We believe that those who wrote the New Testament are men who knew
Jesus well.

john w

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"Jehovah Jirah" <jhvhjirah@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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No atheistic argument can defeat this.

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First off, evolution is just as much 'Christian' as it is 'Atheistic' due to
the fact that it's a 'fact'.

You aren't going to argue that a 1st-century Jewish fella who is alleged to
have withered a fig tree to death because it had the audacity to fail to
produce its fruit out of season *and* endowed a number of his immediate
followers to raise people from the dead had a hand in creating every single
life form that has ever existed on planet earth by wiggling his nose in
unison with his supernatural 'Father' who is, actually, *himself*, are you?

Funny stuff! It is known of puny men that they frequently make fun of
things they don't understand.

It is also known that ridiculous stories will be ridiculed.

Hmmmmm... So do you ridicule Aesop's Fables? Do you ridicule Mother
Goose?

They are ridiculous stories, I suppose, but they are fun.

Are basing your views of reality on Aesops's Fables

We believe that those who wrote the New Testament are men who knew
Jesus well.

john w

or telling people

how they should live because of Mother Goose?
The bible is more ridiculous because people take it seriously.
The difference is, some people people can figure out that the bible is
no more true than Aesop's Fables or Mother Goose.
And some can't.

I know of no "ridiculous stories" in the Bible.

That puts you in the latter category.

I find it very interesting / amusing how the details of scripture are
both referred to as "the Bible REALLY DOES SAY THAT" while at the same
time, they discredit every comment between its covers!

Explain how it could be discredited for what is not in it?

Explain your "question."

The bible is not ridiculed for having erroneous information about how
to wax your surfboard, because there is no information in it regarding
waxing your surfboard.
Feel free to correct me o wizened one, if anybody can find that in the
bible it is you.
Assuming there is no surfboard waxing info, it would be ludicrous to
ridicule the bible for being all wrong about waxing surfboards.

Here's an example of what attracts ridicule:
King James Version,
Leviticus Chapter 11
20 All flying insects that walk on all fours are to be detestable to
you.
21 There are, however, some winged creatures that walk on all fours
that you may eat: those that have jointed legs for hopping on the
ground.
22 Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or
grasshopper.
23 But all other winged creatures that have four legs you are to
detest.

"the Bible REALLY DOES SAY THAT"

The bible is giving advice about eating insects. Jehovah says it's
okay to locusts, grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, even beetles, but
not the 4 footed kind.
Why would an all-knowing god prohibit people from eating something
that does not exist? Did he have bad vision? Couldn't get the math
figured out? Is he an idiot? Besides questioning if god could exist at
all, could a god this fucking stupid exist? Wasn't he the creator of
those insects? What's the problem? Godzheimers? Were the 4 footed
insects so sinful they had to perish in the flood?

I'm willing to conclude that this bible is certainly worthless
regarding entomology, and it naturally follows that any information in
it regarding any form of life is heavily suspected of being erroneous.


One can find something worthy of ridicule on almost every page of this
book, and with the above example being kinda average, it becomes easy
to get comfortable discrediting parts you may not have read. Any book
that has hundreds of dumbass examples in it like the above example
must be suspected of being totally worthless and all assertions in it
have to be scrutinized for validity if they are to be given any
attention at all.

In fact, don't bother.
I doubt if you could be intelligible if you tried.

Make sure you put your helmet on before you go out and play.

???

If you believe that, then you must believe that the guy in that picture is
Dr. D. James Kennedy prior to suffering his unfortunate heart attack.

(Proves that heart attacks could care less whether your imaginary 'God's'
imagined spokesperson on earth or the most passionate, outspoken atheist on
the planet, doesn't it? Doesn't make a hoot of a difference.)

Greywolf