(July 5, 2016 at 9:55 am)Veritas_Vincit Wrote:(July 5, 2016 at 9:34 am)SteveII Wrote: You should care. Isn't it your goal to show all the feeble-minded Christians how wrong they are? Shouldn't you know what it is they believe in before you decimate them with your rhetorical and logical skills you developed by reading some atheist blog and a couple of YouTube videos? How else will the 'truth triumph'?
Yes, if most of the world hadn't been indoctrinated, brainwashed, duped, conned, deluded, retarded, divided and stultified by religion then I would have no reason to care about Bronze Age mythology and the sayings of some Palestinian hippy carpenter any more than about Zeus, Apollo, Odin or any other ancient mythologies.
Unfortunately, many people are gullible, many people are not good at critical thinking, many people don't question the belief systems they were brought up with.
Unfortunately we do live in a world torn apart by religion, where religion holds back our civilisation at every step.
So yes, in that sense you are correct, I do think it's worth understanding what the Bible says in exactly the same way as it is worth understanding the tactics of a con artist, so that when you are faced with it you aren't duped, and can expose it for what it is: bullshit.
Probably should start by reading John and then the epistles. That should give you the basics so you can better answer the gullible. Read carefully, take notes. If you don't understand it, read a commentary that can help you. You will need to understand it completely if the 'truth is to triumph'.
