Not sure if you're trying to insult me or not with your last sentence there, but I'll ignore it I guess. You can focus on that one aspect of the site I gave, or you can be an open minded person & you might see some correlation there, but that's ok, that's not really my main point. I get that's not strong enough evidence for you to change your mind, totally 100% understandable. It is a fact that a lot of these religions had plagiarized made up stories throughout history. It's funny, that when I talked to someone close to me about my religious doubts, he told me he learned most of that stuff I said about previous religions in his Catholic school, which was a kick-start for him to drop religion. But, I know that's not convincing enough either. I'll make it more clear for you, researching that stuff got me thinking about my religion! What really put me over the top, was looking at my own religion's "holy book" and many others. I looked at all the BS that I was ignoring my whole life, because of the fear of hell. How about you research evolution on wikipedia or on talkorigins, or a reliable source like that. Evolution is a fact, and if you argue against it, you are arguing from total ignorance. Check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timetable_o...ian_Period . Check out the billions of years the earth was empty and watch the evidence for bacteria arrive; and look a billion years later we still have bacteria, but now it's sexually reproducing. There are evidence of worms 700 million years ago. Maybe God is an omnipotent worm who created worms in his own image. Try and make a case that I'm wrong there. It makes more sense to believe that, than a man-like God who created us in his own image; when man just recently arrived here on this planet compared to the age of the earth (we're not a special creation, we've evolved).
So, let's totally ignore the previous religious correlations, because I'm willing to admit that the info is at least moderately questionable on the internet. The only thing we have to go on, is scribblings from uneducated desert wanderers, which isn't that reliable when they make the claims that they do. SO, ONCE AGAIN, since you tactically dodged my main questions in my last post; Please give me a logical explanation why you believe the good stuff in the bible, but ignore the moronic/evil/contradictory stuff in it? Why would you take that book seriously? Why not take other ones more seriously with less evil and fantasy in it? Why is there a need for a savior after all these unimaginable years; God can't save us by himself any more or was God that stingy not to share heaven for billions of years (100,000+ years for humans at least)? Explain to me why your religion is right and others are wrong. Why hasn't God charged a prophet today to annihilate the evil acts of religion in the world, since that's all he did a few thousand years ago in the Old Testament? For me to take you seriously, you can't dodge these questions I'm asking. Or maybe, admit I'm making reasonable points here, and some of these things are difficult to answer (maybe you can see where I'm coming from at least). Keep in mind I believed this stuff with all my heart. I'm genuinely wondering why you believe what you do. I believed this stuff for the same reason the 98%+ people believe it, because I was brought up into it. So, let's keep these questions I'm asking the topic of the next post please.
So, let's totally ignore the previous religious correlations, because I'm willing to admit that the info is at least moderately questionable on the internet. The only thing we have to go on, is scribblings from uneducated desert wanderers, which isn't that reliable when they make the claims that they do. SO, ONCE AGAIN, since you tactically dodged my main questions in my last post; Please give me a logical explanation why you believe the good stuff in the bible, but ignore the moronic/evil/contradictory stuff in it? Why would you take that book seriously? Why not take other ones more seriously with less evil and fantasy in it? Why is there a need for a savior after all these unimaginable years; God can't save us by himself any more or was God that stingy not to share heaven for billions of years (100,000+ years for humans at least)? Explain to me why your religion is right and others are wrong. Why hasn't God charged a prophet today to annihilate the evil acts of religion in the world, since that's all he did a few thousand years ago in the Old Testament? For me to take you seriously, you can't dodge these questions I'm asking. Or maybe, admit I'm making reasonable points here, and some of these things are difficult to answer (maybe you can see where I'm coming from at least). Keep in mind I believed this stuff with all my heart. I'm genuinely wondering why you believe what you do. I believed this stuff for the same reason the 98%+ people believe it, because I was brought up into it. So, let's keep these questions I'm asking the topic of the next post please.
"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence." -Christopher Hitchens- My Hero