I have no reason to believe that, and neither do you, but that's where we part ways. You don't need a reason to believe things. You are willing to believe whatever you hope is true.
Once again, I have no reason to believe any of that, and once again, neither do you.
And I consider my moral code superior to the Christian one. You call yourself righteous, but I don't. You support an ideology that has made you a bigot. There is nothing righteous in maligning every member of a demographic that is largely hard-working, law-abiding, decent people trying to support their families and communities. This applies to both gays and atheist, two groups your church targets for scapegoating.
Your religion teaches you to hate them and call it love, to persecute them and call it helping. I don't do that. Why? Because being a bigot is not righteous. It's the opposite.
You were just seen defending biblical slavery. I don't do that, either. But you do. Slavery is immoral, but your god never god the memo.
How about you naming a single moral principle original to the words attributed to Jesus that the rest of the world agrees is a keeper. This is supposedly a god with perfect understanding, yet the ethics of secular humanism runs circles around that ancient ideology. You'd be doing more with slaves than merely defending slavery if an alternative method to consulting scripture didn't exist to tell your church that slavery is not righteous.
This was written by a man named Richard Banford
"Do you know his name? Sure you do. He talks to you every day. You could not live a normal life without him. You believe in him, whether you like it or not. Unless you abandon him completely, you cannot deny he exists.
"My god is a more personal god than yours can ever be, for if you have enough sense to understand these words, my god lives within you. He lives within us all, to some degree. A heartbreaking few cannot understand him, but this is not their fault. The real tragedy is the multitudes who ignore much of his counsel, particularly when he questions your god too deeply.
"My god has been around longer than your god. He was here before the many other gods that preceded your god. Though you will likely scoff at the notion, my god was the father of your god, as he was to all gods. But that was long ago when he was young and not yet sure of himself. Though many of your god's followers try to hold him down, my god grows stronger and more independent each day.
"When your god expelled us from paradise for eating an apple, my god taught us to grow our own fruit.
"When your god forbade knowledge, demanding we live in ignorance, my god created books.
"When your god smote cities like a tantrum-prone child, my god helped to rebuild them.
"When your god insisted the world was flat, my god showed his followers it was round, to their peril at the hands of your god's followers.
"While your god watched in silence as children sickened and died, my god created medicines to make them well.
"When your god winked and nodded at slavery, my god argued passionately against it.
"While your god represses half the human race, my god considers woman to be the equal of man.
"When your god only helps those who help themselves, my god rolls up his sleeves and actually does help until your god decides to join in, and then steals all the credit.
"When your god inspired great buildings and great art, my god made them possible.
"While your god says we are all born sinners, tainted before we even draw breath, my god says we are all born innocent; a clean slate with limitless potential.
"While your god offers dubious allusions of an afterlife, my god provides for us here in this life.
"While your god makes amazing promises, but offers not a shred of proof, my god performs amazing deeds, and the proof is there to be seen by all.
"While your god demands blind faith and obsequious obedience, my god encourages questions, even about himself.
"When your god says "Thou shalt not," my god says "You can do anything."
"My god is reason. He does more in a day than your god will ever do."
