RE: Religious beliefs need to stop.
August 26, 2013 at 11:39 am
(This post was last modified: August 26, 2013 at 11:47 am by The Reality Salesman01.)
(August 26, 2013 at 11:00 am)Sword of Christ Wrote:(August 26, 2013 at 10:55 am)BadWriterSparty Wrote: An interpretation of this verse somehow gives Christians the idea that they are SUPPOSED to Cherry Pick their favorite passages from the Bible in order to form a religion that suits them. That's called the blind leading the blind, in your case.
Jesus gives you the completed interpretation of the scripture and ultimately God himself upon which everything in the Bible was based. Jesus himself had little time for the man made laws and regulations of the Bible/Jewish traditions as he flouted them on many occasions. When questioned about this by the more pious Jews he essentially told them to fuck off.
Atheists seem to think that people who have faith need to check their minds at the door and blindly follow everything written to the letter. It says stuff about not mixing clothes of two different kinds in Leviticus. Do we have to obey these laws today? Well no. Do we still have to adhere to the one God of the universe and the teachings of Christ? Absolutely yes we do. Focusing on the entire point is not cherry picking.
You're focused on the point that suits you. You just said "no", but no where does it say that YOU get to choose what you give credence to and what you dismiss. That is cherry picking dude! The stuff I put up there about God saying he was gonna send wild animals in to eat people's babies...You can't just glaze over that stuff. It's in your book! You really can't see the sense we're making to you right now? You've got to get out of those trees. You're in the forest...just walk out!
There are Christians that would dismiss you as being Christian for the types of things you have dismissed here so far. Christians that believe so many things are to be taken literal, and they believe it with the same certainty as you when you casually dismiss it. These people think THEY are right, and YOU are wrong. But guess what? It doesn't say that either! There's no limit to the amount of embellishment that God has given you permission to add to that book. This is a problem for your religion. You people can't even get on the same page about the God you're serving, and yet you all call yourselves Christians. Why in the world would we believe, that out of the countless other Christians in the world preaching about a different bible, YOU are the one that ACTUALLY knows the right stuff, and that we should listen to YOU when you tell us to just ignore the crazy shit God wanted, threatened, authorized, sanctioned, and demanded in some parts, because YOU say that's not the REAL God? Do you realize how stupid you sound? Everything you say in support of the bible is intellectually bankrupt and morally corrupt. But, you know what? Screw it. Reason be damned, you just keep on rocking that foil hat, dude!
