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Originally Posted by galleryseek
Christianity is generally touted as being one of the most peaceful religions, at least when compared with the muslim extremists. BUT, if we look at the teachings in the bible, we find that God is jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
I'm a big believer in the NAP (Non-Aggression Principle, which is the belief that it's wrong to initiate force or the threat thereof against a person or their property), and when parents attempt to teach Christianity to children in a consistent way, it breaks that NAP with the whole "You must accept me, otherwise you burn in hell."
Holding beliefs that which you cannot substantiate is a very dangerous, slippery slope. We saw that on 9-11. We see that with homophobia, and sex itself.
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who gives a fuck how some people interpret the bible and god? your example of 'god' being jealous, unjust, blahblah is just as ridiculous (to me) as those who say 'god' is kind, loving, blahblah. You say you're an atheist, yet reference the bible (which as an atheist it should hold zero value for you) to describe a 'god' that you don't believe exists in the first place.
Those who do believe in a religious god can do wtf they like lol, just like those who don't can, just like every human on the planet can. Like you I was brought up very religiously, until I fucked all that off at about age 13, but due to my parents' beliefs, know many many churchgoers, none of whom would hurt a fly. Sure, I think their beliefs are daft to a certain extent, but who am I to say they shouldn't have them?
I was very anti-religion myself until a couple of years ago, and my life's much easier now I don't carry an 'us versus them' mentality around religious people. Not saying you do, just saying in general while I'm posting this lol.