Atheists: Does it baffle you how believers use a book with talking snakes to *prove* their belief is true?

Question

and use verses from one book in the buybull to back other verses in the buybull?
That level of willful ignorance is a trip to see in action...isnt it?

Answer 1

Don't forget about talking donkeys, giants, men trying to rape angels, cramming several hundred thousand dangerous animals on one boat (including polar bears from the Arctic and marsupials from Australia), people turning into pillars of salt, burning bushes talking, people living several hundred years, making men out of dirt, making women out of a man's rib, a tower creating all the languages of the world.... want me to go on?

Answer 2

Dogma like this makes me want to laugh or cry.

It is like using the Odyssey and the Iliad to prove the existence of the Greek gods. All the places mentioned are real, so are lots of the people, so it all must be true.

The joke is that these people would probably see the fallacy in this example, but give blank looks when you say "and the same goes goes for the bible"

Its pathetic.


DEVOTED:
It has already been refuted. Bats are not birds. Hares are not ruminants. PI is not equal to 3.0 and the flood definitely never happened.

Thanks for playing, better luck next time.

Answer 3

"You are going to hell" unbeliever. Zeus is the one and true god all others are imatators. Even that Odin guy. Crucified and then a spear stuck in his side. Come on. Like that hasn't been done before.

HELLO,

Are you ignorant or naive? Do you really believe that? Read all there is about evolution before making such an uneducated statement. I have read your buybull, why not read Origin of the Species?
*********EDIT***********
Missing link? Try links. And they are no longer missing:

news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0327_060327_skull.html
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/04/AR2005050401397.html
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20277352/
www.clarku.edu/~piltdown/map_intro/missinglinkfound.html
www.nature.com/news/2006/060403/full/060403-7.html
www.world-science.net/othernews/060405_tiktaalikfrm.htm
www.guardian.co.uk/science/2006/apr/06/evolution.fossils
www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/shipman-link.html
www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s877478.htm

You can stop talking now. I really feel sorry for how you have been lied to but don't see it.

DEVOTED,

Uhmmm.... we are refuting it now.

Answer 4

Pastors in many cases tell churchgoers that they comprehend what actual morality is by technique of the fact they comprehend the Bible and bypass to church. some churchgoers keep in mind pre-conversion lives the place they screwed up--possibly had sexual encounters they sense sorry approximately or have been hooked on drugs or dedicated crimes. regardless of, the message it is repeated many times is "do not have confidence your self." If a Christian in a conservative sect sees something that disagrees with the pastor's interpretation of the Bible--say, she could desire to opt to positioned on a miniskirt or she thinks her gay co-workers advantageous merely the way she is or she does not love the assumption of being a mom--then for sure, she is erroneous, not "God," and she or he could desire to wish to God to think of in a diverse way. a advantageous atheist, or the potential of doing stable issues without primary exposure to God, the Bible, the church, etc., is going to in addition baffle this individual. greater liberal Christians merely comprehend that there are stable and undesirable human beings in all communities and that some impulses go beyond faith. The conservative Christian thinks it incredibly is the two taking you at your be conscious or the Bible at your be conscious, no in-between. And greater effective than probably, you will lose, regrettably.

Answer 5

Obviously I think the bible is a book of myths and I don't believe in God. However you could phrase it in a nicer way. I mean you are coming across as sounding pretty ignorant yourself, talking about "that level of willful ignorance is a trip to see in action".

Are you saying you aren't intelligent enough to comprehend the appeal of religion? An entry level mass marketing class would clear things up for you.

Answer 6

Gullibility, self-delusion and willful ignorance do not 'baffle' me... they sadden me.

Faith-based religious 'belief' is the ILLUSION of knowledge... i.e., self-delusion. Self-delusion is a form of insanity. Over 80% of the USA adult population professes religious 'belief'... therefore, over 80% of the USA adult population is delusional.

When some characteristic presents in 80% of a population, then that characteristic can be said to define what is 'normal'. Therfore, in the USA at least, insanity is 'normal'... the lunatics are running the asylum... and they have nuclear weapons.

That makes me a sadddd Panda.

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Answer 7

Don't forget the talking donkey. It does baffle me why people don't even question books containing such obvious fiction. Perhaps because they are incapable of reasoning without engaging in logical fallacies. Or perhaps because like "hello" below they live in a self imposed ignorance of the real world.

hello speaks nonsense.

A missing link is just a link which is missing. If we showed one to him it wouldn't be missing would it. In fact as soon as you find a missing link you produce two more missing links.

All animals which have children are transitional. Each of us contain mutations, we are never quite identical to either our parents or our children. We are indeed the "Transition" between our parents and our children.

Clearly hello knows nothing about evolution or he wouldn't use such worn out ridiculous arguments.

Answer 8

What baffles me more is that they use a book written hundreds of years after the "events" happened to prove their beliefs. It was passed down by word of mouth for that time. Have you ever heard the same story twice? I haven't, it changes every time, no matter who tells it (even if the same person tells it twice in the same night).

Answer 9

They get used to taking it seriously, and I get used to them taking it seriously. It'll never cease to amaze me when I really think about it, but I guess I've come to accept that grown adults here in the 21st century believe that the earth is 6,000 years old, Noah took dinosaurs on board the Ark, etc etc.

And of COURSE you're gonna have one guy say that "atheists believe in evolution despite the holes," and another guy that says "the Bible has never been refuted." (Just imagine the staggering degree of intellectual disingenuity it takes to make that statement.) It's absolutely pointless trying to teach the people who really need to be taught.

Answer 10

*shrug* I'm actually ok with the ones who take the Bible literally and become complete hermits to devote themselves to religion. Crazy people rarely bother me.

It's the ones that admit that there are metaphorical parts of the Bible and then use other parts to hate on and judge other people that I can't stand. Like they have any right to be the sole determiner of what interpretation of the Bible is right, when they admit that they don't take all of it seriously. Hypocrisy, plain and simple.