French Patriot

Intelligent Design was thrown out of court by a qualified judge for lying. Are you a better trained judge? Regards DL

Yes, about fictions they invent and cannot prove. Regards DL

No. I am not into spontaneous existence from nothing. I am not a brain dead theist. I can say, I don't know, to something instead of lying about a thing I cannot possibly know about. Like a supernatural God. Regards DL

A computer generated life is sure sure easier to believe than some guy in the sky God who wants to die for us. How stupid do believers want to be? Regards DL

Jesus was, what, the 6th God to die for mankind? It is not hard to invent when you are just adding on. Further, what is grand about a genocidal Armageddon, homophobia and misogyny? Only a really evil person would see "grand" in Jesus ever showing his face again. We can and do better. Regards DL

The theory of evolution has proven itself to be a law, just like the Big Bang theory. Both science and religions now have a God of the Gaps. To ignore laws and hold to fantasies of a sentient supernatural creator is becoming the stupid position. God has a problem of evil while nature does not. Regards DL

As you quote word as if not interpreted from a dead language, as if we really know what they mean, tell us. How do you deal with the scriptures that say that God put's lies into the prophets mouths? Regards DL

My wife likes it, so do the kids. Leave us have our fun. Regards DL

Just to remind. We have no real clue as to who the real writers were for the gospels. They are all anonymous. Only 4 of many were selected and that number, stupidly, because there are only 4 Cardinal points. Given that only the foolish will read them literally, who care whos myth one follows? Regards DL

It is a shame to build an immoral theology on an outright and demonstrable lie. Dead people stay dead. Regards DL

Why would a God create such abominations if he did not want them around? Regards DL

Forgive them for what exactly? What did the creator put into them to forgive, that he did not like? The first dibs on forgiveness belong to the victim. How can we victimize a God? Regards DL

Medieval warfare had well-organised 'ransom market' - BBC News That is modern and humane history, as compared to other efforts and wars to reduce the young male populations. I have seen some war footage of hundreds after hundreds of soldiers trying to run up a hill, knowing that the hundreds and hundreds before them, they would have to climb over. Old is nice. Doing ones duty for women and children is better. Many live long, yet never mentally prosper. Regards DL

Indeed. Yahweh was a moral coward when he chose to volunteer Jesus to die for the ransom that Yahweh himself craved. We old are being as vile as Yahweh, a G. D. genocidal, homophobic and misogynous God. We deserve to die for the conditions we created and not our young and future. Jesus should have told Yahweh to kiss and quote him the law. Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. Deuteronomy 24:16 (ESV) "Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin. Regards DL

The last war reduced my own lineage and they were a part of the population. Yours was not a bright statement. Regards DL

A God cannot give up anything of it's initial perfection. Regardless, I will take the moral advice from Jesus the Jewish Rabbi and step up to my just reward. I will let the evil Christians ignore Jesus and good old common sense. Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. Deuteronomy 24:16 (ESV) "Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin. Regards DL

Perhaps. I bear the shame of contributing to the negative as well as the positive. I see it more as pay back for my own evil deeds along the way, as well as those I seek to inflict via tough love in the future. Ultimately, I have to follow wherever my selfish gene leads me, and at present, I cannot think of a better way to spend my time. Let's hope we can start a trend. The world could use more payers, instead of takers, given the woes we are working so hard to bring to ourselves and our decaying planet. Regards DL

I share your sentiment and try to reduce the numbers afflicted daily. Regards DL

Should we stop using war as population culling of our young people? For most of our Godless history, governments and religions have used war to reduce the population of their unruly men and women. This is understandable for those times, as tribes, governments and religions would have wanted to reduce the overrepresented male numbers, as compared to much fewer female numbers. Population balance, unfortunately, was required. Ancient tough love from the Gods. Modern wars seem to be designed to continue that vile policy. Should we ask our political and oligarchic masters to stop wasting our young people with ancient ways? If we are not to change our ways, cull the old. We are living too long, and the joys are fewer, as we watch the young be buried before the old. The opposite of what nature wants to see. Culling the old is the moral thing to do. Our ways of culling the young are not natural. Regards DL

Bart Ehrman I like, but he does lack in knowledge of other disciplines. He knows next to nothing about Gnostic Christianity and has not matured his thinking. Regards DL

Would you abdicate your own responsibility for your sins, a sin in and of itself, to let someone else have your rightful burden? Moral people think that substitutional punishment is immoral. What do you think of those who want to ride Jesus as their scapegoat/savior? Regards DL

Healthy pigs are no less edible than goats. Believe as you will though. Regards DL

It is, but that has nothing to do with the dietary, ---- or dress laws if I can get you to look at those, ---- that were in place to promote ones own tribe and products. Regards DL

More economic. Do not buy pigs because that other tribe raised them. Keep buying local. Sounds quite modern eh? Regards DL

1 Thessalonians 5:21 Test all things; hold fast what is good. To test is to judge. I judge and test all things and open myself to the same judgement from interlocutors. This is how we decide what is goods and what is evil. To adjust our thinking as you say we should, we have to know what to adjust, and that comes from judging. Right? Regards DL