RE: Hello atheistforum
February 16, 2012 at 11:40 pm
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2012 at 11:40 pm by Nebuloso.)
(February 16, 2012 at 10:37 pm)brotherlylove Wrote: What that is describing is consensual sex..they are both adulterers. That's fairly obvious, especially when you consider the very next verses:
Deuteronomy 22:25-26
But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:
But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:
Have you read the bible, at least the new testament all the way through? Jesus Christ was not putting a modern spin on anything, He fulfilled prophecy and said He was God incarnate. It's not a reinterpretation of the Old Testament, it is Gods revelation to the world.
And if you keep reading it says that if you rape a girl you have to pay her 50 bucks and marry her.
We can play this game all day and get nowhere. You already admitted that the OT is ugly. I admit its my fault for bringing a bible verse to argument.
As far as the NT goes, yes, I have read it and aside from human sacrifice, I will admit there are some good lessons but they are not lessons that can't be learned without reading them or even knowing of Jesus. Therefore, that gives them no justification.
Bottom line is there is no good reason to worship your god and no good reason to believe that any of it is true.
“You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better. ”
― Daniel C. Dennett
― Daniel C. Dennett