It takes far more self righteous ego to project God as the undeniable universal absolute known only to your particular favored translation, upbringing and adult experience than it takes to allow yourself to take sole responsibility for your own life, values, and perception of reality. In my opinion, of course- to answer your question.
Heard. If you think you're god, your argument is with God.
Do you suspect ALL OF THE BOOKS EVER?
Take a quick look at the dewey decimal system up to the fourth decimal place. The religion section alone is humongous due to the dominant christian urge to monopolize ideology.
Really I was talking about the kind of books that lead one to where you are at now, and where I used to be. I'm not a book-burning kind of person, but I've learned: It's garbage in, garbage out.
Please don't tear every book ever written apart cover to cover. Nobody would ever see you finish.
Figurative! Translated: If I had the time, I could analyze and refute the statements, premises and intentions of the above mentioned categories of books, at least the ones I have read and are aware of. Work with me here.
The bible did more good than harm because books don't do harm. Books only codify ideas. People, however, got lots of terrible ideas from lots of terrible books.
You could argue the bible is not one of those terrible books, but even you wouldn't believe you.
Sorry, you honestly kinda lost me there.
EDIT: If you don't believe a thing in the book, of course you're going to think the derived ideas are terrible. I just happen to have more to go on now than the book itself.
My argument is against an externalized god. Satanism is a better argument against theism than atheism is, because satanism exists only to address such foolishness on its own terms. You presume to know what kinda books led me here, huh? Neat. I'm not quoting verses here, youre not debating with books. Youre debating with a person. Referencing book burning in even the most indirectly vague implictly favorable light is enough to get my blood boiling.
( against burning "but" garbage)
Claiming you can somehow refute specific sets arguments, premises, and implications from varieties of categories of books, the identities of which you presume to be able to infer from implications made by me because youve got 'more to go on', and then sitting there pretending not to know exactly what I'm saying when I called some of the decisions made by people based on interpretations of some versions of the bible, 'Terrible' actions, makes my blood boil just a little hotter.
I forgive you though for the moment.
Not because Jesus, but because I GET that you have the capacity to rise above this horrid mire and leave behind the backward slave mentality espoused by countless hordes of insipid, zombified Soldierz of jeesus or whatever.
