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Permalink Reply by Skycomet the Fallen Angel on October 27, 2010 at 8:00pm

OMG!!! My brother used this against me when trying to "criticize" my atheism!! O_O He said that after I said that I couldn't believe the parts of the bible that are nice were true... simply because they were nice.... that either the whole bible is true and a rule book to follow... or it's unverifiable... composed of legends and myths... and is of no use to anyone.

He responded by saying that I was like a fundamentalist and "only the sith deal in absolutes."

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Permalink Reply by Jon Heim on October 27, 2010 at 9:52pm

You're brother sounds like a twat. (excuse the vulgarity.)

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Permalink Reply by Keith Johnston on October 27, 2010 at 11:07pm

Well if my brother used that against me my response would be.
And you believing all that bullshit is why everybody knows you are dumber than me!

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Permalink Reply by Jason Paisley on October 28, 2010 at 5:47pm

"The nice parts of the Bible regardless of their loving and benign nature remind me of the fact that even if you took a pile of manure and coated it with cinnamon and honey then adorned it with emeralds and sapphires and all the trappings of things nice and beautiful underneath all of that it's still a bunch of bullshit." - Jason Paisley

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Permalink Reply by Jason Paisley on November 2, 2010 at 4:45pm

There is a quote by one Democrat senator whose name escapes me now and it goes like this..

"You are entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts."

Atheists rely on facts rather than unsupported dogma to reach a conclusion.

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Permalink Reply by Jason Paisley on November 3, 2010 at 11:37am

That was him. FactCheck.org had that posted on their main page. I imagine they still do as it's rather brilliant.

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Permalink Reply by Gold Guy on November 5, 2010 at 4:02pm

I doubt that you were making an absolute. The bible has very low credibility, but not zero. As example, it references cities that we know existed at the time. He was latching on to your phrasing of accepting or rejecting the whole set of myths (his preferred version of the bible).

It is easy enough to clarify that you can't completely rule out the entire mythology, but that it has close to zero validity and that there is no justification for cherry picking the parts you like while ignoring the ugly immoral nature of their god. It is all equally improbable and all without evidence.

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Permalink Reply by Raymond Will on October 27, 2010 at 2:22pm

More cicuitous 'reasoning' based on (only) the bible. Don't think, just follow the authority of god as contained in the bible. make all the evidence fit the 'facts' in it or reject it! Talk about mind set, the religious are the prime examples!

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Permalink Reply by Jon Heim on October 27, 2010 at 2:36pm

...why bother, they will never understand.

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Permalink Reply by Dawn McCain on October 27, 2010 at 3:32pm

from the article:

"This is why it is important to study God’s Word and never compromise on any truth."

No believer in biblegod would DARE take an uncompromising look at scripture. They even have a euphemism for compromising on the meaning of scripture. They call it "taking the verse in context" where "context" is exegetical bondo.

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Permalink Reply by Angie the Anti-Theist on October 27, 2010 at 4:28pm

Fred Phelps. Sure he's evil, but at least he's a TRUE Christian. ;p

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Permalink Reply by Reggie on October 28, 2010 at 1:01pm

Exactly right, Angie. And surely he is still cherry picking some parts.

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