[ExI] atheists declare religions as scams.

[spike]

On Behalf Of Sondre Bjellås



 

>Let's move on to a false moral value:

 

>
"thou shalt not cast thy seed upon the ground"

 

Sondre, the way you wrote this sounds like you quoted an ancient source.
Which?  Where?  It isn’t anywhere in the christian bible.

 

>
This is regarding masturbation, of which people a long, long time ago
looked upon as something nasty, evil and destructive to a persons life


 

Indeed?  If you refer to the story of Onan, his sin was not masturbation,
but rather his intentionally failing to impregnate his late brother’s widow.
See Genesis 38:9.  Your argument can actually still be saved regarding a
false and incorrect moral value, if you modify the text following your
original comment to something along the lines of “Ancient religions required
the brother of the deceased man to impregnate his widow, so that the
deceased would have heirs.”  Clearly this is a failing of any society and
belief system that would propagate such an egregious notion.  I suppose it
depends on how babelicious is one’s sister-in-law, but still.

 

Unintentionally hilarious is the quote

 

>"I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore
strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them"

 

Oh NO, not the fingertips, anything but that!  {8^D  What order are these
off-strikings to be done?  Strike off their fingertips, so now they are in a
lot of pain, then strike off their heads?  That makes more sense than the
reverse.

 

spike

 

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