would turn up two facts: first, god said nothing, it was all the rantings of the priests; and second, most of it was an indictment of male on male pederasty.

However, most religious ranters never read it at all.

The religious read only the parts they're told to read and disregard the rest.

If you're allowed to ignore parts of the rulebook doesn't that prove how worthless it is as a rulebook?

and you'd think if he was as sex obsessed as his priests were, then gay sex would have made that ten commandments, along with abortion.

Unfortunately, the morons who say "god did it" to everything they can't understand (which is nearly everything) don't see it that way. To them, god sat down and wrote the KJV in English.

Iron age goat-herders where so much more wise and sophisticated than we are.

Parsing through the bible trying to find the Truth™, yeah, that's not a monumental waste of time.



Like the author said "Let’s move on, guys. Throw that book away, loosen up and cheer a gay wedding, support lgbt individuals and then, like, let’s get some ice cream or play ping pong or something."

I ask her if that's so she can learn which parts of the Bible to ignore, and which parts to misrepresent.

Needless to say, she is praying for my soul.

Obviously they're doing something wrong.

begging to be told what to think.

They are very good at it.

Like some of our own frequent visitors here in the Religion & Spirituality section

But you have to consider the history of those times. Everyone was a bigot then. Look out your window. You don't see any bigots nowadays. You do? And those bigots are holding a Bible? Yeah, it is time to throw it out.

Just ignore everything else.

And we're supposed to be able to tell which factions are interpreting it correctly how, exactly?

It's like arguing over whether Santa Claus comes down the chimney head first or feet first.

Thousands of years of uselessness. And it seems most religions kill people over things that aren't even in the original holy books, but theological crap piled up over the centuries.



This of course also relates to the "Dennett is a poppy-head" lame hit piece making the rounds. "You can't possibly understand religion unless you know all about the useless baloney we've made up about it since it started".

Yes you can. You can understand it's made up guesses by profoundly ignorant ancient peoples.

I know we're not supposed to link to the toxic wasteland but this post is a real gem.

My mom always said it's the thought that counts!

Why don't anti-theists ever see the nuance and complexity? Also: bigotry fascism.

Therefore we're not qualified to comment on the Emperor's wardrobe choices.