2007-03-04 04:28:23 · 25 answers · asked by The Church Lady 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Most atheists became atheists BECAUSE they read the Bible--with all its hypocrisy & contradictions.
2007-03-04 04:39:21 · answer #1 · answered by huffyb 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
How about we start quoting others instead?
Bible reading is an education in itself. --Lord Tennyson
To quote the bible is not an attempt to mock the bible for most athiests (at least the ones i prefer to talk to). I suggest that many athiests use bible quotations to show christians the internal contradictions and the lack of morals in the scripture which modern christians hold so dear.
Both read the Bible day and night; but you read black where I read white.--William Blake
2007-03-04 12:37:37 · answer #2 · answered by nnjamerson 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
From the things God did I would say he's a divine psychopath.
Striking those who strayed with lightning. Letting his children suffer eternal torment in hell. Telling the Israelites to massacre the people of the countries they conquered.
Definitely a psycho.
2007-03-04 13:40:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just as believers often quote Scripture to 'prove' the 'truth' of their claims, it's only fair that the same source can be quoted to support contrary points of view. This is a standard principle of any rational discussion.
2007-03-04 12:43:54 · answer #4 · answered by dukefenton 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have asked my atheist friends to stop doing that. In fact, I've asked that my more enlightened religious colleagues give it another shot at "translating" the Good Book - we are proposing it be called the "Expertly Revised Rendering" (ERR). Here is an example of a before and after using one of my favorite Deut. texts (25:11-12.)
Before:
“When men fight with one another and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts, then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity."
After:
"Any wife of a member of the WWA who jumps into the ring to assist her husband shall be barred from the arena for a period of 3 months."
Which is the way I think God meant it to be.
2007-03-04 12:55:20 · answer #5 · answered by JAT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know. Maybe it's just because they want to let us all know they're right by twisting God's word. Just wait till the Rapture. They'll get what they deserve.
I'm not sure whether you athiest at all, but if you are, don't report me for saying this: Athiests hate to hear God's word as much as I hate hearing Avril Lavegne. They're constantly underminding God's teachings. They'd rather worship THEIR god, Atheos.
But, either way, like the Bible says, "Judge not lest you be judged." The Bible doesn't just say that, but so do Metallica in "Holier Than Thou."
2007-03-04 12:41:51 · answer #6 · answered by GiR 2.0 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
They are like missing children on a milk carton. They are just waiting to come home. They should know that God's door is open. But come quickly, for each day you delay, that door closes a little more. You don't want to arrive a God's door and find it locked!
2007-03-04 12:36:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Why do Good Christians insist on interpreting other people's actions in terms of what Christians do?
Realize that we act and think differently and maybe we can have a real conversation.
2007-03-04 12:38:52 · answer #8 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The best way to disprove God would be to show where His word is wrong. If they can do that, then they disprove God. So they try by giving verses that seem contradictory or wrong.
2007-03-04 12:32:23 · answer #9 · answered by Christian #3412 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I am guilty of using the bible in my answers.
I do quote back biblical passages to educate the christians who ask me questions to make points. I do not do that to mock their god. I do it to emphasize my points with an authority they accept.
2007-03-04 12:34:31 · answer #10 · answered by CC 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋