Hi.
So yes, from the title... please explain if you think otherwise.
The inconsistency from all major religions, to me, already makes theism a bit ridiculous, and that's without even coming to some of the claims they make!
Let's arbitrarily take Christianity. Are you happy to associate yourselves with, say, Westboro Baptist Church?
These people have to be some of the most vile, backwards people alive in Western civilisation today. Their argument would be "We're doing God's work".
They believe in a God as much as you do, yet even they are hypocrites. They are following the evil, brutal tellings of the First Testament closer than you possibly are... but even they aren't following every word. These people are actually well educated in some senses (except, of course for science). They go to rallies to shout "God Hates Fags" anywhere and everywhere they can. They don't offer sacrafices, nor kill off other "armies" in God's name though.
I know it would enrage most of you to even be associated with such scum bags, I'm pretty sure you are all lovely people BUT you are both reading from the same scripture. What's to say you are right, and they are wrong? Or you're both right or both wrong? It seems impossible to doing anything right in the Bible anyways.
So... this is just one of many issues I have with religion in general. To me, if you truly believe in something like that, what tells you that you can cherry pick the ones you like and the ones you don't?
Can you really believe you'll burn in Hell for some offences and not others?
So yes, from the title... please explain if you think otherwise.
The inconsistency from all major religions, to me, already makes theism a bit ridiculous, and that's without even coming to some of the claims they make!
Let's arbitrarily take Christianity. Are you happy to associate yourselves with, say, Westboro Baptist Church?
These people have to be some of the most vile, backwards people alive in Western civilisation today. Their argument would be "We're doing God's work".
They believe in a God as much as you do, yet even they are hypocrites. They are following the evil, brutal tellings of the First Testament closer than you possibly are... but even they aren't following every word. These people are actually well educated in some senses (except, of course for science). They go to rallies to shout "God Hates Fags" anywhere and everywhere they can. They don't offer sacrafices, nor kill off other "armies" in God's name though.
I know it would enrage most of you to even be associated with such scum bags, I'm pretty sure you are all lovely people BUT you are both reading from the same scripture. What's to say you are right, and they are wrong? Or you're both right or both wrong? It seems impossible to doing anything right in the Bible anyways.
So... this is just one of many issues I have with religion in general. To me, if you truly believe in something like that, what tells you that you can cherry pick the ones you like and the ones you don't?
Can you really believe you'll burn in Hell for some offences and not others?