Spot on

[Nikolai]

Just came over this, great comic with a great point.

[DaShi]

Christianity: So bad not even liberals can whitewash it.

[Bereta_Eder]

Ok but that doesn't seam very pertinent.
It's like a DM who knows D&D rules by heart and belittles everyone else who doesn't know them.
But at the end of the day, it's just a game and the DM's knowledge is useless in the real world.
The retort would be that here the "game" is actually soul salvation, but then again there are going to be players who say: so says you and you is irrelevent.
Then maybe another one will come and say "but this is the word of god" in which case the retort will be this is not the world of god, it's an approximation and maybe even, that's not how a real god is.

Then everyone who said all of the above could be labeled a devil worker, since he is dilluting and trying to obfuscate the true word of god, and hence the circle closes in a very authoritarian game where the end goal is power, one could say.

[Lorizael]

http://io9.com/gods-12-biggest-dick-moves-in-the-old-testament-1522970429

[-Jrabbit]

I remain amazed at the number of humans who regard various texts, produced by humans, as the inarguable word of an omniscient and infallible god.

[Berzerker]

how does an eye cause sin?

sounds like a metaphor to me

[Lorizael]

how does an eye cause sin?

sounds like a metaphor to me

No, it's quite literal. If, for example, you look at porn, your eye has caused you to sin and you should, in fact, remove it. This is why you see so many one-eyed Christians.

[Dauphin]

If I take one thing from this thread, it is that whales are actually fish.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years and the seasons, about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones, and so forth, and this knowledge he hold to as being certain from reason and experience. Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn. The shame is not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but that people outside the household of faith think our sacred writers held such opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we toil, the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned men. If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods and on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason? Reckless and incompetent expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by those who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books. For then, to defend their utterly foolish and obviously untrue statements, they will try to call upon Holy Scripture for proof and even recite from memory many passages which they think support their position, although they understand neither what they say nor the things about which they make assertion.

- St. Augustine, The Literal Meaning of Genesis (De Genesi ad litteram libri duodecim)

That ****ing theological liberal, St. Augustine

[Pedotard]

Jesus loves you. And if you're a ****** you'll be thrown into a pit of fire for eternity.

[self biased]

after ruminating about this post all day, i'm still not sure what you're trying to do here, nikolai. unless your goal is to take the recently vacated office of "resident religious bigot."

[Uncle Sparky]

after ruminating about this post all day, i'm still not sure what you're trying to do here, nikolai. unless your goal is to take the recently vacated office of "resident religious bigot."

That would require BK to 'thank' Nikolai in at least 2 pertinent posts to acknowledge the transference...

[loinburger]

Jesus and the Theological Douchebag

Jesus: Love your neighbor as yourself
Theological Docuhebag: Except for ******s, right?

[ricketyclik]

after ruminating about this post all day, i'm still not sure what you're trying to do here, nikolai. unless your goal is to take the recently vacated office of "resident religious bigot."

DL!

[Dinner]

I love it when religious people unwittingly point out how terrible the flawed "holy" books are.