Don't Look To The Bible For Morality - Atheist Experience 367

If you want to understand morality, the Bible is not going to help you. Ashley Perrien and Jeff Dee host this clip from The Atheist Experience #367 - http://www.atheist-experience.com

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[airman122469]

@dutchpuppy2 No, the New Testament really isn't any better. There's less about killing gays and such, but it's still a load of nonsense.

[tranquility4all]

@WayOfTheMaster454 The BUY BULL is filled with Contradictions & condones Atrocities such as Rape, Torture, Slavery, Misogyny & Genocide. It also condemns people of different faiths or without faith. It also condemns people because of their Sexual Orientation. The BUY BULL is NOT the source of Morality !

Don't cheery pick the passages of the BUY BULL which make You feel good & Ignore the Atrocities it condones.

[raspberrymuffin]

I love how they point out a great argument I never thought of...the Bible condones and condemns everything, so when people pick out verses, they're picking out what they prefer. I've thought for awhile many anti-homosexual Christians are anti-gay to begin with, and this further serves as evidence for the theory.

[TheGeneralCritic]

@dejesusluisx Cherry-picking is simply the act of picking out the best from a group or list, in order to gain a rhetorical advantage. There is nothing in the definition of cherry-picking stating anything about a work being homogenous.

When you go down the 'Bible is both literal and symbolic/metaphor/allegory'' route, you end up digging your own rhetorical grave in that there is no good reason to STOP labeling things in the Bible as symbolic...including God.

[dejesusluisx]

@TheGeneralCritic The Bible isn't one book, is a collection of many books, written in different times by different authors, more like a library. Cherry pick will apply to something homogeneous, the Bible isn't. Even within the same book, some passages are metaphors and others are factual statements, so you must interpret all passages or you will get a distorted message.

[dejesusluisx]

@TheGeneralCritic True, but the Bible isn't intended to be a science text, is just intended to be a guide for your soul...

[TheGeneralCritic]

@dejesusluisx You can't cherry-pick the few accurate statements from the Bible and hold them up as proof that only an all-powerful God could have inspired it. You have to take into account the inaccuracies as well, and when you do so, it destroys any credibility that a claim of divine authorship could have had.

[TheGeneralCritic]

@dejesusluisx The Bible also has scientifically incorrect ideas in it, such as:

-The Firmament, a supposed dome in the sky in which the stars were place, put in place by God to keep...

-The waters above, what the ancient Jews believed space to be, separate from the waters below. (Genesis 1:6-8)

-That Pi is 3 instead of 3.14 (1 Kings 7:23)

-Rabbits do not chew cud (Leviticus 11:6)

-Bats are not birds (Deuteronomy 14:11-18)

[dejesusluisx]

@TheGeneralCritic The definition and attributes of God are in the Bible, and I didn't made up the definition of energy either. It's too much of a coincidence that the only thing in the universe capable of making matter was defined scientifically the same way God is defined biblically. I'm just putting 2+2 together. When you consider ancient goat herders didn't have a clue of what they were talking about, the coincidence is awesome, that knowledge must have come from God.

[TheGeneralCritic]

@dejesusluisx Evidence, please.

[dkthg]

witness pure idiocy below me.

[dejesusluisx]

God is a spirit, an immaterial conscious being. All things in the universe consists of matter and/or energy, so if God isn't matter, is energy by definition. Energy is the capacity to do work, is eternal, omnipresent, wasn't created and can't be destroyed, can create matter, was the only thing present before the BB, and the energy required to make the universe must had been powerful. All these match Biblical descriptions of God. Therefore is plausible God exists.