Steve Shives started doing one of his "reading a christian book from an atheist's perspective", and mentioned how when people suffer, they just need faith that they'll come out of it stronger. Except that Yahweh never comes down and reassures people in the process that they will be stronger through suffering, and indeed some people are destroyed by suffering instead of being molded into something greater. I'm sure that some christians will say that they pray and get reassurance and answers, yet not everyone does, and such reassurance isn't always clear about what the end goal is.
Those darned mysterious ways that are incomprehensible. If he is so mysterious and incomprehensible, what is there to make him trustworthy? He supposedly rewards you in the afterlife, but we have no connection to the afterlife from here.
Those darned mysterious ways that are incomprehensible. If he is so mysterious and incomprehensible, what is there to make him trustworthy? He supposedly rewards you in the afterlife, but we have no connection to the afterlife from here.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
