God Is Imaginary - Proof 19

== "Proof" #19 - notice that you ignore Jesus ==
So, just as a reminder, Marshall is supposed to be supplying the world with 50 "proofs" that God does not exist. He has yet to do that, but occasionally he tries. This is not one of those times.
He posts a number of cherry picked verses dealing with Jesus' teachings about money.
~~~~The message is clear. If you want to follow Jesus, you need to "sell your possessions and give to the poor." It is a very simple message, and easy to do. Have you done it? The fact that you are reading this page would indicate that you have not. Chances are you own a computer, pay for an Internet connection every month, live in a home or apartment, have a car, etc. In other words, you live a life at a level of wealth unimaginable in Jesus' time. Meanwhile, billions of people on the planet live in startling, abject poverty.
Why don't you sell everything and follow Jesus, as he requests in the Bible? The reason is simple: Jesus and God are imaginary, and you know it. If Jesus were real, you would do what he says.~~~~
It's barely worth the mention that he does not use the entire context of the New Testament to properly address Christian economics. That's beside the point.
As I have said numerous times, one cannot judge the merits of a religion based on the flaws or perceived flaws of its followers. Which is exactly what MB is doing here.
There is nothing in this that remotely resembles an argument that demands the conclusion: therefore God does not exist. It's emotionally based drivel meant to make Christians feel bad, which makes it nothing more than a personal attack. Juvenile, MB, very juvenile.
It is also perhaps interesting to note that MB could not logically bemoan the world's starvation and poverty without the Bible. He certainly could not logically do so from a purely atheistic/evolutionary standard.
In Truth and Love.