Why is it when a non-believer reads a verse from the Bible they’re reading it wrong, misinterpreting it, or taking it out of context? However when a religious person reads a verse, they always get it right? Personally, I don’t see how you can read the laws about slavery or killing non-believers, homosexuals, unruly kids, etc. and not clearly understand what the Bible has to say on the matter. When you ask about those laws, they simply say that it doesn’t apply in this age. How can that be? The god of the Bible is supposed to be constant and never changing. If their god is really never changing, then the laws he made in the Bible should apply today. Shouldn’t it? Could it be that they use their own morals to choose which of God’s law to follow and which to dismiss due to the changing times and they don’t really get their morals from the holy book they hold so close to heart?
I can’t help but get frustrated when I speak with a deeply religious person on religion. They’re so quick to say that other religions are false, yet they don’t look hard at their own religion, or even research their own religion to see that their religion as just as much merit as all the others. It’s hard to make someone understand why I don’t believe in their god, because as soon as I say I don’t, they start with their devil talk and threats of hell. When I tell them, I don’t believe in the devil, their response is, “Of course you don’t. You don’t want to believe in God, so you don’t want to believe in the devil either. That’s how Satan traps you!” It’s not that I don’t want to believe in your god, I would love to believe in your god. My life would be so much easier if I did. But I can’t believe in something I don’t. It’s like saying you don’t want to believe in Santa because you don’t want any toys on Christmas. It just doesn’t make sense. The fact that you think we don’t want to believe in your god because we want to be bad people just shows how clueless you are about atheists.
It’s like trying to believe in fairies, unicorns, witches, or wizards. You don’t believe in them because you don’t want to, you don’t believe in them because there’s no evidence to support it. I just can’t live my life by faith alone. And to be honest, nobody can. You can claim you do, but when you go to cross the street, I know you look both ways before you cross. When you get sick, do you not see a doctor? Does he not give you medicine to heal your sickness? Sure, you can pray till your blue in the face, but it isn’t until after you take the medicine that you start to get well. When a storm comes, do you not prepare your house for it? Do you not go the store and get supplies in case the power goes out? Do you not board up your windows if the storm is bad? Sure, you can pray and ask God to stop the storm, but the storm is going to come and there might be real damage done by it. And what do you say then? When God doesn’t answer your prayers? “It’s God’s Will.” If it’s God’s will then why bother praying? If he’s going to do what he wants anyway, there’s really no point in praying for him to change something. If anything, it just shows how selfish you are. It shows that you think you’re better and he should change his plan just for you.
Now, I don’t read the Bible every day, but how many Christians do? I remember a lot from school, church, and prayer meetings, though. I remember wanting my parents to go to church with me (both are Christians), but they rarely went. They showed me that you don’t have to go to church to be a good person. My dad is the most understanding person I know. He’s never told me I’m going to hell, or tried to reconvert me to his religion. He taught me about life, what it means to be kind to people, how to be a good person, how to love those around you, and how to care for those you haven’t even met. He taught me how to listen to the problems of others and help if I could. He doesn’t think any less of me because I’m not a Christian. He taught how to make up my own mind and stand up for I believe in and that’s something that I will teach my kids. He taught me that family values are loving, caring, listening, understanding, helping, and protecting your family, not that marriage is one man and one woman. He taught me to treat everyone equal and to give everyone a chance.
As much as you religious people hate it, the Bible doesn’t give everyone equal rights. It only gives rights to certain men that believe in this god. Women, homosexuals, non-believers, people of other religions, and many others are second class, at best, to the men that worship this god. The god of the Bible is a hateful, homophobic, short-fused, selfish jerk. Anyone who has taken the time to read the whole Bible, not just the parts your pastor, preacher, or priest tells you to, can tell you this. But you don’t really take your religion seriously, do you? I mean how could you? Jesus said to obey all the commandments, not just the top ten, not just the ones you agree with, all of them. Jesus said to give all you could to the poor, yet I see many churches laced with gold. The Bible says no graven images, yet I see people wearing golden crosses and fish symbols on their cars. How can you say you’re a true follower of Christ when you don’t obey his commandments? I know many Christians that eat shellfish. God says that’s an abomination, but you guys don’t look at that. No, you’re too concerned with what the homosexuals are doing in the privacy of their own homes. All of you are hypocrites.
