Mr. Hylden suggests that godless “free thinkers” were responsible for the mass murders of the French Revolution, the Third Reich and the Khmer Rouge.

Hylden ignores “the log in his own eye” in failing to mention the greatest mass murderer of all, the god of the Bible. God drowns the whole world and destroys Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis, then kills all of Egypt’s firstborn in Exodus. In Numbers, he orders the murder of all the Canaanites and Amalekites (“but save all the young women for yourselves” 31:18).

I don’t have all the answers, but I am looking and asking questions everyday. Despite Mr. Hylden’s confidence, I don’t think celibacy and 3,000-year-old mythology are going to be very helpful in this era.

This story was originally published November 21, 2015 at 5:15 PM with the headline "Letter: Bible can’t solve life’s big questions."