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I am 17, and have been an atheist since I was 14 and had the most rudimentary ability to understand the scientific and historical fact. The Old Testament is a vague collection of nationalistic scribblings by separate tribes and cultures, which ranges from pseudo-historical to absolutely mythical...

Actually the cover-up is entirely in line with the Catholic dogma. You have to be kidding ... the Crusades are a good place to start.

No, the difference stems from the fact that you take things at face value and accept what you're told and have neither the courage or integrity to ask questions. But sure, if you find genocide, murder, human sacrifice and a God who is hypocritical to the nth degree righteous then this...

Mainly because the Book they follow is morally, ethically and logically inconsistent, drawing its basis from ancient fables of propaganda and absurd bed-time stories, culminating with God placing humanity in a position he created, when he knew it would be so, blaming them for everything, wiping...

But the sickening moral high-ground they attempt to claim and the disgusting lack of consequence they are presented with by their criminal cover-up of such crimes is born entirely out of their claims of moral and religious authority which is entirely in line with Catholic dogma, and this is the...

This is idiotic. In fact the ethic of Christianity has nothing to do with this. However to say that people need to be changed morally is to admit a great arrogance on your part and make the mistake in allowing yourself to be told that you were created sick and must feel bad about it by that...

Hamas and Hezbollah also give to charity, your point? Charity is not the domain of the religious and the irreligious in fact do it a lot better without the nonsense attached. Anyone can give to charity, including secular organisations. No, but I don't claim to be. It does. On the topic...

I did Italian and am doing it in my 3rd year now and I actually found it moved at a great pace for the introductory year and highly recommend it, to be honest.

Well fair enough. Thank you for the correction. Rest assured, however, that it is not the only problem with the Biblical conception of the origins of the universe and is not particularly integral to my argument as presented in the post you quoted it from. Just because 2 + 2 does not equal 5...

There isn't really. Yeah we went over this before if I recall. :) Don't think that being an atheist is a bad thing. As I've shown, it doesn't make you less moral, and it's not at all closed-minded to not believe in things for which there is no evidence; it's rational. :) Being open-minded...

How does that even work?

So basically the Bible contradicts itself. Hardly a startling revelation. :)

Why? Was iron just crazy or did he make sense? Edit: He sounds like an idiot.

Like I say, the Jewish mob may have incited but it was the Romans that executed him. Were he executed by the Jews then there is no way he would have been crucified. Even so, the point was not exactly the most important one I made, and the idea that bar Separion is talking about Jesus in this...

Yes and no. Crucifixion was a very Roman method of execution and nonetheless, every one of the Gospels places the blame on Pontius Pilate for bowing to the whim of the crowd. An angry mob without someone to grant its wishes accomplishes nothing; in fact the very idea that Pilate crucified him...

Thanks for the rep. :) I do try.

Just quietly, I'm not sure if I've ever eviscerated someone on the internet as convincingly as I just did.

Sigh. I was hoping that I would get a break from this for a while, but apparently not. We'll start here: Not at all. Exodus, for example, is a complete fabrication. The Bible is only reliable in areas where it can be reconciled and is consistent with [a] the archaeological record and the...

I don't need to. I'm looking at it from a utilitarian point of view, ideas of morality are reflections of humanity's engagement with the realities of their existence.

However this is, again, a highly problematic argument. The problem with engaging with 18th century thinkers on some of these issues is that our understanding of human evolution, early social interaction, history and other issues of reality has progresses a thousand times since then, and this...