Nobel winner slams Bible as ‘handbook of bad morals’

And the Gideons make certain there is one of these handbooks in every hotel room.

Oh yeah! I'm glad to live in a time when non-believers aren't afraid to step out and say what they are thinking. Religious types have had the podium for way too long! Time to charge the stage, I say!

Cheers to Saramago on this quote alone... 'he did not think the book would offend Catholics "because they do not read the Bible".'

It's about time everyone takes a hard look at the book that supposedly has the answer to all our ethical questions. Read it and you know that is far from true. (Hell, Shakespeare's canon has better ethical advice and is a more powerful examination of the human condition.)

If anyone's going to take the bible away, they should also take away the Talmud, Midrash, New Testament, Qur'an, Sunnah Islam, Nahjul Balagha Islam, Avesta and Vedas.

I know there's more, but any book suggesting or telling people how to live, makes it hard on everyone else!!

I just love that warning label, where can I get one?

LOL!!!

1. He is a Nobel Prize winner: I think we can assume this credit is worthless now. Sorry Obama fans; even if I did like his policies, "wanting" world peace is different from achieving it.
2. He is a crazy 86 year old and is making assumptions based on things that are not true. (i.e. The Bible isn't just about Cain and Abel.)
3. How could a book that 99.9% of the world doesn't read have an overwhelming effect on society. If anything, the lack of reading this book is causing "bad morals."
4. I agree this is a publicity stunt, and, as much as I hate to spur his continuity, this man wants one last shine of fame in his life before he buys the farm. After all, he won't be living after this life...

This is a very sad commentary of people so intent on believing in nothing that they feel like they have to slander those who do. The bible is not just a book it's a collection of books. Don't confuse the acts of a few intending on perverting it's meaning for self gain as a litmus test for it's overall validity. It is the word of God, deal with it now or later.

God bless!

Hey, i believe in a God and Jesus... but the bible is misinterpreted by the people that swear by it. I went to many different churches and religions and always left with more questions than answers. Why? because they gave me their interpretation of what the Bible is or was. So if people don't know how to follow it or use it, then why have it?

AGAIN, people should not have any of these books!!!

The bible, and it's professional bigots, are disgusting!

Bible-haters are so narrow-minded!

Eh, just a book. I don't think the world would be better without it; it would be better if people didn't take it literally and distort its messages.

i always thought that penguins were the works of the devil because they are not in the bible!!

"religion is pimped-out superstition, designed to drug children with fears that they will endlessly pay to have alleviated"

for all those belittling this wise 86 year old nobel winner, i feel sorry for you, as does the universe. also, please watch "Zeitgeist" online (free), at least part one. might open up your perspective on this man you call jesus.

thank GOD someone finally said it. bible=B.S. ... another in the long line of religious hypocrisy...
people have always tried to connect with something greater than us we don't want to think we're the top of the food chain so we invent a god (a lie) and tell people we have a direct line to him. we can secure your next life in a good position, but only if you pay us your money in this life, every week.

Would, have been better if it had been Obama

Winning a 'Nobel' prize is the same as a 'Darwin Award'. What a wasted of server space.

No, it's not the same, one has to DIE to win a Darwin Award. So far, the Nobel Prizes are not posthumously awarded. Usually.

LOL!!

It's interesting that one of the main arguments I hear against the bible is that it spreads intolerance of others (gays, smokers, "sinners") and yet when it comes down to it all of these people spouting about tolerance have a deep seeded hate for Christians, it seems like.
I'm a lifetime Christian and I believe that's what makes me so accepting of other people and their ways of life.

It's so strange how so many people take this post and this new book as a lever to put down a spiritual belief that some people feel within themselves.
Do so to the church but do not confuse that or any other dogma with faith.

This makes me really, really sad. Let me just put this is simply, people will hate, kill, slander with or without a reason. The Bible did not cause this issues. In parts of the world where there was no bible, people killed, stole..and many more barbaric acts.

While the Bible has been used to justify extremes acts it has also brought joy and wonder to countless number of people. It has worked to change lives and ways we can not comprehend.

For everyone attacking the Bible and trying to destroy the faith of millions, your just proving that it certainly does not take reading the bible to be a hater.

“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live”

ask the "witches" in Nigeria if the bible is a force for good.

"5 And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men which came in to you this night? bring them out to us, that we may know them. 6 And Lot went out at the door to them, and shut the door after him, 7 And said, I pray you, brothers, do not so wickedly. 8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out to you, and do you to them as is good in your eyes:"

Basically sodomy bad, hetero rape cool.

There's also the homophobia & genocide. All & all the old testament is a guide to how we should all live. The New testament starts out alright, Jesus is cool enough, but then St.Paul balls's it up.

Books are good. This is the number one book in the world--whether we like it or not. As literate people, we should all know its contents.

It's simply a book, read it if you really want to as long as you don't look too hard into the messages you'll be okay. Maybe.

Sounds like hes saying that the Bible contains bad content, not bad morals, media can contain, and sometimes needs to contain bad content (sex, murder etc.) If he reads the bible and gets bad morals from it, its not interpreting it right, in fact it suggests HE has bad morals. Not that he doesn't say that Catholics or Christians have bad morals.

Anyone who says ''i can't believe how non- believers can bash us". Take advise from your own book "do as you would do unto others". Christianity is all about putting down non-believers and has heretics and sinners.

On a side note any one who try's to make this book into science is sadly mistaken. In fact it was written well before modern science and is straight pseudoscience. Thus, why evolution is taught in school and creationism is not. Base your arguments off facts and not emotion.

Hate of religion is misplaced. In a world of atheists we'd have just as many wars, murders, rapes, and genocides because the simple fact is that violence has historically been a great problem solver.

If it wasn't for religion, then constitutions, morals, or "science" would have been used to justify all manner of wrong (as they often already have).