Originally Posted by LindaLou

The evidence you see in the Bible is the evidence others see in the Koran, the Bhagavad Gita, the writings of Buddha.
Not so. None of them contain the same evidence. If they did, they'd be Bibles.
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All of you who follow sacred scriptures accept what they say, and this includes prophecies and so forth. The fact that you yourself accept one and reject the others (whether you have actual knowledge of them or not) simply means that you have made a personal choic
You assume nobody has done any homework whatsoever. Your capacity to project is quite impressive in one sense, and quite unimpressive in another.

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And yes, many wars in history have been about religion. Maybe those in power started them, but religion was the fuel. You've heard of the crusades? You are aware of the persecutions in my own country when people belonged to the opposite religion as that of the reigning king or queen? Maybe you're not aware that Christians, Hindus and Muslims have vicious fights in India from time to time. Jews and Muslims don't get on very well in Israel. There would be more peace in the world if fewer people said, "Your god is not my god and you are infidels." IMO Hinduism is tolerant in this respect because it accepts figures from other religions as avatars of the divine.
Anyone who's heard such stories and would like to find out the truth of the matter would do well to read Vox Day's The Irrational Atheist. It's available free online, and he did an excellent job of debunking the pro-atheist antihistory. It'll still get repeated, of course, ad nauseum. Them people do love their falsehoods. ...Dearly.

Here's a sample of what real research reveals, for those who may not get around to reading the book, for one reason or another.
Originally Posted by Vox' Book
The total body count for the ninety years between 1917 and 2007 is approximately 148 million dead at the bloody hands of fifty-two atheists, three times more than all the human beings killed by war, civil war, and individual crime in the entire twentieth century combined.17 The historical record of collective atheism is thus 182,716 times worse on an annual basis than Christianity’s worst and most infamous misdeed, the Spanish Inquisition. It is not only Stalin and Mao who were so murderously inclined, they were merely the worst of the whole Hell-bound lot. For every Pol Pot whose infamous name is still spoken with horror today, there was a Mengistu, a Bierut, and a Choibalsan, godless men whose names are now forgotten everywhere but in the lands they once ruled with a red hand.

Is a 58 percent chance that an atheist leader will murder a noticeable percentage of the population over which he rules sufficient evidence that atheism does, in fact, provide a systematic influence to do bad things? If that is not deemed to be conclusive, how about the fact that the average atheist crime against humanity is 18.3 million percent worse than the very worst depredation committed by Christians, even though atheists have had less than one-twentieth the number of opportunities with which to commit them. If one considers the statistically significant size of the historical atheist set and contrasts it with the fact that not one in a thousand religious leaders have committed similarly large-scale atrocities, it is impossible to conclude otherwise, even if we do not yet understand exactly why this should be the case. Once might be an accident, even twice could be coincidence, but fifty-two incidents in ninety years reeks of causation! No doubt this is why the Unholy Trinity attempts to limit the discussion of secular evil to Stalin and Mao.


Dark Matter + Dark Energy = Dark Truth

"We find that such evidence demonstrates that the ID argument is dependent upon setting a scientifically unreasonable burden of proof for the theory of evolution." - Judge Jones Kitzmiller case
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