Atheists & Agnostics
Related: About this forumCurmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)Bats are birds...
My favorite is probably "I'm not smart enough"----"I will give you wisdom". Yep, we have been waiting a long time for him to give all this wisdom to some of his closest and most devout supporters. I guess he didn't promise when he would impart this wisdom, just that he "will".
Armin-A
(367 posts)What if.... there is a God and his secret plan was to see who would have the brain power to defy him on the fact that there is no evidence for him ....and it was all a test....
nahhhhhh
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)At least if you were to look at all the "evidence". Think of poor Job, being just a pawn in a bet with the devil. Now THAT was sick.
Stark contrast. It's like the Light side and Dark side of the Force.
Armin-A
(367 posts)a bunch of fairy tales some can be interpreted as inspiring and some as "wtf"
I have a problem when people say "reading the 'good parts' of the bible gives you morals"... don't you already have morals to decide what's good and what isn't?
DemonSpawn
(45 posts)"God is not Great" by Christopher Hitchens. He rips the buy-bull apart.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)So does that mean there are "bad parts"? (Oh yeah, I forgot about the Book of Numbers. ) Isn't it all the word of god, and I mean literally?
Armin-A
(367 posts)The original unedited word of God and a few thousand translators and writers over the last couple millenniums
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)It's so obvious it's a hodge podge of lots of oral myths and stuff coddled together over many centuries...
like:
The Iliad
The Mahabharata
Gilgamesh
Arthurian legends
La Chanson de Roland
etc
It's SO obvious!!!
Bats are birds...HAHAHAHA.....
lib_wit_it
(2,222 posts)Well, OK, some things aren't possible, like ending war, elimnating obscene wealth disparity, women getting paid the same as men, etc., etc., etc...
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)surviving without oxygen or food
never going to the bathroom again
curing baldness