Don't you just love the hypocrisy of religion.

[brewer]

Not everything in the bible is to be taken literally.
We follow Jesus' teachings, not that of the OT.

Good work, apologists.

Stevie, is that you in disguise? You know that hacking an account is wrong.

[The Industrial Atheist]

god punishes children for the actions of their parents (hypocrisy 1) yet he's supposed to be a god of justice. Therefore the Christian god doesn't exist.

It's hard enough being a bastard.

Wait...if Churches had turned me away I wouldn't have wasted much of my time and guilt for so many years..

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[vorlon13]

Well, from time to time, it is just absolutely necessary to throw Jesus and his archaic take on things under the bus.

How can 'Christians' support a thrice married and twice divorced poon hound for president?? How will they explain it to "The Children" ??

Poor old Jesus, titular figure head, just so long as He knows His place at the end of the line behind all His followers.

[drfuzzy]

Don't like this theists? Don't panic, we're on your side. Just stop lying to yourselves that you're going to heaven!
 It's your silly book, not mine...

Hypocrisy #1
"A bitched shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord." (Deuteronomy 23:2)
A bitched is someone who was born outside of wedlock, which means you were born before your parents were married. Being born out of wedlock makes you filthy, apparently; so filthy in fact that it takes ten genetic steps down the line to wash how filthy it makes you.
So your family's 100% awesome to come to church in like a century or two if you're a bitched, which I guess is fair.
Wait, but what if your dad abandoned you and your mom after she had given birth to you... that means you're going to be held responsible and deprived of God's love... which... Wow, this means that Christian orphanages are hypocritical institutions if they're taking these kids to church. Brutal.

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Hypocrisy #2
"Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke [reason with] thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord." (Leviticus 19: 17-18)
This pretty much means that every single Westboro Baptist Church protest is inherently Un-Christian.
The Westboro Baptist Church, based in Topeka, Kansas has clearly forgotten this guideline, which is much more explicit than anti-homosexual Biblical references. The church is famous for being a hate group that protests at homosexuals' funerals and has nothing but contempt for any other religion besides its own. The church is using technology to hate on homosexuals through their website, godhatesf*gs.com and has a travel budget of over $200,000 to picket and disrupt funerals all over the country.
They protest military funerals (protest in their context actually means "harass") and make one of the worst days of these people's lives even worse. This is what they do as a primary form of "activism."
The scariest part is that these people actually procreate. They have kids holding up hateful signs and they teach their children the opposite of Christian values.
They have effectively made hate speech accepted and legal by slapping the word "church" on their group, which is probably the smartest thing they've ever done.
But if The Lord says love they neighbor, then what book are they reading?



Hypocrisy #3
"Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery." (Luke 16:18)
Ooookay, so no church should ever marry people who have already been married if this is the rule.
If anyone in a fundamentalist's family has ever been divorced or re-married, then they are going to hell.
Most people don't observe this rule because it clearly says in The Bible that you can pick and choose which rules you follow (it doesn't.)
According to this passage, all members of the congregation that have been divorced and/or remarried would be sinners and should be kicked out of the church. With a 50% divorce rate in America, it's safe to say that people are selectively ignoring this rule, yet somehow still seeing themselves as "pious."
Just because you're not deeply religious does not mean you're not a good person, and what people are really effectively doing in ignoring certain rules of Christianity is not only proving that exact point, but proving that they believe it.
"But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." (Matthew 5:28)
It's pretty safe to say every adult (and God knows, every teenager), has committed adultery by this standard.
Being attracted to the opposite gender is part of humanity. Law in Western society only prosecutes bad actions -- not bad thoughts, but that's not the way it's supposed to go.
Bring around some pictures from Men's Health for the women and some Maxim, perhaps some Playboy, for the men. Get them to look at it and give you an opinion. Most of the time, they will have lustful descriptions and will think nothing of it when they're really violated a cut and dry part of what is supposed to be their belief system. Feel free to shout things like "ADULTERER!" after Gerard Butler and Jessica Alba have made everyone into adequate sinners.


Hypocrisy #4
"I permit no woman to teach or have authority over men; she is to keep silent." Timothy 2:11
This is the most often quoted version of this passage, but in The King James Bible, it goes a little bit more like this...
"Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection." which has been translated and taken as the primary passage that doesn't allow women to be preachers. The whole section is really about women not being able to "malign the word of God" if they're not allowed to speak.
Keep in mind the first "big bad" antagonist in The Bible is women, as a gender.
So, since some woman allegedly bit into a delicious looking fruit at some point thousands of years ago, best to attribute one action to an entire gender (just to be safe.)
While this is a little brutal, bringing up this passage to someone who looks like these fine ladies to your left will most likely shut them up (or at the very least garner a really interesting response.)
All women holding up hateful signs are officially moot in the eyes of God, much like they are in the eyes of the rational, so hey, there's a good side to this rule.


Hypocrisy #5
"Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." (Psalm 137:9)
The Bible encourages disciplining your child... by throwing him against a stone wall, baby!
Doing so will apparently make you "happy" (if you're a sadistic psychopath, or if you hate your children.)
This is a dangerous encouragement of violence against helpless children and if followed, could easily be used to justify parents who shake their kids to death to make them stop crying or for simply just child abuse.
So next time someone's trying to prove that every passage of The Bible is beautiful and should be closely followed, ask them if they beat their kids.



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The thing I find amusing about this verse is, if you think about it for a second, Jesus of Nazareth was (supposedly) not Joseph's son. And you can be absolutely sure that Yahweh didn't show up at his bris to claim him.  So Jesus of Nazareth was a bastard.

[vorlon13]

we don't know much about God's parents either . . . .

[Minimalist]

We know enough.

[vorlon13]

So, what was the nature of Mary's orgasm ??

Continuous?

Peak and valley(s) ?

One biggee ??

Or the delayed one as she lit the cigarette after God had left ??

[ignoramus]

I'd say she had quite a cigar!

[Mister Agenda]

The infanticide thing is more descriptive than prescriptive. It's not a recommendation.

[Astonished]

It would be easier to acknowledge this hypocrisy if it wasn't so easy to point out actual inconsistencies and contradictions WITHIN the damn bible. The document itself can't make up its own fucking mind about practically anything so using any of it as a guide to anything is all the indication a person would need to determine that those who claim to follow it are certifiably nuts.