RE: Knowing everything and allowing evil
February 25, 2012 at 2:07 am
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2012 at 2:10 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Excuse me? Jesus gave plenty of shitty advice, and advocated for positions that we (yourself included) have roundly and violently rejected.
I can't just look, I have to really look? What if I've really looked and I still see contradictions? Do I have to really, really look? And then? Really....really....really? I don't think you really have any room criticizing someone elses knowledge on the subject matter. You've had to be told what was and what was not in your own fairy tale. Some of us have looked, we didn't like what we saw. Some of us have learned, and still do not believe. Your posts would be about ten times less irritating if they weren't a steady parade of bullshit followed by implications of our collective ignorance in the face of your enlightenment.
You say the bible says this, and you back it up with a passage. An atheist says the bible says something different, and backs it up with a passage. Somehow, you come out of this exchange with the notion that the consistency of the bible is proved in this manner? The bible can be used (and has been used) to justify anything, absolutely anything. It's a big book, it wasn't written all at once, there's very little it doesn't say (though that silence itself is deafening). If you can't deal with that, if you can't have a conversation in which this is possible, then wtf are you even doing attempting to talk about the bible Chip?
I can't just look, I have to really look? What if I've really looked and I still see contradictions? Do I have to really, really look? And then? Really....really....really? I don't think you really have any room criticizing someone elses knowledge on the subject matter. You've had to be told what was and what was not in your own fairy tale. Some of us have looked, we didn't like what we saw. Some of us have learned, and still do not believe. Your posts would be about ten times less irritating if they weren't a steady parade of bullshit followed by implications of our collective ignorance in the face of your enlightenment.
You say the bible says this, and you back it up with a passage. An atheist says the bible says something different, and backs it up with a passage. Somehow, you come out of this exchange with the notion that the consistency of the bible is proved in this manner? The bible can be used (and has been used) to justify anything, absolutely anything. It's a big book, it wasn't written all at once, there's very little it doesn't say (though that silence itself is deafening). If you can't deal with that, if you can't have a conversation in which this is possible, then wtf are you even doing attempting to talk about the bible Chip?
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