Wait, did someone say we want Bibles "gone"?? WTF would that even mean?
We want the Bible shown for the magical charlatanism that it is, to be looked at the same way we see the Eneuma Elish, as an outdated collection of Bronze Age tribal shepherders' priest-stories about magic and superstition. There's a critical difference. We are no more bigoted against your faith than we are against Native Americans' "Great Spirit" or the animism of hunter-gatherer tribes in Africa. We find them all equally ridiculous and backward, in the light of modern knowledge.
And yes, you do have to hate someone in order to execute them for victimless crimes, or to banish them from their homes and families. Religion gives bigots the power to claim divine justification for such bigotries. It even gives the power (as established by the Bible) to wipe out your neighbors in the claim that God "gave you" this land... a process that is still going on over the same stupid verses, to this day, on the same pieces of land.
We want the Bible shown for the magical charlatanism that it is, to be looked at the same way we see the Eneuma Elish, as an outdated collection of Bronze Age tribal shepherders' priest-stories about magic and superstition. There's a critical difference. We are no more bigoted against your faith than we are against Native Americans' "Great Spirit" or the animism of hunter-gatherer tribes in Africa. We find them all equally ridiculous and backward, in the light of modern knowledge.
And yes, you do have to hate someone in order to execute them for victimless crimes, or to banish them from their homes and families. Religion gives bigots the power to claim divine justification for such bigotries. It even gives the power (as established by the Bible) to wipe out your neighbors in the claim that God "gave you" this land... a process that is still going on over the same stupid verses, to this day, on the same pieces of land.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
