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Genomicus
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Message 5 of 162 (782565)
04-26-2016 6:47 AM
Reply to: Message 4 by Faith
04-26-2016 4:45 AM


The Bible presents itself clearly as the revelation of the one true Creator God who was forgotten about when Satan succeeded in seducing the first human beings away from Him.
No, the Bible presents itself clearly as a spirited (and largely successful) effort of a patriarchal dominator culture to ideologically eradicate the more peaceful, egalitarian, and goddess-worshipping cultural fabric which existed among our Paleolithic ancestors.
The gods demanded all sorts of sacrifices, even including human sacrifice and the sacrifice of children, which even God's chosen people the Israelites practiced when they got seduced into following the gods of the heathen tribes around them.
The practice of widespread religious human sacrifice emerged only after violence-based patriarchal social systems emerged in Mesopotamia and surrounding regions. The Bible is largely responsible for fueling the rise of violent patriarchies (through its ideological destruction of the more egalitarian and peaceful spirituality of societies existing thousands of years before the Bible was ever written), and is thus partially responsible for the emergence of human sacrifice as a religiously-sanctioned ritual.
These gods also made sex acts in the temples, both hetero and homosexual, part of "worship."
Meanwhile, your merciful God commanded the Israelites to slaughter everyone in certain conquered regions, except virgins and children. Why do you think God wanted the Israelites to keep the virgins? I mean, it kinda seems like sexual slavery has something to do with it, and an obsession with female virginity as economic property.
So the true God in mercy chose various men to learn about Him and write down the truth about Him, which became the Bible. He also made His own tribe of worshippers from the descendants of Abraham.
Is this merciful God the same god who commanded the Israelites to invade Canaan in an extremely violent, murderous manner which makes ISIS look like an upcoming boy band that plays at the local club?
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Genomicus
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Message 133 of 162 (784078)
05-11-2016 5:49 PM
Reply to: Message 128 by LamarkNewAge
05-11-2016 4:02 PM


Re: Modulous and my point. Attempted by me. Here goes.
It raises new issues for the evolution verses creation debate.
Not really. I've encountered both Christian and Muslim apologists for their version of creationism. Their arguments against evolutionary theory are nearly identical, and always flawed, of course.

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