Totally NOT a debate about the veracity of the gospels

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The asterisked portions of your post demonstrate to me you have a lot of misconceptions about Christian teachings.

Please feel free to amend this to the correct "my version of christian teachings." You know as well as I do that there are other churches and denominations and individual christians who accept my asterisked ideas as true to the word of god. And I won't indulge in a True Scotsman fallacy here; I'm happy to accept that you believe something different, but let's not pretend that yours is the only christian teaching on any given issue.

Most objections against Christianity that I have heard are based on these misconceptions.

Oh, they aren't misconceptions: they're in the bible. Each and every one. Which is why I guess it's important to draw a distinction between "christian teachings," and "the word of god." Because they're two different things; what you believe about your religion and what the book says are very different.

Given this, it's not as though these teachings are unique to christianity, given that the one unique belief set you guys have is being selectively read. Could it be that these teachings are just human ideals that christianity has attempted to take credit for?

I mean, the one common element is that humans are the ones espousing them...

If you would like for me to provide you with some references of arguments against Christianity that are not based misconceptions I would be delighted to.

: )

Nah, I don't really need more spin about how, for example, the biblical endorsement of slavery really doesn't mean what it actually says. I feel sick enough already.