What reasons do we have to believe the bible is false? The moon is not a source of light. Two individuals can't create a healthy species. The world didn't start out as a ball of liquid water in empty space without a sun nearby. Noah's boat is both too large to function, and too small to house the number of animals and food it would take to get us to where we are.
You don't breed striped livestock by having the parents screw in front of striped poles. You don't cure leprosy by killing a bird and sprinkling its blood on a leper. The amount of slaves stated to have been freed from egypt outnumbered the egyptians, and there's no historical record of such a mass exodus.
You could make a long list of things that just can't logically happen. You can make a lit of things that are blatantly morally wrong, like saying consenting same sex adults making love should be killed, but treating people as chattel is ok as long as you don't kill your slave outright, or enslave your fellow isrealite male slave for life without giving him a wife first.
There are plenty of problems to be had with the bible. Plenty of reasons not to follow it, including the fact that we have evidence of Yahweh starting out as a lesser war god in a Canaanite pantheon, and Jesus' story not being original or unique to him. Virgin births were all the rage at one point. We have reasons enough to disbelieve the bible, to the point that it's commonly said that reading the bible at face value is a sure road to atheism.
There are events that can't logically happen without magic, which can't be proven to be real, as well as deeply immoral commandments and actions by Yahweh and his followers. Someone being at best slightly more progressive than the culture of the time is not worthy of worship.
You don't breed striped livestock by having the parents screw in front of striped poles. You don't cure leprosy by killing a bird and sprinkling its blood on a leper. The amount of slaves stated to have been freed from egypt outnumbered the egyptians, and there's no historical record of such a mass exodus.
You could make a long list of things that just can't logically happen. You can make a lit of things that are blatantly morally wrong, like saying consenting same sex adults making love should be killed, but treating people as chattel is ok as long as you don't kill your slave outright, or enslave your fellow isrealite male slave for life without giving him a wife first.
There are plenty of problems to be had with the bible. Plenty of reasons not to follow it, including the fact that we have evidence of Yahweh starting out as a lesser war god in a Canaanite pantheon, and Jesus' story not being original or unique to him. Virgin births were all the rage at one point. We have reasons enough to disbelieve the bible, to the point that it's commonly said that reading the bible at face value is a sure road to atheism.
There are events that can't logically happen without magic, which can't be proven to be real, as well as deeply immoral commandments and actions by Yahweh and his followers. Someone being at best slightly more progressive than the culture of the time is not worthy of worship.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
