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Refuting Christians with their Own Bible
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RE: Refuting Christians with their Own Bible
June 28, 2016 at 12:57 pm
(June 28, 2016 at 12:50 pm)Spirian Wrote: Flinging horse shit at horse shit only makes a bigger pile of horse shit. I haven't the time for such nonsense.

Then why come here?  Denouncing the superstitious is rollicking good fun!
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RE: Refuting Christians with their Own Bible
June 28, 2016 at 1:00 pm
(June 28, 2016 at 12:50 pm)RetiredArmy Wrote:
(June 28, 2016 at 12:36 pm)SteveII Wrote: The bad outweighing the good? I think you overestimate your objections to the Bible.

Christians should know how to handle the objections. Give me an example and I will give it a try.
Ok, here we go.  Let's start with Exodus 21.  Ready to receive excuses....

I predict the answer: they weren't slaves but willing servants. Or God let them have slaves because he didn't want to deprive the poor guys from owning human property.
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RE: Refuting Christians with their Own Bible
June 28, 2016 at 1:03 pm
(June 28, 2016 at 12:57 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
(June 28, 2016 at 12:50 pm)Spirian Wrote: Flinging horse shit at horse shit only makes a bigger pile of horse shit. I haven't the time for such nonsense.

Then why come here?  Denouncing the superstitious is rollicking good fun!

Hey, don't get me wrong, I enjoy watching christians try to tap dance their way around biblical BS, and I also enjoy watching them continually move the goalposts in attempts to "explain" the bible, but my comment was more about how I personally have no interest in participating with the endeavor. 

I used to play with them, now it is more of a spectator sport for me.

I'm here to watch Popcorn
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RE: Refuting Christians with their Own Bible
June 28, 2016 at 1:06 pm
I understand.  Take your time.  Eventually you'll find one that you need to kick in the nuts.

All things come to those who wait.

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RE: Refuting Christians with their Own Bible
June 28, 2016 at 1:14 pm
(June 28, 2016 at 1:06 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I understand.  Take your time.  Eventually you'll find one that you need to kick in the nuts.

All things come to those who wait.

Angel

No need to wait - he found me. I have no qualms about kicking him in the nuts either.
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RE: Refuting Christians with their Own Bible
June 28, 2016 at 1:45 pm (This post was last modified: June 28, 2016 at 1:47 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(June 28, 2016 at 8:26 am)SteveII Wrote:
(June 28, 2016 at 7:02 am)Incognito Wrote: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyath...so-can-we/

I just love that when they quote Bible passages, they are all so righteous. When we quote the bullshit parts of the Bible to them, they call us dickheads.

Christians LOVE to Cherry Pick the Bible

I hear all the time that Christians like to cherry pick the Bible and therefore...what?

What does that charge actually mean? That the Bible is not true? Are difficult passages evidence of something? If so what?

I agree there are many difficult passages to our modern sensibilities. But you seem to be saying that when a Christian quotes the Bible they should...what? quote OT passages rape laws just as often?...I don't know what you expect?

The thing is that Christians frequently say that all morality comes from the Bible and if there was no religion there would be no morality and the fact that people cherry pick what is good or bad  from the Bible is evidence that morality does not come from the Bible or God, but from secular philosophy and inborn morality, which then they bring in when they pick from the Bible.
Take for instance when Moses came down from Sinai and discovered Golden Calf. Now rarely any Christian will know what he did to the Israelites as a punishment for making it. Because they don't know the Bible, get their knowledge from watered down places like Sunday School, or Bibles for kids, movies.
Not to mention some of Bible's scientific claims like the claim that sky is a blanket, or the world is flat, or virgin birth...

Here's an explanation from Richard Dawkins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgHoyTvyh4o

Here's some of Christian's Cherry Pickings:
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Refuting Christians with their Own Bible
June 28, 2016 at 1:48 pm
Jesus Fucking Christ, some of those are straight from Jesus Himself.

I think I am suffering from No True Scotsman Dysphoria Syndrome now.
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RE: Refuting Christians with their Own Bible
June 28, 2016 at 2:05 pm
(June 28, 2016 at 1:14 pm)Spirian Wrote:
(June 28, 2016 at 1:06 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I understand.  Take your time.  Eventually you'll find one that you need to kick in the nuts.

All things come to those who wait.

Angel

No need to wait - he found me. I have no qualms about kicking him in the nuts either.

Dripshit has been kicked in the nuts so many times they make him sing with the sopranos.
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RE: Refuting Christians with their Own Bible
June 28, 2016 at 2:20 pm
(June 28, 2016 at 12:50 pm)RetiredArmy Wrote:
(June 28, 2016 at 12:36 pm)SteveII Wrote: The bad outweighing the good? I think you overestimate your objections to the Bible.

Christians should know how to handle the objections. Give me an example and I will give it a try.
Ok, here we go.  Let's start with Exodus 21.  Ready to receive excuses....

You're going to have to be more specific. There are 36 verses.
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RE: Refuting Christians with their Own Bible
June 28, 2016 at 5:16 pm (This post was last modified: June 28, 2016 at 5:19 pm by Veritas_Vincit.)
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