god is either exceedingly stupid or he does not exist

"Why is it that the Gideons are putting bible"s around in every hotel rooms when modern people cannot possibly reach the proper conclusions and cannot understand it? Why is it that you have to become an expert in dead languages and archaeology in order to have any rational foundation to believe this? Because it doesn"t make sense with the model. Let"s imagine for a moment that I"m god and that I made the colossal list of errors that lead me to the point where I decided that the best solution to have a portion of me come down and take human form and be tortured and and be killed to serve as a substitute for other animal slaughter to make up for sins and then I spend a portion of a weekend dead and then I get to come back with me and be with me forever. Let"s set aside that makes any sense. If it did in fact happen and if it were IMPORTANT and it were the most IMPORTANT thing people could possibly question, if it were the most important thing people could EVER understand properly, WHY would I EVER allow all the originals to go away, no eyewitnesses, no authorship, no way to verify this information, no bible 2.0, no bible 3.0, and why doesn"t god show up and say "hang on a minute this is important, here"s what actually happened." None of that makes any sense. And whether or not there was a real person behind this one has to wonder if this makes any sense at all. Only an idiot, an idiot, would proceed with the most important question and not give sufficient evidence for it. And allow this issue to be debated for millennia and allow it to divide families and homes. This is a question of truth. In much the same way people are dismissive about conversation this past week "oh its just politics" no its not politics, it values, its about what kind of world you want to live in. Dismissing it as politics "well it doesn"t really matter what we know what jesus said." YES IT DOES!!! And the modern churches belf on what Paul said anyway. " Matt Dillahunty "Now I am absolutely convinced that the main source of hatred in the world is religion and organized religion. Absolutely convinced of it. And I think it, religion, should be treated with ridicule, hatred and contempt. And I claim that right." Christopher Hitchens "If you care about something is true, faith has no place. Your faith is indistinguishable from the faith of the people"s of those who disagree with you. Its not a path to truth. Faith is accepting something. Faith is gullibility. Faith is the reason, the excuse people give when they don"t have a good reason. I"m talking about how do we find a good reason. And if your only answer is "well the bible says so, or you just have to have faith", then you"ve demonstrated that you are not actually concerned whether its true." Matt Dillahunty Matt Dillahunty "My position is something should not be viewed as possible merely because its impossibility hasn"t been demonstrated. Are we in agreement? Caller "Right." Matt "K. That"s it. That"s all we cared about. Because there were people because we were asserting because we haven"t shown god to be impossible, therefore god is possible. And that is fallacious. Correct?" Caller "Right." "If we don"t know if something is possible or impossible then it really doesn"t make sense to declare it to be possible. Because we don"t know if its possible or impossible - right? I mean don"t we all agree on at least that?" Tracie Harris. Over 90% of those who claim that they are christian, have never read their bible"s. And in fact that"s how you become an atheist. "Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities" Voltaire Matt Dillahunty "I guarantee you don"t use faith for finding truth outside of your religious claims." Caller "If we were absolutely certain that god absolutely existed there would be no room for having faith." "So what?" Matt "First of all we don"t need to be absolutely certainly certain, we can be reasonably certain. Secondly I"m fine with that. Why would anybody WANT to make room for faith and think faith is a good thing?" Caller "Well if you don"t have faith in something how can you trust it?" Matt laughing "Oh no no no. I can have trust in things. I can have confidence in things based on evidence based on reasonable expectations about what"s going to happen because there"s a past record that"s provided evidence for things. If I drop this pen, I don"t have to have faith that its going to fall down and hit the table." " Assume that we have no answer. Then the answer is "I don"t know". The answer isn"t "I can"t think of anything better, therefore a god did it.""Matt Dillahunty "I"m sorry. The age of your claims nor the number of people who believe them nor the strength of their convictions has any bearing at all on whether or not those claims are likely to be true. And there are claims that are OLDER than the book you are pointing to by the way and you disregard those as the matter of fact, and you disregard EVERY OTHER CLAIM BY EVERY OTHER RELIGION AND YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO GROUNDS FOR DOING SO. You make a special case for the religion you believe and you only want to justify it by appealing to faith. That"s not somebody who"s interested in something that"s true." Matt Dillahunty Tracie Harris "If I could stop a person from raping a child, I would. That"s the difference between me and your god. He watches and shuts the door and you go ahead and you rape that child and when your"re done I"m gonna punish you. If I did that people would think I"m a freakin" monster." Caller "(sounds like) Truthfully (continues) you portray that little girl as someone who is innocent when she"s as evil as"" CLICK Matt "Goodbye you piece of BLEEP!!!" Yes there are some sicko"s out there. Matt Dillahunty "I guarantee you don"t use faith for finding truth outside of your religious claims." Caller "If we were absolutely certain that god absolutely existed there would be no room for having faith." "So what?" Matt "First of all we don"t need to be absolutely certainly certain, we can be reasonably certain. Secondly I"m fine with that. Why would anybody WANT to make room for faith and think faith is a good thing?" Caller "Well if you don"t have faith in something how can you trust it?" Matt laughing "Oh no no no. I can have trust in things. I can have confidence in things based on evidence based on reasonable expectations about what"s going to happen because there"s a past record that"s provided evidence for things. If I drop this pen, I don"t have to have faith that its going to fall down and hit the table." " Assume that we have no answer. Then the answer is "I don"t know". The answer isn"t "I can"t think of anything better, therefore a god did it.""Matt Dillahunty "I"m sorry. The age of your claims nor the number of people who believe them nor the strength of their convictions has any bearing at all on whether or not those claims are likely to be true. And there are claims that are OLDER than the book you are pointing to by the way and you disregard those as the matter of fact, and you disregard EVERY OTHER CLAIM BY EVERY OTHER RELIGION AND YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO GROUNDS FOR DOING SO. You make a special case for the religion you believe and you only want to justify it by appealing to faith. That"s not somebody who"s interested in something that"s true." Matt Dillahunty Tracie Harris "If I could stop a person from raping a child, I would. That"s the difference between me and your god. He watches and shuts the door and you go ahead and you rape that child and when your"re done I"m gonna punish you. If I did that people would think I"m a freakin" monster." Caller "(sounds like) Truthfully (continues) you portray that little girl as someone who is innocent when she"s as evil as"" CLICK Matt "Goodbye you piece of BLEEP!!!" Yes there are some sicko"s out there. Matt Dillahunty "I guarantee you don"t use faith for finding truth outside of your religious claims." Caller "If we were absolutely certain that god absolutely existed there would be no room for having faith." "So what?" Matt "First of all we don"t need to be absolutely certainly certain, we can be reasonably certain. Secondly I"m fine with that. Why would anybody WANT to make room for faith and think faith is a good thing?" Caller "Well if you don"t have faith in something how can you trust it?" Matt laughing "Oh no no no. I can have trust in things. I can have confidence in things based on evidence based on reasonable expectations about what"s going to happen because there"s a past record that"s provided evidence for things. If I drop this pen, I don"t have to have faith that its going to fall down and hit the table." " Assume that we have no answer. Then the answer is "I don"t know". The answer isn"t "I can"t think of anything better, therefore a god did it.""Matt Dillahunty "I"m sorry. The age of your claims nor the number of people who believe them nor the strength of their convictions has any bearing at all on whether or not those claims are likely to be true. And there are claims that are OLDER than the book you are pointing to by the way and you disregard those as the matter of fact, and you disregard EVERY OTHER CLAIM BY EVERY OTHER RELIGION AND YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO GROUNDS FOR DOING SO. You make a special case for the religion you believe and you only want to justify it by appealing to faith. That"s not somebody who"s interested in something that"s true." Matt Dillahunty Tracie Harris "If I could stop a person from raping a child, I would. That"s the difference between me and your god. He watches and shuts the door and you go ahead and you rape that child and when your"re done I"m gonna punish you. If I did that people would think I"m a freakin" monster." Caller "(sounds like) Truthfully (continues) you portray that little girl as someone who is innocent when she"s as evil as"" CLICK Matt "Goodbye you piece of BLEEP!!!"