Well i've finished the whole ding dang Bible, cover to cover! Can't say i've become Christian but im basically a Bible scholar now lol. Any questions?

@Elessar It's my own copy. I have been meaning to re-read LOTR. In fact one of the reasons i wanted to get through the bible was so i could get back on track with reading my favourites again.

@Pikachu Eh. I could hardly finish a videogame these days, unfortunately I'm struggling with books. My attention span has gone to sh*t since the very beginning of the pandemic.

@Elessar Why play a new video game when i can just keep playing Skyrim, Halo five and Ocarina of time? lol
Yeah i need to get back to reading more instead of wasting time watching youtube videos.

@Pikachu I'm struggling also with old ones actually. Like, had no problems with Halo MCC because it's linear and I've played it with someone else; had to interrupt Mass Effect (remastered) at the end of the first episode because I couldn't really get in the mood. I had played both before, actually Halo only up to the 3rd before the MCC.

@Elessar
watch some youtube videos about them. That usually gets me horny to play lol

@Pikachu I did, but still 😅 I've the attention span of ... OHHH LOOK, A BUTTERFLY 🦋

@Elessar lol yeah i get ya

Interesting how the ignorant respond. As I say atheism is always based on ignorance@Elessar

@1354swrdt Triggered, huh?

Just an observation. Come on, your ignorance shone through! @Elessar

@1354swrdt The better educated is a population, the less it tends to be religious. You can easily find the data yourself.

Not coincidentally, Christianity (and other religions) starts indoctrinating people since their very early childhood, when they're still vulnerable to their bullsh*t, otherwise it wouldn't work.

It’s funny but the more we find out and the better educated we are the more we find out that the new Testament is actually true. Atheism is not something to do with education it’s something to do with morality. Your problem is your ‘facts’ are wrong if you but knew it. You have just gullibly followed the indoctrination from an atheist website@Elessar

@1354swrdt Quote the opposite. If you ever cared to open a history book you would know, but you're the typical theist who makes up stuff in their mind to justify his cult of power.

You’re a typical atheist whose atheism is rooted in ignorance@Elessar

@1354swrdt Keep insulting as hominem, still waiting for the data that correlate positively education with monotheistic affiliation.

Hint: there's none, it's inversely correlated actually. The more a population is ignorant (in the sense of lacking education), the more it'll be religious.

This is complete nonsense as I have friends who are very highly educated who are believers. You are failing to distinguish between true faith and superstition. Actually we are now receiving the results of ignorance rather than education. People like you are ignorant of faith. And of course when men stop believing in God they don’t believe in nothing they believe in anything@Elessar

@1354swrdt And anecdotally I know several people who are highly educated and atheist. You are failing to understand how statistics work. Not that I expected anything different from someone who's pathetically attempting at evangelizing me with their bullsh*t.

And if you were educated at all and we’re not ignorant you wouldn’t be flailing around calling the New Testament BS. Truth is truth no matter whether anyone believes it or not. You are so funny in your pathetic attempt to discredi it! [It’s quite obvious you haven’t got a clue what you’re talking about@Elessar]

@1354swrdt Again, ad hominem attack because you've nothing interesting/relevant to say. Still waiting for the data that correlate positively education and religious affiliation, if you don't have it (and you don't, clearly) stop wasting everybody's time, your BS remains BS (or better, institutionalized fantasy).

At least the various LOTR/SW/HP fans still retain the ability to distinguish reality from their favourite fictional universe.

Not attack at all just an observation. Interesting when you make an attack on faith based on ignorance you make it look as if someone is attacking you. Your whole approach makes it clear you are totally ignorant of what you were talking about totally uneducated in the field that you were trying to discuss. So therefore all you’re boasting about education is completely facile. You don’t know what you’re talking about and you probably don’t know what you’re talking about in a lot of other fields as well. Ignorance is bliss to you@Elessar

@1354swrdt No, it's an attack, you've unnecessarily hijacked in this thread trying to spread misinformation.

Where's the data I've asked?

Nothing to boast about, just reality. Religion inversely correlate with education until you'll provide better data.

Well if education is what you stuff your head full of then yes. But you are ignorant. You believe anything. You don’t know what you are talking about apart from some idiot stuff you’ve gleaned off an atheist website. And you’re gullible enough to believe anything @Elessar

@1354swrdt I suggest researching "psychological projection", because you clearly suffer from the condition. Probably you also vote rightwing, which appears to be tightly correlated.

Again, I've presented data, you haven't, thus making your whole attack to my position totally ridiculous and unfounded. But after all what can you expect from someone who forces fantasy upon others, attacks ad hominem and fails to produce evidence for his own claims...

At your age range it's basically impossible reversing the damage done by over half a century of indoctrination, but thankfully there's hope for the new generations, to grow less attached to desperate cults and even more so, to keep their own children sufficiently distant from such cults.

Where did you get your data from? An unbiased source? No I can tell. Interesting you guys who are into indoctrination always accuse others of it when they challenge your feeble reasoning @Elessar

@1354swrdt It's clearly written in the picture. You can easily search for the source, and no, it's impartial, above all if you care to read the methodology. And even more so if you consider that there are plenty of other bodies and nations even that published very similar results elsewhere, and literally zero who found the opposite (in fact you haven't linked anything so far).

But to an indoctrinated mind like yours, anything that isn't strictly approved by your cult will appear "partisan", no different than rightwingers mentality towards any source that isn't essentially their own party media/propaganda. To you, a fantasy novel such as the new testament will have more credibility than any objective study that goes against your agenda.