A Final
Word On Biblical Nonsense
Using the methods provided in this book, our
study allowed us to form hundreds of supporting reasons for the absence of
divine inspiration in the Bible’s content. Seven essential recurring themes of
biblical nonsense are readily noticeable when an unprejudiced, emotionless, and
objective analysis of Christianity is undertaken.
The
Hebrew god is a loathsome, despiteful, and abominable deity. The Old Testament portrays him as a
being that experiences pleasure from distributing strange and ridiculous
punishments for breaking his equally strange and ridiculous laws. This being is
also guilty of torturing innocent people for the sins committed by others,
murdering millions of our fellow human beings, and forcing his own creations
into slavery. Furthermore, he unambiguously supports the very institution of
slavery and the practice of severely oppressing women into a state of
subordination. Had the invented God held the moral fortitude to believe
otherwise, he would have surely exercised his unlimited power to ban these
customs. Instead, he makes promises to deliver a multitude of cruel
punishments, including an eternal torture of unimaginable proportions, for
those who refuse to bow down and worship him.
The Bible
fails a plethora of independent and unbiased scientific tests. Regardless of what scientific field we
review, it’s likely to contain evidence contrary to the Bible’s claims. Several
methods used to date the earth’s contents have long refuted the temporal
setting of the creation, and attempts to harmonize or independently justify the
Genesis account have served as embarrassing examples of biblical apologetics.
Noah’s flood, a plagiarized story with numerous logical impossibilities, has
mysteriously left no signs of its occurrence. The Bible’s ignorance of our
planet’s spherical and kinetic attributes is also readily apparent.
The Bible
demonstrates overwhelming evidence of authorship by fallible, divinely
uninspired humans. In
addition to the previously mentioned scientific flaws arising from an obvious
limitation of knowledge and perspective, a seemingly countless number of
preposterous suggestions can be found within the Bible. These absurdities
include talking animals, miraculous war victories, contradictions in every
conceivable category, hordes of failed and impossible prophecies, and an array
of additional superstitious beliefs readily accepted by unsuspecting biblical
readers. The newly acquired ability to assign a much more recent date to the
Pentateuch through analyses of fictitious historical accounts debunks the
notion of a Moses/God authorship and assists in the demonstration of the book’s
human origins. Furthermore, these works contain references to people and places
contemporaneous with the Babylonian Exile that took place a thousand years
after Moses’ death. With this consideration, the reasons for the Bible’s flaws
become readily apparent. Humans inventing stories set centuries in the past had
no reason to anticipate that the fraudulent accounts would ever be unmasked.
God did not tell us to kill people with other religions. God did not give us
orders to take slaves. God did not intend for women to be socially inferior to
men. God did not say that he created the universe only a few thousand years
ago. God did not kill the entire world in a flood. There’s no evidence God did
anything. Men were the sole driving
force behind the creation of the Bible’s shameless hatred and propagandistic
intentions.
There are
fundamental flaws with the existence of God as described in the Bible. His appointed writers parade him as
omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, yet they mistakenly drop several clues
that this isn’t the case. Using a bit of common sense, we can easily
demonstrate that omniscience cannot coexist with freewill. Likewise, prayers
are not truly answerable by an omniscient god because he would have already
envisioned the concrete results of the future. Furthermore, this strangely
gender-assigned deity spends his time giving instructions for trivial
superstitious rituals rather than pertinent information for proving his
existence, ceasing religious wars, or assisting his creations in their daily
lives.
The life
account of Jesus Christ is highly questionable. Contradictory to what the Gospel
writers claim, there were no prophecies of this terribly unoriginal man. Besides,
these writers conveniently stall for decades before writing about the
unbelievable miracles allegedly performed by their subject. In addition,
contemporaneous historians and philosophers frequently ignored the immensely
important stories as if they never took place. Even Jesus Christ himself failed
to make a return in accordance to his own prophecies. Prior to the purports of
all these magnificent tricks and speeches, Paul tells the story of a completely
different concept of Christ based in the spiritual realm that may have served
as the basis for the Gospel legends. Although the Old Testament was certainly
doomed for dismal failure, the New Testament fares no better.
Christians
believe strange things for strange reasons. The expansion of Christian beliefs in the West was predominately
dependant upon three factors: Rome’s desire for a new moral code and its
ability to spread such views, the luxury of the religion having the only
dominant and hostile belief system of the East, and its maintenance of
isolation from other world religions. Once society met these requirements, the
continuance of the religion was entirely reliant upon its individual followers.
Parents who unknowingly condition their children to shun logic and reason when
confronted with testable and observable Bible-debunking evidence now perpetuate
the domination of Christian beliefs. Contributors to our environment
deceitfully teach us that certain things are unquestionably true. Such
nonsensical ideas begin at an age at which we have yet to behave or think in a
rational manner. The same ideas are also continuously reinforced in an isolated
Christian environment until they accumulate to a degree at which cognitive
dissonance takes over and renders common sense impotent.
Counterarguments
used by Christian apologists are often dishonest or irrelevant. Although there’s an enormous amount of
Christian material claiming to debunk skeptical arguments, you have a duty to
ask yourself some uncomfortable questions regarding these works. Can you better
describe the apologetic arguments as “how-it-could-have-been-scenarios” rather
than probable solutions? Do the arguments originate from a biased researcher
with a deep emotional investment or an obvious agenda to prove something one
way or another? Do the arguments resort to the use of logical fallacies to
reach a desired conclusion? Do the arguments take biblical passages out of
context or use a premise that is contradicted by what the Bible plainly says?
If you’ve answered yes to any of
these questions after considering an apologetic explanation to anything that
you’ve read in my work, keep looking. I encourage you to read books on
Christianity by both secular and
religious authors. You will no doubt discover which group acts as its own worst
enemy by grasping at slippery straws to support its erroneous viewpoints. If
you’ve heard an argument that you think solidly disproves something I’ve
written, I hope you’ll choose to bring it to my attention
[admin@biblicalnonsense.com]. I’d certainly like to be able to respond to any
claims made against the ones in this book. I may be able to more clearly
explain the problem or, perhaps, correct the mistakes I made. You see, no
author is infallible.
As a last request, I would ask any readers
who still stubbornly insist that Christianity is the one true religion to allow
others, including their children, to observe their own religious beliefs
without fear of punishment or disappointment from you. If the truth is strong
enough, it will find them. The majority of the world’s hostilities would vanish
overnight if everyone would adhere to this simple guideline.
With the credibility of the Bible
repeatedly demolished, perhaps you have opened your eyes to see the real world.
There’s no certainty that we experience anything more than the challenges we
face in this life. While this thought is probably haunting enough to make a few
people want to crawl back into the comforts of religion, you will inevitably
learn that such an idea is nothing to fear. Consequently, I hope you’ll decide
to help others who have fallen victim to conditioned thinking provoked by
ancient religions.
One day, perhaps,
we’ll all be free of conditioned thinking and learn to rely on observable and
testable evidence when examining religious claims. One day, perhaps, we can all
peacefully coexist. Whatever force might be watching us now probably realizes
that the majority of us are currently incapable of achieving these goals. If
this being is observing our planet during a search for an enlightened race that’s
ready for the deepest secrets of the universe, it should probably try us again
later.