- The Biblical God is real.
There is no evidence to support any of the claims made in the Bible concerning the existence of a god. Any ‘evidence’ proposed by theists to support the Bible’s various historical and supernatural claims is non-existent at best, manufactured at worst.
The Bible is not self-authenticating; it is simply one of many religious texts. Like those other texts, it itself constitutes no evidence for the existence of a god. Its florid prose and fanciful content do not legitimise it nor distinguish it from other ancient works of literature.
The Bible is historically inaccurate , factually incorrect, inconsistent and contradictory. It was artificially constructed by a group of men in antiquity and is poorly translated, heavily altered and selectively interpreted. Entire sections of the text have been redacted over time.
Origins of the Bible: PBS Buried Secrets, CH4 Who wrote the Bible? (a must watch).
“Properly read, the bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.” – Isaac Asimov
- Biblical Jesus was real.
There is no contemporary evidence for Jesus’ existence or the Bible’s account of his life; no artefacts, dwellings, works of carpentry, self-written manuscripts, court records, eyewitness testimony, official diaries, birth records, reflections on his significance or written disputes about his teachings. Nothing survives from the time in which he is said to have lived.
All historical references to Jesus derive from hearsay accounts written decades or centuries after his supposed death. These historical references generally refer to early Christians rather than a historical Jesus and, in some cases, directly contradict the Gospels or were deliberately manufactured.
The Gospels themselves contradict one-another on many key events and were constructed by unknown authors up to a century after the events they describe are said to have occurred. They are not eyewitness accounts. The New Testament, as a whole, contains many internal inconsistencies as a result of its piecemeal construction and is factually incorrect on several historical claims, such as the early existence of Nazareth, the reign of Herod and the Roman census. Like the Old Testament, it too has had entire books and sections redacted.
The Biblical account of Jesus has striking similarities with other mythologies and texts and many of his supposed teachings existed prior to his time. It is likely the character was either partly or entirely invented by competing first century messianic cults from an amalgamation of Greco-Roman, Egyptian and Judeo-Apocalyptic myths and prophecies.
Even if Jesus’ existence could be established, this would in no way validate Christian theology or any element of the story portrayed in the Bible, such as the performance of miracles or the resurrection. Simply because it is conceivable a heretical Jewish preacher named Yeshua lived circa 30 AD, had followers and was executed, does not imply the son of a god walked the Earth at that time.
The motivation for belief in a divine, salvational Jesus breaks down when you accept evolution:
“Now, if the book of Genesis is an allegory, then sin is an allegory, the Fall is an allegory and the need for a Savior is an allegory – but if we are all descendants of an allegory, where does that leave us? It destroys the foundation of all Christian doctrine—it destroys the foundation of the gospel.” – Ken Ham
“Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.” – Anonymous
This is one of the things I learned from my NDE investigation. Atheists listen to other atheists. Thus, if you have to get someplace when you need to, then can you trust their directions?
However, it's not just after you die, but when you are living. Can you trust what BreezeWood is telling you ha ha? Sorry, I couldn't help but make that little joke hahahaha? Seriously, can you trust what other atheists here write?
When you come right down to it, that's what it comes down to. That's why I say, "Atheists are usually wrong."
Also, "Atheism leads to Communism." Karl Marx talks about the mind-body problem (no duality), materialism (no immaterialism) and all the stuff atheists here have brought up. Another Jew (Judaism) who says some weird things is Baruch Spinoza. I believe he preached a form of Pantheism without the sacredness. It could have been naturalism with God as nature. He was excommunicated from his Jewish community and almost stabbed as a heathen. He's interesting because he knows about the Bible better than most (not actually know the truth, but knows how explain it in a strange, persuasive manner). These people are others that atheists listen to besides other atheists.
Mind-Body Problem/Everything is Matter
Marxist Philosophy and The Mind/Body Problem
Fifteen Propositions
Baruch Spinoza (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
As for Christians, it's not easy to determine the truth either. I don't think one can know the truth by oneself just reading the Bible. It's not an easy book to read, there are several translations and even more interpretations. How can one find which one is true? Are the Catholics just trying to make me feel guilty? Are the Christians making me feel this way in order to get money? It helps to have someone to guide us. It helps not dwell on the correct interpretation and that we have to find it at this minute. There has to be some balance between your religion and your life.
So what does Christianity lead to? Does it lead to slavery? Because that is where it led to. How about mass murdering Indians? Yes Christians did these things. So is that where Christianity leads? Because if Atheism leads to murder, so does Christianity. Agreed? I don't.
Atheism inspired Nazism/Communism/Social Darwinism.
An
ad hominem deflection which demonstrates a failure to understand that atheism is simply a lack of belief in god(s), with no inherit moral, political or philosophical baggage, and thus no line can be drawn from it to the aforementioned ideologies. In the same vein, democracy could be called atheistic. See also:
Association fallacy,
appeal to emotion and
irrelevant thesis.
Hitler was religious and publicly decried atheism. See also:
Nazism and Religion,
Reductio ad Hitlerum.
Stalinism and Communism exercised gosateizm (state atheism) based on the ideology of Marxism-Leninism. Atheism was a means to an end,
not a cause. See also:
Soviet Union and Religion.
Social Darwinism and Eugenics supplant actual natural selection with an unobjective personal perception of ‘fitness’. They are based on bad biology (genetic variability is actually very important for a species) and are completely independent of atheism.
Darwin observed and described evolution the same way Newton did for gravity. It was simply a discovery of a fact about the world – not an engineered philosophy on how to behave. Just as we do not blame Newton for the fact that gravity is used as a tool in the deployment of bombs, we cannot blame Darwin for individually misguided applications of ‘natural selection’.
Note: Religion inspires
theocracy.
Note: ‘
Survival of the Fittest‘ does not simply mean fastest, strongest, or most violent. It is a measure of an individual’s adaptation to the local environment, which can often mean demonstrating cooperation, intelligence and
compassion [
2]. Humans are outmatched in many ways by animals, but are successful because of their social skills and tool use.
See also:
Early Critics of Eugenics were biologists,
Natualistic Fallacy,
Evolution and Philosophy, Talkorigins:
Hitler,
Stalin,
Social Darwinism.
“We were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out.” – Adolf Hitler
That Hitler was Christian story is fake news. The rest of what you posted about Christians sound like Salon propaganda or is the stupid RationaWiki? Hitler was able to piggy back Darwin's ideas on Darwinism and from those in The Descent of Man into backing the racial superiority of Aryans. The Nazis were the National Socialist Party. They wanted to distinguish themselves from Communists. Notice that Darwin had the perfect white man as the top of the evolution heap. There is nothing in the Bible to distinguish black men and aborigines as closer to apes (2nd and 3rd from left) and white men (farthest right) as the top of the food chain. Not only that Darwin's cousin was the one who wrote with Hitler's chief scientist on Eugenics. Hitler became like a schoolboy having a crush on Darwin's and his cousin ideas. Not only that, the social Darwinists took up the survival of the "fittest" as their rally cry for getting rid of the lower races and for fascism. The fittest means those who can pass down their genes the most.
Christianity leads to knowledge and truth. It's not as politically based such as that of atheism. Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita has predicted that Iran and China won't be the ones that pose a danger to the United States as most people believe. What's happening today is talk of Russia causing friction and the heated rhetoric leading to the possibility of another Cold War period. It was Obama who first leaked intel to the Russians and then blamed Trump about it. Thus, one can see the ideas of Marx starting to take shape. Could this be something that leads to a major war with Russia and possible WWIII? I don't think it will, but it is a possibility. However, I won't be speculating about it anytime soon or say that the Bible prophecised it. These types of stories are best left to the experts. While I won't say that Christianity does not have its share of religious fanatics and Biblical end of the world nuts, I don't think it's as bad as those on the left who are into extremism and anarchy. I can see bloodshed in the streets, but don't think I'll worry about it. It was expected with atheists turning to Communism and it starting under Obama. My motto is to walk softly and carry a big semi-auto rifle with plenty of ammo.
During the time of the Nazis the German people we're Christians.
It doesn't matter what Hitler or bush believed. They used religion to manipulate their citizens.
You brought it up, so Hitler's religion matters now. Truth matters.
"Hitler's major academic biographers conclude that he was an opponent of Christianity. Historian Laurence Rees found no evidence that "Hitler, in his personal life, ever expressed belief in the basic tenets of the Christian church".
[2] Hitler's remarks to confidants, as described in the
Goebbels Diaries, the
memoirs of
Albert Speer, and transcripts of Hitler's private conversations recorded by
Martin Bormann in
Hitler's Table Talk, are further evidence of his anti-Christian beliefs; these sources record a number of private remarks in which Hitler ridicules Christian doctrine as absurd and socially destructive.
[3]"
I'm even using the liberal wikepedia as evidence ha ha
Religious views of Adolf Hitler - Wikipedia
The reason is to show that atheists are usually wrong.
Moreover, you're listening to RatiionalWiki. That's for the low-life internet atheists who will believe anything. Are you a contributor BW? It used to be conservative, but taken over by the low level atheists, liberals and teenagers. The truth is Darwin was racist and swayed by scientific racism. Look at the full title of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or
the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. The Descent of Man proved he was racist.
"“He who wishes to decide whether man is the modified descendant of some pre-existing form, would probably first enquire whether man varies, however slightly, in bodily structure and in mental faculties; and if so, whether the variations are transmitted to his offspring in accordance with the laws which prevail with the lower animals” (1871, p. 395). Later, in his chapter titled “On the Affinities and Genealogy of Man,” Darwin wrote:
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla (p. 521)."
Darwin, Evolution, and Racism
Ugh. Darwin would be crucified by the liberals if he were starting this today.
Not only that the Bible states that humans had one language in the beginning. This was the default state. However, God mixed up the language at the Tower of Babel. This is the start of people speaking different languages. We do not know the origins of language, but here it is. It also goes to show that apes would be able to talk if we are descendants. However, they cannot talk and could not talk. Ever.
As for your point of the German people were Christians, this is true. That's why Hitler used the bishops and priests for his nefarious ends. He courted them first in order to be able to sway the people. Remember, he was a great orator and persuader. That's why Hitler is the Second Anthchrist.
Religion of Nazi Germany. Again liberal wikipedia
Religion in Nazi Germany - Wikipedia
I think we are making some progress into showing Darwin was racist and his ideas were to blame for Hitler's Holocaust.
