Two For the Price of One: "Dark History of the Vatican"/ " 20 reasons to abandon christianity" , page 2

Originally posted by miriam0566

5.Christianity breeds arrogance, a chosen-people mentality

lol what if they are a chosen people?

So you believe you are better than non-Christians because of your religion.

again, big difference between fake and real christians

You all can't decide what is "fake" or "real" even amongst yourselves. That says something by itself. And you all use the same evidence against each other and all think you are justified because of it: scripture.

17.Christianity is homophobic

whole other thread

18.The Bible is not a reliable guide to Christ's teachings

sorry to break it to you, but the bible is the ONLY guide to christ's teachings.

Nope. There are other writings from the same time attributed to him that were banned from the Bible by later councils that decided what went in and what didn't.

19.The Bible is riddled with contradictions

sorry, but BS

Here is a whole website for you:

www.infidels.org...

Some examples:

War or Peace?

EXO 15:3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.

ROM 15:33 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen. ...

Is Jesus equal to or lesser than?

JOH 10:30 I and my Father are one.

JOH 14:28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. ...

Which first--beasts or man?

GEN 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
GEN 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

GEN 2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
GEN 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

The website goes on and on. Denying there are contradictions is just being ignorant of the various (obviously contradictory) teachings of the Bible. Remember these people also believed the Sun revolved around the Earth, or even more primitive concepts of how that all actually works.

20.Christianity borrowed its central myths and ceremonies from other ancient religions

pure assumption

Again look up Upnapishtim, for example, which is an earlier version of Noah. And that is only one example. The entirety of Genesis is basically a re-write of Sumerian myths, replacing multiple deities with only one. Which is why the Hebrew version still says 'man has become like us', which is the exact same in the earlier Sumerian version when the gods are talking about wiping out civilization, but the god Enki gives Upnapishtim (Noah) a head's up, and he loads a boat with oxen, etc.