Hey! I am not from america but my father lives in Georgia and we call once a week and chat a bit.
We talked about the horrible fires in california and his wife (they are together since like 7 years) was in the backround removed*** around: “They mocked god, that is what they deserved I guess!”
Yo really?
Come on… I am atheist I left the church but I never had a problem with people who believe in god. It’s not what I believe in and everyone is free to believe in whatever they want to as long as they are happy.
It’s not only her comment. It’s under a lot of youtube comments to LA Fires, for example this:
“This is a lesson for every atheist, every arrogant person, and every polytheist: God is great and God is mighty”
WOW.
Pathetic. I can throw up. If god exists which is very unlikely I am very happy to go to hell with my beliefs because hell might be a less toxic place to be than in heaven with those mega worshipers.
It’s really like only 10% of christians that are that extreme. It’s not the majority I know but if I look at america it’s those deep red state god worshipers and they are everywhere in Georgia, Alabama etc.
Churches gotta ban them from the religion and make those people be religionless. They don’t deserve to be in heaven if they keep saying “gods revenge” to california people.
Those are the karens that get hurt if you tell them we are all going to non existence once we vanish from this planet. Why can’t they just be quiet and go to church?!
So many weird people on this planet. Im not rich either and people run around saying they deserved it. What is wrong with most humans?!
Indeed the “ten commandments” are something that was grafted on afterward. There is no list of ten specific things in the Bible held out as more important than anything else. Indeed in Jewish thought (you know, the people Moses was a part of!), there are over 600 commandments in the Bible, all of which are applicable. There’s no ten specific ones that are somehow exceptionally important.
Even if you just want to ignore all Jewish tradition and scholarship, which “commandments” do you want? Those of Exodus 20:2-17 or those of Deuteronomy 5:6-21? You need both to make up all the “ten”, and there is overlap between the two lists, but there are also some significant differences and changes. So you can’t rely on just one of them to make up your “ten”. But nor can you really put them together without papering over the fact that they say different things.
And your second point has bugged me since I was a child. I knew some very good people who studiously studied the Bible in my youth. I also knew some very bad people who did the same.
But I also knew some very good and very bad Buddhists.
And Muslims.
And atheists. (But not Atheists. Those are all basically bad people.)
And …
You get the drift. I couldn’t reconcile the Bible being the source of all that is good with the bad Bible-readers or the good believers in other things. It’s why I’m an atheist (but not an Atheist).
Agnostic i guess?
I’ve always been curious about learning about all this religion but in a nonreligious manner, every time I’ve heard the Bible someone always translated their own meaning to it, but also I’m curious about who wrote them and why