Ramblings 2

Oooo its time for a rambling rant about religion. im just gonna do bullet points to make things clearer

1. you cant take the bible literally...why? because it makes a hell of a lot more sense when u look at it like you would asops fables
2. christianity doesnt make sense...how can you say something like homosexuality is a sin when its in the old testament and yet it also says in the old testament that its a sin not to observe saturday as the sabbath and to disobey the dietary laws and to stone a child if he/she talks back to thier parents...you cant pick n choose if christianity is as it says seperated from the jewish faith then they cant claim to believe in anything thats in the old testament because they dont really believe in or follow the 613 commandments (ok so no one really does however they still dont follow the biggest ones like the dietary laws and shabbat on saturday and the high holidays (the new year and day of atonement))
3. islam by including much of christianity and judaism it has most of thier flaws
   
4. i dont care what other ppl believe however i believe in the saying "my rights end where yours begin" (ironically this was told to me an orthodox rabbi) which means that just as i have no right to smack you around you have no right to tell me or anyone else that they cant love a member of the same sex (there are of course limits like no one has the right to kill someone in cold blood)
   
5. i dont believe in god why? because theres satisfactory explanation for why god would give man such a contradictory text (according to judaism and therefore christianity and islam moses was given the bible at mt sinai which is kinda wierd and even if he just gave him the 613 commandments theres contextual evidence that the bible was not written by 1 person/entity (eg the two slightly different creation stories)) amoung other things
6. i kno alot of community support comes from religion but why do we need religion for that? why cant everyone just be nice
7. one of the most quoted biblical sayings is the whole "do unto others as you would have done to you" aka "dont hit me if you dont want someone to hit you" however christians tend to react quite coldy and unfreindly if u say ur an athiest (ive had at least 2 attempts of ppl to try to convert me) not to mention ive heard plenty of bigoted remarks and beliefs from people who claim to be uber religious and believe that the bible is 100% truth
   
8. stop thinking that jesus is gonna come down and save ur ass because u fucked up/are in unfortunate cirucmastances...did jesus help all the god fearing christians who died in the Holocaust (believe it or not folks Hitler killed off approx 5 million gypsies gays communists pows, political pows, people with any physical or mental disability etc) ok not all those in that list were god fearing christians but im sure quite a few of them were and if jesus didnt help those people why should he help u? instead of relying on jesus to help or do something for you why dont u try doing it urself (ok i understand he can be a source of inspiration but theres a difference between using him as a role model and asking him to save ur cat)
9. think about how much bloodshed has been caused by religion (crusades, european religiouos wars, several massacres and at least 1 genocide, middle eastern religious wars, the war on terror, etc)
10. we kno that there are alot of biblical books and texts out there that arent part of the bible and yet are they wrong and if they are why? why isnt the gospel of judas in the bible (yes there is such a thing) why is the jewish version of the old testament and the christian version differnet (theres some books in the jewish one that arent in the christian one and vice versa)
11. theres alot of the bible that we dont kno what the actual hebrew means (we dont kno if it was a serpent in Eden and we sure as hell know it wasnt an apple since those are native to north america)
    
12. this might be redundent but theres 2 creation stories...why?!
13. different translations=different interpratations=conflict and whose right anyways?
14. dont get me started on ID and evolution thats a whole nother long rant with terrible english to be written at 1 am

That would be all...you may resume you regulary schedualed programming