Which were stolen from other, older religions

If you would keep up with the program, if there is a god, there are no other older religions, only man made corruptions of the one true faith and god.

The ‘Ten Commandments’, above all else, tell you to be a Christian! :rolleyes:

No religion is interested in education; they are interested in indoctrination, especially of the young.

I have no problem with teaching about all religions in schools: “Some people believe that there is a god or gods…”

The Ten Commandments were written for the Jews, but even if one cannot stomach the part the makes God the big Kahuna, it is a good standard to follow.

As to the second statement: if you have read all of the Bible, it does not say to indoctrinate and that is condemned just as rote prayer is, in the Bible.
You do have to separate how the Jews were expected to follow God from how Jesus changed things by performing the tasks that allowed the formation of the Christian dogma.

Ok so are you saying that even though i am all the things your religion states good,honest ,trustworthy etc ,because i don’t believe in god i am a bad person.

Nope, but you seem to be a bit hangdog about it.

Didn’t you get the memo? They get to pick & choose which parts of the OT & NT they follow. Most of the time you bring up some asshole deal that jebus did & they say “Oh, but that was in the Old Testment”.. Then you point out that he wasn’t in the prequel & they get all confused.

Your ignorance is showing.
As Jesus said in the New Testament, he fulfilled all that the Old Testament said he would; therefore, the old is replaced with the new.
No more sacrifices or hoops to jump through to avoid damnation, simple faith is all that is needed.

Why is it necessary that you have enemies? I don’t have any nor do any other atheists I know.

You really have no idea what that old saying means do you?

Do you have a single piece of objective evidence to prove the existence of God, or any God that would stand up in a court of law?

No, not one .

The Christian religion is based on faith and faith alone. (although many synods or organizations forget, or simply ignore, that to hype their personal dogma)

Confrontation results from religious discussions for one simple reason: you’re telling them that their most fundamental beliefs are wrong. But the fact that you are telling believers they’re wrong isn’t necessarily a bad thing because, in a modern context, being able to voice your opinions and challenge those of the majority is critical. Unfortunately, as a result of cognitive dissonance, the uncomfortable feeling resulting from holding conflicting notions, facts can seem like ridicule when they work against firmly held beliefs. But, if a person gets upset about a statement of fact, then that emotional reaction isn’t your fault…..

People of your sort have no facts to back up their rhetoric, so you are just verbally flatulating with your keyboard with this rhetoric; therefore it is your fault.

Here’s an idea RpR. Lets take a look at your book.

Do you agree with the following quote?
Mathew 7:8/Proverbs 8:17 “God is to be found by those who seek him”

Let’s keep this in context as what you wrote is not what was written, nor are they even related in message.

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1 `Judge not, that ye may not be judged,
2 for in what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged, and in what measure ye measure, it shall be measured to you.
3 `And why dost thou behold the mote that [is] in thy brother’s eye, and the beam that [is] in thine own eye dost not consider?
4 or, how wilt thou say to thy brother, Suffer I may cast out the mote from thine eye, and lo, the beam [is] in thine own eye?
5 Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
6 `Ye may not give that which is [holy] to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned — may rend you.
7 `Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;
8 for every one who is asking doth receive, and he who is seeking doth find, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.
9 `Or what man is of you, of whom, if his son may ask a loaf — a stone will he present to him?
10 and if a fish he may ask — a serpent will he present to him?
11 if, therefore, ye being evil, have known good gifts to give to your children, how much more shall your Father who [is] in the heavens give good things to those asking him?
12 `All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.
13 `Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide [is] the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it;
14 how strait [is] the gate, and compressed the way that is leading to the life, and few are those finding it!
15 `But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep’s clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves.

The Proverbs you wrote is Solomon speaking of the glory of wisdom God gave him and how others should seek it and why.
I am not going to cut and paste as to show context would take too much space.