Whenever you're ready. Of course, you can keep deflecting. Your move.

I've made my decision. It's time for you to make yours.

Thank you for your thoughtful response to my post. Have a blessed day.

Thanks, Aaron. That makes sense to me.

Because wealth is the important thing, just ask any televangelist.

btw, wasn't Job also the guy who offered up his daughters to be raped? Great guy!

Such a great book, the Bible. Best way to create atheists is to force people to read it completely. So full of inconsistencies, contradictions, misogyny, racism, bigotry...

How any sane person considers it "the good book" is amazing.

No, that wasn't Job, it was Lot. The Bible isn't easy.

BTW Here's a verse for you:

Who are these who fly like a cloud,
And like doves to their roost?
Isaiah 60:8

Kierkegaard described Abraham as a Knight of Faith, because his commitment of obedience to God was so strong as to overcome his normal ethical objections to killing his own son. I recognize that this is a consistent view of morality, that if God says to do something, then you have to do it, but I think it is a dangerous one. A faith that supercedes morality is also how we get terrorism and Nazism. The description of the Amalekite genocide seems to me the same basic variety of evil.

Most orthodox Christians believe the canon is closed, but they would not say that God no longer speaks directly to people today. For instance, the Catechism of the Catholic Church states:

Other Christian sects, such as Quakers and Pentecostals, feature God speaking to them in their regular services.

If you take the text at face value, it's probably a lot easier for a guy to off his kid on God's command if he's had angels visiting him and his wife finally conceived after years of trying when she was 80 as the angels had promised.

Here is one that was never logical to me. Why does God need an army in the Battle of Armageddon. Shouldn't he be a one man army....

If God's kingdom comes to fruition as prophesied in the book of Daniel - his government smashing all the others, I wonder if he's going to comply with the U.N.?

Starlings?

This is what did it for me.

Airline pilots. That was meant for W0X0F who is one, I think.


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That's an amazingly stupid reason to become an atheist.

Brilliant logic:

In your mind there exists a book that talks about God, but you believe
the book is faulty. Ergo: There is no God.

My conclusion is that you are really stupid, or you are lying.

Reading the bible didn't prove to me that there was no god (of course I still am not absolutely certain of that). It did make me hate the (theoretical) Christian / Jewish / Muslim god. I think no one who read the complete bible with some intelligence and an open mind could not think the god described is to be hated. It's rather like reading about Hitler.

More like ii never read it or put much thought into the bible beyond what was thought to me in Church and church school. But when i started my conformation classes i decided to read it. Some of what i was reading was blowing my mind and unbelievable. Id ask the conformation teacher and my Priest questions but the belief the bible came from a God was gone along with a belief in one. My faith was never very thought out so it did not take much to shake it and reading the bible did. Might be dumb but it is how i lost my belief also.

I think the best way to appreciate the brilliance of God is think about what it takes to create a functional sustainable government, then compare His government to the alternative models.

Gods government: Your family receives land basically for free (numbers 33:54)

Alternative governments: you get jack sh**, the most conniving player and his friends wind up with all the chips.

God's government; whack off part of your penis or spend eternity burning.

One needs to cut away the bs or they're going to get offed is a fair evaluation.

The Bible is a book of history, and just like most history books, it's full
of the good, bad, and ugly behavior in human kind. Not sure why
this surprises you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3ldslnrq2A

Typical "smart teenager" comment.

I'm neither stupid nor lying.

You, however, are certainly one of those.

And here I thought it was purported to be the word of god. Didn't realize that it's just another history book. btw, is this an example of your stupidity, or are you lying?

I can't speak for Festeringzit, but in my case it's stupidity.

Having said that, I think that maybe the point that Festeringzit was making is that not everything that the Bible records is endorsed as something that God finds favorable. For example, the Bible records sinful actions by people even though those actions are not approved of by God.

The worse things are approved though (or done directly by god).