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Why would you want to believe in a God who could outlaw mixing fabrics but not slavery?
what sort of words are those people feeding themselves?It hurts plenty. We need to focus on combating REAL world problems. Many who buy into the life after death delusion either deny this or try to make it worse.
We've seen Muslims suicide bomb children's birthday parties believing that they'd get 72 virgins an alleged afterlife. Christian Zionists, a now very influential movement amongst conservatives, are willing to give the Israeli government whatever it wants, including wars which kill millions, in order to fulfill end times prophecies. Some Christians are similarly fine with doing nothing about climate change for similar reasons.
Suicide bombing is horrific. Actively trying to bring about the end the world is the worst thing people can do. As Voltaire said, "Those who can make you believe absurdities can also make you commit atrocities."
So you prove my point about it all being an unserious metaphor?what makes you think its a physical whale
maybe its a person who identifies with a whale like creature
According to my previous faith, God created Angels who did nothing but worship him. Then at some point, he created beings with free will and will reward those that worship him with heaven, and condemn those that don't to the worst pit of fire imaginable for eternity.
Sounds like a malicious being with a requirement to be worshipped to me, but let these folks tell it he's a all-good being without need![]()
I believe he's the one true creator.Why would you want to believe in a God who could outlaw mixing fabrics but not slavery?
We get you you're not a believer you're wasting your timeWhy did god wait until the last 100 years to help increase human lifespan with vaccines?
Why can’t your religion stand on its own? Why do you have to preach to others?We get you you're not a believer you're wasting your time![]()
The word and your own words can be whatever you wish them to beSo you prove my point about it all being an unserious metaphor?
So nothing means anything. Thanks.The word and your own words can be whatever you wish them to bediscernment is a gift from God
So god allows slavery cause it’s a fun quest to troll some of us for a bit?I believe he's the one true creator.
Outlaw or not outlaw slavery is of no relevance to me. This world isn't our final destination.
what if Ants do understand Humans?This is why religion is all lies. All the qualities they attribute to God (anger, jealousy, craving attention) are human qualities. Man wrote the books according to their own ideas, agendas, and short comings. You still have people calling God "he" or saying God is a woman. An omnipotent being needs a sexual distinction for what exactly? Why would God have genitalia
Why would a being powerful enough to create an entire universe require the worship of humans? That means 99.999999999% of everything in existence is irrelevant. The billions of years before man existed are irrelevant. When man ceases to exist nothing will matter.
Religion is just antiquated and primitive thinking from a time when humans didn't think anything existed outside of this planet.
And how can man understand the mind of an omnipotent being? That's like saying ants understand humans.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Thousands of Gods have been mentioned on this Earth.
you deny all of them except yours
an atheist just denies all of them and yours.
not a huge difference![]()