Biblical illiteracy

[Simon Moon]

In fairness, I tend to find both atheists and Christians have a skewed knowledge.

Christians tend to be knowledgeable about the fluffy bits and the bits which support their pre existing beliefs. For eg they might quote you chapter and verse on the passages on homosexuality but be more hazy on the bits about helping the poor (communism )

Wait....

Don't the vast majority of Christians believe in a literal Hell, were people are tortured for eternity for finite crimes?

Doesn't sound too much like a 'fluffy' belief to me.

The things that the Bible gets right, morally and ethically speaking, are not right because they are in the Bible. They are all discoverable independently.

The Code of Hammurabi (a secular document) was written 300 years before the Old Testament and is more moral than the Bible.

Whereas a lot of atheist s I know can quote me the top 5 contradictions but are unaware of the bits promoting equality or integrity.

Because these are more important to demonstrate that the 'Big Book of Multiple Choice' is unlikely (in the extreme) to be the word of an omniscient, omnipotent deity.

As I've said before, it's a verbal rorscarch.

Of course, because an omniscient, omnipotent deity could not figure out a method to make sure his message is communicated to all future generations other than in a way that is sure to be full of: contradictions and copy errors, written in dead languages by unknown authors that were not eyewitnesses, decades or more after the alleged events, on media that is sure to be destroyed in disasters, etc , etc. Even though he could have chosen any method he wanted.

Because being unambiguous is beyond 'God's' abilities.

That's one incompetent deity you believe in.