(April 25, 2017 at 11:57 pm)SteveII Wrote:(April 24, 2017 at 12:43 pm)Chad32 Wrote: The bible makes claims that he's a good guy, but then shows his favorite means of trying to solve a problem is by killing people. Which doesn't actually work, given how many people supposedly died, and in the present day we still have a lot of problems. If his ways are so alien to us, and some christians clai we need a god to fill some vague void in our lives, then we need a different god. This one is defective.
If there is a God who created everything--and he very much expects his creation to behave, what part of that leads you to believe that he does not have the right to judge someone and take their life? You seem to be saying that God did not have the right to judge them and take their life because the right thing to do was wait for someone to die of some other cause and then judge them? What would make the former less 'right' than the latter? Do you understand how insignificant a human lifetime is to an eternal God? It does not even register.
I don't believe someone has the right to kill someone else, just because person A is person B's creator. That's why we have child protection services. As for judgments, this is the guy who had a man stoned to death for picking up sticks on the wrong day of the week. Killed children for things their parents did. Told people that slavery, mass murder, and rape is ok, within certain boundaries, but two men having consensual sex is worthy of death. The morality of the bible is skewed. What does he do to try to improve society, besides kill people, or put minor restrictions on things that most people in modern society have abolished after the enlightenment?
His judgments and actions don't make sense in a world where the more developed nations no longer have kings and emporers that can do as they please, with no checks and balances. Supposedly he created the world, and our ancestors. It's said he can count the hairs on our heads, yet he doesn't know we can't control our thoughts, and that a healthy sexual relationship is important for our mental and physical wellbeing, instead of just being a way to make more of us. Why should he have the right to kill us, or judge us? What makes him better than us, aside from just being more powerful? If I can kick your ass, does it make me more moral? I bet I can make you say yes if I beat you badly enough, but it won't make me right.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html