(May 2, 2015 at 12:54 pm)Theoretical Skeptic Wrote: The Bible. Pure and simple.
What in the Bible? The impossible creation stories (both of them). The parts where god orders the Hebrews to commit genocide. God's decision to kill a bunch of Egyptian babies. The phrophets telling everyone that famine, and invasion are because they didn't pray to the right god? How about the parts where it describes historically impossible events like the census the year Jesus was born? Or where Joshua tells all about the conquering of the promised land with god's divine help and then in the next few books it's conquered all over non-miraculously? Is is it the rules about killing women for being raped and absurd dietary laws. The utter incoherence of Revelations? The forged letters of Paul? The parts were Jesus says the kingdom of god on earth would be ruled by all twelve of the disciples (including Judas)? The way each new Gospel gets more and more hostel to the Jews?
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
