(November 9, 2015 at 9:47 pm)drfuzzy Wrote:(November 9, 2015 at 9:03 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: We have no need for a god, any god. So, what's the purpose - why should we care - about learning about Paul and Romans?
AB-SO-FUCKING-LUTELY. I don't know why any xtian would even TRY to start "bible study" threads here. Many of the atheist members here are brilliant at dismantling bible passages, true . . . so I suppose such a poster is useful as cannon fodder. But a bible study discussion on an atheist forum only has one purpose: to try to convert. To try to convert people who think the wholly babble is a hideous, vicious, immoral concoction of bullshit and lies about a deity that never existed in the first place.
Any attempt to convert is disrespectful.
I guess it's one small step above the idiots who come to this place a paste a bunch of bible verses, apparently thinking we've never seen them before and will be immediately enlightened.
So... you're saying they DON'T respect us? Well, gosh.
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.
