killing for god

[juldea]

Still reading Trinity. It's really appalling the killing and other atrocities done in the name of god.

Even if you can point and say, "That was them, they were mistaken, they totally did religion the wrong way," I have never heard of someone killing another human being "for atheism."[1]

I can't think of a better reason to be an atheist.

[1] Feel free to provide examples if you have them.

Comments

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

That's Leviticus. That's not Jesus. The Bible in it's entirity is treated as the Word of God, but I (as supported by a pastor who agreed with me when I brought this up) see it as God's inspiration through the filter of human minds.

And a lot of the rules of Leviticus make good sense- for a desert tribe near the beginning of time. You need population increase, pork might not be so healthy, bathing a kid in its mother's milk is...well it's rude, honestly, linen and wool will shrink weird when you wash it... but the rules didn't change as the world did. We have dry cleaners now that can (try) to prevent weird shrinkages, and chickens still don't give milk.

(Jamie came up with a bunch of other quotes in support of homosexulaity from the Bible. Or rather, I think someone else did and he just reposted them.)