(February 23, 2018 at 7:25 pm)Banned Wrote:(February 23, 2018 at 5:56 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:
(February 23, 2018 at 6:19 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: Again, if you don't care what people believe or what they think of the Bible . . . why bother to argue your interpretation at all? Particularly to a group of people who do not believe in the existence of any gods?
You said that it can be mis-read. Well, that's pretty damned obvious. Even Wikipedia has a list of Christian sects/denominations that is absolutely mind-boggling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ch...ominations And after the "historical groups" section, they were all reading the same book - arguments re: translations aside. Thousands of groups that can't agree about what the silly book says, and many have a history of killing other groups who disagree with their "interpretation", and their imaginary sky-god has never given any indication that ANY one of the groups has it right or wrong. Not a single one of these groups has any history of being happier or healthier than any other group, either.
We tend to post Bible verses to theists who come here to preach. -- Without interpretation. And so often we get the response "but it's out of context" or "it doesn't say what you think it says" because the Christian witch doctors have gotten away with telling people lies for thousands of years. For most of the Church's history (any church) the con-men benefited from illiterate congregations. Many still have congregations trained to listen to fantasies and pontifications instead of reading for themselves.
You have a fantasy deity without the tiniest shred of real proof of its existence. You have a cobbled-together book of fairy tales and a million interpretations of what people think it says. Why the hell should we care if an SDA says that the Pentecostals are a "false religion" and the Pentecostals say that the Methodists "don't pray right"? It's all like a bunch of Trekkies arguing over the hidden meanings in Episode 21 and whether Kirk or Picard was the better captain.
Quote:Being bought up in a home of contradictions and confusion, just made me all the more determined to find the truth about what was going on.
I applied the same strategies when confronted with the obvious contradictions within religions.
Rebellion has its place and time, but it's usually a desperate and temporary move.
(February 23, 2018 at 6:02 pm)Crossless2.0 Wrote:
Well, that was a rather spectacular dodge. You didn't even come close to answering the question.
So you were brought up in a home of contradictions and confusion. Yay. You're a normal member of the human race.
You were determined to find the truth? Kudos. Our path is much the same. Yippee skip.
And then it diverges. I come to this forum to share my atheist experiences with other atheists. I don't go to Christian fora and tell them I think that ____ got it all wrong.
You studied religions and apparently decided that YOUR interpretation is right and that you need to tell the poor deluded unbelievers ALL about it. I studied religions and decided that they were all crap and that all preachers were lying snake-oil salesmen.
The question is "why are you here"? You know that we think your wholly babble is only worth using for toilet paper and your god doesn't exist, and that you have absolutely nothing to offer that we could possibly consider to be proof.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein