RE: Why believe the bible?
July 13, 2018 at 6:28 pm
(This post was last modified: July 13, 2018 at 6:29 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(July 13, 2018 at 4:04 pm)Drich Wrote: every time one of you blames god or the church for evil visited upon the gays or the dark ages or even try and blame misogyne on christianity I ask for book chapter and verse. meaning show me where God demands this behavior and I will concede God is evil.
Which NONE of you can EVER produce
It's really a no-brainer to see that God really hates women. God could invent no more demeaning insults than to compare a nation or city to a woman—and, to make the insult even nastier, a menstruating woman. And to really top it off, a "whore."
They have no rights to property. They are constantly being bought as wives and raped for something men did. They can't hold any position (like being a priest or in politics). They are described by Bible to be filthy. etc.
But I don't doubt that you could not "justify" it to show how god is doing all that for "love" because even men who beat women say that do it for love; even priests that rape boys say they do it for Christian love, like in that documentary "Maxima Culpa" we see a priest justifying himself that he raped boys because they would otherwise masturbate and that is a sin while molesting them is not.
So I don't doubt that you would not defend him since you yourself are a battered victim who has been coerced to defend that bully god and that will not sound convincing to anyone sane because you can't defend an evil schmuck, but you can only make yourself look bad.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"