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Right on point Kermie

So much antisemitism all the time.

Always talking smack about the Old Testament and quoting it to smear religion. Seems antisemitic to me.

hahah the best jokes are funny b/c they're true

I knooow! Gawl! Why don't you go back to Hooters and leave me alone!

A scary thought to be sure....

Those words are there, are they not?
Got a problem with them, take it up with God.

Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ (who claimed to be god) is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Malachi 3:6
“For I the Lord do not change

I am personally against abortion (so was Christopher Hitchens). I just wish the god of the bible was as well. But like most gods created by humans, to kill or not to kill really depends on the situation, his mood, what tribe or nation those unborn children belong to, and whether or not that child's parents slather "worship" on him day and night.

Hosea 13:16
The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open.

Numbers 31:17-18
Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately. But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves.

Genesis 7
And don't forget that millions of pregnant women ... and their unborn children ... were drowned in Noah's flood. All creatures great and small, the lord god drowned them all.

Genesis 18 and 19
I guess ol' god couldn't find even ten good Sodomites because he decides to kill them all in Genesis 19. Too bad Abraham didn't ask God about the children. Why not save them? If Abraham could find 10 good children, toddlers, infants, or babies, would God spare the city? Apparently not. God doesn't give a damn about children.

And don't forget, if your child picks up sticks on the sabbath, they have to be stoned.

Numbers 15:32-36
Now while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation. They put him under guard, because it had not been explained what should be done to him. Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man must surely be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.” So, as the Lord commanded Moses, all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died.

It's time to abandon religion. All of it. Every one of them.

That is in the old testament, before the new covenant.
https://www.gotquestions.org/new-covenant.html

A common Christian "argument" ...
Jesus states that it is easier for the universe to fall apart than any one piece of the Mosaic law (Luke 15:17). Is your universe falling apart yet? If not, the Mosaic Law still applies.
Jesus berated people for disobeying the Mosaic Law (John 7:16-19).

Let's face it: Your god YHWH was dreamt up by a group of bedouin wanderers 4,000 to 5,000 years ago to explain things they didn't understand. Then, supposedly, his son came to earth and was born to a woman who had NEVER had sex (yeah, right), then he lived a perfect life, traveled about the countryside (with no source of income), gathered followers, made some outrageous claims, defied known laws of physics and medicine, cherry picked the rules his daddy made up, got himself killed by pissing off the establishment, and supposedly, came back to life. Then, to prove he was who he said he was, supposedly appeared to multiple followers ... but he won't do that today because it isn't his "will" and you just have to believe it happened and have faith. So, consider the irony ... he had to "prove" he was risen to SOME people, but YOU just have to have faith. They didn't have to have faith back then because they supposedly had evidence. With evidence, you don't need faith. Where there is no evidence, faith is a requirement. Why are we expected to believe a 2,000 - 3,000 year old book written by bedouin wanderers who orally passed down fairy tales around their campfires? A book full of contradictions (www.bibviz.com).

Your "personal relationship" with your god is solely between your ears, within the confines of your own mind. This is why your god can seem so very real to you. In a very real sense, he is real because HE ... is YOU. This is why your god's opinions are so very often your opinions. This is why two believers of the same religion can both claim to agree with god's opinion but not with each other's. When you pray and god gives you answers, YOU are the source of those instincts, those intuitions, those feelings, those "insights." When you pray and you believe you're hearing the voice of god, you're simply having a conversation with yourself and don't want realize it. This is why god can always assuage the doubts of the believer. Your "god" knows exactly how you think because he is you. He knows your tastes, your biases and all the gaps in your logic.

Amazing how a person can say so much, yet know so little.
One day, you'll find out who was right......

Careful. You’ll strain a brain cell with those mental gymnastics.

I like how you type what you say to your self.

Therefore it follows that "he" knows what arguments you will find compelling and what mental gymnastics you are capable of to ignore any arguments to the contrary and the way you'll neatly make everything fit into your worldview, excusing and ignoring anything that doesn't. He knows how you'll move the targets to accommodate your beliefs, how you'll excuse the most horrific behaviors by him in his book. He knows how you'll excuse murder, rape, torture, ignoring the pleas of innocent people, killing those who aren't in the right tribe, abortion, or enslaving people and then beating them within an inch of their lives.

Doubting your salvation or your faith is evidence that your mind is fighting back against the ridiculous concept that an inter dimensional being actually exists and cares about your individual life ... or any human life for that matter. I probably can't convince you of anything I stated above because of the very fact that it is, in fact, true. You are your "god".

The next time you hear someone preaching or waxing poetic about god, Jesus, Mohamed or Joseph Smith, Vishnu, Krishna, Odin or Thor, change all the names and pronouns you hear them say, in your mind, so that they refer to the person speaking and trust me you will get a whole new perspective on life. This is why believers have such a strong emotional reaction whenever they encounter a non-believer. They simply misperceive the non-believer's rational skepticism about the supernatural as an assault on their "god" ... which is to say, an assault on their own personal identity. There are a vast multitude of religions and superstitious beliefs in the world that espouse many mutually contradicting doctrines. Therefore they cannot all be true. but they can certainly all be false. Even if one were actually proven to be true it would still follow that human beings have a rather remarkable propensity for making up entire religions and excusing all sorts of injustices committed in their name.

It really IS ironic to encounter people who are uber-skeptical in most other areas of their lives yet hold on to a childhood belief in a magical sky daddy ... who sets up

Everlasting Covenants (that means they never go away).

Arabic people aren't defined by A religion?

Do explain.

Never mind, I misunderstood what you were saying.