Atheism is a Joke.

You forget a very important factor there, both the Jews and the Arabs spent most of their history as oppressed, unimportant slaves and in many cases as the laughing stock of their highly advanced neighbours , this is the very reason their gods are hateful and restricting , this is why they see nations around them as the enemy.

Bringing some short of "competition" among sexes is ridiculous , everything has evolved to play a role and everything still works as it should otherwise women would die after menopause (by natural terms they are useless) , they would only marry men 20 or 30 years older ( because hunting is about experience and older men can bring more game to the table , also if you survive to your 40's your genes must be strong ) and so on . Things change because we change but our natural roles can never be shifted.

 

Indeed. But consistency is key. Some Christians (and I dont necessarily mean you, rev) for example condemn homosexuality because they think the bible tells them to, but think there is no way that slavery and killing infants can ever be acceptable when the bible clearly does not agree. Either portions of the bible have become less relevant than they used to be, or it is to be considered immutable in its entirety.

 

If You want to understand the text - you need to read to the end of it. But not to make conclusions from a mixture of separate quotes. It refers to any statement in the Bible. And if sodomia was indeed told to be a sin, Jesus never told that killing a baby or making a slave is acceptable. But the joke doesn't need the truth. Actually in order to be a joke means exaggerating and not telling the whole of the truth. This creates a joking effect. This is what atheism is destined to in any of its attempts of an action.

 

No, Jesus didn't SAY it was acceptable to kill infants. But he was the way to reach a god who did it. And he never SAID it was acceptable to keep slaves. But the bible gives recommendations on the right way to treat slaves.

Implications THAT strong are good enough, I say. Especially to those Christians who use implication in other ways - for example "It was Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve!" (again, not that I'm directing that at you personally).

 

That's what you THINK that Bible says. I believe you are just wrong for I haven't seen anything in the Bible that would tell of goodness in killing kids and having slaves.

It was written however that Eve and not Steve WAS MADE FOR the man. This sense is quite transparent. So the christians who say so understand the Bible rightly as I think. But if You want to know about the Bible it is better to go to the church rather than arguing in the Internet about it. I myself know the Bible but would rather restrain of quoting it here and there on my own. Bible for me is something intimate and personal that you share only with a limited number of people.
I haven't seen implications that would approve us killing kids or having slaves. If you saw - let's have a look at them. I bet for now that if we restore the context it will be evident that there is no of such an implication.

 

Did god (who, I am often told, is good) not cause the flood? Were there not children killed in the flood? And, just as a single quick example, does Deuteronomy 20:11 not give god's own command that those who accept terms of surrender should be forced into working for you?

Saying 'this particular woman was created for this particular man' is not the same as 'no man should have sex with another man'. You could say it IMPLIES that though...

 

Perhaps, we - the theists - are a joke, maybe there's no God in the sky, and we just pray to nothin'. I think that you represent yourself in this thread, as a foolish joke.

 

Atheism is a joke, but it's the least funny jokes of them all.

 

True. Yours are much funnier.

 

How is the Great Wind Challenge going for ya?

 

So many plays on that question come to mind.

 

What do you call that comedy of contradictions religion?

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