Atheists & Agnostics

Bryce Butler

(338 posts) Thu Dec 31, 2015, 05:23 PM Dec 2015

Creationism evangelist: God put contradictions in the Bible to ‘weed out’ the atheists

Young Earth creationism evangelist Kent Hovind asserted this week that God had purposefully put contradictions in the Bible to “weed out” non-believers.

In a YouTube video posted on Monday, the Christian fundamentalist responds to a follower who is troubled by a contradiction in the book of Acts.

“If I was God,” Hovind explains, “I would write the book in such a way that those who don’t want to believe in me anyway would think they found something. ‘Aha, here’s why I don’t believe.'”

“And then they could go on with their own life because they don’t want to believe God anyways,” he continues. “I would put things in there that would appear without digging to be contradictions. I don’t think that’s deceptive, I think that’s wise for the Heavenly Father to weed out those who are really serious.”

Hovind says that he made a choice to “believe the Bible until it’s proven wrong.”

“I know others who have decided, ‘I’m not going to believe it until you prove everything is right,'” he notes. “Okay, you do whatever you want to do, but I made the opposite decision.”

Watch the video below from Kent Hovind, recorded Dec. 28, 2015.

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Any bets for how soon he'll be back in prison?

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Creationism evangelist: God put contradictions in the Bible to ‘weed out’ the atheists (Original Post) Bryce Butler Dec 2015 OP

Oh, how I long for the days Warpy Dec 2015 #1

I knew it! I knew it! Brainstormy Dec 2015 #2

Then god is a liar, Binkie The Clown Dec 2015 #3

Exactly God lied to create atheists so he could send us to hell. Theist logic. JRLeft Jan 2016 #12

I've found the minds of fundamentalists to be like inflatable air mattresses Freelancer Dec 2015 #4

grasping at straws RussBLib Jan 2016 #5

If God stuffed the Bible with intentional lies, how do we know what parts are true? DetlefK Jan 2016 #6

That's what preachers are for DavidDvorkin Jan 2016 #9

If you were God edhopper Jan 2016 #7

He filed his taxes the same way Lordquinton Jan 2016 #8

Well, it just goes to show SusanCalvin Jan 2016 #10

until it’s proven wrong. AlbertCat Jan 2016 #11

Warpy

(113,130 posts)

1. Oh, how I long for the days

Reply to Bryce Butler (Original post)

Thu Dec 31, 2015, 06:19 PM

Dec 2015

of men in white coats with butterfly nets chasing these lunatics down and putting them in hug-me jackets until the drugs kicked in.

Brainstormy

(2,428 posts)

2. I knew it! I knew it!

Reply to Bryce Butler (Original post)

Thu Dec 31, 2015, 08:53 PM

Dec 2015

It's like the fossils.

or maybe not.

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)

3. Then god is a liar,

Reply to Bryce Butler (Original post)

Thu Dec 31, 2015, 08:57 PM

Dec 2015

and I have no respect for liars.

JRLeft

(7,010 posts)

12. Exactly God lied to create atheists so he could send us to hell. Theist logic.

Reply to Binkie The Clown (Reply #3)

Sat Jan 2, 2016, 02:02 PM

Jan 2016

SMFH

Freelancer

(2,107 posts)

4. I've found the minds of fundamentalists to be like inflatable air mattresses

Reply to Bryce Butler (Original post)

Thu Dec 31, 2015, 11:53 PM

Dec 2015

Usually, they're really good at some things -- finance, woodworking, even math sometimes. But it seems like those sections of their mind have benefited -- are fully 'inflated', so to speak, as a result of the underdevelopment of another part of their mentality. It's as though a heavy weight is sitting on the corner of their 'mental air mattress' that is capable of seeing how irrational most religious tenets are, and that the other corners are fully inflated because of that.

Maybe taking that weight away -- "rolling away the stone" (snicker) -- would actually be detrimental to their well being. That could be why they fight so hard whenever someone tries. Without the weight of religion, their other functioning 'inflated' portions might go flaccid.

Wow. Metaphorical thought is taxing.