Christians Endorse God's Hatred

[Zen Badger]

Angry village atheists seem to have a difficult time understanding why the world doesn’t match their expectations of free love and beer volcanoes. Atheists object to God’s authority, then turn around and bitch that He doesn’t rule with an iron fist to keep humanity from fucking everything up. And then you have the nerve to call Christians inconsistent.

Let me explain this using little words so that maybe this time you will finally understand.

We don't object to gods authority, he is a fictional character. He doesn't HAVE any authority.

We don't complain about him not ruling with an iron fist because, again, he is not real.

What we object to is theists coming here telling us what a wonderful loving god he is when even your own damn book depicts him as anything but.

And when you tell us that we're not interpreting your fairytale correctly when we point out the vile deeds that the bible is filled with.

Well sorry, but if a plain reading is not sufficient to understand gods message then either god is a massively incompetent buffoon or(more likely)you are desperately trying to justify this horror story to yourself in order to make it into fluffy bunny time.

[Neo-Scholastic]

Zen man that is such a cop out post. Of course you don't believe. You just cannot decide which god you don't believe in: the lenient one that gives you freedom enough to destroy yourself or the tyranny that imposes strict order.

Esq, if the shoe fits, wear it.

[Chas]

I never understood why Christians are considered hateful just because we will not endorse what we consider to be a sinful sexual perversion. I could care less if two guys want to swordfight in the night, but I fail to see why I am required to approve? And why does my approval matter to them anyway?

No one is asking for your approval. Just keep your bigoted opinions out of the law.

[Zen Badger]

Zen man that is such a cop out post. Of course you don't believe. You just cannot decide which god you don't believe in: the lenient one that gives you freedom enough to destroy yourself or the tyranny that imposes strict order.

Esq, if the shoe fits, wear it.

I don't believe in either.

And stop trying to segue from my point that you are trying to turn a horror story into happy treefriends and friends.

[max-greece]

Zen man that is such a cop out post. Of course you don't believe. You just cannot decide which god you don't believe in: the lenient one that gives you freedom enough to destroy yourself or the tyranny that imposes strict order.

Esq, if the shoe fits, wear it.

Well in reality we simply don't believe in God - whether he wears armour or bells.

The distinction between lenient God or a tyrannical God is the difference between the God we read about in the bible and the one Christians tell us we have not understood.

Obviously the former is fictitious - "freedom enough to destroy yourself" pretty much says it all.

Its not that we can't decide which God we don't believe in - its the God we are being presented with is not consistent.

[Esquilax]

Esq, if the shoe fits, wear it.

There would need to be a shoe, first.

See, that's the issue: what you're doing here is textbook strawmanning, since you have nothing that could be considered a positive argument, all you've got left is attacking. You're just going on the offensive in the hopes that we'll just spend all our time refuting your tired old Gish Gallop.

And, as we're all fond of saying: that which is asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

[Lion IRC]

Angry village atheists seem to have a difficult time understanding why the world doesn’t match their expectations of free love and beer volcanoes. Atheists object to God’s authority, then turn around and bitch that He doesn’t rule with an iron fist to keep humanity from fucking everything up. And then you have the nerve to call Christians inconsistent.

Let me explain this using little words so that maybe this time you will finally understand.

ChadWooters

Please, please, please do try to understand atheism for once in your life.

You obviously don’t want to listen to what the atheists here are telling you. So I will try.

I shall use little words so that hopefully you will begin to get a grip on what is being said to you over and over and over again.

We don't object to gods authority..

So simple. Atheists don’t accept or object to Gods authority.
Chad please learn this basic fact about all atheists.

...he is a fictional character...

So easy to understand. Atheists think He is fictitious…they don’t think He or anything like Him even exists.
ChadWooters why cant you learn this atheist simple position.

...He doesn't HAVE any authority....

That is so simple ChadWooters it hardly needs further explanation.
Atheists never complain about the actions of a Being they think is powerless. Why would they? Atheists don’t care what we say about hell or sin or eternity.
We could preach about the lake of fire all day and they wouldnt even care because they are too busy with other real world stuff like not collecting stamps and visiting internet discussion boards
about the hair color called baldness..

...We don't complain about him not ruling with an iron fist because, again, he is not real....

See ChadWooters? ''NOT REAL'' !!!
It's the most easily understood theistic worldview on the planet. No theology. No deep meaning of life stuff. No gaps. No eschatology.
Man, I tell ya, atheism has gotta be the most basic, one dimensional, monotone worldview with respect to theism, and you STILL dont seem to get it. hock:

...What we object to is theists coming here telling us what a wonderful loving god he is when even your own damn book depicts him as anything but....

Yeah, you...you...THEIST you!!! What audacity you have coming here with ideas that atheists dont agree with.

...And when you tell us that we're not interpreting your fairytale correctly when we point out the vile deeds that the bible is filled with...

Well said Zen Badger. Well deserved kudos from all your Team Atheism buddies I see.

So, ChadWooters, now can you see it?

Atheists only object when their special interpretation of the bible differs from yours and/or when it’s the same as yours and/or when they say the bible is all man-made lies about imaginary vile deeds that never happened to anybody and were never done by a Being who cant possibly exist because we have mapped the entire space/time multi-verse and conclusively shown that no such Being exists.

[Bad Writer]

There's nothing special about interpreting the Bible. There. Simple enough.

[Esquilax]

There's nothing special about interpreting the Bible. There. Simple enough.

More than that, there's nothing in the bible that makes it this wondrous piece of art that requires deep thought and interpretation, either: it's a bunch of demonstrably false just-so stories that christians are desperate to inject some greater meaning into.

[Lemonvariable72]

There's nothing special about interpreting the Bible. There. Simple enough.

Are you kidding, the book is specifically vague as fuck to make it easy to twist and hard to refute(well they try)