Intelligence is a Curse

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Pardon my interjection,

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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.

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I have told a room full of evangelicals that their beliefs and statement of faith was unbiblical and inconsistent. In true Christian format we discussed it, practiced patience and understanding. Some changed their opinion on the matter, others couldn't see anything other than the 2 verses they cherry-picked. Denial of one verse while accepting another is, IMO, just as bad as only reading the verses that agree with your view. It's not my understanding that throwing away reason and denial of presented evidence is consistent with Biblical teaching. Some people just don't like to question what they've established is their version of right.

Back to the point; while YEC may be particularly prevalent in certain geographical areas, generally, from my experience (from speaking with missionaries, pastors and believers all over the world) it is a minority view. Probably because it denies physical evidence and logic. YEC focuses more on denying scientific evidence than Biblical exegesis, hence I support the claim that YEC is in a minority view of what is Biblically accepted by most of Christendom.

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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.

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I also feel it's a waste of energy to rebut everything you feel is hypocritical because your view of Christianity does come off as strongly biased in the negative. Whatever apologetics I give will probably be chalked up to mental acrobatics or something. I will however still address this point.
In Exodus/ Deut. God doesn't say killing is bad. I completely agree that if he did it would be a contradiction. Look up the Hebrew ratsach. You'll find that while the less thorough translations might say kill, the original text is about murder, ie. unjustified killing. I know of no stories in the Bible where death was ordered without cause. Yes, even the killing of children.

Note for next point.. take note of your last sentence in that quote...

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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.

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... First example is clearly listing verses without context, independent of their surrounding text, with no understanding of their place in the text.. and you hate cherry picking... ok next point

I couldn’t get to the second link but I'll take your comment
"The only way to get a child to be obedient to the laws of god is to beat it into them."
I disagree, I don't beat.. or even spank my children and they know very well what's right from wrong, have a well developed conscious and my oldest chooses to learn more about what God's will is for him. If you're going to state it, please support it, because I feel it's a ludicrous statement.

" 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? "Or would it suggest that perhaps Christians (or at least those claiming it) are also a majority of the people. Your statistical analysis is severely flawed. Whatever your statistics, the vast majority of Christiandom feel/ teach that abortion is against God's law. Therefore if people are having abortion, they're not following typical Christian doctrine, ergo not in mainline Christianity.

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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.

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Please read the entire Bible and realize that context is a part of reading comprehension.