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Tukar
One of the key commandment is thou shalt not kill, did god breach his own commandment for killing so many people in the bible?
Or killing unbelievers, sinners, adulterers, homosexuals etc is justifiable?
To be honest, i don't really have a good impression of organised religion as i believe they are easily abused, and there are many scandals around.
I'd like to hear your views on the issues such as using the bible in politics and in the court. ( using it to justify slavery, racism back in the olden days and homophobia currently. )
One of the key commandments is thou shalt not murder. But also we are commanded to love thy Mother and Father, honor God, etc etc etc. I believe its clear that the laws created for man do not apply to God. He can do whatever He wants, is it evil just because He told us not to? Or is it evil because we don't want to be killed? How do we define it as right wrong/justifiable or not justifiable?
I don't like organized religion either. I'm not really part of a church, nor do I ever really want to be.
And I don't think the Bible really justifies slavery, racism or homophobia any where.
And doctor, some of the the people who have come into religion came into it through logic,for example converts.
I've yet to meet one.
I would be one of these people. I was raised agnostic border lining atheist, but I had all ways doubted the concept that any sort of spiritual plane exists at all. In fact, was pretty dead sure about it. But the alternative after a while started making less and less sense to me. Life couldn't have sparked from nothing, the essence of human beings couldn't have sparked from nothing, I don't believe any of this could have sparked from nothing based on a random chance. I think there's an equally valid fight on both sides, and any body who really wants the truth and not just whatever they want to believe should really dig into the core story of both sides, rather than using shallow points to make either side sound stupid.
And as for that list you posted, I could easily take each one of those points and bring up an equally valid counter argument. In fact, I started a counter argument post, until about 5 paragraphs into it I realized it was really pointless to bother as no bodies going to go- ah hah! Tukars right! but rather continue to argue whatever side they believe in.
It's just like you said, you can't reason a person out of a person they had never reasoned themselves in to begin with. I'm not really interested in converting any body, I'd just encourage people to do their homework and research both ends from a non-biased perspective (harder to do than it sounds).
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