Pyrrho

Christians are really all worshiping Satan. He, being a clever fellow, tells them he is God, and they don't know the difference. But Satan is a sporting fellow, and gives very many clues to his trick; he tells of "God" commanding the slaughter of children, but people being so stupid, don't catch on that this is really the work of an evil being. "God" in the Bible is obviously an evil being; check out some of the clues conveniently listed at the links below:

Injustice in the Bible

Cruelty and Violence in the Bible

Intolerance in the Bible

Insults to Women in the Bible

Family Values

And Satan included some false claims, to help the less foolish figure out that God obviously had nothing to do with writing the Bible:

False Prophecies

And Satan wrote some contradictions to make it even more obvious that a perfect being did not have anything to do with writing the Bible:

Contradictions in the Bible


So Christians, who worship such an evil being, can expect to roast in Hell for eternity. God cannot help but be very displeased that they believe He would tell people to murder children!

Philosoft

Pyrrho, you might consider jumping in here before trying to get this going anew.

Gothic_J

interesting. we have the same links.

I, of course, would argue satan doesnt exist - but, as portrayed in the bible, he is the good guy. I got banned from christianboard for saying such, of course, but consider - all of his acts are covered by the bill of rights, while god's acts would have him executed. preferably with iron chariots.

Volker.Doormann

Where do you know, that there is a difference between Satan and God? Where do you know, that there is a Satan? Where do you know, that there is a god? What do you think, why there is really a work of an evil being? Oh, what a drama. Where do you know, that Satan is such evil, that he do roast Christians in Hell for fun? If there is a Satan, what is the true sense of it in nature? If there in no Satan, but only a phantom, then your assertions about this phantom is an acknowledgment and worship of a phantom. If there is no Satan, then your assertions about the fate of Christians is worthless. Where is your Satan? I think it is no difference to tell the people bullshit about God, or bullshit about the fate of Christians, knowing nothing about Satan and it's nature. Can you imagine, that Satan exist only in your mind? - telling you to tell evil things about Christians? Is there really a work of an evil being? Any proofs? Or just evil thoughts?

Volker

Heathen Dawn

Pyrrho, you've got yourself into a fix here. If God (the true God, the one who didn't write the Bible) is going to roast people in hell just because they worshipped Satan during their lives (and unwittingly at that), he himself would be a Satan. The true God would be self-secure and wouldn't care if people worshipped him or not.

Of course, this is all a game, and we of evidential thinking must relegate both God and Satan into the realm of fairy-tales...

Pyrrho

A game? Millions of people believe that a perfectly good being has ordered the slaughter of children, among many other horrendous things. They desperately need to rethink their position.

Additionally, just because some ancient person "hears a voice", and the voice claims to be God, that is no reason at all to believe that it really is God who is speaking. And that is assuming that they actually hear a voice, rather than just make up some story about hearing something.

Arken

Believe it or not, some radical fringe groups of fundamentalist christians do believe that the bible is a work of satan as are all books. I'm not sure how they reconcile that with the whole Jesus thing.

Doctor X

Wow! I had heard about milleniarists who believe the world did cease to exist but we just did not notice it!

--J.D.

Aquila ka Hecate

Has anybody read Barnaby Williams' 'Anno Domini'?

A little sensationalist, but I believe the man is working on some kind of a historical academic qualification.
Anyway, he asserts, through characters in the novel, that many early 'christians' (followers of the christ) belived just this-that the deity who was being elevated by the early church was in fact satan, and that that early church forced the 'true message of jesus' out of the church.

I'm about as far as one can get from a biblical scholar, but I wondered if the bigger brains around here were aware of any corrobaration for this assertion.

Heathen Dawn

What good do you think will come out of their believing that Satan instead of God wrote the Bible? They'll just leave one irrational religion for another.

It's not just the Bible. Seeing all the horrors of nature, one can conclude Satan created the whole world. You see where that leads? To a totally negative view of life.

Let's give people the clean, healthy outlook of rational atheism.

The antidote to all these "voices" and "subjective religious experiences" is to keep in mind the results of brain research. SREs do not point to an objective reality any more than an LSD-taker seeing a pink elephant does. It's all in the head.