Religions - Your Opinion

[Sasquatch]

sasquatch: Person living inside a fish=Jonah.

First, it wasn't a fish, it was a whale. Second, it's entirely possible for somebody to live for three days inside the stomach of a whale.

Man with supehuman strength because of his hair=samson.

It wasn't because of his hair, it was because of God. The entire point of that story is that God granted Samson his strength.

Talking snake=Genesis.

Wrong again. If you want to take a literal interpretation of Genesis (and not just manipulate the parts of the Bible that you think might make it look bad), it was not a snake, it was a serpent. And this was before it was cursed. (You know, God cursing the serpent to crawl on the ground and eat dust and have men crush it with their boots -- before that, what was it?)

There's many ways to interpret the Bible, or any other holy book, so why do you choose the most outlandish things possible? Do you not suppose that perhaps those stories could be meant to be taken as allegory?

Why do you think that the Bible is "outlandish" if it's not twisted and manipulated?

It's like saying, "Hitler didn't REALLY kill fifteen million people,we just SAY that to illustrate how much of a bad guy he was."

I love it when Evolutionists get outraged at Creation because it doesn't explain exactly how something happened, but through supernatural powers of a supernatural being ... then sit back and relax in their belief in supernatural powers of nature.

... any god represented by the core religions who could let such terrible things happen to his/her creations, just doesn't fit into my view of what a god is.

And if bad things are done because people turn away from God, that's God's fault? Is every bad person -- drug dealers, rapists, murderers, child molesters, etc. -- the fault of their parents? Surely, no parent would let their child grow up to be a child molester, right? So the bad guy had to, somewhere down the road, turn away from what his parents taught him. Whose fault is that?

I think atheists can be much more aggressive in getting their views across, but religious people have a knack for shoving their views down other people's throats too. I've never bumped into an atheist in the street giving out flyers, or had one knock on my door preaching the word of nothingness.

Because a guy on the street handing out fliers and people who knock on your door to share their religion are "shoving their views down your throat"?

Don't lie, cheat, steal, kill unjustly or rape. That's all pretty simple. And I think even the atheists can agree with that.

Translation: Do not kill, do not rape, do not steal. These are principles which every man of every faith can embrace."