[Chimera]

1.There are dozens of pre-Christian gods and messiahs that were born on December 25th, of a virgin, who had 12 disciples, performed miracles such as healing the sick and walking on water, crucified and resurrected three days later, and are known, by their inventors and followers, as such things like the Lamb of God and the King of Kings. Jesus is the most recent of a long list of plagiarized gods and holds no credibility. In fact, the entire Christian myth is taken directly from Egyptian myth. For instance, the 10 commandments are from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The founders of Christianity acknowledged this but offered that Satan crafted the Pagan world to discredit Jesus. This explanation is still held by many religious leaders today.

You act as though Christians don't know this. As if the similarities to other religions is some forbidden fruit. Religions usually come about to teach morals, and explain things. That is not to say that Christianity isn't true, just that it's very possible that God used familiar images usually associated with gods to show his power....Seems likely. So in summary, you make the presumption that you're smarter than the average Christian, and that you're saying something unknown. By the way, we all know about Christmas not being Christ's birthday......

3.The Christian justice system is a barbaric, idiotic, and ridiculous bifurcated mess of extreme bias and lop-sided foundations. Christianity takes crimes as despicable as murder, rape, cruelty, genocide, and so forth and deems them forgivable by an act as trivial as accepting Jesus as your savior. What moral foundations are there that back up the forgiveness of horrible deeds by simply accepting something that, demonstratively, does no statistical good at reversing these evil behaviors.

I just wanted to quote this to show how you contradict yourself....

In fact, if I may ask, what finite sin is deserving of infinite punishment?

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4.Furthermore, on the topic of a deranged justice system, the Bible condemns those who want to believe in God

I personally do not believe that a good person goes to hell if he does not believe in God. I know a lot of people that agree with me, but I have met some that don't.

5.No Christian has been able to sensibly defend why the means of enlightenment, the story of Jesus, is so poor of a method of conversion that the room for conflict is not only vast, but invited. A test of faith is not an acceptable answer. There is no test of faith worth the infinite damnation of billions.

You have a big God-given brain. Decide to do what you want to do. No Christian NEEDS to defend the Bible's capability to convert you.

6.No Christian has been able to sensibly defend why the Bible is completely scientifically wrong as well as logically contradicting. This problem leads millions away from the Christian god, and once again, a test of faith is not an acceptable answer. There is no test of faith worth the infinite damnation of billions.

It's scientifically wrong because, in a mutually exclusive sense, science doesn't believe in gods.....I don't necessarily think the Bible's contradicting just confusing.

7.I can't worship a God that supports slavery or the stoning of children.

Neither can Christians.

8.Christianity, and religion in general, is a proven cancer to society. It has been shown that the more secular nations, in general, experience far less rates of violence and are more charitable in that they give more foreign aid to struggling countries. Atheists, being a moderate proportion of the USA population (about 8-16%) are disproportionately less numerous in the prison population (0.21%). Why would the holy works of a perfect being be so ineffective if not hazardous?

You somehow make the assumption that someone that deviates from the morals of the religion, represents the religion.....Wow.