(October 11, 2013 at 4:06 am)Esquilax Wrote: Yet another instance of the good parts of the human mind being created by god, but the bad parts... free will.
Atheists think all morality is relative is culture and personal opinion anyway but kick up a fuss whenever they see something in the Bible that is "immoral". it wouldn't have been immoral for the ancient Jews and there is no such thing as morality in general beyond social agreed social contracts. I would be able to take the view that something in the Bible was mistaken in the moral sense and it was written by humans with their own ideals whether or not God lay at the heart of the source of inspiration, as I believe he was. Atheists cherry pick the parts of the Bible they want to use and miss good, profound and meaningful parts entirely. They also ignore the fact that this was the source of much of what they today consider to be moral and good. What we call humanism was founded from these teachings this is what shaped our civilization, sometimes for the worse often for the better.
Quote:Not buying it. The bible is amazingly laughable, however.
I'm guessing you haven't read the whole thing just the parts that highlighted in those New Atheist polemics. That said even Dawkin's admires it as a work of literature, one of the greatest works ever written equal to Shakespeare.
Come all ye faithful joyful and triumphant.
