(October 25, 2015 at 8:31 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: 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."
Tu quoque!
What I don't understand is why we keep thinking that reason and sound arguments will have the slightest effect on these people. Really, I don't post for them at all but for those who are watching. I used to be a Christian and there's really nothing these Christians here have said that I have not at one time said. I know how they think and I know that if they keep talking, they can do nothing but betray their ignorance and disingenuousness to those who are really looking for honesty.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
