DB Roy wrote:As far as mythicism goes, I engage in it because it is fun and educational. It has absolutely nothing to do with why I am anti-Christian. I am anti-Christian because I don't believe in bullshit. And I don't need to appeal to science or other religions, I appeal only to common sense. Dead bodies don't come back to life, gods don't impregnate virgins because gods don't exist, angels don't foretell those births because angels don't exist and because such births don't happen, nobody ever fed 5000 people with a couple of loaves and a few fish, nobody ever walked on water, a star never guided anyone to anyone else's birthplace and demons don't exist and even if they did I highly doubt exorcism would be in the slightest bit an effective remedy for ridding oneself of them. No god-man walked on earth and none is ever going to return (even if he hadn't mistakenly told people of his day that it would happen in their lifetimes).
Do I believe religion does anybody good? Well...no, not really. It might be an effective crutch for a mental cripple but that's about it. And maybe food drives and soup kitchens do some good but you don't have to be religious to run them and many people aren't. Does it do anybody harm? Yes, it certainly does. And why do religious people so often fly off the handle and do crazy things? Because they believe crazy things! And if religions are supposed to bring people together, why do they hate one another? Because they are acquainted with one another.
Christianity isn't bullshit because it bears similarities--real or imagined--to other earlier religions. It's bullshit because it's bullshit.
It's good to know you find mythicism educational. But now you change tack to your real objections to what you consider to be all that is wrong with Christianity. You also launch into a general tirade against "religion." as being "crazy".
Now it may be that it's dawning on you that you haven't been doing too well with your mythicist and astrological 'theological' gobbledegook, so it's time for a change of subject. It's amusing then that your appeal is to "common sense."
And what is this common sense argument but a dogmatic assertion that your atheistic worldview is true because you say miracles don't happen. Why, because your worldview tells you they can't?
Christianity is false because you
know there is no God to do anything, while
nothing can conjure a universe.
Now I don't dispute that many crimes have been committed in the name of Christianity,though it reaches some blind eyes and deaf ears to repeat that these are done in direct contradiction and disobedience to the plain teachings of Christ.
We've been told what terrible things the emperor Constantine did and you know of course that all Christians have always been just like the Borgias, the Inquisitors and lets not forget those devout followers of Christ,the Ku Klux Klan.
Does religion do anybody any good you ask and confidently reply "No, not really." You grudgingly admit that soup kitchens provided by religious groups may do some good, but you don't really need religion to have them,you say.
Just to bring some badly needed balance here, I'm providing a link to good done just in the one area of medicine, by those motivated by their religious beliefs.
http://www.cmf.org.uk/publications/cont ... cle&id=827
I guess the world would be a much better place if everyone was a militant anti-theist like you. But,whisper it,didn't those anti-theists Lenin,Mao,and Pol Pot among others make the world a better place for everyone?