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This is precisely why I'm raising my kids godfree: because I believe that an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent god wouldn't suddenly decide to endow a species with free will, intellect and deductive skills and then tell one guy (or a series of guys who put a bunch of writings together and proclaim it god's book) to tell everybody else to turn off those skills and "follow me."

Follow me of course means "check your brain at the door, do whatever I write or translate no matter how brutal or biased and do it unquestioningly. Oh, and all nonbelievers are infidels condemned to burn in hell. Also, give me your $$ unquestioningly."

God doesn't need $$ remember? Jesus said "give to god what is god's and Caesar what is Caesar's."

It's your book. If Jesus said to love one another is the highest law and give to Caesar what is Caesar's, then you can't turn around and say he didn't say those things, unless of course you question the validity of the book and it's writers, translators and interpreters, which would be a major growth step.
Oh and Jesus never said anything about the origin of the species at all. That's in Genesis. Just observe Catholic schools: the Creation story is taught in Religion class and evolution is taught in Biology, so somewhere people are allowed to question.[/quote]

You seem to be addressing the minority of bible/Quran literalists and creationists. But that's not who's on this thread. For example I believe in evolution (and I'm Protestant).

Anyway, you don't seem to understand free will. As a threshold step you're still free to decide whether to follow (and many atheists have decided not to follow).  Then you can decide (after research, not on a whim like another PP thinks) what to think about the follow-me guy (perhaps you haven't been following the previous pages where posters were questioning whether the "follow me" guy was born of a virgin). Then there's a whole lifetime of subtle decisions every "follower" makes, about whether what they're doing at the time is consistent with "live your neighbor".

Correct, Jesus never mentioned evolution. Or condemned homosexuality. Or said women weren't equal. Not sure where you were going with that, though.[/quote]

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