(April 28, 2019 at 5:04 am)emilsein Wrote: I need some good logic to convince me to stay an atheist or at least an agnostic. I have been researching the bible and found out that throughout the old testament, well shit, it says that Jesus during his crucifixtion will experience darkness on the earth. And according to historian Josephus and Thailiius there was a weird omen that day. Now NASA just announced that there was a lunar eclipse during his crucifixtion time in a.d. 30, so now NASA is backing it up, not only that they say there was a lunar eclipse when Christ was born, they have been able to narrow it down. So knowing this could be a possibility and there was darkness during it, how do you explain it? How in the old testament, sprinkled throughout the damn thing they make literal prophecy about the earth being dark for hours, then it happened according to NASA. I am starting to wonder if this Christ fella might be real, but I need some logic, I am a schizoaffective type and have bad ocd so I'm writing this and reaching out to the atheist communityj. I don't belive much of the bible myself, I Do believe that he was crucified though and why would josephus and thalius lie about the darkness? I get the Christians lying but not the others, Does this seem like it might make you believe? How do you explain the old testament knew about the darkness?
This comes off as trollish.
Not a good idea to make your first couple of posts calling the word "atheist" a "faith". "Atheist" is not a "faith", it is a lack of faith, like an empty glass. It isn't a religion, or political party or economic view. Atheist merely means "off". Outside that, we are just as diverse in our politics and national backgrounds and classes as any other group.
The bible, like all the holy writings of all the religions in the world, worldwide, are mythology. Humans back then made bad guesses as to the nature of reality because they didn't know better. For the same reason you rightfully reject claims of Thor and Apollo and Osiris.
Women do not pop out of a man's rib. Donkeys and snakes and bushes do not talk. There was no global flood. There is no such thing as a magic baby with super powers, and human beings do not survive rigor mortis as the death mythology would imply.
That was then, this is now. Humans have far better factual data about nature and the universe than the claims of antiquity.
