(July 3, 2015 at 4:50 am)TubbyTubby Wrote: You know, I'm interested in these theist/atheist discussions but I can feel a shift in my willingness to even read posts that quote scripture and try to interpret and justify it.
It just seems so futile and ridiculous that it almost seems like I'm reading a film script and not the real thoughts of real adults. Perhaps it's just me.
An example from GC (I'm not picking on you personally GC, it's just the most recent one)...
"By the way this Pharaoh did know Moses and possibly Aaron. Pharaoh was given his evidence but he thought more of himself, ( self interest, the original sin) than he did of his people. Pharaoh started the process of hardening his heart against God and when he wouldn't relent, God said enough is enough and put an end to it."
Now, to me, the fact that those type of thoughts exist in peoples heads is starting to seem completely alien to me. That someone places so much value in these ancient stories that it steers their entire life to the detriment of anything else starts to really sadden me if I ponder it for too long.
It's not just me is it?
It's a fact that the ancient Middle Eastern empires were constantly at each others' throats 24/7/365. Most of the Old Testament stories are simply war stories coated with layers of ethnocentric religious BS. The God character was simply the meanest SOB in charge at the particular time the story episode is about.
There's no invisible sky deity with a herd of multiple-winged creatures going about doing his dirty work. The creatures who do good and bad things are simply humans like us. And we can do those things at the same time for any reason or no reason.
Gods, devils, angels, demons, spirits, and ghosts don't exist in this solar system.
