Recent content by Joy4Uall

We can do better than "ancient" religions - if they didn't know where the "sun went at night" then they are not advanced enough for us to follow today.

You DESERVE a day with a belief system that is quite certain in its teachings - not one with dragons, giants, unicorns, killing gays, death for gathering twigs on a particular day of the week etc. You are THAT awesome - you deserve that. Don't settle for less!

Not to sound like a jerk, but snakes are real and serpents are NOT! I also can't believe in the Bible's unicorns - sorry. Your family is so good that they deserve a book that can't at all be confused with a fairy-tale - this gives them more certainty in life. Wouldn't a real "god" want to...

IS the talking snake real, or did the Bible get that wrong?

If they don't believe in talking serpents, then to be intellectually consistent, I'm sure that those particular people have removed those verses from their Bible. :)

Cute. Yes, one reason I can't be a Catholic is that I feel like a vampire when I drink someone's blood, and a zombie when I eat someone's flesh. I believe I can do better than being a vampire zombie. Ok, just kidding. :04:

I appreciate your posting, but (no offense) I find that harder to believe than even the explanations for "why didn't Frodo just ride the giant eagles to Mordor in the FIRST damn place - Jeez!?" Have a great week.

So the talking snake is, uh, real??

Yes, I love the Golden Rule and some other Biblical pearls of wisdom - let's follow those every day. But because the Bible has DRAGONS (and don't forget the talking snake) in it we can't take it as more than a very interesting, and occasionally very inspiring and insightful, collection of...

Well, if Adam was a Homo SEXUAL then god would have had to kill him like Leviticus says. :-) Seriously, though, NO, since the 6000 or so years the Bible implies the earth has been around would obviously NOT be nearly enough time for humans to evolve from homo naledi to where we are today...

Sorry my friend, but because the (well-intended) Bible mistakenly implies that the earth is a mere 6000-years-old or so we can't put any faith whatsoever in the "Adam" and "Eve-was-made-from-his-rib" story at all, period. It's like asking "Is Frodo a good person?"....one first has to understand...

Just the ones that claim to be the all-knowing "son of god". :-)

He ALSO didn't say "the texts got it wrong - don't harm gays, treat them as equals." He SHOULD have, but didn't. If one speaks up for gay rights then in that important non-trivial issue one has risen to a higher ethical plane than even Jesus.

He was a self-righteous self-proclaimed moral teacher for all time, basically. The main book about him approves of slavery. I'd have taken 15 seconds out of my life to say "end slavery w/in the next 30 years". Would you have? If not, then you might want to love humanity as much as I do. You...

He didn't write the Bible because he's not actually real.