The danger of making copies

[LONDONER]

A young monk is assigned to helping the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by hand.He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies,not from the original manuscript.

So, the new monk goes to the head abbot to question this,pointing out that if someone made even a small error in the first copy, it would never be picked up!In fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent copies. The head monk, says, 'We have been copying from the copies for centuries,but you make a good point, my son.'

He goes down into the dark caves underneath the monastery where the original manuscripts are held as archives in a locked vault that hasn't been opened for hundreds of years.

Hours go by and nobody sees the old abbot. So, the young monk gets worried and goes down to look for him.He sees him banging his head against the wall and wailing . A spelling mistake!! A spelling mistake!!! His forehead is all bruised and he is crying uncontrollably. The young monk asks the old abbot, 'What's wrong, father?' With a choking voice, the old abbot replies,'The word was...CELEBRATE!

[MisterTinkles]

To be serious, this is my argument on "religious" books/bibles.

They did not have copy machines back then, and had a hundred people sitting in one room, writing down from a previous writing, or from someone at a podium speaking what to write.

A whole room full of people, making who knows HOW many mistakes. Times this by a couple of centuries of copying this way, and you have a book/bible that has no meaning to whatever original there was.

And on top of that, there is no proof that there ever actually WAS any original manuscript. (just because they have found old ones, doesnt mean they are THE originals).