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nailedit | 22:00 Thu 23rd Jan 2025 | Religion & Spirituality
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” (Voltaire)

 

I don't make a habit anymore of debating with street preachers. I used to many years ago but now just give them a wide birth. They are all bonkers as far as Im concerned.

 

However, recently bumped into an old school friend who was with a group of street evangelists of the born again variety. One of his group (a black African, not that makes any difference) came over. He really started on me after I told him my reasons for been an atheist. So I responded in kind.

 

Asked him if he would kill his child (or any child for that matter) if God told him to?

(As per the Abraham/Isaac story in the Bible)

Never batted an eyelid, yes he said.

These religious people are flaming nuts....

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Never been off it for any length of time but the O.P remains regardless.

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Oh, khandros post has gone...

I agree with you, Nailedit

Parasites cruelly exploiting the vulnerable.

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Looney tunes.....

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I'm sorry, but religious people really are mentally ill.

Openly admitted that they would kill their own child if they believed that God told them to???

 

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Wish that some posts were left up and invesigated by the police.

 

I've always thought the story of Abraham and Isaac one of the most cruel accounts.  If that God ever experienced love it was love of himself.  

//Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities //

True. The problem is that nobody thinks they're the one believing absurdities.

Except perhaps in hindsight when it's too late.

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naomi, can't disagree there. The God of the Bible is a psychopath in anybodys understanding (Anyone that is sane that is)

But when you get people who will openly admit that they would KILL their own children if they believed that God told them to?? That is a different ball game...

These people need some jail time....

 

 

Perhaps they were brain-damaged during a wide birth

if you read right to the end you'll find God didn't want Isaac sacrificed; it's a parable to show Israelites didn't get up to the cruelties required by foreign gods like Baal and Moloch. And Abraham went along with it because he trusted God wouldn't actually require him to do it: he was right.

Disinterest in the bible is the one of the few things I have in common with Donald Trump.

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//And Abraham went along with it because he trusted God wouldn't actually require him to do it//

 

Hogwash. If that was the case why does the bible record that he took firewood and a knife with him?

Are you another religious fruitloop?

 

 

We know God didn't want Isaac sacrificed, Jno - but Abraham didn't until he'd almost done it!  There's nothing to recommend that story.  It's just cruel.

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