RE: Biblical Inerrancy - mandatory to be Christian?
March 26, 2013 at 10:39 pm
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2013 at 10:46 pm by Darkstar.)
(March 26, 2013 at 10:36 pm)jstrodel Wrote: No, that is not true, you can just respect things that other people respect because you are a decent person.
Nazis respect Hitler. Therefore...
Not that being religious is comparable to Nazism, or anything, just following this line of logic to the end. It isn't like people don't disrespect atheism all the time (though there isn't any particular figure to disrespect, per se).
I just try not to let things get to me (and they usually don't). Though there are some blasphemies I find to be kind of stupid, like:
(March 26, 2013 at 10:36 pm)jstrodel Wrote: How do you know which things are good? People go to hell not because they are good, but because they are evil. How do you know what you are doing is good?
Not true, God punishes people that sin and you can lose your salvation. Read Hebrews.
Sin =/= bad things. It only means things your god is said to not approve of. You yourself said that evil was simply whatever god didn't like.
This is the very definition of subjective morality, and for which no evidence beyond opinion has been applied.