Jesus did not rise from the dead -- My debate opening statement.

[Astonished]

My bad, I knew I should have bolded which part I was referring to specifically. No, I was saying that if someone believes something on nothing more than a deep-seated need to believe it (especially in the face of directly contradictory proof), why then do they get to say "That's my belief, you have to respect it." I mean, this is the worst thing about religion, teaching that respect must be given, not earned, and that love is conditional.

Astonished,

Christianity deserves absolutely NO RESPECT whatsoever!  Only the inept pseudo-christian mind set demands this erroneous notion.

Subjectively, no Atheist could ever respect the primitive Bronze and Iron Age faith of Christianity, or its followers that have their 
Yahweh god as being greedy, jealous, selfish, self-centered, petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser;
a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capricious, and malevolent!

The descriptions shown above regarding their primitive god concept are without question within their primitive bibles, and as one example 
of many, how is the rational thinking mind of the Atheist suppose to show respect to their faith that explicitly shows their Yahweh god brutally
killing innocent zygotes, fetus.' and babies as in the following passage? I don't think so!

"As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth even from the womb and from the conception.Though they bring up their sons, 
yet I will bereave them, that there shall not be a man left; yea, woe also to them when I depart from them! Ephraim, as I saw Tyre, is planted in a 
pleasant place; but Ephraim shall bring forth his sons to the murderer. Give them, O LORD, that which thou must give them; give them
 a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. All their wickedness was in Gilgal, for there I took a dislike to them; for the wickedness of their doings
 I will drive them out of my house, I will never love them again: all their princes are disloyal. Ephraim was smitten, their root is dried up;
 they shall bear no more fruit; even though they bring forth, yet I will slay even the desirable fruit of their womb.” (Hosea 9: 11-16)

Relative to the above disgusting biblical passage, don't forget, hypocritical pseudo-christian fools state that abortion is wrong.  Can you spell H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E-S?

Christianity is a damaging and disgusting faith that is unfortunately still with us in the 21st century because of inept and weak minds that can still swallow the 
deplorable doctrine of its Bronze and Iron Age cultist belief.  







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Hey, I totally agree with you and always did, I simply failed to point to the specific part of your first post that I quoted that I was saying didn't demand respect, i.e. the part about people who believe just because they like wishful thinking, i.e. theists, i.e. Christians. So we're on the same side, I just failed to highlight the part I was referring to. Chill.

I swear, if I have kids and they have friends who are children of religious parents, I am sorely tempted to read them stories from the bible that would make them shit their pants and cry all the way home, and let their deluded parents try to explain that away. Then when they come banging on my door asking what's wrong with me, I'll just point to their book and say, "It's in the good book. Why, do you have some problem with them learning the lord's truth?"