Drich Wrote:The choice to believe or to disbelieve came long before my ability to defend said belief. Just like when I shoot down all of the fallacious reasons you all have for disbelief in one aspect of the bible or another, you still have the belief even when your 'legit' reason was smashed against the rock, and you are left with nothing to defend. That is the reason for the name calling and harsh words. Because in the end I am challenging your belief beyond you ability to defend it. So my suggestion is just drop the pretence, and just admit that reason and logic is just a thinly veiled excuse to believe what you want. Stop pretending this is about anything other than what it is. Good old fashion Anger, Hate and resentment. Toward your family, toward the church you grew up in, toward a God who'd let it all happen the way it did.
Get over yourself. Even if you were able to disprove every misconception about the bible, there is still no reason to believe in it, just as there is no reason to believe in any other religious text, until you can show any real evidence that any of it is real. So far, the best any Christian has been able to offer is, "it works for me." Pardon us if we aren't overwhelmed by personal testimony that has no bearing on the validity a person's beliefs.
Your claim that you are demolishing our beliefs one by one is nothing more that the conceited delusion you have that you have had anything of value to say beyond what you believe the bible to mean, and that your understanding of every atheist's motivation for disbelief. Hate my family? Nope. Hate the chruch I was raised in? Certainly not, as it is probably the most respectful church I've ever heard of. Hate god for letting things happen this way? Impossible since I do not believe he exists.
It's time to drop this 'holier than thou' act you seem to believe you have not only earned but deserve. You come here saying you have the intentions of helping people with their interpretations and misconceptions about the bible and then you spew out shit like the paragraph I quoted.
It is YOU who should drop the pretense.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
