/lit/ - Literature

>>15948121
Yes, but higher religiosity is found among the poor, no? It could be the culture and poverty they're raised in. This shows that you must show there is a causal relationship between religion and wife-beating, especially considering the many religious individuals that do not beat their wives. Is it better if I go out and beat my political opponent, likely an innocent or defenseless person? Is that so much more laudable?

>>15816723
>I haven't said anything about any gods except Yhwh in this thread
Without IDs, I couldn't have known.

> It's very common for someone to be critical of the ridiculous ideas in judaism and its descendants, the christians
Only a coward backs off where the fighting is the greatest.

> All kinds of people don't believe the monotheistic lie.
Good for them.

>In this case there is no reason to believe that christianity is any better than anything else, being as its adherents are "imperfect and sinful".
All adherents are imperfect and sinful. If anything, it is these "imperfect and sinful" adherents that need Christianity the most, let alone those in other religions that exalt what (mind you) Christianity sees as sinful.

>Couple that with blatantly false historical claims that Christianity is necessarily dependent on
That's a different argument

>The resurrection, which simply did not happen
Stunning insight

>and of course many other claims such as the dead rising from their tombs and annoying people in Jerusalem as claimed by the author of Matthew.
The author of Matthew was Matthew, unsurprisingly. And I dare say your arguments have almost convinced me of the absurdity I found my belief on. Had you said what you said with more conviction, perhaps I'd have apostatized on the spot.

>and the only reason that someone would remain being a christian is because their ability to reason is polluted
Then they of all people need Christianity, as there is no reason without God.

>this wouldn't be a problem if the destruction of all competing ideas wasn't absolutely necessary to...
What's the problem with this? The tolerant, effeminate religions of the world are purged, the demanding ones remain. Otherwise, we end up with a flurry of vague mysteries, oracles, and gods hiding among the clouds, up there in Mount Olympus where anyone can travel and see for themselves that there are no gods there. If they aren't really located on that mountain, then I still have nothing to fear from them. I'll go to Tartarus like the rest, and bear whatever punishment they have in store for me (and if they do not punish me, why respect them?).