RE: What is your Favorite Religious Contradiction?
May 27, 2011 at 9:50 am
(This post was last modified: May 27, 2011 at 9:55 am by Doubting Thomas.)
My other favorite contradiction is when they pick & choose different parts of the bible to follow and others to discard. Jesus was very explicit about not accumulating wealth when there were poor people to be helped, but just about every Christian I know is concerned with getting as rich as possible. Not only that, they tend to embrace the Republican ideal of, "screw the poor, if they weren't lazy bums they'd be rich like us."
Then they say that homosexuality is evil because it says so in Leviticus, but then they don't follow any of the other OT laws because Jesus said they don't have to. And then they claim that everyone should follow the ten commandments, which are in the Old Testament.
Ah, but don't you see? There's no contradiction, the verses are just expanding on each other. Or at least this is what Christians claim.
It's like if I wrote a sentence saying, "Bob, Sue, and Fred went to the store." And then later I wrote it again saying, "Bob, Mary, John, and Joe went to the store" and claiming that they're not contradictory because actually, Bob, Sue, Fred, Mary, John, and Joe all went to the store. If they're not contradictory, then why not have the same account in both passages of who exactly it was who went? It's just another dishonest tactic used to try to disprove any contradictions in the bible.
Then they say that homosexuality is evil because it says so in Leviticus, but then they don't follow any of the other OT laws because Jesus said they don't have to. And then they claim that everyone should follow the ten commandments, which are in the Old Testament.
(May 27, 2011 at 8:57 am)chatpilot Wrote: This contradiction refers to what was found at the tomb on resurrection morning.
Ah, but don't you see? There's no contradiction, the verses are just expanding on each other. Or at least this is what Christians claim.
It's like if I wrote a sentence saying, "Bob, Sue, and Fred went to the store." And then later I wrote it again saying, "Bob, Mary, John, and Joe went to the store" and claiming that they're not contradictory because actually, Bob, Sue, Fred, Mary, John, and Joe all went to the store. If they're not contradictory, then why not have the same account in both passages of who exactly it was who went? It's just another dishonest tactic used to try to disprove any contradictions in the bible.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
