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LightningBuck · 2d
Even if you reject the claims of the bible: If you had actually studied it you would have recognized, that it's literary composition is far more complex than 99% of anything written in the past few ce...
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You're more right than you realize, and it doesn't help your case. It was not _only_ written by people in the bronze age who were ignorant of how the world works. Since then then, it's been rewritten, mistranslated, had forgeries included, other books removed, then mistranslated and rewritten all over again multiple times. So yeah, complex, intricate, but divine or even divinely inspired? Nope. Proof of god's existence? Not a chance. It's a coagulated mess of misogyny, racism, war mongering, genocide, incest, and other depravity **with the occasional nugget of wisdom and love mixed it**; so credit where credit is due I guess.
LightningBuck · 1d
Maybe you need to spend less time on r/atheism and more time with actual scholarship if you don't want to sound completely indoctrinated. You just replaced one stereotypical characterisation with another.