Is the bible like a car with a perpetual motion engine powered by a cold-fusion battery?

I don't think so.

Not many people can do mockery well. Those that do follow these two rules:

1) Know at least the most basic facts about what you are mocking. (Otherwise, your lack of knowledge backfires and only you get mocked in the process.)

2) If you can't be knowledgeable or profound, AT LEAST be mildly witty.

Being 0 for 2 is just plain boring.

What is amazing to me is that the book you describe remains the #1 best selling book on the planet -- year by individual year and for all time sales. It also holds the record for translation into the highest number of languages. Perhaps your published works have done as well.

P.S. Do you know what a perpetual motion engine is??? If so, why do you assume that it needs a battery to "power" it?

The Bible is a series of Moral tales suggestion how one may lead a good & successful life.

Religion persists because it conveys a survival advantage on those who believe.

and JFTR - Should a Cold Fusion Battery be achieved it would be an energy CONVERSION device, i.e. Hydrogen = Helium + Energy, NOT a perpetual motion machine.

I like the way you think.

I find it interesting to be able to use a source with insight on the lives of people of Bronze Age II found for free in motel room dressers.

Please excuse my errors: I'm not naturally very accurate in typing and spelling and rely heavily on software to clean my copy. This library is using a version of Mozilla (which I normally avoid) which must have been coded during Friday evening Happy Hour.

Safari has spoiled me.

Gee, I guess the archaeologists who discovered Sodom and Gomorrah, Babylon and a whole host of other locations, proof of people mentioned in the bible and the alike just don't exist for you either, huh? It amazes me how so much proof is there for you to see but you choose to ignore it and then you try to be funny while only looking like a brain dead amoeba. Thanks for the 2 points though.

Hmm - possibly. But it's more like a book full of pithy but largely meaningless phrases that can be used to support or oppose practically any proposition, no matter how deranged.

Why would a perpetual motion engine need a battery?

This is a very confusing statement.

And the content of a bible is not all that hard to see, just open one.

Just add salt.

I would not issue a patent to either one.

Exactly...

Or, if you will... A Dr. Seuss book with more violence and much more drab.

I like the analogy. You may be right.

I have that car!!!