The 10 Most Ridiculous Beliefs in the Christian Delusion

[ThomM]

Nice work!

It must have been damn hard narrowing it down to 10.

Actually - I can narrow it down to just one

Believing that somehow a god would have Al Sharpton et/al - ie a plethora of con men/minsiters - somehow represent a god - know what a god wants - and deserve money to tell the "secrets" to salvation!!!!!!

I have to believe that even if a Higher being did exist - it would be smart enough NOT to have these people represent him!

[vorlon13]

That is helpful too. Literalists of different flavors attacking each other is a beautiful thing. Discord and dissent !!!

Wailing !! Gnashing of teeth !!

[robvalue]

That's a good point. Even if you're a literalist, you have contradicting verses. So you either make your own judgement, or hold contradictory beliefs... I don't know how you act on the latter. So indeed, you are overruling god no matter what.

[vorlon13]

And no matter what, from our perspective, the christers will never be doing it right, and it will be by THEIR rules and scriptures.

Their religion has falsified itself, we just need to keep rubbing their noses in the crap.

[robvalue]

You bet. I wish there was a way to stop indoctrination. I would place a big bet that if indoctrination was stopped, religion would very quickly fade into a very vague superstition. People know they have to attack their children with it while their too young to defend themselves, how cowardly. They know they can't explain it in a way that makes sense to them when they get older.

[vorlon13]

The demotivational picture (elsewhere here at AF) that relates god's need to sacrifice himself to himself to appease himself for his causing original sin is priceless.

It needs wider distribution, and to spark a national discussion on the ludicrous foundations of all the abrahamic religions

[robvalue]

I love that one, it really sums up what a huge pile of crap that story is. If we could get that out over TV or something, it would be awesome.

Parents should be forced to explain it like that when they are trying to indoctrinate. With diagrams.

[DeistPaladin]

1. God requires human sacrifice to repay evil and Jesus' virgin blood was just the ingredient that holy justice demanded.

...and the sacrifice was (drum roll) himself as his own son. He volunteered to be the sacrifice that would convince himself to forgive us.

What a guy!

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Simple cupcake. God is a title and not a name. As in God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Three entities Father, Son ,Holy Spirit. One shared title of God.

Is this a new thing? I've not heard this one before. The word "God" is now redefined as a "title" (a definition that appears nowhere in the dictionary). Most people think of a powerful, immortal being when you say the word "god" and a specific being, the creator of the universe when it's the proper name, capital G "God". But now some Christians are saying it's just a jointly held title?

Kind of like a corporation with three shareholders?

Or a club with three members?

The word we usually use is "pantheon", or collective of gods within a mythology.

So explain how Christianity is not polytheistic with that redefinition of the word "God".

[Thumpalumpacus]

I can see no reason why numerous individuals over the long period of its writing would have anything to gain from creating and carrying on the bible story.

I'm sure separating the faithful from their filthy lucre has nothing to do with it.