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12004689 No.12004689[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

I'm an atheist and I would appreciate if you wouldn't talk about the bible around me

>> No.12004702

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

>> No.12004710

>>12004689

I thought atheists love reading the bible because they can find """""inconsistencies""""" to complain about

>> No.12004718

His name is Omar. You cannot believe the amount of religious bullshit he's been fed in his life. Even if you're the most militant christian you have to respect the difficulty for anyone to renounce Islam in this day and age. Can't you take a victory for what it is as opposed to cynically hoping he will stumble upon your slightly different doctrine?

>> No.12004724

>>12004710
this one is just a whiny cunt

>> No.12004746

currently taking the class, I find that guys post hilarious. I'm taking it from a professor who spends more time talking about the jews being enslaved by big daddies Babby and Persia than who God decided to fuck with in Genesis on a whim

>> No.12004779

>>12004718
If he really left Islam then yes, that obvious takes some courage, but that doesn't excuse this kind of willful intellectual ignorance. How could you have a problem with reading the Bible, or, for that matter, the Koran, the Vedas, or any other religious work? It's only going to add to your knowledge of the world, and the only reason I can think of is that he's afraid he might end up converting or something.

Also, how does he expect to learn about other people's religion without reading the texts of that religion? I also assume he's at a religious college, in which case he shouldn't be complaining that he has to read Scripture.

>> No.12004828

>>12004779

He is taking a mosaics class, which from his cultural perspective is an abstract art form without representation, and instead receives iconography combined with college tier interpretations of jewish "scripture." The dividing line between an atheist and a wahhabist is a quirk of OCD.

>> No.12004839

>>12004689
he should just tell everyone to fuck off to /his/ like they were supposed to
/mos/ - mosaics

>> No.12004918

>>12004779
temple university japan campus

>> No.12005003

>>12004710
genuine question: is there a point to these kinds of comments besides a shallow "gotcha" ? it should go without saying that there's bound to be atheists who don't care to read the bible, while at the same time some genuinely liking to read the bible to find inconsistencies in it. it's like seeing a self-proclaimed Christian doing something bad then saying "huh, I thought Christians were against x" or "I thought Christians were supposed to be good people". idk it just seems kinda childish to me.

>> No.12005054

>>12005003
Welcome to human nature.

>> No.12005074

>>12005003
>is there a point to these kinds of comments besides a shallow "gotcha" ?

This is pretty much what I think about most of what's said by people who identify as atheists.

>> No.12005085

>>12004702
a thought which omar no doubt entertained and rejected. take your conformist wisdom elsewhere

>> No.12005095

>>12005054
that's fair. I mean I think it's easy to infer this person's intentions, I just wanted to see what kind of response they would have.

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>>12005074

>> No.12005105

>>12005003
I think it's an American thing because they went through this period of biblical literalism about a hundred years ago and so most understanding of religion there involves some kind of wordsmithing or textual reference. (Including their new age religions' tendency to jargon)

The idea that atheists are out disproving moving and weeping statues doesn't get as much traction there as in more mixed groups where Protestants come into contact with Catholics, and atheists in countries where only Catholic Christianity happens don't try disproving those things as they've been taught the Church disproves them. What each tries to disprove and on what basis is a function of the Christian type they are trying to reject.
Sometimes it backfires. When Americans who are raised with many Protestant notions try to argue against Roman Catholics for instance, the former often relies on the Bible, as understood by Protestants, while a Roman Catholic will call a Protestant Bible a heretical text which is missing many annotations and would be offended that anyone thinks they might be following what it says.

It happens across religions and not just atheism, but all our arguments are culturally informed and therefore always going to strike at our own perspective more than anyone else's, especially if they are of a distinct culture with which we have no familiarity.

>> No.12005126

>>12005085
If Omar was able to do it once why can he not do it again. If he has entertained the thought enough then surely he has already read the bible to see the side of theists. Plus, if he is an atheist, then he should see the Bible as fiction unlike theists who see it as non fiction. There is no reason why he should not read the passages, if he has entertained the thought then he has the edge over his peers because he has read the Bible and if he has not read the Bible then he can just read as one would read any other work of fiction.

>> No.12005129

>>12004779
those are cheap pseud gotchas. big brained gotchas require reading and absolutely understanding the bible to get an overview of the christian substructure in western society, especially modern society where christ himself is long forgotten but his sacrifice is repeated over and over in ritual. christcucks minds are absolutely BLOWN every single time.

>> No.12005225

>>12005126
Thank you for the level-headed response, brother. I intended my reply as a joke before anything else.

>> No.12005255

>you shouldn't talk about a book on a literature board
the bible is still a more interesting topic than Peterson and Land that seem popular here

>> No.12005696

The Bible's a pretty good book. I can easily relate to Omar's frustration though, when there's so many badass lines about killing motherfuckers and getting bitches, and yet everyone wants to say the fruitiest shit in there interpreted in the gayest way possible.

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12005714

At first I thought I was going to debate you, then I found out you, heh, believed in a skylord and decided to save you the embarrassment ;)

>> No.12005718

>>12005696
True nuff the Bible metal af

>> No.12005720

>>12004689
guys name is omar, i'd rather him be a cringy reddit athiest than a muslim desu

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To be honest these keyboard preachers are annoying on /lit/. I just want to read, I don’t give a shit about you having revelations and wanting to convert