Questioning Beliefs

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@Godschild

ALL believers[ in the Abrahamic faiths at least) cherry pick their beliefs .Their holy books are so rife with contradictions that they have no choice.

The beliefs of an individual say more about himself and his culture than his book,regardless of whatever sacred book he claims to follow. If that were not the case there would not be literally hundreds of competing sects, each claiming "truth" for their own specific interpretations.

The mind boggling arrogance of Christian exclusiveness is one of the things which turned me away from Christianity.It took another 20 years for me to be confronted with the inescapable conclusion of atheism. I asked questions and received no answers. I looked for God and could not find him anywhere.

THAT is why I have so little patience with the unthinking and unreflective apologists who turn up here with the patronising assumption that we have not heard and dismissed their tired arguments many times.* (in my case often decades before they were born)

@Tacky: In my opinion,you are the single exception on this forum. For what it may be worth; I do not often agree with,but I do respect you.

If I've come across as arrogant I'm sorry it was not meant that way. All other religions are exclusive they each believe that their way is the only way. I know you and most others on this forum have heard most arguments that christians have and dissmissed them to your satisfaction but that does not mean you are correct in that assumtion. I am not an unthinking and unreflective christian, I state what I believe to be true for myself and will defend what I believe when I think I should. I to become irritated on occasion when a very young atheist spouts things he/she knows very little about and expect me to accept it as truth when it's easy to see they have a great deal to learn about life in general.... experience means a great deal when arguing a point.

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I do read the Bible and I also study it, unlike you I'm sure. Cherry picking has no place in understanding.

Well surely you must cherry pick yourself, otherwise surely you must be completely ignorant of the fact that the "God" described in "The Bible" is utterly horrific?

I do admit there are a few times I will cherry pick but never in defense of God, I will search the scriptures for the truth of the ONE I trust my life to. On the few occasions I do cherry pick instead of studing the scriptures or other material is a limit on my time. No, I see no such God in the Bible. I do see why you would think so and usually that comes from cherry picking through the scriptures.