RE: Refuting Christians with their Own Bible
June 29, 2016 at 6:50 am
(This post was last modified: June 29, 2016 at 6:55 am by Fake Messiah.)
Bible is like Donald Trump - very self contradicting, likes to be on both sides, so it's just a giant mess where everybody can choose what they like and think they're right. Like for instance Trump saying he's pro-choice and then saying he's pro-life, or “If I ever ran for office, I’d do better as a Democrat than as a Republican—and that’s not because I’d be more liberal, because I’m conservative.” or saying “If two people dig each other, they dig each other.” only to say “I’m against gay marriage.” or on Brexit saying "It's beautiful" with immediately saying "It was contentious and ugly" or “I see no value whatsoever in believing ignorance to be an attribute.” with "I love the poorly educated.” and so on.
Like Jesus Christ in the Bible about the poor: “Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God” but then contradicting himself with "Many rich people threw in large amounts [money into temple]. But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents. Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, ‘Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything - all she had to live on.’”
Or in other places in the Bible which are clearly against the poor like: Proverbs (14:20)—“The poor are disliked even by their neighbors, but the rich have many friends.”
Proverbs (17:8)—“A bribe is a charm to the one who gives it; wherever he turns, he succeeds.”
18 Ecclesiastes (10:19)—“A feast is made for laughter and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.”
Which all gave pretense to priests to carry golden and bejeweled crosiers and wear silken robes, swinging censers of solid gold and living in manors, preaching in churches whose estimated worth is in that of the hundreds of millions of dollars. Or too often, a televangelist will slobber: “God wants you to give until it hurts,” or “The Holy Spirit wants you to use your credit card and give us $1,000—right now!”
Or some other of the many contradictions in the Bible like that David killed Goliath: in 1 Sam. 17:41–51 it is described how David killed Goliath to contradict it little bit later in 2 Samuel 21:1 that says real killer of Goliath was Elhanan, who belonged to “The Thirty,” King David’s elite fighting cadre.
Or that God killed all living creatures that were not on the ark, to contradict itself in Numbers 13:33 saying a race of giants, called nephilim in the Bible, survived the flood. And so on and on... You can argue till the kingdom comes with this Bible assholes on what is the right interpretation, just like what did Trump really say.
Like Jesus Christ in the Bible about the poor: “Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God” but then contradicting himself with "Many rich people threw in large amounts [money into temple]. But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents. Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, ‘Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything - all she had to live on.’”
Or in other places in the Bible which are clearly against the poor like: Proverbs (14:20)—“The poor are disliked even by their neighbors, but the rich have many friends.”
Proverbs (17:8)—“A bribe is a charm to the one who gives it; wherever he turns, he succeeds.”
18 Ecclesiastes (10:19)—“A feast is made for laughter and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.”
Which all gave pretense to priests to carry golden and bejeweled crosiers and wear silken robes, swinging censers of solid gold and living in manors, preaching in churches whose estimated worth is in that of the hundreds of millions of dollars. Or too often, a televangelist will slobber: “God wants you to give until it hurts,” or “The Holy Spirit wants you to use your credit card and give us $1,000—right now!”
Or some other of the many contradictions in the Bible like that David killed Goliath: in 1 Sam. 17:41–51 it is described how David killed Goliath to contradict it little bit later in 2 Samuel 21:1 that says real killer of Goliath was Elhanan, who belonged to “The Thirty,” King David’s elite fighting cadre.
Or that God killed all living creatures that were not on the ark, to contradict itself in Numbers 13:33 saying a race of giants, called nephilim in the Bible, survived the flood. And so on and on... You can argue till the kingdom comes with this Bible assholes on what is the right interpretation, just like what did Trump really say.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
