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What’s your favorite Bible verses?
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tkoppel
Posted 5/16/2022 07:30 (#9662549 - in reply to #9661934)
Subject: RE: What’s your favorite Bible verses?


Sanilac Co. Michigan
Cooperator - 5/15/2022 19:40

tkoppel - 5/15/2022 14:38

Cooperator - 5/15/2022 14:17

tkoppel - 5/13/2022 17:47

Cooperator - 5/13/2022 06:50

There's a bit of integrity missing from this equation. You can't cherry-pick some parts of the bible and reject others. If part of it is BS, then maybe all of it is. That's the bar for most things in life. People were very tribal in those days, and they didn't regard people outside their own tribe with much respect. We all know the attitudes towards slavery and human rights has changed a lot since then. Some of us smell a rat, and don't regard the bible with any sort of special reverence. Not much anyone can do about that.


So, I take it you're not interested in discovering the context of that bunch of passages? Guess that means your only purpose is to mock those that do. Got ya, kinda figured that's the type of person you were, just hoped there was a fragment of curiosity between your ears.

I said it earlier, since you poked into this business it's your responsibility to defend your position. Any fool can take pot shots, then blow it off. How about some real, well thought out objections to those passages. So, how about it?

Nope. That's not how skepticism works. You doubt everything, long enough to see how the evidence squares up.
What you're doing is something quite different. Doubt everything that doesn't fit the conclusions you want to believe in.


Yes, that's true, except in this case YOU won't explore the evidence and YOU won't engage in informed discussion.

Again, you take snippets of passages, without considering the context within which they were written. Basically, you're using a half assed approach at criticism without adequately explaining why they should be criticised.

It's OK though, as your willful ignorance allows you to hold your own confirmation bias on the matter. That's fine, it's just not truthful.

All I ask is that you defend your position regarding those passages. That should be easy, right? If you can't do even that, I can only presume you pulled those passages in order to insult people in this thread. If you're going to insult people, at least have the courtesy to make well informed insults, not some crap from an ignorant internet search.


Actually, as a skeptic, I'd be ashamed if that were true. A skeptic doubts everything until we can consider all available evidence about the claim.
To ignore any piece of evidence can only lead to being wrong. A good skeptic is open-minded. I am open to any claim, but I don't accept anything on faith alone.


No one is asking you to accept anything on "faith" or trust alone. That's not the point. That's an entirely different discussion.

What you've been asked, repeatedly, is to explain the context of those passages you take exception to, in order to prove just how evil they really all must be! After all, you held them up as so, so you must know all the back story to those passages. After all a skeptic wouldn't make an accusation without knowing all the facts!

Really, your skepticism is kind of funny. You take a bunch of random passages, though out of context, at face value. Yet when called to task on them, you use your self described skepticism as a cop out. Pretty hard to see your attitude as anything else but insulting. I suppose that was your intent, but it wasn't particularly well thought out.
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