What is your Favorite Religious Contradiction?

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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.

I completely agree with you DT the theists want this bs to be so true so bad that they go to extremes to try to make it so. One of their other favorite tactics is when a story makes absolutely no sense and can't be possibly real like the flood story they then say it is an allegory and not meant to be taken literally. It's pathetic that people are willing to suspend their brains to uphold senseless beliefs and superstitions.

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God welcomes the poor and rich into the church, in his eyes they are equal.

Matthew 19:24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Pope I don't think that this text qualifies as a contradiction I actually agree with GC on this one somewhat. All this text is saying that it is more difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than the average Joe. Being rich poses a lot of challenges to a believer that are not common to a man or woman of average means.

23 Then Jesus said to his disciples, 'In truth I tell you, it is hard for someone rich to enter the kingdom of Heaven.24 Yes, I tell you again, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for someone rich to enter the kingdom of Heaven.' (NJB)

As you can see the fictional Jesus was made to say that it was hard but that does not mean it is impossible. In the previous verses Jesus was being questioned by a rich man and when he was given the choice to sell all his possessions and give the money to the poor and follow Jesus he was saddened because he was not willing to part with his wealth.