Billboards expose religion’s ugly truth…

Want evidence that people are cherry picking only the good parts of the bible when speaking to the ‘faithful’? Can someone honestly tell me when was the last time your pastor used any of these quotes whenever you attended church service:

I happen to think these billboards are fantastic. They are so much better than the über-irritating “You KNOW it’s a myth” billboards.

Then again, you have to consider the target audience. In this case I see it as less about closeted atheists (though I personally think they’d love it too) and more about doubting Christians who are already very uncomfortable with the nastier bits of their religion. Confronting them with the manifest evil in the book they’re already uncomfortable with could work quite well.

Now for those who believe that the bible should be taken literally, I’d like to know in what context rape, slavery, genocide or killing children can possibly be right. Anyone?

Peter

I don’t expect you to follow anything. Your first assumption is that you are your own god. You determine what is right and wrong, what is moral and indecent and you set yourself up as judge against my God. That’s only going to get you so far. Keep on truckin’, Petey-boy. Never mind that by your own logic, there is no morality to judge by in the first place because everyone makes their own.

I do. And you do.

Your first assumption is that they are just superstitions, bub. That’s an assumption. You can try to deny it, but it doesn’t pass your own criteria. There’s also the fact that there is evidence to contradict your own beliefs but you reject it out of hand because it doesn’t fit in your well-packaged view on life. You assume that the evidence is just misinterpreted or not fully understood.