RE: Refuting Christians with their Own Bible
June 28, 2016 at 1:45 pm
(This post was last modified: June 28, 2016 at 1:47 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(June 28, 2016 at 8:26 am)SteveII Wrote:(June 28, 2016 at 7:02 am)Incognito Wrote: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyath...so-can-we/
I just love that when they quote Bible passages, they are all so righteous. When we quote the bullshit parts of the Bible to them, they call us dickheads.
Christians LOVE to Cherry Pick the Bible
I hear all the time that Christians like to cherry pick the Bible and therefore...what?
What does that charge actually mean? That the Bible is not true? Are difficult passages evidence of something? If so what?
I agree there are many difficult passages to our modern sensibilities. But you seem to be saying that when a Christian quotes the Bible they should...what? quote OT passages rape laws just as often?...I don't know what you expect?
The thing is that Christians frequently say that all morality comes from the Bible and if there was no religion there would be no morality and the fact that people cherry pick what is good or bad from the Bible is evidence that morality does not come from the Bible or God, but from secular philosophy and inborn morality, which then they bring in when they pick from the Bible.
Take for instance when Moses came down from Sinai and discovered Golden Calf. Now rarely any Christian will know what he did to the Israelites as a punishment for making it. Because they don't know the Bible, get their knowledge from watered down places like Sunday School, or Bibles for kids, movies.
Not to mention some of Bible's scientific claims like the claim that sky is a blanket, or the world is flat, or virgin birth...
Here's an explanation from Richard Dawkins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgHoyTvyh4o
Here's some of Christian's Cherry Pickings:
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"