Atheists interpret bible verses

[Edwardo Piet]

I'm totally up for worshiping the goddess of female orgasm. In fact I might make a few offerings every now and then

[The Valkyrie]

An atheist interpreting a bible verse:

"Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.'

1.  Either primitive desert barbarians justifying genocide, rape, and enslavement by claiming it was a deity who told them to do it, or:
2.  A thoroughly evil deity ordering its followers to commit genocide.  A deity NOT worth worshipping.

But there is a third choice.
3. It could be part of god's plan to kill those people who might have grown up to be Hitlers.

Oh but I'm plagiarizing Pat Robertson. Forgive me. I don't know what came over me. Led by the spirit, I guess.

Vodka: THE Holy Spirit.

[Cyberman]

I'm totally up for worshiping the goddess of female orgasm. In fact I might make a few offerings every now and then

I've devoted my life to it; though I'm not a practising female-orgasmite at the moment.

[Crossless2.0]

I'm totally up for worshiping the goddess of female orgasm. In fact I might make a few offerings every now and then

I've devoted my life to it; though I'm not a practising female-orgasmite at the moment.

So you're a lay member.

[Edwardo Piet]

I practise when able

[Rhondazvous]

Every single day I come here, I'm reminded of how amazing it is that Christians are so blind to the ubiquitous presence of their religion's influence on this culture, such that atheism (the absence of religious ideology) becomes an identity, rather than the effectively-nothing that it is.

If I was surrounded by a culture of people who all told me unicorns once appeared to mankind and left us with the Book of Unicorn which was written by all the people who really really saw unicorns once upon a time, that there were all-powerful and invisible unicorns who were awesome and yet somehow detectable only to people who already believe in unicorns, claimed to know what the unicorns (who by the way created this universe) think and how they wanted us to behave, and claim that only by following The Way of the Unicorn could I be a decent person... and oh by the way, here are symbols of unicorns and laws based on the Book of Unicorns, which we're going to constantly try to get passed, and oh yeah we're going to elect school board members who're in favor of unicorns, so we can subtly teach your children that they too should be unicornists... and so on, etc etc, ad nauseam...

Then I'd call myself an aunicornist, and sit here on the Aunicornist Forums explaining to people why I'm "begging for unicorns to reveal themselves".

And if you give it a serious amount of thought, you'd realize why this unicorn analogy is exactly the same crap we hear endlessly from religious believers, such that our active self-identity as aunicornists/atheists becomes necessary at all.

Otherwise, we'd just be normal people who like science and history and, well, reading.

Right you are. In fact, but for the incessant and disingenuous intrusions of theists on our culture there would be no need for an atheist forum. If we came together, it would be under some other name that expressed the conglomeration of interests that we share. Atheism would require no more attention than breathing air.

[Cyberman]

I've devoted my life to it; though I'm not a practising female-orgasmite at the moment.

So you're a lay member.

I do like to pay lip service to it.

[Rhondazvous]

Jesus' resurrection from the dead.
no resurrection = no Christianity

Anyone can claim to be the Son of God, but Jesus said He will show one sign and that was that He would be raised from the dead 3 days after He was killed. Jesus appeared to the disciples as well as hundreds of others in His resurrected form, and His followers went from scared to bold in their faith. why? because they KNEW everything He said was true because Jesus proved it by His resurrection.

As you know, many Christians died for their faith in Jesus Christ; I refuse to believe that they were defending a lie.  I believe that Jesus was raised from the dead and that life everlasting is through Him.

Sooo...you're claiming that if the resurrection didn't really happen, Christianity never would have started, right?


So by the same logic, if the Buddha had never gained enlightenment, Buddhism would never have started, and that's why people believe in Buddhism and are willing to die for it. Buddhism, therefore, must be true.


Also, if Mohammed didn't really receive a message from Allah, the Quran wouldn't have been written, so I guess that proves the Quran is true, too, right?


Are you seeing the problem here? You think Buddhism is a lie, and yet there are those willing to die in the name of Buddhism. You think Islam is a lie, and yet there are those willing to die for Islam. You aren't convinced that other people's religions are true just because people are willing to die for them, so why should we accept your religion just because people are willing to die for it? You wouldn't accept your argument if another religion used it, so why should we accept that argument from you?

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[Crossless2.0]

So you're a lay member.

I do like to pay lip service to it.

Lips that help are better than hands that pray.

[Rhondazvous]

“It was fun because I have a great luxury that I'm a professional liar — that's what a storyteller is. Or at least that’s what I try to be. It's the one socially acceptable way to completely deceive people, and that's what they want." - Neil Fallon of Clutch

Your gospel writers are storytellers.

I've been reading stories for almost half a century, but I've never read a story with more discrepancies as found in the Bible. Just think, if a biblical writer had written The Cat in the Hat, some versions would say it was raining and some would say it was snowing. The fish in the bowl would be open to interpretation as a bird in a cage. And the cat himself will have a tie rather than a hat in an age where hats are frowned upon.