(November 8, 2017 at 10:53 am)alpha male Wrote:(November 8, 2017 at 10:22 am)Abaddon_ire Wrote: Why is there a problem with asking for evidence?
Because the Bible's treatment of the topic is the issue at hand. Whether the bible is demonstrably true or not is irrelevant for purposes of such a discussion. It's fine as a topic of its own, but it has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
Suppose you're in a literature class and discussing The Scarlet Letter. It doesn't matter whether Hester Prynne existed or not. If you were assigned a paper on the themes in the book and wrote There's no evidence Hester Prynne existed, so there's no point in addressing the themes, you'd fail.
Or, as noted, when an atheist makes a post alleging a problem with the Bible, other atheists don't jump down his throat demanding evidence for the Bible. That typically happens when the atheist starts losing to Christians.
Whether the Bible is true or not is irrelevant? Really? Are you stating that you care not a whit whether the Bible is true?
Well, that is an easy one.
If one believes the bible to be true one must support slavery.
If one does not support slavery then the bible cannot be true.