DP. If the people who run that site are as blinkered, biased and dishonest as DCUM’s atheists—which seems likely given you guys are recommending it—that’s a hard pass. |
“their facts?” You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts. |
Ok, rationalwiki states God is a fictional character. According to them, God is a fictional character. Fictional characters can’t kill people. So: God (according to “their” facts) cannot commit murder or genocide or brush his teeth or play hopscotch, etc. So what’s the debate? |
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Yikes. Right on the page pp linked to, the rational wiki authors give us this glaring example of bad logic posing as insinuation.
“God of the New Testament appears to have had a rather drastic change in personality, resulting in far fewer deity-induced deaths than seen in the Old Testament. On the other hand, the New Testament is a smaller anthology covering a much shorter time period, and makes up for it with Revelation.” So because the NT is shorter than the OT, and written over a shorter time period, we’re supposed to assume…what, exactly? That it’s really the same old God but the NT just ran out of papyrus? LOL |
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According to the Bible, yes. Without looking at Wikipedia:
1) Noah's flood 2) Sodom & Gommorah 3) Passover 4) Parting of the Red Sea perhaps |
Pedantry aside, what is wrong with THE facts? |
The fact is rationalwiki believes God is a fictional character that was invented by people, yet God is responsible for personally killing hundreds/thousands of people. How is that rational? |
Doesn’t say he did it. The entry notes the Bible claims he did it. Is that false? |
op’s source says God doesn’t exist. |
![]() large image upload This is from rationalwiki. They don’t know if God exists, so why are they trying to blame God? |
I am sure You can read so I can only assume you are purposely avoiding the question. Does the Bible say the things that this website says it says? |
DP. You’re the one ignoring the nose on your own face. Your website strongly insinuates the NT God would look like the OT God except the NT is “shorter” and “written over a shorter period.” Which, obviously, is stupid. Why should we trust anything else on your site? |
It’s not a question of trust. Does the Bible say those things or not? |
While the Bible — and other works such as the Qur'an, the Bhagavad-Gita,Wikipedia and the Egyptian Book of the DeadWikipedia — may have some merit as literature, do have a lot of clever quotes, and may be worth studying for their impact on several millennia of history and philosophy, they have negligible moral authority for non-believers (unless supported by non-Biblical ethical theories) “”The Bible has written all over it the fact that it is a human-edited, socially constructed collection of books, put together by people over many, many centuries. —Michael Shermer[3] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bible rational wiki says the Bible was made by people and non-believers should not look to the Bible for an moral value. Are you looking to the man-made Bible about a fictional God for any moral guidance? Rational wiki says don’t do that. |
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