Intelligence is a Curse

[Erinome]

That is so far removed from what I actually said it might as well be in another universe—not to mention how utterly incoherent your statement is ("The Bible is unbiblical"). Although I suspect that you could probably prove otherwise, I sincerely hope that you could not craft a more incomprehensible response if you tried. What I said is that young-earth creationism is unbiblical (and illogical and unscientific, a perfect strike out).

Young-earth creationism is unbiblical? To say that is to say the bible is unbiblical. You made reference to some of the more nutty branches of Christianity and called their beliefs "unbiblical". I'd like to watch you tell a room full of Pentecostals that very thing... from a closed circuit television miles away, of course.

It's okay that you don't get it. It's like the watchtower: Nobody can see it from the inside.

Anyone who is familiar with this distinguished scholar on the history of science—Hilldale & William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and recipient of the 2008 George Sarton Medal (for a lifetime of exceptional scholarly achievement in the field) by the History of Science Society—just laughed themselves into an asthma attack over the unmitigated hilarity of your ignorant response. As I did too. Thank you for making my night, Aleialoura.

I'll admit that I was ignorant of who exactly Numbers is, forgive me, I assumed that since you were dropping his name he must be someone who wrote a book that taught you about the Intelligent Design, apologetic crap. I do hope that prayer, or albuterol saved you from your asthma attack.

Christians are the biggest hypocrites ever.

My unsolicited advice to you would be to take a course in critical thinking. You said you were indicating hypocrisy. I asked what hypocrisy, exactly. So you reply, "They're hypocrites!" Um, thanks for reasserting your claim and completely failing to answer my question. Furthermore, putting your ignorance of the sixth commandment on public display like this does nothing to substantiate your claim of hypocrisy. You do know what the word means, right?

"Christians are the biggest hypocrites ever. In Exodus/Deuteronomy, for example, Mr. God writes a list of commandments for Moses. One of them says that killing is bad. Moses and his band of former "El" worshipers go on to slaughter masses of innocent people, because God commands them to do so. God himself is a hypocrite.

I feel like it's a great waste of time to going on about the billions of examples of biblical hypocrisy. It's your beloved book. You read it. I did, and that is one of the many reasons I am a happy, unapologetic atheist."

Is actually how I put it. Don't cherry pick me.

Are you telling me that Christians find stoning naughty children acceptable?

Lolwut? I am not telling you anything. I am asking something of you—that is, to substantiate your claim. Or retract it, if you prefer. You said that the reason why Christians "selectively disregard Deuteronomy and Leviticus is because it's no longer a part of our culture." Please cite the evidence which shows that this is their reason for disregarding old covenant laws, rituals, and practices (e.g., books or articles where Christians say this), so myself and others can verify your claim.

Example 1- Bible
http://spot.colorado.edu/~huemer/biblequotes.htm

Example 2- Unacceptable in modern society.
http://www.secularnewsdaily.com/2010/02/...cing-word/

Michael Pearl (mentioned in article, author of "How To Train Up a Child") is actually not a hypocrite. He is right. The only way to get a child to be obedient to the laws of god is to beat it into them. I recently discovered that Christians are responsible for the majority of abortions worldwide. This would suggest that not enough parents are beating their children, possibly?

This sort of thing was acceptable at the time that "God" and "Moses" wrote the book of Deuteronomy. It isn't now. Since the bible is said to be the word of god, it is in my opinion, hypocritical of people to pick parts out of the bible that are relevant in their life somehow, and skip over all the parts that are socially unacceptable.

The fact that I had to spell that out for you really slowly shows me that your reading comprehension skills are low, and you possibly shouldn't worry about my critical thinking skills.

Please do work on the reading comprehension thing before attempting to read the bible. If you can actually understand it by reading it, your morals might get the best of you, and perhaps you will put it down forever.