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Are all atheists this ill-informed about religion?
RE: Are all atheists this ill-informed about religion?
(October 26, 2015 at 1:18 pm)Esquilax Wrote: The issue here is twofold: first, christians can't agree on the contents of their own religion, and they are all pointing to the same book as proof that they're right and the others are wrong. This raises a very real question of how we determine what is accurate, and the fact that every single one of the disagreements has both sides pointing to the same book as evidence for their mutually exclusive positions raises serious doubts about whether that book should be used to confirm any of those positions at all. If a source can be cited as justification for both sides of a binary question, its use as evidence is highly suspect.

Secondly, the whole premise of the christian religion is that its tenets are an inerrant, perfect, divinely inspired message from god. The sheer number of divergences undercuts this for obvious reasons.

Not only do they point to the same book, but they all claim to be led by the same Holy Spirit that supposedly inspired the book. We see disagreements both among Church denominations and the biblical passages. This cannot be ignored with any degree of honesty.

If the purpose of the Bible and the Church is a message of salvation and that message is unclear, then all you can do is say eenie meenie miney moe and hope you pick the right one. Neither the Church nor the Bible offer the sure road to a promised salvation, though that is what it claims to do.
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.

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RE: Are all atheists this ill-informed about religion? - by Rhondazvous - October 26, 2015 at 3:19 pm

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