RE: The main reason I'm an atheist
May 2, 2016 at 10:53 am
(This post was last modified: May 2, 2016 at 10:54 am by TheRocketSurgeon.)
We call the Bible a "filthy book" because it contains nearly-innumerable things that we find morally repugnant.
Among those things are sexism, deity-ordered genocide, racism (though Jesus did a bit to moderate it with parables like the Good Samaritan, and Paul, to his credit, did try to "clean it up" a bit in that regard), homophobia, and blood-sacrifice and/or vicarious atonement. That is the "very short list".
The book is clearly, to an unbiased (disinterested... meaning we read all the holy books of the world with the same eye, including yours) observer, the product of a Bronze/Iron-Age barbaric, Patriarchal, ethnocentric, theocratic culture. We show it the amount of contempt we feel it deserves, especially when some doe-eyed fanatic comes in here telling us it's something we should base our lives upon.
Can't. Too moral.
Among those things are sexism, deity-ordered genocide, racism (though Jesus did a bit to moderate it with parables like the Good Samaritan, and Paul, to his credit, did try to "clean it up" a bit in that regard), homophobia, and blood-sacrifice and/or vicarious atonement. That is the "very short list".
The book is clearly, to an unbiased (disinterested... meaning we read all the holy books of the world with the same eye, including yours) observer, the product of a Bronze/Iron-Age barbaric, Patriarchal, ethnocentric, theocratic culture. We show it the amount of contempt we feel it deserves, especially when some doe-eyed fanatic comes in here telling us it's something we should base our lives upon.
Can't. Too moral.
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.
