The Guide to Questioning Christianity

WellHeresMyFourthAcc · 5 months

The "Mithra" part seems to be at least partly false and based upon the false claims of Zetigeist. I'd avoid printing this out.

GuardFighter · 5 months

man, people should be printing this out and leaving it in hotel rooms.

Brazensage · 5 months

I am a Christian, but also a man of science who keeps an open mind. A lot of these bring about good questions that will need some reflection. I will say though that about 1/3 if not 1/2 is simply wrong and misinterpreted. One has to realize the language, dialect, expressions, and slang of early Hewbrew/ Aramaic bring about a different sense of the text then the English bibles have now. One must look at the history and reasons behind each old testament verse to undertand the harshness of some passages. I do like the Mithra bit though, I will have to look this up.

Feel free to ask me to elaborate on any of my claims and I will do my best to answer, but I am far from a biblical scholar; I know more about ultrasonic actuators than theology.

slacktron6000 · 5 months

Would it be a dick move of me to hand these out with Halloween candy like those fundamentalists hand out the "come to jesus, reject satan's holiday of Halloween" pamphlets to trick or treaters?

OryxConLara · 5 months

Good review. Is it available as text on line so it can be copied/pasted as text?

Perhaps missed a couple of small points, I think.

1) The verse in Isaiah 7 does not mention the word "virgin" -- that was a mistranslation. The word used there is "serving girl". So. Oh wow, son of god born from a serving girl. Miracle! </sarcasm>

2) The "ten commandments" are merely classes of the field of 613 commandments laid upon the Jews. None of the commands in the bible are incumbent upon non-Jews. There are seven commands that some believe are incumbent upon all humans, but they are not of the "ten".

Dragonfire138 · 5 months

And the Flying Spaghetti Monster said, "Behold! You will print out multiple copies of this and ye shall go door to door to thy neighbors and spread the propaganda to show the heretics and hearsayers their erroneous ways!"

ryacoff · 5 months

Am I the only one who is having problems reading this?

amc-CR · 5 months

saved

fellownord · 5 months

Ok, I‘ll just print a hundred of these and go knocking on people‘s doors.

MrClocky · 5 months

I thought the title read

A guide to questioning charity

Why do you need a guide to question something? Question everything.

m3chanicalbird · 5 months

Despite the misleading factoids.. What a sensation; I'm actually letting myself feel my BRAIN OPENING!

rinon · 5 months

thats very usefull

remillard · 5 months

Seems like a good document. I have a phrasing quibble though. In the second column it reads, "In fact, those who suggest that a man must be ethically restrained by a religion reveal, quite frankly, just how deep-seated their own morals are."

I don't believe this says what the author believes it says. Having deep-seated morals would suggest that someone's ethical foundation can NOT be shaken by removal of some authoritarian structure. I think the author got confused between "deep-seated bigotry" and "loosely-seated morals" or something like that.

To retain the point that was trying to be conveyed it should be rewritten as, "In fact, those who suggest that a man must be ethically restrained by a religion reveal just how loosely-seated their own morals are."

(I declined to fix the dangling participle, and I did remove the "quite frankly" because I think it detracts from the power of the statement.)

andersonb47 · 5 months

Give this to any intelligent, open minded person and by soup can they will become an atheist.

RationalUniversalist · 5 months

"Why do you believe in god"

Because I want to, I know there doesn't need to one and their might not be one, but on a personal level I have a connection to the universe that I can't be talked out of and it makes me feel like their is a god.

Even with all my learning about science "God" (whatever you want to call it) makes most sense to me.

Colechilla · 5 months

Honestly I'm to lazy to read all of this but have an upvote anyways! XD

ambi3nttech · 5 months

save

splendourized · 5 months

It's a shame that most theists are illiterate.


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