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Old 03-09-2007, 01:45 AM
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Stoning adulterers. Killing your children for talking back at you. Keeping slaves. Having to drag your new bride to her fathers door to stone her to death for not being a virgin. Killing anybody who works on the sabbath. Encouraging incest, infanticide, genocide, misogynistic tendencies, racism, bigotry, homophobia, in-group/out-group hostility and on and on. The Bible is probably the worst source of morality you could ever come across. The God of the Old Testament (Yaweh) is arguably the most unpleasent character in all fiction, and although Jesus is a vast improvement, he does himself endorse all of God's instruction in the OT and he isn't exactly kindly and forgiving to those who didn't follow his teachings.


stoning adulterers (let he is without sin cast the first stone) i believe that changed a teaching, killin children (your getting this from where), mary was pregent out side of wedlock! jesus preformed works on the sabbath again cancelling out that teaching, as for the rest again all taken out by and disregagred by jesus himself. unless youn can show me where they are included! can u show me were just os nasty to his followers! u acusing without proving.
Injustices in the bible: http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/inj/long.html

Cruelty and Violence: http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/cruelty/long.html

Intolerance in the bible: http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/int/long.html

Read at your leisure, and as I said, alhough the character of Jesus and the NT is a vast improvement over God and the OT, he till endorses everything stated in the OT and if you only take Jesus in half his moods then he's certainly a wonderful character, the other half, not so much. But that just proves how Christians cherry-pick the text.

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morals by evolution doesnt is again only a theroy not fact. i know dawkins trys to support this claim! it fails to explain why there is still evil in the world! also goes against survival of the fittest!
It's beyond any doubt, ie, for all intense and purposes it's a fact as it's supported by literally millions and millions of mutually substantiating facts and countless different types of studies, including psychological studies which backs up the evolutionary roots of morality. The whole area of evolutionary psychology is predicated on this fact. It does explain why there is evil in the world and it doesn't go against survival of the fittest as I already outlined why. This simply proves how unbelievably ignorant you are on the subject.
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