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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hey OP, how would you rate your own morals? From your post here you're clearly a bigot with a potty mouth and an anger management problem.

Care to elaborate on why you're such a hateful person yourself?

Care to elaborate on how you feel qualified to bash religion when you clearly know nothing of the subtleties and differences among religious groups?

Do you think you're better than the Christians and possibly others you indiscriminately despise? Tell us why!

Do you think the country would be better if ignorant, bigotted drama queens like you were running it? Tell us why![/quote]

Op here. I'll respond to your exasperated diatribe. Essentially in the last two weeks the latest news to come out is that third in charge at the Vatican has been accused of molesting children,  and then this happened. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/police-raid-gay-orgy-at-cardinals-vatican-apartment/news-story/54f2b2825bf1f12b523b246b23bed5e4

From my perch as someone spiritual, but not religious, and extremely skeptical of organized religions based on books written by goat herders living in the desert thousands of years ago, it should moreso be you explaining to me why you subscribe to dogmatic, repressive ideologies. I "understand" all about the subtle differences in organized religions, they are not beautiful. A lot of them boil down to men controlling women, guilt and repressing gays. [/quote]
What's this about goat herders? Are you very ignorant or just maliciously dishonest? Since this thread seems to be pretty much aimed at Christianity, it would be good if you could enlighten us on your understanding of who wrote the books of the Bible. And what do YOU do for a living? Are you a lawyer? Maybe it would interest you to read the Mosaic law in Exodus through Deuteronomy. Are you a doctor? A physician wrote the books of Luke and Acts. Maybe you're a historian -- the history books of the Old Testament are extremely detailed and comprehensive. Or maybe you're even a [i]king[/i] of an entire nation like David and have written something of immortal consequence like the Psalms? Or maybe you're given as much respect for your wisdom as another king, Solomon (who like everyone else mentioned heretofore wasn't a goat herder). He wrote Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon, and even unbelievers still quote them. Are you in politics? The book of Daniel was written by a Jewish man in captivity in Babylon who became so well-regarded by the king that he rose in prominence to one of the highest positions of the entire kingdom. The book he wrote accurately described complex geopolitical events hundreds of years before they occurred. Or maybe you're a man of letters and have written poetry like Isaiah or works of persuasion and lament like Jeremiah. Half of the New Testament was written by Paul, an extremely learned, multilingual theologian whose explication of the faith is still the source 2,000 years later for anyone looking to defend or criticize Christian belief. After his conversion, he was a tent-maker, a total blue collar job. Do you think all blue-collar workers are stupid, or just Paul?

And even if you're not a lawyer, a doctor, a historian, a politician or even a king, why do you denigrate goat-herders? Those would be the ancient equivalent of today's farmers. Do you think they're all stupid? I would imagine you'd have to know quite a bit to keep a flock of animals alive, and you can't be stupid and run a farm. Or do you just think that ancient peoples had no intellect? This is demonstrably false and extremely narrow-minded of you. Yes, they didn't have cars and cell phones, but surely you know that technological advancements build upon one another. You don't get geniuses in the present unless you had geniuses in the past. And even so, technology doesn't answer questions such as origin, purpose, meaning. People still wrestle with these things today.

Christians, of course, believe all these men were led by God to write the books of the Bible. That's a matter of faith, but we don't think the LORD chose idiots to do so. Don't believe if you don't want to. But the Bible wasn't written by uneducated simpletons. You'd do your unbelief a lot better if you didn't make such uneducated assertions about the material you hate so much.[/quote]

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