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Guno צְבִי
05-08-2018, 08:15 AM
After reading the Bible, many people are mystified as to why grown, otherwise intelligent adults would believe that it is the direct communication or the "inspired Word" of an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good being. To many people, it seems absolutely incredible that any reasonable person could maintain this belief in the face of our current scientific knowledge and the contemporary understanding of history, religion and mythology. To outsiders, the phenomenon of Christian belief is a puzzlement.
However, after a bit of research and reflection, the mystery is resolved. It soon becomes apparent that the whole bizarre Christian belief system is predicated, to a large degree, on two compelling ideas. The first idea is that maintaining faith in Bible claims is the most morally virtuous act one can perform and will be rewarded with an eternal life of bliss. The second belief is that doubting biblical claims represents the greatest evil imaginable and will be punished with an eternity of torture. These linchpin beliefs make it possible for Christians to accept thoroughly ridiculous biblical assertions not merely in the absence of evidence, but against the evidence-against reason.
The sanctification of "faith" and demonization of doubt short-circuits the thinking process. Since it is continually drilled into Christians' brains that faith must be maintained at all costs, anything which contradicts a Bible claim is automatically rationalized away as the arrogance of the "wise," as a ploy of Satan, or as a test of faith from God himself. So when it is explained and demonstrated to a Christian that the Bible is simply a collection of ancient writings masquerading as the "Word of God," this is dismissed as the delusion of unbelievers blinded by their sin. (See the wisdom of the world) When scientific discoveries are shown to clearly, directly and unambiguously contradict biblical pronouncements, these scientific discoveries are interpreted by the Christian as satanic trickery. If it is patiently and painstakingly evinced to the Christian that the Bible is filled from one end to the other with obscene cruelty and violence, pagan mythology and superstition, blatant contradictions, ludicrous claims and outrageous, blithering idiocy, the Christian smiles in the face of this, confident that his faith is being tested by God and that he will be rewarded accordingly in the Age To Come.
It must be understood that in the Alice-in-Wonderland Christian world view, the more difficult it is to believe in a biblical claim, the more one is glorified for believing it. Faith, believing no matter what the facts say, is the highest manifestation of moral righteousness. Developing and maintaining one's faith in the preposterous and the incomprehensible becomes the ultimate purpose of life. Tertullian's declaration, "I believe because it is impossible," is the boast of a man who celebrates his irrationality. While liberal Christians today may pay lip service to the notion of a reasonable faith, the sentiment of Tertullin's inane "I believe because it is impossible" is alive and well and continues to be spouted from church pulpits on Sunday mornings: "Brethren, did not Paul say that God will make foolish the wisdom of the world, and choose that which is foolish to shame the wise of the world? Brothers and Sisters, did not JEEEZ-ZUSS tell us that unless we become as little children we will never enter the kingdom of heaven, that God has chosen to hide his light from the eyes of the wise and reveal himself to babes?" Reason and knowledge are ridiculed while biblical absurdities are held aloft as bless-ed revelation. This is how Christianity sustains itself. It is the only way that it can.
Thus the Christian faith's invisible attributes are now clearly to be seen. Behind all the sacraments and the rituals, the organ music and the angelic choirs, the praying lips and the arms thrust heavenward, behind all this, propping it all up, is the monstrous doctrine that gullibility and ignorance are divine.
Please don't try to explain this to a Christian though, for it has been most assuredly foretold that he would be mocked and persecuted for Jesus' sake by the "wise" of a fallen, perishing world. Yea, lo, verily, for it has been written...

evince
05-08-2018, 08:25 AM
http://the-anointed-one.com/BBU84/biblicalstupidity/faith.htm

canceled.2021.1
05-08-2018, 08:30 AM
I always love when the godless try to Godsplain to Christians

Good stuff

evince
05-08-2018, 08:32 AM
I wish you actually did


stop godsplaining to non believers then

Callinectes
05-08-2018, 09:07 AM
I wish you actually did


stop godsplaining to non believers then

Then you heathens should stop trying to heathensplain god to believers. I swear, you guys are the grumpiest, most unhappy bunch of know it all’s I’ve ever seen! Get on with your lives! This is America! Walk away away from this stuff if you want, no one is going to burn you at the stake


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evince
05-08-2018, 09:18 AM
fuck off


others can speak of their beliefs

this is a free nation

domer76
05-09-2018, 03:37 PM
Then you heathens should stop trying to heathensplain god to believers. I swear, you guys are the grumpiest, most unhappy bunch of know it all’s I’ve ever seen! Get on with your lives! This is America! Walk away away from this stuff if you want, no one is going to burn you at the stake


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Probably would be better for people like Ralphie and Stretch and PMP just to shut the fuck up about the absolute "truth" of their book. And to stop invoking science in their lame attempts to prove the accuracy of their myths. They insult the intelligence of reasonable thinkers and the concepts of science. Nothing more that failed circular reasoning every time.

Worship as you will. Just don't come on a public forum and try to claim a collection of fairytales is reality. When you do, you'll be called on your bullshit.

Comprende?

kudzu
05-09-2018, 04:00 PM
I always love when the godless try to Godsplain to Christians

Good stuff

You have never even heard of Guide for the Perplexed by Maimonides or RAMBAM, have you?

kudzu
05-09-2018, 04:06 PM
According to Maimonides, he wrote the Guide

... “to enlighten a religious man who has been trained to believe in the truth of our holy Law, who conscientiously fulfills his moral and religious duties, and at the same time has been successful in his philosophical studies”.

“This work has also a second object in view: It seeks to explain certain obscure figures which occur in the Prophets, and are not distinctly characterized as being figures. Ignorant and superficial readers take them in a literal, not in a figurative sense. Even well informed persons are bewildered if they understand these passages in their literal signification, but they are entirely relieved of their perplexity when we explain the figure, or merely suggest that the terms are figurative. For this reason I have called this book Guide for the Perplexed”

Guno צְבִי
05-12-2018, 06:21 AM
“And we know that the period during which the influence of Christian theism was strongest, was the period when the intellectual life of civilised man was at its lowest, morality at its weakest, and the general outlook most hopeless. Religious control gave us heresy hunts, and Jew hunts, burnings for witchcraft, and magic in the place of medicine. It gave us the Inquisition and the auto da fé, the fires of Smithfield and the night of St. Bartholomew.”
― Chapman Cohen,

canceled.2021.1
05-12-2018, 06:29 AM
fuck off


others can speak of their beliefs

this is a free nation

Agreed and we are the only ones who act like it is.

YOU openly want to eliminate those who don’t think like you

canceled.2021.3
05-12-2018, 06:45 AM
I wish you actually did


stop godsplaining to non believers then

I AM GROOT

kudzu
05-16-2018, 12:13 PM
I always love when the godless try to Godsplain to Christians

Good stuff

Education matters. Guno is educated.

kudzu
05-16-2018, 12:17 PM
“And we know that the period during which the influence of Christian theism was strongest, was the period when the intellectual life of civilised man was at its lowest, morality at its weakest, and the general outlook most hopeless. Religious control gave us heresy hunts, and Jew hunts, burnings for witchcraft, and magic in the place of medicine. It gave us the Inquisition and the auto da fé, the fires of Smithfield and the night of St. Bartholomew.”
― Chapman Cohen,

Unquestioned religion is generally cruel in nature... and it always seems to belong to the mob.

Do you know about Hypatia (born c. 350–370; died 415 AD) ? She was a Hellenistic Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt.

cancel2 2022
05-16-2018, 01:55 PM
After reading the Bible, many people are mystified as to why grown, otherwise intelligent adults would believe that it is the direct communication or the "inspired Word" of an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good being. To many people, it seems absolutely incredible that any reasonable person could maintain this belief in the face of our current scientific knowledge and the contemporary understanding of history, religion and mythology. To outsiders, the phenomenon of Christian belief is a puzzlement.
However, after a bit of research and reflection, the mystery is resolved. It soon becomes apparent that the whole bizarre Christian belief system is predicated, to a large degree, on two compelling ideas. The first idea is that maintaining faith in Bible claims is the most morally virtuous act one can perform and will be rewarded with an eternal life of bliss. The second belief is that doubting biblical claims represents the greatest evil imaginable and will be punished with an eternity of torture. These linchpin beliefs make it possible for Christians to accept thoroughly ridiculous biblical assertions not merely in the absence of evidence, but against the evidence-against reason.
The sanctification of "faith" and demonization of doubt short-circuits the thinking process. Since it is continually drilled into Christians' brains that faith must be maintained at all costs, anything which contradicts a Bible claim is automatically rationalized away as the arrogance of the "wise," as a ploy of Satan, or as a test of faith from God himself. So when it is explained and demonstrated to a Christian that the Bible is simply a collection of ancient writings masquerading as the "Word of God," this is dismissed as the delusion of unbelievers blinded by their sin. (See the wisdom of the world) When scientific discoveries are shown to clearly, directly and unambiguously contradict biblical pronouncements, these scientific discoveries are interpreted by the Christian as satanic trickery. If it is patiently and painstakingly evinced to the Christian that the Bible is filled from one end to the other with obscene cruelty and violence, pagan mythology and superstition, blatant contradictions, ludicrous claims and outrageous, blithering idiocy, the Christian smiles in the face of this, confident that his faith is being tested by God and that he will be rewarded accordingly in the Age To Come.
It must be understood that in the Alice-in-Wonderland Christian world view, the more difficult it is to believe in a biblical claim, the more one is glorified for believing it. Faith, believing no matter what the facts say, is the highest manifestation of moral righteousness. Developing and maintaining one's faith in the preposterous and the incomprehensible becomes the ultimate purpose of life. Tertullian's declaration, "I believe because it is impossible," is the boast of a man who celebrates his irrationality. While liberal Christians today may pay lip service to the notion of a reasonable faith, the sentiment of Tertullin's inane "I believe because it is impossible" is alive and well and continues to be spouted from church pulpits on Sunday mornings: "Brethren, did not Paul say that God will make foolish the wisdom of the world, and choose that which is foolish to shame the wise of the world? Brothers and Sisters, did not JEEEZ-ZUSS tell us that unless we become as little children we will never enter the kingdom of heaven, that God has chosen to hide his light from the eyes of the wise and reveal himself to babes?" Reason and knowledge are ridiculed while biblical absurdities are held aloft as bless-ed revelation. This is how Christianity sustains itself. It is the only way that it can.
Thus the Christian faith's invisible attributes are now clearly to be seen. Behind all the sacraments and the rituals, the organ music and the angelic choirs, the praying lips and the arms thrust heavenward, behind all this, propping it all up, is the monstrous doctrine that gullibility and ignorance are divine.
Please don't try to explain this to a Christian though, for it has been most assuredly foretold that he would be mocked and persecuted for Jesus' sake by the "wise" of a fallen, perishing world. Yea, lo, verily, for it has been written...

Would it kill you to supply a link?

http://the-anointed-one.com/BBU84/biblicalstupidity/faith.htm

bhaktajan
05-16-2018, 02:45 PM
fuck off


others can speak of their beliefs

this is a free nation

That's why I am Homophobic!

I was born that way.

And I'll be damned if some one says I don't have a subjective right to be overtly Homophobic!

But otoh, I respect those that are not Homophobic.

kudzu
05-17-2018, 03:34 AM
Probably would be better for people like Ralphie and Stretch and PMP just to shut the fuck up about the absolute "truth" of their book. And to stop invoking science in their lame attempts to prove the accuracy of their myths. They insult the intelligence of reasonable thinkers and the concepts of science. Nothing more that failed circular reasoning every time.

Worship as you will. Just don't come on a public forum and try to claim a collection of fairytales is reality. When you do, you'll be called on your bullshit.

Comprende?


Good post... Many of these Christians want creation pseudoscience taught in schools.