I Am Not Religious

Out of interest, where in the New Testament does it say that?

You’ve said a number of times that religious people can’t pick and choose what to believe in The Bible. Why?

You meet someone and fall in love, are you saying that you must love every aspect of that person?

Maybe you don’t like the way they chew their food. Maybe you don’t like their feet. Maybe you don’t like the way they behave in certain circumstances. And yet, you still love that person and decide to spend the rest of your life with them.

What’s the difference between the way you love that person and the way a religious person loves their god?

And then there’s the pragmatic element of The Bible. We know that it’s a compendium of many different scripts. We know that these scripts (aka scripture) was written by a multitude of authors, many of whom are unknown. We know that this scripture was written over a time span of hundreds of years (possibly more than a thousand years). We know that this scripture was written in at least four languages, one of which has no modern counterpart. And yet you insist that every religious person must accept every single word as written. Meanwhile, scholars have been pouring over this scripture for more than two thousand years.

I’m sorry but, in my experience, the only people who insist that one can’t pick and choose what to believe, are religious zealots and those who seek to deride religion without understanding anything about it.

[i]@gregloa I don't care about religion but I have curiosity in people who blindly follow a religion and who pick and choose what parts they obey.. In my eyes, religion is just a massive cult and that aspect of it interests me[/i]

Do you normally show your interest by misrepresenting and denigrating the thing that you’re supposedly interested in?

I am fairly religious, but not devoutly religious. Mostly because I feel like that God is not very "pro-active". Also, to me, religion has too many regulations like, don't do this, don't say that, don't believe in that, you can only believe in this, and etc.

Also, why does he always want praise, to me that seems somewhat selfish and narcissistic.

To me, I also see religion as a cause of narrow-mindedness.

A human wrote that, not god...

I dont think it was referring to half the population in specific. I think it was referring more to each individual human being possessing both traits, and depending on which one we feed, thats the direction we would end up in.

I am strictly religious when it comes to faith and beliefs.. However, I do commit sins though, so I'm not religious in that sense!

the while god this is tiring...