Re: Linux provides software to study the Bible, out of the box

On 2025-04-16, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-04-16 02:00, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 21:15:23 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
 

On 4/15/25 21:05, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 19:57:01 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
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I know that it probably won't interest most people, but I thought that
was pretty cool. Knowing that a distribution provides not only the
Bible but notes to help you study the content is neat. Maybe if our
resident homosexual gets acquainted with it, he will have a chance of
avoiding Hell.

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Are you talking about UbuntuCE?  If you're looking for enlightenment
out of the box:
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https://www.bodhilinux.com/
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Bodhi Linux appears to be more of a minimalist philosophical statement
rather than any specific Buddhist content.

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Actually, I was referring to Xiphos which allows you to download your
choice of Bible version from within the software.

 
UbuntuCE does include Xiphos but it is a third party application that is
also available for Windows and Unix. I'm not sure about MacOS. Other than
UbuntuCE it isn't included in any distribution 'out of the box'. That's
like saying Linux provides 'John the Ripper'.  That also runs on Linux,
Windows, and other OSs. As far as 'out of the box', iirc you have to
select one of the packages even in Kali.
 
Other than the CE build, not out of the box on Ubuntu. You have to add a
PPA since some of the prerequisites aren't in the standard Ubuntu
packages.
 
https://launchpad.net/~pkgcrosswire/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
 
 
"One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The
proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this."
 
Friedrich Nietzsche

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I couldn't give one poop what Nietzsche has to say on any matter. The
fact that I was forced to study this cretin is inexcusable.

Wasn't Friedrich Nietzsche Hitler's hero?

As far as the Old Testament, Marcion had the right idea. No reason to be
concerned with the Jews and their genocidal tribal god. New day, new
covenant.

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I can tell I'm talking to someone who doesn't love God or understand His
nature.

The Old Testament is not about the "Jews" it's about the people who were
supposed to be worshiping God, who (unfortunately) often reverted to
paganism (just like so many Christians do today). "Jew" was derived from
"Judaen" which was just one of the tribes of Israel. And yet Abraham is
usually called a "Jew" by people who are clueless. How could he be a "Jew"
before Judah was born?

Modern Judaism is not the Old Covenant religion. That ceased when the Temple
was destroyed (actually probably when veil between the Holy Place and the
Holy of Holies was ripped from top to bottom at Christ's death). Biblical
Judaism relied on animal sacrifices in anticipation of Christ's ultimate
sacrifice. After Christ was sacrificed on the cross there was no need for
the Temple or its anticipatory sacrifices. The Old Testament was superseded.
True worshipers of God, before Christ, looked forward to the arrival of the
Messiah, Christians look back to it.

Rabbinical Judaism is based on the "traditions of the elders" ("which made
the law of God of non-effect"). The traditions were codified into the
Babylonian Talmud, as a counter to the true New Covenant religion,
Christianity. The Old Covenant religion had passed away a century, or so,
before Rabbinical Judaism took its place. (The two are not related.) You
don't have to read much of the Talmud to see that it is pure, satanic filth.
(It was okay to rape a young girl because the hymen "heals" itself, kind of
like when being poked in the eye, it repairs itself.) You'll find the
rabbis actually discussing this kind of filth in the Talmud. (And you
wondered why Hollywood was so full pedophiles.)

At any rate, the Old Testament and New Testament are both from the same God.
(Which was going to be my original point.)

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“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien