(November 25, 2012 at 2:41 am)journeyinghowie Wrote:(November 25, 2012 at 2:32 am)Stimbo Wrote: Null Hypothesis
There you go. Knock yourself out.
I learned nothing other than I already knew. Please, give me something useful. I feel like no one around here actually knows why they are atheist. It seems to me that its just a bunch of people with anti-religious sentiment talking about how much they hate religion for whatever reason. I don't see much real evidence for me to become an Atheist.
Sorry for joining in late... but how about:
Absolute no reliability in the NT documents.
1) not one author in the Bible claims to have met Jesus in person.
2) nothing can be known about an historical Jesus because the Gospels are hearsay upon hearsay.
3) the Bible has been edited and been added to substantially by anonymous people. The evidence is there in the different manuscripts found. Who knows what their motive was.
Stricking similarities between Christianity and older religions.
1) Mithraism portrayed Mithra as having a last supper.
2) virtually all the Catholic rituals were also in Mithraism, as the B grade apologist Justin Martyr tells us.
Also, because you are Catholic, you get the anti-Christian arguments+:
Your priests are perverted paedophiles who are protected by what is meant to be the body of people who propagate the Holy word of Gawd. Absolutely sickening.
I really wanted to get more of my reasons down but I'm meeting up with someone now so I have to go. Another one before I leave though: nowhere in the OT does it say the messiah will be born of a virgin. A young woman, yes, but NOT virgin.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle