Please explain?
There are simple things in the bible that anyone with a rational mind might question. I am thinking about the wholesale slaughter of anyone who does not believe in the one true god, for example. This is a loving and just god? Or verses that institute and support slavery, the subjugation of women and the treating of women as property and prostitutes. Or the really stupid versus that demand punishment for weaving with two different kinds of thread or touching the skin of a dead pig (does the NFL know this?). And my all time grand-daddy favorite, the verses that advise us that god has created us all for a specific purpose, some for eternal life and some for eternal damnation. Yes, that’s right, god created some of you to spend eternity in hell, just to prove he is right.
The list is long and mind you, none of these really fun things has ever been rescinded, apologized for, or explained. I am sorry, but “god works in mysterious ways”, or “only a fool questions god”, just does not cut it.
These are simple versus for one might reasonably ask, how in the name of all sanity can you believe that nonsense? By the way, that is the question that allowed me to drag myself out of religion.
But there are some real doctrinal issues I have with Christians that they just simply refuse to address. For example:
In Deuteronomy, the god of the Old Testament calls human sacrifice “detestable” and demands that all engaged in the practice be killed. But yet the god of John 3:16 offers god’s son as a human sacrifice for our sin. Did god just change his mind and is the “detestable” now okay? ? Explain this please?
In Deuteronomy, the god of the Old Testament says, “Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.” Yet again, the god of John 3:16 offers god’s son as a human sacrifice for all our sins. That's a complete reversal of doctrine mind you. Explain this please
In three of the four books of the New Testament, Jesus was asked how to attain eternal life. The fourth book does not record the conversation. Jesus advised the supplicant to obey the laws of Moses. Was Jesus lying? Explain please.
Jesus himself is quoted as saying, “I am the way the truth and the life, no man comes to the father but through me.” But Paul is quoted in Corinthians as saying that “those without the law are a law unto themselves, and will be judged according to their own hearts.” Was Paul or Jesus wrong here, because Paul says heaven is open to all of a pure heart.
Again the list is long and I am not even touching on the historical textual inaccuracies. But the doctrines of faith are simply riddled with contradiction. By the way, Christianity is not the exception by any means.
When you take it all into consideration, and add to that the fact there is not one single shred of evidence or history to support the doctrines of faith contained in Christianity, one can reasonably ask how can you believe any of this? I mean its just plain silly and inconceivable.
More importantly, since the answer almost always falls back on “it’s a matter of faith”, thereby admittedly not on fact, how can you force feed this nonsense to your children, to the public, or the world? How can you in good conscience stand in the way of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, with a belief system that is no better than belief in Peter Pan or Santa Clause (for whom there is some historical consistency)?
I mean really, your just wrong and its time to either make some reasonable factual answer or get out humanity's way. Because so far, your religion has just completely screwed things up.
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