(August 26, 2015 at 12:59 pm)strawdawg Wrote: Love thy neighbor, hmmm sounds like love to me.
"Worship me or burn forever" ... not so much.
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Core Message Of Christianity Isn't One Of Love
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 "Worship me or burn forever" ... not so much. 
The "love they neighbour" bit, in the comparatively tiny New Testament, is the equivalent of father saying the odd "kind" thing now and then while beating the shit out of you the rest of the time.
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(August 26, 2015 at 1:12 pm)Divinity Wrote: The Bible would be just fine if it read: Makes you wonder why god decided to elaborate on all the rest, at great length, though...eh?
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 (August 26, 2015 at 1:14 pm)robvalue Wrote: The "love they neighbour" bit, in the comparatively tiny New Testament, is the equivalent of father saying the odd "kind" thing now and then while beating the shit out of you the rest of the time. A comprehensive reading of the bible, keeping in mind all the injunctions on who you can kill and why, suggests that "thy neighbor," specifically refers to people that share the precise same subset of traits that the christian god finds acceptable, and that the hidden corollary of "love thy neighbor" is that everyone else is to be conquered or slaughtered in keeping with the execution orders in the rest of the book.
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 (August 26, 2015 at 7:38 am)Stimbo Wrote: All religions are intended for control of the masses through fear. It's what's prevented the ninety-odd percent of the population from eating the rich élite since at least the time of the pharaohs. Xtianity merely perfected the game, to the extent that the masses willingly, even eagerly, put on their own shackles. Now we have mass communication and the internet - aka "where religions come to die" - it's the religions' turn to be afraid, as evidenced by the amount of rabid scorched-earth threats from their mouthpieces. Yes, let's hope their mass choirs are singing their swan song.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
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Since it was god who set Adam up to sin in the first ace then it is god ho put us on that train and if anybody winds up in ell it' because that's where god wants them It's not about choosing Jesus since the vast majority of humans who have been born throughout history never heard of him.
A loving god would never have crated hel to begin with. Most people have neither the power nor the knowledge to be truly evil. And nobody can do enough evil in this short life to deserve eternal punishment.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers. Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. --Voltaire Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.  (August 26, 2015 at 6:03 am)Imaginos7 Wrote: The message of Christianity is basically that God/Jesus wants you to believe, love and worship him, and if you don't do it he'll send you to hell to be tortured for eternity. Because we love God by loving our neighbor. "Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me."
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