antishock8 wrote:
Christian Church Fraudulent Characteristics:
17 - Ritual Human Sacrifice
There is no such thing in Christianity.
16 - Rape in the Bible
Certainly not in the New Testament, and even in the Old Testament, rape is not advocated.
15 - Sanctioned Murder in the Bible
Putting whole towns under the sword is only advocated in the Old Testament.
14 - Sanctioned Slavery in the Bible
Yes. In the Old Testament and pseudo-Pauline epistles.
13 - Noah's Ark
What about it?
12 - Adam & Eve impossibility
What about it?
11 - 6 day creation
Six periods, anyway. What about it?
10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.
Like I told you before lunkhead, you haven't seen me upset.
9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.
I have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created by God.
8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.
This does not apply to me, lunkhead.
7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including women, children, and trees!
I'm not obliged to embrace every aspect of the Old Testament.
6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.
I'm not sure I believe in the Virgin Birth, since only Matthew and Luke mention it, but in any event we humans have had "virgin births" for, what, three decades now?
5 - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving."
A hell of their own making, yes.
4 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise...
"Modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics" do not substantially conflict with Christianity.
...some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity.
I am not inclined to accept glossolalia.
3 - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.
Not quite.
2 - You don't like homosexuals because the Bible told you so.
There is also natural law. (q.v.)
antishock8 wrote:1 - You're an asshole.
A lovable one, yes.
Is that the best you can come up with?