Enlighten Yourselves

[Delicate]

Late to the party but better late than never.

All I ask of you guys here, is to read a bible. For me, the bible personally enlightened me and reinforces my religion. Instead of retaining your knowledge by what you hear from Christians, actually read the scriptures that the religion is based off of.

I've come from a Southern Baptist (partly Catholic) home, and spent the majority of my life as a Christian, so I've read the bible more than a handful of times. I won't vote that I've read it in it's entirety because there's just some parts that I purposefully avoided because they put me to sleep even as a Christian, like the ridiculous genealogies. The bible is a large factor in my deconversion, it's just sickening.

You can be an atheist and still admit that the Bible, as a collection, is a literary masterpiece. You don't have to be a theist to appreciate it as a piece of art and monument of culture.

Trust me, we all wish your father had done that instead of impregnating that glob of cellulite you send cards to on mothers day.

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So you read two, no three(!) papers, and now you know everything? Explain how these three papers integrate with your thesis.

Clearly, you've forgotten what my thesis is and/or didn't even deign to read the title of the papers.... why should I waste my typing skillz?
Why should I type more to one who hasn't replied properly to a post I made filled with questions, and got some lame comparison to music!!

How can I deal with the rest of your claims if this claim is full of crap?

This is your claim: The people who wrote it, had no knowledge of any god.... they had no foresight, no insight, nothing tangible... they believed.

The first two papers claim this:
1) Relationships between religion, weight perception, and weight control behavior illustrate religion's multidimensionality.
2) the selective reward that religious belief systems provide for rule-conforming behavior induces systematic biases in cognitive-control parameters that are functional in producing the wanted behavior

The third paper by McCullough et al. has five conclusions which are much more interesting and I'm still reading it.

But look at how your claim and the evidence you cite has no connection whatsoever. You don't know how science works, do you?