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Fall on your knees and worship Him.
Merry CHRISTmas
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I'll take care of some more of 'em...
5. Explain why, when racism is clearly wrong, Jesus was clearly a racist
(see Matthew 15:21-28). NOTE: under no circumstances will I believe the
idea
that racism is morally acceptable.
Who are you to say that racism is always wrong? What makes your opinion any
better than anyone elses?
6. Explain why, when discrimination against women is clearly wrong, the
Bible clearly supports the oppression of women. Answering this question
entails refuting 1 Cor 11 and 1 Tim 2:11-15. NOTE: under no circumstances
will I believe that discrimination against women solely on the basis of
sex
is morally acceptable.
See #5. Also, would you allow a woman to father a child? Besides, everyone
knows women are the weaker sex.
7. Explain why, when slavery is clearly wrong, the Bible clearly supports
slavery. Answering this question entails refuting 1 Peter2:18. NOTE: under
no circumstances will I believe that slavery is an acceptable way to run a
society.
Slaves are cool. I wish I had a couple.
8. Explain why, if your god loves us all, more than half of us are going
to
Hell after we die. Specifically, refute or explain the following words of
Christ, as presented in the New Testament: "Many are called but few are
chosen," and "Straight is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth
unto
salvation, and few there be that find it." If your god loves all of us,
couldn't he find a better way?
He don't love the sinners who don't repent.
9. Explain what type of offense could possibly justify eternal, unbearable
torture in Hell; if you do not believe in Hell,then refute every passage
in
the Old and New Testaments which describes Hell (such as 2 Thessalonians
1:8-9 and Revelation 20:15).
Unrepentant sinners will get their comeuppance.
10. Explain how your god can be both just and merciful,when these terms
apparently contradict each other.
How is just and merciful contradictory?
11. Explain why possession by demons and/or other evil spirits was common
during the time of Jesus, but hardly mentioned in the Old Testament, and
apparently has been explained completely away today by things such as
epilepsy and schizophrenia.
You don't think demons and evil spirits exist nowadays? They are still
around.
12. If Heaven is a place where everyone is perfectly happy,then explain
how
I could be happy in Heaven if I had loved ones in Hell.
You probably wouldn't miss them.
13. What is Heaven like?
Pretty nice.
14. What is Hell like?
Pretty ****ty.
15. Explain why original sin exists. Why should I be eternally tortured
for
something that a pair of naked fruit-munching simpletons did in a garden
over six thousand years ago? If you believe that children are born stained
because they were conceived sexually, explain why I would be punished for
something my parents did by your merciful and just God. If this does not
apply to you, explain why.
Because you decended from those idiots. The fruit doesn't fall too far from
the tree.
16. Explain why getting dunked in or sprinkled with water will prevent me
from being eternally tortured for the actions of the nakedfruit-munching
simpletons mentioned in #15.
I won't.
17a. If your God did not want Adam and Eve to eat from the Tree of
Knowledge
of Good and Evil, why did he put the tree in the garden of Eden (and at
the
center, no less)? Was it for shade? If the purpose of the tree was to
tempt
Adam and Eve, explain why the temptation was necessary. If God knows all,
then He already knew they would not be able to resist the temptation. So
what was the point?
He wanted to see if they were as stupid as he thought they would be.
17b. Explain why your God created humans as imperfect, then set his
standards so high that no one could possibly live up to them, then
punishes
us for not living up to his standards.
God doesn't punish me. I do it to myself.
18. Explain why sex, potentially one of the most wonderful, beautiful
things
in human nature, is considered "bad" by your particular denomination. If
your denomination does not consider sex to be "bad,"then refute Matthew
19:12, 1 Corinthians 7 (particularly verses 1 and 9),Galatians 5:17, 1
Thessalonians 4:3, James 1:14-15, Matthew 5:27-31, Luke17:27, and
Revelation
14:4.
Maybe you don't have the right technique. Have you talked to your doctor or
therapist?
19. Explain why, if Jesus was perfect, he thought that the end of the
world
was coming soon, when it has clearly not come yet.See Matthew 16:27-28.
Whose clock are you using?
20. Explain why some people (James, Peter, Paul, Thomas,etc.) should get
convincing physical proof of miracles, while the rest of us are supposed
to
take these happenings on faith.
Because we weren't there, silly.
21. Why are the stories of the resurrection inconsistent?
Inconsistent in what way?
22. If you are a Protestant or a member of an Eastern Orthodox church,
explain why you are still using the Catholic Bible, which was formalized
by
a vote among (supposedly divinely inspired) cardinals and bishops in the
fourth century CE, when you disagree with the idea that the Pope, who is
higher in the Catholic hierarchy, is divinely inspired;if a Catholic,
explain why your church accepts the canonical Bible while rejecting the
Apocrypha (do not use the "divinely inspired" argument:Because I am not
religious, I will not be able to accept it).
You got to start somewhere.
23. If your God wants us to worship him through our own free will, why
does
he threaten us with Hell? If you have someone threatening you with a
punishment, it isn't free will.
God never threatens with Hell. He offers salvation.
24. Why would your God deliberately cause sinners to sin(cf. Romans
9:15-23
and numerous parts of the book of Exodus where God says, "I will harden
Pharaoh's heart."). Are these sinners still responsible for the sins which
your god forces them, against their will, to commit? Justify your answer.
What the hell are you talking about?
25. Why should we accept the words of the gospel writers as truth when
they
are known to be liars? (See Romans 3:7).
Because of Devine inspiration.
26. Explain why prayer is OK, but spell casting is not, when both amount
to
the same thing: requesting that a superior supernatural force to intercede
in a way that would be impossible according to the normally accepted laws
of
physics.
Because the bible says so.
27. According to the Gospels, from the Christian standpoint, Jesus was the
most important person to ever live. From the Roman standpoint, Jesus was a
huge pain in the butt because of his political activities. Explain why
nothing was written about his life for over thirty years after his death,
and nothing except the Gospels was written until the third century CE.
They didn't have word processors back then.
28. Explain why you believe a person whose life is so poorly documented
(see
#27) was even ever born.
The bible says so.
29. In light of Matthew 10:34, explain why Jesus is called the Prince of
Peace.
Better than the King of Pop.
30. The name "Jesus" has been anglicized. What was the original (Hebrew)
name of Jesus? Where did you get this information? This is a bonus
question.
Yahweh
31. Why is it that the life of Jesus was so similar to the lives of pagan
Christs, particularly Herakles, Dionysios, and Asklepios?
They were a bunch of copycats.
32. If your God requires that people believe in him and follow his orders
through their own free will, why do Christians push their views on public
policy?
Someone has to try to straighten out government.
33. Explain why being a good Christian requires you to push your beliefs
on
others. If you do not believe that you have to push your views on others
(no
matter how much this annoys them), explain why you do not believe this
despite the fact that the New Testament seems to suggest that you must do
this to get to Heaven (for instance, in Matthew 28:19-20).
We are all salesmen of something.
34. Explain why spreading the "truth of Christ" requires you to spread
lies
about other religions, such as the idea that Wiccans (so-called "white
witches") worship the Christian devil. (Incidentally, they don't, and this
rumor has been persistently spread by Christians since the second century
CE).
They are caught up in a huge distraction.
35. At no point in the four Gospels did Jesus claim to be the son of your
God. (He said "son of man" quite frequently,and at one point referred to
himself as "a son of god," but that was a common Hebrew expression at the
time. Someone who was "a son of god" was a Jew. This reflected the
Israelites' belief that theywere the chosen people of your God. See Job
1:6). Why, then, do you believe that Jesus was divine? If you don't
believe
that Jesus was divine, then why do you call yourself a Christian?
He was God's son and God.
36. Given the fact that Jesus did not say anything original(the Golden
Rule
and the "turn the other cheek" idea were stolen from Buddhism; and the
Beatitudes were common in the Jewish devotional literature at the time),
why
do you see Jesus as such a great thinker/philosopher/ ethicist?
He had the answers that couldn't be disputed.
37. When Jesus said, "Resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on
thy
right cheek, turn to him the other also,"why do you suppose that most
Christians fight for their rights? To put it another way, why don't we, as
a
country of 85% Christians, let the government abuse us?
We do. Open up your eyes.
38. Why are so many Christian holidays on the same day as Pagan holidays?
Couldn't the early Church fathers have converted pagans only by appealing
to
their reason and/or faith if Christianity is the true religion?
Political correctness bull**** is responsible for most of it.
39. Do you believe that the Old Testament should be accepted as part of
Christian theology? If so, explain how you can worship such a cruel,
sadistic being (see Numbers 31:17-18, Deuteronomy 20:16, Proverbs20:30,
Amos
3:6, Deuteronomy 13:8, Psalms 3:7, Psalms 52:5, etc.); if not,explain how
you can believe that Jesus is the promised savior sent by your God without
the messianic prophecies and the ruling rights of the line of David, both
of
which are in the Old Testament in books such as Isaiah, Zechariah, Daniel,
Psalms, etc. (as opposed to, say, believing that Jesus was an irritating
nut
wandering around saying things that people didn't like much).
yeah, but it doesn't apply anymore.
40. Explain why your "just and merciful" God sent bears to kill forty-two
children who called his prophet Elisha "baldhead."(See 2 Kings 2:23-24).
Why does it matter?
41. If prostitution is wrong, why are there so many examples of it in
Genesis? (For instance, Gen 19:8, where Lot offers his daughters to a mob
so
that his guests can avoid gang rape).
The Old testament doesn't apply anymore.
42. What is the sin that people committed that is so incredibly bad that
your God had to become flesh and die to correct?
The were a bunch of evil ****ers.
43. Are all members of other faiths bad? Are they all damned to Hell?
Justify your answer with quotes from the Bible.
Yes, all are bad and all are dammed to Hell unless they believe and repent.
44. Are all atheists/agnostics/humanists bad? Are they all damned to Hell?
Justify your answer with quotes from the Bible.
Yep.
45. What was your motive in proselytizing to me?
Save your soul so we can continue to abuse you in heaven.
46. Where is Heaven?
Where God is.
47. Where is Hell?
Where God isn't.
48. Why don't animals go to heaven or hell when they die? What makes us so
special?
Animals are dumb and don't have souls.
49. Why does Satan try to get peoples' souls?
He is competing with God.
50. Once Satan has someone's soul, what does he do with it?
Punishes it.
51. Is your God perfect? Justify your answer.
Yep. He makes the rules.
52. Where does our soul stay while we are alive?
Places it shouldn't be most of the time.
53. Why do evil people often prosper? Justify your answer.
They are cunning.
54. Why do good people so often fail to prosper? Justify your answer.
They are not so cunning.
55. When the end of the world comes, will your God raise our actual
bodies,
or just our souls? Explain.
Both.
56. Explain why your god lets airplanes with sinless infants on board
crash.
Infants are not sinless.
57. What is sin, exactly?
against God's will.
58. If Jesus is perfect, justify the parable of the fig tree (Matthew
21:17-19, Mark 11:14-20).
Figs make good cookies.
59. Explain why Christians harass Wiccans ("whitewitches")when the central
rule of the Wiccan ethical system is "an it harm no one, do what thou
wilt."
They aren't Christians
60. Explain why Christians (yes, that includes all branches of
Christianity)
have spread the lie that Jews put Jesus to death when, in actuality, it
was
the Romans who put Jesus to death. (For a good example of New Testament
anti-semetism, see 1 Thessalonians 2:15).
Does it really matter after all these years?
61. If we are created in your god's image and likeness(Gen 1:27), how can
we
also be imperfect?
Just because we look like a duck doesn't mean we are ducks.
62. Why was it OK for the ancient Israelites to sacrifice animals to their
god, while it is wrong for modern religions to sacrifice animals to their
gods? Justify your answer.
I love animals, especially BBQ'ed
63. Why is it ok for modern day Christians to eat "unclean meat".
Old testament doesn't apply anymore.
64. Why would your God confuse people? (See 1 Sam 7:10and Gen 11:9). Isn't
life confusing enough already?
He doesn't .
65. Why would your God cause blindness, deafness, and dumbness? (See Ex
4:11)
He doesn't.
66. Why would your God want to damn people by making them believe false
things? (See 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12).
He doesn't.
67. Should the book of Revelation be taken literally? Explain your answer.
If you understand the context it can be.
68. Would it be good for men to castrate themselves? Justify your answer,
taking Matthew 19:12 into account.
Probably wouldn't hurt. Might stop some sin.
69. What exactly is faith?
Believing without seeing.
70. All of the various Christian denominations ignore parts ofthe Bible,
usually because those parts of the Bible are inconvenient. Explain which
parts of the Bible your sect ignores, and explain why it is OK to ignore
those parts of the Bible.
I ignore the pricetag on the front.
71. Why did your god allow Satan to do evil things to Job (Job 2:7 etc.)?
Wouldn't your god better spend his time punishing unbelievers?
That is what Satan does.
OK. I am tired of this foolishness...
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