Some Anti-Theist Religious Bits And Pieces

I ought to renowned at the outset the numerous thank you due to Aron Ra (simply plug the call into YouTube) for numerous of these great insights into the character of religion and non secular faiths / beliefs and the absurd nature that revolves around the non-nature of (the non-existent) God and the non-truth of the Bible.

Here's just one sample of Aron Ra's non secular philosophy: "Since God is described by using His outstanding abilties, that are defined by using technology as being physically impossible, this means that He is not possible by way of definition, and also that God exists outside this Universe which means He doesn't exist in fact, once more by means of definition; that and because there may be no evidence of Him and that which is said with out proof may be brushed off with out proof." [Note: the latter bit he attributed to Christopher Hitchens.]

Regarding Religion

All of the hundreds of religions and religious beliefs over many, many centuries cannot all be proper however they can all be wrong.

You have three monotheistic religions devoted to peace but who have constantly been in armed struggle with each other (each foremost and minor) due to the fact their inception.

The maximum not unusual and hated enemy of religions isn't other religions (even though inter-religion conflicts are proper and do appear) but are the atheists.

Religion: we are not anti-technology as long as technological know-how consents with us.

One cannot separate faith from technological know-how when you consider that religions make medical claims (i.E. - creation events) which are concern to scientific inquiry.

Science does not realize the whole lot but faith would not understand whatever. If you do not know and do not know which you do not know, but you attempt to steer others along with your lack of actual understanding, it really is dangerous.

Teaching hatred (of different religions) is religion's task.

It's okay to lie about non secular standards if who you're lying to does not understand that you're lying.

When religions state X, Y & Z as information, they need to place up (proof) or shut up like every other fields of take a look at must do.

In religion, magic / miracles are the ultimate of causes, so just ignore the information and include the myth via 'God glasses'.

No faith, no prayer, no miracle can save you from the pain of demise.

And since while has religion ever been about tolerance (i.E. - contraception, what goes on in the back of closed doorways between consenting adults, LGBT and gay marriage for instance)?

Notice how non secular punishments for being anti-God or being atheist or being a Doubting Thomas or failing in some other part of your spiritual creed are constantly dished out on this lifetime rather than the powers-that-be counting on you getting your just cakes inside the afterlife. So a lot for faith in God's phrase and capabilities.

Regarding Faith & Belief

Belief is being convinced. Lack of belief is loss of being convinced.

If you need to believe in a fable global then you'll be able to consider in plenty better fantasy / make-accept as true with / pretend worlds than the ones religions offer up.

I will believe anything it is I need to believe due to the fact I just need to accept as true with it because I simply want to agree with it. Self-deception is so valuable to the True Believer that the reality is irrelevant, immaterial and has no bearing on what I need to accept as true with. Facts are in inconvenient fact. So to creationists, records may be brushed off or disregarded on every occasion those 'statistics' struggle with the assumed authority of scripture.

If you consider ABSOLUTELY, then some thing (i.E. - miracles) is feasible and your brain isn't always strained.

The extra you surely understand, the less you have to trust.

Having belief is okay, but pointing out belief as reality is paramount to a lie. When you need to lie to shield your notion then your perception would not quantity to a hill of beans.

If you disbelieve in say astrology because there may be no evidence for astrology, then there's not anything exclusive in precept in disbelieving in God (or gods) due to the fact similarly there may be no evidence.

If one billion people accept as true with in a ridiculous issue (like astrology), it's nonetheless a daft aspect. Truth has no dating to the principle of democracy. This too applies equally to religious perception.

People who accept as true with in prayers / miracles report the hits but forget about the misses. This is called picking and deciding on, for instance, Biblical texts, to aid your ideals. Most non secular 'authentic' believers really pick out and choose what components of the Bible (or other religious texts) they pick to simply accept as (their) fact. In different words, in case you put off the statistics that does not agree with our non secular philosophy, glaringly the ultimate records will agree alternatively nicely. However, we all realize that that is dishonesty, natural and simple.

Faith is pretending to recognize what you honestly don't know.

You have the right to believe what you want to accept as true with, however you also have the right to be wrong. However, your proper to be wrong conflicts with my proper to be right.

It's easier to consider than to disbelieve due to the fact in "X-Files" terminology, "I need to accept as true with". I want to believe consequently I shall handiest examine literature that re-enforces that which I need to trust.

People, like atheists, do not define themselves through what they don't accept as true with.

When confronted through the ideals of non-Christians, Right-Wing Christians experience oppressed. That's after they can't oppress different humans (i.E. - those non-Christians) with their beliefs (i.E. - regarding abortion, homosexual marriage, separation of church and nation, and many others). Right-Wing Christians feel it perfectly justifiable to shove their beliefs down the throats of others, however the opposite isn't always to be tolerated.

The most effective sin on the way to no longer be forgiven is disbelief. You may be the most evil, immoral, unethical, character inside the world and be forgiven with the aid of pretending to know what you cannot certainly know. Faith is your salvation no matter what else you do, assume or act upon. If you are religious and of properly religion you don't ought to take any responsibility in your moves given that irrespective of what you do - other than disbelief - you'll be forgiven.

What True Believers agree with is more vital than what is true. In different phrases, it does not matter what the statistics are; it doesn't rely what the true is.

You can accept as true with in books which you have in no way read (i.E. - the Bible and different similar 'holy' texts). Lots of humans load up their bookshelves with books that they haven't examine and don't have any purpose of reading just because those e book titles are incredible and designed to affect different humans. Of course it's just any other shape of fraud.

Matters of religion can in no way be topics of technological know-how in view that faith can in no way be falsified.

Trying to convince a person out in their spiritual worldviews, out in their faith and perception machine is an exercising in pure futility. But if a person does grow to be convincing someone that God doesn't exist, properly it truly is a bonus.

What can be asserted without proof may be rejected with out proof.

Regarding the Bible

Biblical truth is an oxymoron.

The Bible is just a compilation of artificial mythologies, fables, tall testimonies, and so on. That consists of a potful of consistent absurdities, contradictions, atrocities, inconsistencies, inhumanity, immoralities, insanities, lack of information, irrelevances, as well as have plenty of sado-porn therein.

Here we have a religious textual content, the Old Testament, which would have you believe in a talking 'snake' (serpent) - Genesis 3: 1 & three:four-5 - where the 'snake' is by no means identified as being apart from only a 'snake' (or serpent)*. The equal Old Testament also has a speaking 'donkey' (ass) - Numbers 22: 28, 30 - which obviously have to be some other zoological first ("Mr. Ed" notwithstanding). Even enormously uneducated peasants living more than 2000+ years in the past knew snakes and donkeys did not and could not speak. They had been writing down natural fables and knew that to be so. In reality we want to stop electing people who accept as true with in snakes and donkeys that may communicate (although speaking snakes and donkeys may surely be greater coherent than the idiots all of us too regularly elect).

* Satan is on foot around inside the Book of Job and whilst he has his chin-wag with Jesus, yet the snake (or serpent) within the Garden of Eden turned into punished by using God and pressured to slither for all time on his belly forever. So if the Garden's snake turned into Satan - as is usually believed with the aid of the faithful - then it truly is yet every other Biblical contradiction.

Speaking of dumb matters, you recognize that in the Bible the kids are responsible for the deeds in their far flung ancestors and will be held responsible.

Preachers don't hold forth God's immoral bits and portions and related stuff out of the Bible, from the pulpit, in the front of the congregation and the devoted, considering that that doesn't bring in the cash.

To relate the relatively few suitable bits and pieces within the Bible (and other non secular texts) you need to cherry-pick them out. Picking random chapters and verses right here and there won't do the righteous trick.

Moses couldn't have written Deuteronomy in view that it's far recorded that he kicks the bucket inside that Biblical Book!

There's very little that is authentic in the Bible. Most of the tall tales, fables, stories, events, philosophies, etc. May be determined in even earlier texts.

The Bible for all sensible functions does not define marriage as between simply one guy and simply one lady but as an alternative because the union among one guy and as many girls as he can seduce, purchase or in any other case collect and own.

Thousands upon hundreds of theists have used Biblical texts to are expecting the End Times. Alas for them, there may be been a 100% failure price concerning their prophecies. So plenty for the rationality of theists and the Bible.

If you adopted and practised God's morality as mentioned within the Bible, you'd be arrested in every usa on Earth!

Euthanasia is the best shape of killing / murder that the Bible doesn't endorse.

Many True Believers, specifically fundamentalists / creationists do not worship God; they worship The Book.

Is the Bible surely God talking or humans who have determined to speak for God, talking their biases based totally on their very own ideas and agendas?

Using descriptions provided for in the Bible, it is simple to calculate the relative temperatures of Heaven and Hell, and wager what, as it turns out Heaven must be hotter that Hell!

If you consider inside the literal reality of the Bible then you have to consider in the literal truth of the ENTIRE Bible - no pickin' and selecting - lock, stock and ridiculous barrel.

So the quality way to come to be an atheist is to read the Bible!

Regarding Those Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments, unlike maximum laws generated by way of most legal structures and procedures therein, are authoritarian (as in dictated by means of a dictator in a dictatorship), now not democratically arrived at with the aid of any form of due manner.

The Old Testament info the Ten Commandments three separate times. You have the original set in Exodus 20: 2+ which became the set, set in stone, which Moses broke. You have a third near near set of the originals (sincerely pointless duplication) it really is indexed in Deuteronomy 5: 6+. But, you've got that 2d set in Exodus 34: 10+ which changed the set damaged via Moses and which presumable is THE set encapsulated inside the Ark of the Covenant. The hassle is this replacement set isn't always simplest DRASTICALLY distinct from the alternative  recordings, but Commandments you would not need to follow in a crimson suit.

It's a Tenth Commandment sin to have envy or jealousy and covet your neighbour's slaves, but it's now not a godly or a Biblical sin to without a doubt have slaves! If God became against slavery why didn't he problem an eleventh Commandment "Thou shall now not own another person" (i.E. - a slave)?

Regarding God

Isn't it just extremely good how in the  differing accounts of The Creation (and why the hell are there two accounts inside the first place?), God Almighty takes five 'days' (day 1, 2, 3, five, & 6) to create the Earth that's simplest just a tiny, tiny speck within the vastness of the Cosmos, and simplest one 'day' (day 4) to create the whole thing else (i.E. - the Cosmos). Something is screwy someplace.

Speaking of the Creation (and elsewhere within the Old Testament), have you noticed how God frequently talks to Himself? That's a bit of a fear!

God's opinion is still just an opinion.

Before theists can leap to the realization that "therefore simplest God alone could have finished this" (anything 'this' is), they need to rule out each different opportunity first and on this they fail to accomplish that. True believers continually bounce to the realization that it is God first and constantly and please do not in any other case confuse me with actual information.

Theists: if believing in God is incorrect, I don't want to be right.

The Seven Deadly Sins are: lust; gluttony; laziness; greed; envy; satisfaction; and wrath. Since God is with out sin, God ought to now not have any of those traits. But to be sincere, how a lot of those is God sincerely responsible of? Well God is, by way of His own admission, vain, jealous and vengeful.

Regarding God as mass assassin and committing crimes towards humanity, I'll just mention The Flood; Sodom and Gomorrah; & Ancient Egypt. God says "thou shall not kill" yet God has manner greater blood on His fingers than that of the finest dictator inside the history of the arena.

God gives the carrot (Heaven) and the stick (Hell). But why can not God just allow you just die rather than being forced into an afterlife in Heaven or Hell?

Speaking of which, God guarantees countless punishment (Hell) to your finite crimes. But because an all-knowing God created you absolutely aware of the effects, shouldn't God, as a moral / ethical 'parent' take some duty for this situation. Maybe God have to consign Himself to Hell!

Since God asks questions in those Biblical texts, it's apparent that God cannot be all-knowing!

Our 'all-understanding' God failed to seem to know if there have been any proper people living in Sodom & Gomorrah and if so how many.

Any statement to the impact that God can do something and the entirety is a cop-out answer since it explains the entirety by without a doubt explaining not anything! In any occasion it is incorrect. God can not create two parallel traces that intersect in Euclidean Space. And God, being physical in line with the Bible, can not travel faster than the speed of light. Further, if God was one light-12 months away and also you uttered a prayer to Him, God would not 'listen' your prayer for a whole year, through which period it is probably too little, too past due.

There's way extra evidence for the life of Santa Claus than there's for God - simply ask any toddler!

Isn't it outstanding how an all-omni Almighty God is restrained to a small geographical location on Planet Earth? The Bible mentions no godly activities in Asia or Europe or The Americas, or Australia or Antarctica or in Polynesia or Russia. Now I marvel - why may that be?

An all-best God couldn't have created the satisfactory of all feasible worlds with out also having created all possible worlds which would be required for the sake of contrast. Therefore God also created all the ones zillions of much less than the first-class of all possible worlds. The odds are therefore that we are on one of those less than the excellent of all possible worlds. So much for God's perfection and our place inside the grand scheme of things.

Now the ONLY report we have of God and God's nature and God's developments and characteristics is the Bible (and some other associated non secular texts). Written by means of humans for human beings is quite obvious (and not of route via God), however we've not anything else to head with the aid of. So yes, I'm attacking man's account of God, however within the absence of some thing else, what preference is there? But I possibly assault the human account of God in tons the equal manner as others likely assault the Ancient Greeks, Egyptians, or the Norse for their money owed of Apollo, Isis and Thor.

Where is God hiding? Why would not He show His face when you consider that He is claimed to be a non-public and an all-loving deity? Seeing as how He just loves His little youngsters you'll assume He's be a better 'figure'.

Now of course I cannot prove that God does not exist, however then too I can't prove that there are not fairies at the bottom of my lawn either. Maybe there are fairies in my garden and maybe there is a pot of actual gold on the stop of the rainbow, and perhaps pigs fly while nobody is asking! Until someone convinces me otherwise, God is simply one of those fairy memories, albeit one invented with the aid of person people commonly for person human beings. Of route God could overnight engrave the Ten Commandments onto the floor of the Moon for all to look through even a pair of binoculars. Were that to take place, nicely, I'd should reconsider the issue. Till then...

When's the closing time God performed a miracle that re-grew an amputee's limb? God's had lots of opportunities but God is usually a no-display.

If some thing isn't always explained by way of science, it's therefore explained by God (as the first lodge).

God is apparently so impotent and so powerless that He calls for His illiterate and bigoted minions, His True Believers, to fight His battles in opposition to the bullies, those non-believers, and act towards the heretics on His behalf with hatred, violence, terrorism, and harassment simply to guard His call. Just try to submit some atheist anti-God form of messages and see the sort of hate mail / electronic mail you get - and that is in case you're lucky. In some international locations you'll be hacked to death by using vigilantes; even carried out by way of the State.

Faced with a preference of accepting one having to suck up to God of the Old Testament, or accepting that there is no God (Old Testament be damned), then I for one assume the choice is a no-brainer. Now if only we could so easily disregard as our imagination a choose few of those sadly really real ancient figures who took as their function model God of the Old Testament, properly the sector might have been an awful lot higher off. By the manner, based at the antics of God of the Old Testament, I instead suspect that ninety five% of the human population might have made a higher activity out of being a deity! Couldn't be a whole lot worse.

If God has to have sure traits (i.E. - God answers prayers; God is all-loving, and many others.) and but there's no observational evidence for the ones developments, then some thing is screwy somewhere. If the Universe looks as if it must look like if there is no all-loving, all-benevolent, all-powerful, and many others. God, then Ockham's Razor could choose there in reality being no God.

Regarding God's 'Intelligent Design'

If God failed to need men to have foreskins (therefore the requirement for circumcision), then males shouldn't had been born with foreskins. God, the wise clothier, screwed up again! Further, if God is such an sensible fashion designer, why do we have know-how enamel, an appendix, tonsils, and a birth canal that have to be slightly wider than it's far?

Regarding the human body, one apparent layout flaw, if layout there be, is that our red blood cells have a far greater affinity for carbon monoxide than for oxygen, main to many deaths/yr through carbon monoxide poisoning specially seeing as how carbon monoxide is a colourless / odourless fuel. If God designed the human frame, that become a first-rate screw-up. I very lots doubt that flaw makes us more stunning.

Speaking of 'intelligent design' - If God is so omni this, that and the next thing, He would not have crammed things up. It's not a question of why we couldn't do higher; it is a query of why He failed to do better! A comply with-up: why design humans with such a lot of blood kinds? It complicates scientific transfusions (absolutely an all-knowing God foresaw this) and this poorly designed function of human body structure additionally complicates the mother-fetus relationship.

Further to feedback concerning arguing God from design, the juxtaposition of the human waste elimination device with the human reproductive system is just undeniable horrific engineering. Chalk up some other oops for the Almighty who failed Engineering a hundred and one.

God also must have designed us in this type of manner as to make it not possible for any evolutionary biologist to have concluded that humans evolved clearly and ascended from 'decrease' primates. God ought to have created us with a hundred% specific DNA with not anything in commonplace with some other residing (or extinct) organism. A real deity ought to have accomplished that. Humans could had been way better designed to have four legs and two palms. A actual deity may want to have carried out that too. God's loss of foresight amazes me in the poor.

Regarding Jesus

We all are aware from studying the Old Testament that God is properly and actually up Himself. However, Jesus within the New Testament is equally up himself. Consider Matthew 10: 37-38; Matthew 19: 29; and Luke 14: 26-27.

Any proof for the resurrection of Jesus resides mostly on hearsay. It's all someone who instructed someone who informed someone. True believers were not there - or for every other Biblical occasion both for that depend. Even if there are reviews of the resurrection of Jesus, a resurrected Jesus nevertheless does no longer prove that Jesus changed into born of a virgin; that his paternity was divine; that his moral teachings were correct; and that he did something else miraculous. Further, the concept of resurrection wasn't infrequently an unknown idea - Lazarus for instance.

It's okay to lie in case you're lying for Jesus.