The Catholic Apocrypa

While talking to some of my analytical chemistry research group members I had the oddest experience.  Having grown up in the Deep South, I was exposed (and baptized) as both a Southern Baptist and a Presbyterian.  When I moved to Hawai’i, I joined what was called the Oahu Church of Christ (I’m slightly confused because of internal strife) but now it is called the Honolulu International Church of Christ.  From these experiences, I had until recently felt that my knowledge of the Bible was quite strong.  Low and behold, I find out that the Protestant Holy Bible and the Jewish Holy Bible have the same Old Testament.  The Catholic Bible’s Old Testament has additional Books.  Between a split in the Church of Christ and the International Church of Christ (which was never supposed to happen, Holy Spirit and all that mumbo jumbo) and this new information about the split in the “Holy Book” format, I am certainly glad to be a happily gay Atheist!  No one can possibly understand the earth shattering, mind blowing experience this has caused…Pascal’s Wager (alone) has just moved one step closer to proving Atheism is the correct philosophy! 

Readers must understand that the concept of both the “Church” and the “Holy Bible” being split into two distinct subgroups is overwhelmingly convincing that no supernatural being is in charge of “Christianity”.  No excuse can explain that the Catholics use one “Holy Book” and the Protestants use a different “Holy Book”.  But more extreme is that the “Church (the Kingdom of God)” has split! 

Due to these “revelations” I will be adding a book called “The Apocrypha: An American Translation” translated by Edgar J Goodspeed printed by Vintage Books, New York, New York, 1959.   I do not want to miss the chance to read what “Christians” of past eras might have believed were god inspired writings.  And yes, the concept that Christianity has changed over the millennia is part of my personal experiment.  I want to explore these changes to the Unchangeable Word of God.