(December 22, 2017 at 2:23 am)Bow Before Zeus Wrote:(December 21, 2017 at 7:56 am)Starhunter Wrote:
But if you haven't retaliated - then you are the better one of any party.
I don't believe I have taken the name of god in vain. I have called out your particular creator-god being for all the horrific killings and other actions that are attributed to him in the biblical texts. I don't think I have actually used his name to swear.
We are meant to test and challenge belief systems, like you do, particularly if they gender false ideas.
What I have been saying is that the Bible has been misconstrued by those who claim its authority - such hypocrisy. Your challenges are against misconceptions.
Hypocrisy is inconsistency, it is not rational and true, and on that basis, it is a fair thing to say that religious people are not being rational, as its opponents are.
We don't want to swing too far to the right or left, but be independent in our observations.