I suppose actually reading the book is out of the question. :)
The Bible is not a book of rules and ideals to follow, it’s a history book. What Moses or anyone did isn’t right just because it’s in the Bible.
Plenty of people take these ideas seriously. But what they take seriously (most of them) are the important things, like how to treat other people, not what to do if your second cousin kills your brother’s cow or something like that.
Contrairy to popular belief, there is scientific, historical, and philisophical evidence to support the Bible. The problem is, a lot Christians are really deluded and unclear as to what they are, and which ones are actually important. Even when I’m in church listening to a sermon, I see things that I don’t like, things that make assumptions and are confusing and not welcoming if you don’t already believe it. And yes, that sucks, and yes, that’s a problem, but that does not mean the Bible is untrue, and it does not mean that religious people are unintelligent and unreasonable. They don’t think that genocide and rape are good things, either. Again, the Bible is a history book. Learn from its example and don’t make the same mistakes.
And I havn’t investigated it myself, but many reasonable, intelligent people have read the Bible and tried to find contradictions. A lot of Atheists-turned-Christians did so because of the phrase “intellectual honesty”. They investigated the Bible for themselves and found that they couldn’t honestly tell themselves that it wasn’t true.
It’s true that terrible things happen because of the Christian religion, but just because something is done in the name of a religion doesn’t mean that that religion supports it.
Enemies of Christianity are not evil. They’re people too, and they’re good people. Christians try to evangilize people because they believe it’s for their own good. Burning you at the stake would probably kill you, and that defeats the purpose. If a Christian ever beats you up for dissing his faith, tell him he’s a hypocryte, becuase he is.
The Catholic-Protestant thing is not supposed to be important. According to the Bible, the Catholic-Protestant argument thing is wrong.
Rationality is all about TRUTH. If people lied and killed in the name of science, that wouldn’t make science evil and it wouldn’t make science wrong.
I’m only in junior high, and I didn’t understand all of your comment, but the things I did understand I tried to . . . I don’t know, correct.
And by the way,
atheism is a religion too.
I suppose actually reading the book is out of the question. :) The Bible is not a book of rules and ideals to follow, it’s a history book. What Moses or anyone did isn’t right just because it’s in the Bible. Plenty of people take these ideas seriously. But what they take seriously (most of them) are the important things, like how to treat other people, not what to do if your second cousin kills your brother’s cow or something like that. Contrairy to popular belief, there is scientific, historical, and philisophical evidence to support the Bible. The problem is, a lot Christians are really deluded and unclear as to what they are, and which ones are actually important. Even when I’m in church listening to a sermon, I see things that I don’t like, things that make assumptions and are confusing and not welcoming if you don’t already believe it. And yes, that sucks, and yes, that’s a problem, but that does not mean the Bible is untrue, and it does not mean that religious people are unintelligent and unreasonable. They don’t think that genocide and rape are good things, either. Again, the Bible is a history book. Learn from its example and don’t make the same mistakes. And I havn’t investigated it myself, but many reasonable, intelligent people have read the Bible and tried to find contradictions. A lot of Atheists-turned-Christians did so because of the phrase “intellectual honesty”. They investigated the Bible for themselves and found that they couldn’t honestly tell themselves that it wasn’t true. It’s true that terrible things happen because of the Christian religion, but just because something is done in the name of a religion doesn’t mean that that religion supports it. Enemies of Christianity are not evil. They’re people too, and they’re good people. Christians try to evangilize people because they believe it’s for their own good. Burning you at the stake would probably kill you, and that defeats the purpose. If a Christian ever beats you up for dissing his faith, tell him he’s a hypocryte, becuase he is. The Catholic-Protestant thing is not supposed to be important. According to the Bible, the Catholic-Protestant argument thing is wrong. Rationality is all about TRUTH. If people lied and killed in the name of science, that wouldn’t make science evil and it wouldn’t make science wrong. I’m only in junior high, and I didn’t understand all of your comment, but the things I did understand I tried to . . . I don’t know, correct. And by the way, atheism is a religion too.