Atheists, which Biblical story makes the least sense?

Question

You can only chose one. I would especially like to hear from ex-Christian atheists like myself. is there one story (I know its hard to pick just one) that was so hard to believe that that story was the first domino leading towards your disbelief?

of course princess. your ideas are always appreciated! (((princess)))

Great answers so far. for me, it was any time incest had to repopulate the world...i did say only pick 1 story...so for me, it is also Noah's Arc.

Answer 1

My earliest memory of skepticism was when I was in Sunday school learning about Noah's Arc. I remember thinking the story was totally unbelievable and subjecting my teacher to endless doubting questions. I remember leaving class that day without any reasonable explanations to any of my questions. I was probably 8 years old.

I'm kind of proud of that.

For many, many years I expressed similar doubts and received equally unsatisfactory explanations that I finally threw in the towel and accepted the fact that I was born an Atheist, but was raised in a Christian home, and needed to return to Atheism before I could feel "complete."

I've continued to read the bible and learn because I need ammunition for judgemental friends and family who constantly try to "save" me. They think I don't know what I've rejected. They couldn't be more wrong.

My favorite "adult" bible story (for unbelievablity) may be the story about the penile foreskins: (not that it couldn't happen...but WHY?)
1 Samuel 18:27
David and his men went out and killed two hundred Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented the full number to the king so that he might become the king's son-in-law. Then Saul gave him his daughter Michal in marriage

Answer 2

Actually what makes the least sense is that there are actually adult human beings in the year 2007 who still believe any of the stories. But I would have to rank Noah, the "stopping" of the sun, Adam and Eve, talking animals, and walking on water as some of the most whacked out fiction of all time. But it's kind of like going to the beach and deciding which grain of sand is your favorite.

Answer 3

I don't like the whole snake talking thing..I'm an ex-chrisitan myself..Also I grew up in the bible belt, lots of Christians would picket against Gays cause it's a sin but some of them would be huge and fat..That's a sin also so I see them as picking and choosing what's okay and a sin not according to the bible but what's most convenient to them..

Answer 4

The creation story of Genesis is pretty hard to swallow.

Let's just put it like this: once you've concluded that a part of the Bible is false, rest assured the remaining is most likely false as well.

Answer 5

The 10 Plagues and a million people walking out of a country.

Creation and the Flood are excellent absurdities also, but I could only choose one...

Answer 6

Let's just start in the beginning and let it go from there:

Genesis' creation stories, with their idea that human beings are condemned due to some progenitor's fruit consumption.

After that, there is no context for any of the rest to make any sense, either.

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Answer 7

The sun standing still. While not as dramatic as Noah's ark, it's even more impossible.

Answer 8

The first chapter of Genesis.

Answer 9

John's Revelation! If you are a believer just try to explain it to me!

Answer 10

(((((Jeff)))))
(had to make the hug bigger)
Can a former atheist who doesn't take the bible literally answer too?

The story of Job. I mean, God and Satan got into a pissing contest, and destroyed that guy's life, for fun? And Job didn't at the end of it all go, "Dude, that was ****** sick. I mean, my sheep? SERIOUSLY?"