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Originally posted by Titen-Sxull
reply to post by novastrike81
Yes but even the good parts don't make up for the bad.
Think of it this way, Hitler was genocidal like the God of the Bible but you wouldn't want to be in a personal relationship with him would you? I'm sure Hitler had some good aspects but you would still define him as evil. The God of the Bible has some good aspects but he's still evil overall. That isn't because God is actually evil its just the way the authors characterized him.
Or you can think of God as a Father, if God is a Father than the Bible has a pretty good record of his abusive parenting, slaughtering wholesale whole groups of innocent people or commanding the Israelites to do the same.
The good thing is doctrine and deity are two different things, though some Christians can't seem to tell
Jesus is pretty much the only part of the Bible I like anymore. I guess there are a few nuggets of wisdom but the amount of self-contradiction, barbarism, violence, and general BS that you have to wade through to get to the nuggets of wisdom is astounding.
The way I see it reading the Bible in its entirety (well, you can skip the genealogy sections) is the fastest way to lose your faith, its one of the main reasons I lost mine.
Originally posted by nite owl
reply to post by audas
Do you believe in life after death? Do you beleive in a higher power? Do you have a purpose? Do you drink water? For all of time things have changed and grown and you are part of this process and it started a long time ago. Tell me how do you get something from nothing? You dont.The something started a long time ago and that something exists everywhere. It is the building blocks of something that started long ago. The some-thing is GOD. PEACE.
Originally posted by CHA0SYou proclaim those with faith have belief in something totally fictional and man-made - and that could be true, but you have no evidence of your proclamation either.
Bring me one science textbook which states God does not exist. At least Christians have a book (however laughable that may be) to back them up.
[edit on 18/5/10 by CHA0S]
Originally posted by novastrike81
reply to post by Titen-Sxull
And the verses that make no sense or are total BS are? Please provide sources, I'm quite interested.
That's not a logical argument.
Originally posted by novastrike81
And the verses that make no sense or are total BS are? Please provide sources, I'm quite interested.
Originally posted by randyvs
Atheism is"nt logical at all,
I would say it's more along the lines of cowardly.
Originally posted by randyvs
reply to post by stereologist
That's not a logical argument.
How is it not logical? What isn't logical is to say," there is no God "when you don't know that. No one can make that claim. Because they don't know.
Dawkins I don't care who they are, if they say there is no God they're
not just wrong, but they're stupid as well. Spouting off at the mouth when you are just a puny, pathetic, little man is really stupid. Especially when it comes to something you know nothing about. Atheism is"nt logical at all,
I would say it's more along the lines of cowardly.
[edit on 21-5-2010 by randyvs]
Originally posted by randyvs
reply to post by stereologist
That's not a logical argument.
How is it not logical? What isn't logical is to say," there is no God "when you don't know that. No one can make that claim. Because they don't know.
Dawkins I don't care who they are,
if they say there is no God they're
not just wrong, but they're ****** as well. Spouting off at the mouth when you are just a ****, ********, little man is really ******. Especially when it comes to something you know nothing about. Atheism is"nt logical at all,
I would say it's more along the lines of ********.
Originally posted by randyvs
reply to post by traditionaldrummer
Or perhaps you just don't recognise. Atheists don't really have a way of explaining existence do they? No way to ridicule, or mock, or insult them is there? Yet they're always the first to insult, mock, ridicule those that at least have the guts to believe in something that does explain existence.
I think that is cowardly.
[edit on 21-5-2010 by randyvs]