I live in Romania and my dad and me have gone to a catholic church every sunday from some time. There are 3 liturgies every sunday: one in romanian, one in hungarian and one in german. Since I'm learning german we're going to the german one. I must admit that even though I'm atheist and pretend to like the ceremony it does help me exercise the language, so there's that.
Anyway, there is a chick that works at that church and reads some verses from the Bible during the ceremony. I don't know her function, she surely isn't a priestess since the Catholic Church fobids that.
Dad doesn't know german, so he asked me after the ceremony if I remember anything she said which I don't. He told me that I should pay more attention, since I can learn something from Bible stories. Stories like what? Like sacrificing your kids if God demands you that? And he doesn't really want you to, just wants to test your loyalty. And he's all knowing so why does He test it in the first place? Like how God flooded the entire Earth because the people he made and gave total freedom weren't moral? Like how Adam and Eve were punished after eating the forbidden fruit and the sin went on the next generations? And God's solution to that was to send his own son to earth, who is also himself and The Holy Spirit, to be born by a virgin and then be cruxified for our sins? Or many more "beautiful" stories like that?
He's a moderate christian, doesn't believe in Hell and aknowledged that some parts of the Bible were written by primitive men, like the Earth being flat. Yet the Bible is his moral code? He said you don't have to look at it literally, but the book was clearly written to be taken literally. And taking it figuratevly doesn't necessarly mean that I'll get the intended message. For example I can assume that The Smurfs is propaganda for white supremacy, it doesn't mean it's true.
It might help you be moral if you follow the opposite of what it's teaching. Sure there are some good morals, but they're outnumbered by the bad ones, and many verses contradict one another.
Funny thing about my family members. They claim that religion helps them be moral but if you point out to them what I wrote above they would reply: "The Bible was written a long time ago, you shouldn't follow every single rule from it. We have a religion because imagining that a God exist makes us happy".
You know what would make me happy? The thought that Hitler was a loving leader, who gave equal rights to all races and made free speech possible. That he managed to succed without violence and because of him WW2 was prevented. I could say: "I'm a nazi, Mein Kampf is my moral code, it is true that Germany was badly treated at that time. Sure it has some parts about aryan supremacy and encourages murder and many other horrible things, but you shouldn't follow them, you need to imagine totally different things.".
If anyone said those things about Nazism my family would consider them insane, but if they say it about Christianity it's ok.
Anyway, there is a chick that works at that church and reads some verses from the Bible during the ceremony. I don't know her function, she surely isn't a priestess since the Catholic Church fobids that.
Dad doesn't know german, so he asked me after the ceremony if I remember anything she said which I don't. He told me that I should pay more attention, since I can learn something from Bible stories. Stories like what? Like sacrificing your kids if God demands you that? And he doesn't really want you to, just wants to test your loyalty. And he's all knowing so why does He test it in the first place? Like how God flooded the entire Earth because the people he made and gave total freedom weren't moral? Like how Adam and Eve were punished after eating the forbidden fruit and the sin went on the next generations? And God's solution to that was to send his own son to earth, who is also himself and The Holy Spirit, to be born by a virgin and then be cruxified for our sins? Or many more "beautiful" stories like that?
He's a moderate christian, doesn't believe in Hell and aknowledged that some parts of the Bible were written by primitive men, like the Earth being flat. Yet the Bible is his moral code? He said you don't have to look at it literally, but the book was clearly written to be taken literally. And taking it figuratevly doesn't necessarly mean that I'll get the intended message. For example I can assume that The Smurfs is propaganda for white supremacy, it doesn't mean it's true.
It might help you be moral if you follow the opposite of what it's teaching. Sure there are some good morals, but they're outnumbered by the bad ones, and many verses contradict one another.
Funny thing about my family members. They claim that religion helps them be moral but if you point out to them what I wrote above they would reply: "The Bible was written a long time ago, you shouldn't follow every single rule from it. We have a religion because imagining that a God exist makes us happy".
You know what would make me happy? The thought that Hitler was a loving leader, who gave equal rights to all races and made free speech possible. That he managed to succed without violence and because of him WW2 was prevented. I could say: "I'm a nazi, Mein Kampf is my moral code, it is true that Germany was badly treated at that time. Sure it has some parts about aryan supremacy and encourages murder and many other horrible things, but you shouldn't follow them, you need to imagine totally different things.".
If anyone said those things about Nazism my family would consider them insane, but if they say it about Christianity it's ok.
"By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none"
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
