RE: Without citing the bible, what marks the bible as the one book with God's message?
January 7, 2013 at 2:59 pm
(January 7, 2013 at 2:13 pm)ronedee Wrote: But, at least you have a stationary target. I do not....because every Atheist has his own "non" belief system.
There's no such thing as a 'non-belief system'. There's nothing systemic about not believing. There are no rules to follow, no rituals to undertake, and no organization which claims to speak for us. Anything I, Zen Badger, Faith No More or any of the rest of us have in common beyond not believing in gods is completely coincidental.
Quote:That's what makes it hard to communicate with Atheists! We have to first figure out what form of hate they have. Just look at all the different replies I get! And each one of you disects my statements differently!
I do not hate God because God is a fiction, though I often make arguments with the assumption that he is real. If God was real, I would most certainly hate him, and I'll save you the trouble of figuring out why: the God in your bible is a worse, more pervasive, more destructive evil than any other mankind has yet to invent. He demonstrates every single one of humanity's worst, most heinous criminal traits, while almost never demonstrating any of humanity's better ones. The world is bad enough when it's only filled with people who think he's real. If he actually was, human existence would be one stagnant, endless nightmare of spiritual slavery to a being which is depicted as reveling in bloodshed and misery. You can tell who hasn't read the Bible, ever; they're the ones who think Jesus is your bud and wants to play hockey with your kids.
Quote:Also, most of those who do believe in God are not making the most trouble in the world....at least not the ones who believe in Christianity!
Christians in America are, as a group, responsible for much of the reparable ills in America, which has ripple effects on the entire world (many of them negative). Of course, other faiths like Islam are even worse and more actively threatening to humanity, but I wonder how gay people in Uganda feel now that their government, with the blessings of Christian leaders (and the churches) are about to unleash completely legal genocide upon them.
And, if there's one thing the Bible teaches us, it is that God has a real hardon for genocide.