/atheism/ - Atheism

"You remember, when Jesus was born in a manger according to the story, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem. And they were led by a star.

Now the closest star to the earth is more than a billion miles away. Think of the star leading three moth-eaten camels to a manger! Can you imagine a star standing over any house?

Can you imagine a star standing over the earth even? What will they say, if they had time? That was a miracle. It came down to the earth.

Well, if any star came that near the earth or anywhere near the earth, it would immediately disarrange the whole solar system. Anybody who can believe those old myths and tables isn't governed by reason"

Genesis 11:1-9 (The Tower of Babel)

>early times

>all people living together and getting along, speaking the same language

>Genesis 11:4 "'Let's build a great city with a tower that reaches to the skies–a monument to our greatness! This will bring us together and keep us from scattering all over the world.'"

>God's reaction: "'Look!' he said. 'If they can accomplish this when they have just begun to take advantage of their common language and political unity, just think of what they will do later. Nothing will be impossible for them!'"

>can't have that, can we?

>people actually making progress and accomplishing shit?

>no way.

>God gives people different languages so they can't understand each other and scatters them all over the Earth

>That'll teach 'em

The end.

Until the 20th century at least :)

EX 28:34-35 Entering the holy place without wearing bells can result in death.

"34 A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.

"And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the Lord, and when he cometh out, that he die not."

http://infidels.org/library/modern/donald_morgan/absurd.html

New Jerusalem will be 1500 feet in height by 1500 miles wide, and by 1500 miles in length. God's new cubical-house is gonna descend on Earth like a Borg cube and probably crush a billion non-believers in India while the Angels blow trumpets. Then it will fill up with all the good Christian dogs, it will also abduct the most beautiful women.

The men will be angry and will form a Federation and presumably fire weapons at the cube to try and reclaim their wives, but to no avail for God has shielded the walls it with 12 thick layers of precious stones at the cost of living space. Then the cube will destroy the Earth and escape into space. The precious gems will protect people from cosmic radiation, although God's light will always shine in the city which implies the inside is radioactive.

(Then it will make it's way to Kolob, because the Mormons were right about God being a divine spaceman after all.)

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple. " - Jesus, Luke 14 : 26

http://biblehub.com/luke/14-26.htm

Roots edition:

EX 21:20-21 With the Lord's approval, a slave may be beaten to death with no punishment for the punishment for the perpetrator as long as the slave doesn't die too quickly.

MT 26:51, MK 14:47, JN 18:10 The ear of a slave is cut off and left that way

EX 21:7-11 A father can sell a daughter into slavery to pay a debt. A daughter sold into slavery is not released at the end of six years as is an ordinary male slave.

EX 21:16 Whoever steals a man is to be put to death. (Note: This is in spite of the fact that a father can sell his daughter into slavery; see EX 21:7-11.)

EX 21:28-32 When an ox gores a man to death, the ox must be stoned. If the ox has gored a man previously, the animal's owner must also be put to death; in the case of the goring of a slave, the only requirement is that the owner of the ox must pay thirty shekels to the owner of the slave.

LE 25:44-46, DT 15:17, EP 6:5, CN 3:22, TS 2:9, 1PE 2:18 Slavery is an everlasting institution. Slaves are to obey their masters in everything.

EX 21:7-11 A father can sell a daughter into slavery to pay a debt. A daughter sold into slavery is not released at the end of six years as is an ordinary male slave.

EX 21:16 Whoever steals a man is to be put to death. (Note: This is in spite of the fact that a father can sell his daughter into slavery; see EX 21:7-11.)

EX 21:20-21 A slave owner is to be punished if he strikes his slave and the slave dies shortly thereafter. If the slave lives a day or to and then dies, the slave owner is not to be punished. A slave is the same as money to his owner.

http://infidels.org/library/modern/donald_morgan/precepts.html

When Sarah's slave Hagar flees from Sarah who is mistreating her (with Abraham's blessing), God sends an angel to tell her to go back to her abusive owner.

http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/interp/slavery.html

Maps are in chronological order starting at 1500 BC. Remember Judaism wasn't affected by their masters, they gave those countries any religious similarities!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dating_the_Bible#Torah

>when Jesus died darkness covers the land, there is an earthquake, and the saints are resurrected and walk the streets of Jerusalem. Apparently Jesus's resurrection was a boring routine event in those days.

>no one talks about any of these 3 miracles except in the book of Mathew

"It is an easy thing to tell a lie, but it is difficult to support the lie after it is told. The writer of the book of Matthew should have told us who the saints were that came to life again, and went into the city, and what became of them afterward, and who it was that saw them — for he is not hardy enough to say he saw them himself; whether they came out naked, and all in natural buff, he-saints and she-saints; or whether they came full dressed, and where they got their dresses; whether they went to their former habitations, and reclaimed their wives, their husbands, and their property, and how they were received; whether they entered ejectments for the recovery of their possessions, or brought actions of crim. con. against the rival interlopers; whether they remained on earth, and followed their former occupation of preaching or working; or whether they died again, or went back to their graves alive, and buried themselves."

Part II section 15 Age of Reason by Thomas Paine

http://infidels.org/kiosk/article/crazy-old-ezekiel-904.html

>"…Ezekiel, one of the major prophets, was not only a lousy prognosticator, he was an absolute lunatic as well."

infidels.org is a treasure trove of well written articles. What's funny is how Christians can read the same story and recognize Ezekiel was not normal. But instead of dismissing him as mentally insane like Atheists would, they respectfully call him "eccentric" and try to learn lessons from the lives of the ancient wandering nutcases called prophets.

http://www.morfmagazine.com/article/bizarre-bible-study-ezekiel%E2%80%99s-uncomfortable-object-lessons

>Why would God ask him to do something that made him look crazy?

>How would your daily life and the people around you be impacted if God asked you to copy Ezekiel?

Christians should recognize there's little difference between ancient prophets who lived in the desert, and modern religious nutcases who sleep on the sidewalk and shout at the rest of us. Bums are modern prophets. Any schizo that scrambled his brain with hard drugs can cook up a prophesy with rich imagery.

>Read this thread

>Only focusing on the most boring and uninteresting sects of Christianity

All right fellas, I think its time we had a chat about Korihor.

Korihor was a man living in pre-columbine America about the year 75 B.C. and he had the audacity to be an atheist. (This is from the Book of Mormon)

He went around challenging people's faith, and asking them how they could believe in a God they could not see or hear or prove, and what God had ever done for them, and that they probably only believed in God because their parents raised them that way, and all that completely illogical nonsense. Naturally, people started to treat him like shit and kick him out of their towns, which sounds nice except for the fact that all their societies had been founded on Christian principles (yes, before Christ). God told the prophets that their societies NEEDED to have Freedom of Religion, or they would be against God. He said this to them back in the 600's B.C., even when He demanded that men, women and children who had other Gods be put to death in the Middle East. This can be easily explained by the fact that God is all-knowing, and of course he was aware that eventually the Enlightenment would happen, and the Founding Fathers would happen, and America would happen, and that it would have these types of Laws. In fact, God liked them so much that He went back in time and gave this understanding of proper secular democratic governance to a civilization of Jewish Indians living in pre-colombine America.

Eventually, Korihor gets kicked into Zarahemla, the main city where Alma, God's prophet and high priest, resides. The people want him dead, but Alma decides to debate him publicly instead because he understands Freedom of Religion but he has to put this atheist nigger in his place. This dialogue is pretty much what ensues. I paraphrase a little but I have the source material right next to me and I'll give it upon request.

>Alma: Do you believe in God

>Korihor: No

>Alma: You deny that God is real and so is Jesus?

>Korihor: Yeah

>Alma: I KNOW there is a God and Jesus and all that. What evidence do YOU have that they don't exist? I know these things are true, and I know deep down you are Christian but you are deceived by Satan so hard you can't even see it bro.

>Korihor: Show me evidence God exists.

>Alma: How dare you? Just look around you, there's evidence to spare. You have the scriptures, you have the testimony of all these people (you sayin' they're all WRONG?) and that of the prophets (why are we in charge if there is no God, huh?) Look at the Earth, how beautiful nature is, the fact that the earth moves the way it does and that the planets are so organized pretty much proves there is a Supreme Creator (actual term used). You still don't believe in God?

>Korihor: No, just show me evidence.

>Alma: It makes me incredibly sad that you are so hard-hearted and ignorant that you refuse to see the truth and you will go to Hell. However, it would be better for you to go to Hell alone than to take more people with you, so God will strike you dumb (mute) so that you can't keep saying these things and make people loose faith.

>Korihor: Well, OK. I can't prove there isn't a God, but I have no reason to believe it because there is no evidence, and neither do you. You can't know there is a God, just show me some evidence or else I won't believe in God.

>Alma: Here's your fucking evidence you fag, SHUT THE FUCK UP

>Korihor is struck mute by Alma's powers, brought to you by God.

And then Alma gives Korihor a writing utensil and a writing surface and asked Korihor if he believed in God now, the little bitch. Korihor said:

>Yeah, I do, this pretty much proves it. I always knew actually but Satan just dominated me somehow and made me say that shit. He gave me a ton of money and success and bitches for this, but damn, I just hope God can forgive me. Can I be cured now?

Alma, in a shining example of Christian charity, tells him no fucking way because he'd only start doing the same shit again. Korihor became a beggar, Alma published (don't ask) his story so everyone would know what happens to little atheist cunts in the Land of Religious Freedom.

Korihor was a homeless beggar for the rest of his life until he was trampled by the horses of some other Indians in the area and died like a dog on the streets.

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very angry funny circus animals doing flips.