I'm not comparing in the post. Making a general statement.
I like how you guys quote one book but when mentioned the bible has them you shrug it off. I will directly quote the murdering babies bit if you want and other passages of murder rape and slavery.
Movies show violence. Bible just another work of fiction with violence in it.
Bolded. Every read history? Hell it's still going on. Plus that's a laugh. Stop reading between the lines and putting words in peoples mouths.Bugger off.
EDIT
I decided to have the same fun. You want me to compare to lets have a fictional god book war on the internet. Come on be fun!
Samuel, one of the early leaders of Israel, orders genocide against a neighboring people: “This is what the Lord Almighty says... ‘Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’” (1 Samuel 15:3
“Happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us – he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.” (Psalm 137:9)
If a man still prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall say to him, "You shall not live, because you have spoken a lie in the name of the Lord." When he prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall thrust him through. (Zechariah 13:3
Everyone's made up god and books is full of violent BS.
I don't go by a persons religion but what they do with it. I'm not atheist either. I just know all religion is BS. I believe in other possibilities but every religion on earth is fiction. But screw this topic. One internet topic not going to stop make believe wars. Out of this topic
Quote away. Pretty much the whole Bible. It's incredibly daft to thinking that the Bible having those things in them is equivalent to it telling people to do those things. Even the most extremist Christian groups aren't violent, because never can they find a time where the Bible tells them they should do anything violent in God's name.
Oh congratulations, you've quoted the Old Testament at me. I suppose this is the part where my brain is supposed to implode, and I start muttering to myself and crying on the floor. Because I've definitely never actually read these passages. I for sure haven't read the single book that is a necessity to my faith.
Come back to me when you have some New Testament violence to share.
Now, clearly you've never actually talked to someone who knows their religion about this.
Let's start with the most basic of things when it comes to scripture. The first thing any good pastor would tell you is the most important thing. Context. You can make the Bible say anything if you pull single random verses from all over the book. If you look at the context around each quote however, doing so is a lot harder.
For example there's a rather famous joke (that unfortunately I couldn't find) about a man who asks God for a sign, opens it, reads a single verse where it's implied he should kill himself. He closes it and tries again, and it tells him that whatever he will do, he should do it quickly.
Here's a real life example from Reddit:
"True story: As a new Christian, I needed guidance in a decision so I opened my Bible and read the first passage I saw, assuming God would let me know what to do. I got Hosea 1:2
"Go marry a prostitute and have children with her.""
Context is everything. Go look up the context around your versus and you'll realise you've rather made a fool of yourself.
Though since you probably won't do any of that, I suppose you can knock yourself out in this thread, it'll give you lots of "ammo":
http://www.reddit.co..._bible_totally/
FUnnily enough if you scroll far enough down, you'll even see the same verse you posted. In other words you've made a parody of yourself.
Now one final time, since you don't seem to be able to understand this, and also because I'm trying to bring the discussion back on topic from you just trying to bash every religion on earth with blanket statements that you not only can't prove, but is also incredibly devoid of fact (the Bible is very historically accurate. In fact Jesus was one of the most well recorded people of his time period. Pretty good for someone who's a work of fiction). Because that is in no way a controversial, inflammatory thing to do.
What follows may also function as a TL;DR since you've decided not to read posts incredibly important to your clearly incomplete education before because "Too long":
Yes, the Bible has violence in it. No, the Bible does not tell people to do violent things any time after we move into the new covenant, which is the covenant Christians currently follow. The most extremist of Christian groups do not harm people physically. The most they do is say "God hates _____".
Whether or not Islam support violence, is clearly more controversial to say the least. The most extremist group of Islam, goes around killing anyone and everyone who is not their exact brand of belief, and kidnap ad behead people, then post the video online. They fly planes into buildings. They kill unarmed soldiers. They kill unarmed children.
To say, or even suggest that a religion that says not support gay acts, and at most makes people say that they are hated to someone, is the same thing as a religion that at most makes people commit mass international genocide, and declare war on the entire world, is incredibly, unfathomably stupid.
Also "I'm not atheist.I just know all religion is BS. I believe in other possibilities but every religion on earth is fiction"
Lmbo you're hilarious.
EDIT: Hooray, I found the joke in that reddit thread
"Then he went away and hanged himself." -Matthew 27:5
"Jesus told him, 'Go and do likewise.'" -Luke 10:37
Edited by WydrA, 18 December 2014 - 12:12 PM.
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