Claire Xen  🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 🧙🏻‍♀️ BLM  🏴 🚩

This is of course the main reason why ethics of belief is controversial: It has no loophole for religion. But that's not a flaw! It just shows that religion is unethical. (That doesn't mean religious people act with bad intentions. It means good intentions isn't enough.)

Here is where we must disagree: 1) God is a person, 2) He has made many statements which have been recorded and preserved for you and I, 3) the history of Christ proves this.

You have a really strage definition of "prove" when it comes to your religion imo. A system of logic that applies one method to one source, and refuses to apply the same method to any other source is obviously inherently flawed.

The people (humans) who wrote the books in the bible obviously had no idea where the sun went at night and didn't know what stars are. Why would I believe their bronze-age stories about the nature and origin of the universe? They are simply not a reliable source.

Furthermore: Bronze-age moral philosophy is a joke! It's puzzling to me without end how anyone would look for moral guidence in a document that fails to condemn slavery and fails to condemn treating women as property.

And equally important: Why would I then not believe all other bronze-age stories to be equally true? How do you know King Unis did not hunt down gods to eat them? How do you know all the other bronze-age creation myths are wrong?

Compare the manuscript evidence between the Bible and other bronze-age creation stories. You'll then understand the difference.

No, I don't. But maybe you can explain to me what you think the difference is because I really don't see any. And any claim that the bible is a "God given book" based on claims in that book (or books based on it) is just ridiculous. I hope you can see that.