(May 28, 2011 at 8:29 pm)Timothy Wrote:(May 28, 2011 at 7:56 pm)DoktorZ Wrote: I'm afraid I don't have time to go over this massive book with you. There are many books, articles, and websites offering examples of contradictions within holy texts. If you are going to continue asserting that this holy text is transparent, and subject to a consistent reading, then I believe you are being disingenuous and frankly aren't worth speaking to. In my experience, most religious people who come to atheist message boards are engaged in conscious acts of deception.
- The word "text" in my original simply refers to Mark 16:15, not Scripture as a whole.
- I have not anywhere asserted, let alone continued to assert, that the whole of Scripture is "transparent" or "consistent". To make such a claim would require me to have cross-matched every subset of verses of Scripture - which is plainly an absurd project.
- That you decide to make premature judgements about my character and intent on this forum says a lot more about you than it does about me. Rather than wasting time in such a manner, why not address the topic of the thread in some kind of relevant way?
You claimed that his reading of that passage was "ignorant," therefore you assume that the reading is transparent. In fact, inherent in your claim is that his putative "ignorance" is a lack of contextualization, which demands readings outside of Mark 16:15--i.e., the wider scriptures. Already, you are engaging in obfuscation, word-play, and "boundary policing." I took a short look at your other posts here, and I find similarly suspicious behavior.
If a band of KKK members showed up to a black pride event, I'd be suspicious that they're not there to serve tea. Any believer who shows up on an atheist message forum is probably, although not necessarily, up to something. I've never encountered a believer in this context who did not, at some point, get caught up in a lie.
Rather than wasting time pushing your beliefs around atheist forums, why don't you go back to church?
