It's all part of God's Clever Plan to make a book that can A) please multiple groups of adherents holding mutually-exclusive beliefs that they claim are based solidly on teachings in the book, and B) allow you to claim that anyone who opposes your faith-culture "just doesn't understand" the scriptures, when they point out the contrasting verses, or theological concepts of others.
What I can't understand is how they can do something so fundamentally (no pun intended) dishonest, and then have the gall to claim it is atheists who are the dishonest ones.
"Oh, I'm sorry Sister Christian, I didn't mean to read that verse you'd prefer we ignore in discovering The Core Doctrines™ of your religion."
What I can't understand is how they can do something so fundamentally (no pun intended) dishonest, and then have the gall to claim it is atheists who are the dishonest ones.
"Oh, I'm sorry Sister Christian, I didn't mean to read that verse you'd prefer we ignore in discovering The Core Doctrines™ of your religion."
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.
