(October 23, 2015 at 11:12 am)Divinity Wrote: Christianity has survived for so long because it's not all about the Bible. If it were, it would have died out a long time ago.
Just consider how much of that stupid fucking text has to be 'read in the context of the time' and how many times you have to pick out if something is a goddman metaphor or not. Consider how many Catholics just toss out the old testament and say "Yeah, just a bunch of stories really. The new testament is where it's at." If people didn't cherry pick to justify their holy book, Christianity would have died a long time ago.
My daughter said it very well when she said: "If the bible was inspired by god, then you would never have to take into account the historical context of the time. Because God would have to be timeless."
Honestly if God is anything like that of the bible, then fuck him. Fuck him if he considers homosexuality something worth sending people to hell over, and he should be the one sent to hell instead of all the people he's considering sending to hell. That's not a good god. He doesn't get to be the motherfucking good guy just because he created the whole damn universe. You have to earn your good guy status.
Here is the thing the bible written by man not really inspired by any sort of god. Considering god of the bible is pretty much a self indulgent
arrogant, racist, homophobic, misogynist, slavery accepting prick. god of the bible is a literally a god of the middle eastern culture. All in all christianity is dying as of now only really surviving because people just had the mindset of just the good bits and fuck everything else. No one really literally will follow what jesus says when it is inconvenient
Atheism is a non-prophet organization join today.
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