er.. I mean till you have faith. And I call this load of crap.
I don’t think there is a right way of being an atheist. But there are a group of believers that I treat with a lot of suspicion. The type who every post they write they say when I was a non believer this or that. I understand it is possible to convert to a delusion religion after having being irreligious. I, however, would expect that these group of believers write articles that are better thought out than their other brethren and sisters. I don’t understand how it is they churn out the same kind of trash. Maybe, religion does really atrophy the brain.
This particular theist writes
When I was a non-believer I could grasp that Jesus was a great man. I could grasp that His death on the cross was a travesty of human justice. I could grasp that He was a holy man of God that spoke great truths of the universe.
A statement, which from the face of it points to one who was generally ignorant of the scholarship on Jesus. Any one with a little common sense would as well have written this. Adding he was a non believer doesn’t add any value to the above statement. It isn’t profound.
He continues to write
However, as a non-believer, I just could not grasp the Christian theology that Jesus’ death on the cross was for me. I just could not grasp that Him hanging on the cross was for the forgiveness of my sins. How does a man dying on the cross reconcile me to God, I asked myself?
And I see the ramblings of a believer, a confused one but still a believer. The much he could be, in my opinion is a Muslim who was trying to grasp what the message of his fellow book people mean with a dying messiah. It’s a statement lacking any attempt at being critical.
His conclusion that
Jesus dying on the cross was just the end of a cool dude’s life and then the church fabricated the resurrection thing. It just doesn’t make any sense if Jesus was just…a man.
sounds more like apologist rambling than one engaged with an intellectual question. In fact, had he not written he was a non believer, I would think he belongs to the WLC school of apologists. Those who, like Brandon and UnkleE pretend to have a faith that is intellectual. How this is even possible, I am yet to understand.
Mark tells us
During the last plague in Egypt, God commanded the Israelites to paint the blood of an innocent pure lamb on their doorway so that the death plague would passover their homes. This points to Jesus on the cross. His blood was spilled so that we might live.
and I wonder what happened to humanity? Putting aside the myth of the story of the plagues, for a minute, how in the name of all that is profane would someone take joy in senseless murder so that he may live? Would Mark be willing to die so that other people in some distant future may live forever plus 1? I want to bang my head on my computer when I read such crock, except I still need to use it tomorrow. My head, I mean.
Mark tells us it was important for Jesus to commit suicide because
It all goes back God’s sacrificial system. Jesus is the culmination of that. The animals used in the passover and the sacrifices at the Tabernacle and later the Temple had to be pure and spotless to be used to atone for the sinner’s sin. Jesus was pure and spotless.
A former non believer, who has lost all sense of decency, tells us a god could not find a way to forgive people without recourse to a scapegoat? Think about it for a moment. So god needed to die to save us from god. The same god who had created the conditions for our failure, first by making us in his image, an image that I think is full of shit and then cursing the land, making it possible for malingerers to flourish. I sympathise with Mark. He would have remained a non believer or if he had to believe this silliness, he shouldn’t have become an apologist.
If, as he writes,
On the cross, He was thus sacrficed for sin. He became all sin of all time, past, present and future.
why should the christian be moral? All his sins have been paid for in advance. What is the point in repentance when all the sins have been washed away by the sacrificial lamb? And how does this work? Does it mean if Mark steals from his neighbour, he can point them to the cross in his house or one hanging around his neck? Or do I need faith to understand this trope?
This post is already longer than I would want it to be. The rest of the post is the same trope. Freewill, Satan and all the other excuses apologists come up with to explain their inability to think critically. Go read it.
Adam and Eve’s family consisted of sons Cain, Abel and Seth, plus a minimum of two other sons and two daughters. Why are the other children not named?
Did the sons have to fuck the sisters or the mother to make more kids? Did Adam fuck his daughters? I mean how did we populate the earth without the crime of incest. Oh wait the bible loves incest. Why don’t Christians today? I mean if you can’t keep it in your pants, keep it in the family.
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I think, we can only say it was free for all. Anyone could make available females pregnant. There was no incest.
I want to meet the christian who opposes incest and what reasons they have for doing so.
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Some superficial critics of the Bible charge that it contains a moral contradiction.It is alleged that whereas the practice of “incest” is condemned in the law of Moses, there appear to be cases in scripture where it is sanctioned.Abraham married his half-sister (Genesis 20:12), and both Isaac and Jacob married kinsmen (Genesis 22:20ff; 24:4; 24:43). Paul is said to have given his permission for a man to marry his own daughter (1 Corinthians 7:36-38).
Hahaha and I am no Christian, merely an outside observer I am sure I missed many passages of incest and worse…
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Lot shugged his daughters and there was no consequence.
Noah only saved his family, they were busy after that flooding the earth. The holy spirit-a part of the god head- made Mary – a child of god- pregnant. How can they be opposed to incest?
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Wonder if God’s cum tastes any different than normal men. Maybe there is just more? I mean God came to me and said I’m going to make you pregnant now. I’d say save the world the trouble and let me swallow the baby now because I don’t want to be responsible for this crap.
This guy doesn’t sound like an atheist. He sounds more like a nonbeliever who still wanted to believe.
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I don’t want to imagine the quantity of load a god cums. If only someone had thought of this detail back then and asked Mary.
He sounds like a confused believer who has read a few articles by atheists
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Being all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-loving-baby-yeah, he probably only requires a single sperm. He could impregnate by peeing after a wet dream.
But knowing bronze age goat herders, his ejaculate is no doubt like that of a horse (Ez 23:20).
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An omnibeing could impregnate just by thinking about it.
That size of load was in my mind. I wasn’t just sure of the chapter and verse
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“And thus, Mary, a virgin, was impregnated by a single load of about 2 pints which was ejaculated by god, in the guise of a white bird.” Mark, 45:89.
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Talking of a load of about 2 pints, how big are the balls
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“And his balls were as boulders, large, powerful, and, when they shook, musical.” Mark, 34:65
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Haha. I don’t want to think what he has been doing with himself since he last made Mary pregnant
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That’d be an awesome new take on the “virgin” birth story: Virgin woman becomes pregnant by giving glowing white light (claiming to be the holy spirit) a blow job. Cool.
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Nah I’d save the world the trouble and swallow it rather than take the holy creampie.
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That would be a load, Michelle.
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Thank Jeebus for folks like you. 🙂
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I am dying of laughter over here — you three slay me. I was reminded of this:
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I love that!
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Me likey
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Hey that is funny..
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And this…
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Even better!
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Hahaha
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The church up the way had a sign that read “The most powerful position is on your knees.”
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I think that is the most natural position lo. Most animals I have observed approach from behind
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Mmmm doggie.. I also like cowgirl and reverse cowgirl as I like being on top..
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Are there any animals that do the missionary position? Apart from humans?
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while I appreciate as much as the next guy that Michelle would rather take one for the team, disposing of YHWH’s glowing semen like a shooter at happy hour, I’d like to hope that no one tells her that the US Navy is making glowing seamen every day. As I understand things they are out to see for 6 months, then back to shore for six months with not much to do.
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I hope she will tell us something about this
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Love military guys. Had several as boyfriends. One who lost his leg and the decided after I nursed him back to health that his passion was music so we split so he could follow that dream. Another lost his life for our nation in Iraq on his 3rd tour since I’d known him. None right now but there is a Navy base here in hawaii. Maybe I’ll find a new bf someday. When I want one.
Also used to do a lot of private shows for the local bases back in florida.
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“Adam and Abel were gay and would only copulate with each other. Thus, we are all the incestuous descendants of Eve, her daughters, and her other sons.” Marlon Brando, after filming “The Godfather”, circa 1972.
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So who made Eve and her daughters pregnant? Gods?
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Cain, Seth and the other boys. Geez! Are you doubting Marlon Brando! I mean, COME ON!!!
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No, no, I can’t doubt your quote generator. It only tells us what is true
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“I used to be a non-believer”. Yeah. Right. Chew on my tiny little ass crack, fella.
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It is a lot of crock, if you ask me
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Have you not met the Duggar family from the popular show in America ’19 kids and counting’ (look them up if you haven’t , they are the epitome of everything wrong with religion)
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Oh I know them.
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You sure can find ’em. Doubtful this fellow whose post you link here is aware even that his idea of “Jesus” and the cross are constructs of Paul, and many other writers of fiction after him, which were solidified in our culture by Constantine, and many after him, through murder, violence, and terror. No body was found in Jesus’ tomb because there was no tomb and no body. It is a fabricated story. Had a Jewish preacher lived whom the Romans crucified for crimes against the Empire, his body would have been left on the cross after he died to be scavenged by dogs, birds, and other animals. This was how the Roman practice of crucifixion worked, and because of this, we have almost no physical evidence from ANY crucifixion. We know of it through what was written of it by the Romans and other writers. This fellow is an apologist like WLC, and I find his writing to be annoyingly ignorant of reality.
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I find his writing to be that of an ignorant apologist. He was ignorant as a non believer? more ignorant now as an apologist
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I agree with arch. This “I used to be a non-believer” business is a crook of gooey, wet, lumpy, smelly poo.
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We should tell the guy he wasn’t a REAL non-believer. 🙂
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We will be accused of being guilty of committing logical fallacies
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I used to be a real non-non-believer until I became enlightened and became a real non-believer. Then I became a Scientologist and got Tom Cruise’s autograph and all was well. 🙂
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Hahaha.
Tom Cruise believes in such madness it is unbelievable
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I like him as an actor, but can’t watch him without thinking, “This dude’s a nut job in real life.” Scientology almost, ALMOST, makes christianity seem reasonable by comparison.
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I like a number of his movies. How can he be a scientologist?
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I think that’s a growing trend, Mak – whether it’s a sincere one or not. CS claims it, Wally claims it, and many others – I suspect it’s a lie to counter the effectiveness of being able to say, “I used to believe, but now I don’t,” by countering with, “I used to not believe, but now I do.” Frankly, I can’t imagine anyone, short of experiencing a massive head trauma, going from having evidential proof that the Bible is a crock of crap, to suddenly believing in magic. My guess is, they’re trying to equate with Paul.
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My suspicion too. Their arguments are so bad, even some believers try to do much better
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I suspect head trauma really is the reason…no joking.
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I think you may be right. Victoria would surely agree.
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My guess is your terrible twin is right. They have a shit experience in life and clutch at an imaginary straw.
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As one who believes that there is no original thinking in all of the major faiths, I congratulate you on recognizing this trend. Superlative job, my Nairobi brother, in highlighting the fallacy of eternal forgiveness for all sins and transgressions. If this is true, then why bother to forsake “the good life?”
Much love and naked hugs, O Sanctified One!
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Why not pillage as the israelites did when they were leaving Egypt?
If their souls are cleansed and cannot be made impure by the flesh, why not indulge in orgies
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Exactly! 😉
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Huh. Well I almost always say I’m a former believer at the beginning of my posts, simply as an explanation for how stupid I used to be. Maybe he’s doing the same? Because he’s a believer now and super-smart!
“god could not find a way to forgive people without recourse to a scapegoat?” This is a good point Mak, and it weighed heavily on the back shelf of my brain when I was a christian. God CREATED the f’ing sacrificial system…couldn’t he have changed it so the torture and murder of his own child wasn’t necessary? No. Because a loving father, creator of all the universes, had to have his kid whipped and crucified for the benefit of his horrible creation (the last bunch of his creation he just drowned). It’s sick and twisted.
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It is sick and twisted reasoning.
I hardly ever start my posts with I being a former believer unless I think it would add value to what I am writing. If it doesn’t, I don’t.
His saying he was a non believer instead of adding value to his post, cheapened it. I found it poorly argued.
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“god could not find a way to forgive people without recourse to a scapegoat?” And the scapegoat was him himself as his own son whom he put into the womb of virgin himself as the holy ghost. And because of a schizophrenic nut-job of a god like this, WE need forgiveness and grace from it? Utter, ridiculous crapola.
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It is beyond belief that people would think in this day and age that this makes sense
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I always say there’s no great mystery to be accepted of christianity. It doesn’t make sense because it’s a crook of poop.
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Bad poop. I am not saying there is good poop
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There is, actually. Horse and cow poop are GREAT fertilizers. You can grow some tasty tomatoes with em. 🙂
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I concur
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>>> “When I was a non-believer…”
BS. I have never in my life met anyone who converted to religion after first contemplating, and then accepting a philosophy of non-belief. Those who claim so were never non-believers in the first place – IMO.
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Bob, you know I agree with this
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Well except, that takes us down the road of Christian reasoning ie you were never a True Christian, or you were a member of the wrong 40,000 th branch.
I happen to agree, but I think best to ignore their claims they were atheists and deal with the here and now.
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Who cares? Sensible, reasonable folks already understand why people are leaving religion in droves. Christian fanatics, who are neither sensible nor reasonable, are beyond such understanding.
Self-described former non-believers are either lying outright, or are suffering from some delusion. Their deceit and/or psychopathy should be open to scrutiny.
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I think the delusion is that they become cowards and desperately afraid of their own mortality.
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or maybe they always wanted to believe
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Indeed. They ought to tell us why christianity and not voodooism, mormonism or other delusion out there. Christians parade them as evidence of the truth of their religion, their claims deserve more scrutiny than that of the average believer
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It’s all true you know. The christian god is true because he is in the bible and we’ll the bible swears it’s all true so it must be..
Would the author of the book lie? Never..and Harry potter is real too.. but not hunger games. I waited for that botch kat Ness in that fucking hanging tree and she never showed…. liar liar..
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If a book claims a person is real, that person is real. So when bible says Jacob stopped the sun, you better believe it
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Then she is a lying piece of shit. I must have found the goddess of deceit in katness
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You raise a valid point roughseas. I try to avoid that line of reasoning but raise questions on their claims especially when they don’t seem to me valid
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I don’t know how you read through some of this stuff. I can’t follow this line of reasoning at all.
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I suffer through them M.M.
I don’t think it is reasoning, they just yap without giving it much thought
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You are suffering for our sins, Maka!
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That’s a good one BJ
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Captain Cassidy over at “Roll to Disbelieve” (now on Patheos) used to talk about this a lot. Her abusive ex-husband was one such former “atheist” whose conversion story got bigger every time he told it. Really the point of the “I used to not believe” rhetoric is couched in terms to immediately draw the conclusion of salvation.
Honestly, what this person you quoted wrote just goes to show that knowledge of the Bible is inversely proportionate to belief in it.
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Interesting, that story you mention.
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The only way I can make sense of this is if I insert “theistic” before “non-believer”.
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Adding non believer to it makes no sense
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I’ll restate it. A theistic non-believer in Jesus as a deity, specifically. God is totally a thing though.
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I think I understand you now, Dave.
In his response to me he says he is son of a pastor and that he has been saved for the last 13 years. I think he is saved from thinking
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I’ll take your word on it.
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I think you should
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I wrote a comment in response to his reply to your pingback. Since I doubt it will be approved, here’s what I wrote:
What pure, unadulterated nonsense in your response! Just because a non-believer happens to read your post has absolutely nothing to do with their spiritual “searching” or does it mean they have a “struggle” within their soul.
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I hadn’t seen his response. What nonsense.
I think he has always wanted to believe. He is a son of a pastor to start with
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If he was truly a non believer, why was he so certain that Jesus existed. There is really no solid proof beyond a book riddled with contradictions and inaccuracies. By any other accounts there were dozens of ‘messiahs’ back then.
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I thought that was suspect
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