A Former Atheist

[Theoretical Skeptic]

Sounds like a neat way to eat your cake and have it, too.

Atheists seem to be obsessed with the supernatural. God doesn't necessarily imply the supernatural, it implies might or veneration. Moses, Jesus, Tammuz, and the Judges of Israel were called gods and were men and women. Mortal. 

It allowed them to be beaten to within an inch of their lives.  It allowed them to be bought and sold as property.


You're not the first theist here to defend Biblical slavery. It's sad how many of you believers have lost your moral compass simply because you must defend this inane book at any cost.

I'm not defending slavery. I'm pointing out that slavery existed during the times of the Bible, it differs from more recent versions of slavery and it was invented by men, not gods. In doing so I most certainly am not condoning slavery, but rather, suggesting there are more insidious forms of slavery we are all subjected to today. 

You just watch -- you will be a pretzel in a few days, once the members here sink their teeth into your moral turpitude.  You actually think it's okay to own another human being. What sort of asshole are you?

A typical asshole, I suppose, but I don't think it is okay by any means to own another human being. 

And you've come to this opinion how? Have you spoken with him recently? Are you his majordomo? Press secretary?

I don't need to speak directly to him, it was all written down long before I got here.

No. It's because I don't have any faith.

Everyone has faith. You need to be more specific in referencing what it is you have no faith in. 

I don't care what you think your god thinks. You are no authority on your god, in the eyes of any other human beside yourself.

In a sense I agree with the latter part of this statement. Accurate knowledge about God and the Bible is a personal responsibility - ultimately, but we are having a discussion here. You state your position and I state mine. Beyond that I don't expect you to be concerned about my opinions on the subject. But you, to a greater or lesser extent, like most posters here, seem pretty concerned with beliefs on God and religion.

 

I have a 17-year-old son with whom I celebrate Christmas, not as a celebration of the birth of a fictional god, but in honor of the idea "peace on Earth, good will towards men".

The point is, you most likely instilled in your young son some materialistic fantasy based upon mythology, customs and tradition that you knew wasn't true but presented as truth to your impressionable child in order to mislead, and control him and yet you have a big problem with anyone else incorporating these alleged tenets. Atheism is hypocritical, nonsensical, uninformed antiquated polemic pontification. Social and political frustration primarily expressed poorly by failed Christians with a Utopian quasi scientific ideology equally uninformed and hinged upon the failed metaphysical experiment of evolution. And you, I suspect, think that is original and clever. It isn't, so why not be more tolerant of other people's paradigm? 

I have no faith. I'm unimpressed by the persistence of foolishness; people believed the sun orbited the Earth for far, far longer than people have worshipped your little deity, and you expect me to be impressed by a book that's hung around like a tumor for 1650 years? Of course there will be gullible folks who buy the carrot-and-stick routine -- yourself included.

Nonsense. They only believed in the geocentric for about 2 thousand years, only a fraction of time the Bible has been around. And, by the way, not supported by scripture as is often thought.