Quote (addone @ Feb 24 2023 04:12pm)

The bible sounds like it was written solely by humans in an ignorant, superstitious, and cruel age. The writers of the Bible lived in an unenlightened era, the book contains many errors and harmful teachings.
Also God is or Yhwh or Jelous as the bible refers to sounds like a deified ruler/general of some kind. A common practice for that time period.

Many of the Christians will argue with scripture without single shred of evidence. They will just quote you some paragraph without any proof or logic of any kind. They take it at face value and presume that you also believe it 100% as well. So if you are one of those people please note that it's equivalent to trying to debate with someone who replies with fortune cookie generator. If you are unable to logically convey your argument please don't assume to speak.

This thread will a form a case to why the bible and Christianity as a whole is erroneous and completely made up collection of stories that attempted to convey some kind of spiritual/moral compass to the masses while getting rich off its followers often times through physical violence, coercion and trickery.
Christianity is simply one of many religious and mythological creationist stories that are found in virtually in every ancient culture on earth. People needed explanations for natural phenomenon answers to philosophical questions in life. So they turned to paganism, religion and later to science and practical knowledge.

Let's begin!!

Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Feb 28 2023 10:48pm)

If Alexander the Great doesn't exist it changes literally nothing.

If the religious book you base your entire world view around is wrong (which it is, like, obviously and irrefutably) then millions of people around the world lose their guidance.

Gee, I wonder why one gets smore scrutiny.

Quote (EndlessSky @ Mar 1 2023 01:18pm)

The bible isnt a cookbook or a math textbook.

Its a guide for the human hear on how to navigate desires and make decisions leading to a happy life.

Quote (thesnipa @ Mar 1 2023 12:07pm)

the same logic applies to both, outside of bible literalists. most historians realize Alexander the Great's exploits were exaggerated and stories were combined to create his legend. same goes for the biblical record. both are meant to inspire and not be taken literally.

Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Mar 1 2023 03:03pm)

If it's just meant to be "inspiring" then there's no reason to treat it differently from spider man. At that point just call it a fan club instead of a religion.

Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Mar 1 2023 02:55pm)

If you actually used what's written in the Bible as a guide and didn't cherry pick you would be in jail in almost any modern country.

If you selectively use a few books in the New testament you might be fine, but the Bible as a whole is pretty grotesque

Quote (thesnipa @ Mar 1 2023 03:08pm)

except spiderman comes from stan lee, and the bible comes from the almighty god's own guiding hand.

starting from the "logical point" that god doesn't exist and therefore "his word" is no different than a comic book isn't very good debating.

Quote (said_aouita @ Mar 1 2023 08:11am)

It can't come soon enough.

Quote (thesnipa @ Mar 1 2023 10:07am)

the same logic applies to both, outside of bible literalists. most historians realize Alexander the Great's exploits were exaggerated and stories were combined to create his legend. same goes for the biblical record. both are meant to inspire and not be taken literally.

Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Mar 1 2023 11:55am)

If you actually used what's written in the Bible as a guide and didn't cherry pick you would be in jail in almost any modern country.

If you selectively use a few books in the New testament you might be fine, but the Bible as a whole is pretty grotesque