(August 17, 2014 at 1:24 pm)robvalue Wrote: Then you are presented with two books. The names aren't important, let's just call them A and B. It has been guaranteed to you somehow that one of these really is the dictated word of god. The other is an elaborate fake, a book written by men to mimic the style of the true book.
Both books contain their accounts of what god is, what its laws are, various stories, and proclaim that they are the one and only true word of god. They both seem about as convincing as each other after a read through.
My question is, how do you decide which one is actually the word of god, and which one is the fake? What is your criteria?
I have presented similar questions to the religious on here, and they have been totally ignored. To me, one with less fairy tale-ish stories, moronic, evil bullshit would be a good starting point, but that doesn't stop the christians. I guarantee you no religious person could ever truthfully answer that. If I wasn't indoctrinated into any religion, and I looked at some of these books when I was 12, I would have laughed my ass off.
I still laugh at myself for believing all the things I did that whole time.
"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence." -Christopher Hitchens- My Hero
