I am an aetheist and I enjoy this book because _______

dayum son, that's a painful burn

It's not intended to be a burn. It's what it is. While you go on about "lolsnakes" anyone that actually knows anything about literature recognizes how dumb it is. Less than 3% of Christians believe the first 11 chapters of Genesis are completely literal while 100% of atheists do.

Citation needed

Are you on the spectrum? That's a serious question.

This is why everyone thinks atheists are dumb

What spectrum?

it's good Literature

i said the name of the board in my post how based am i

this, really.

i dont read faust or the recognitions and scoff at the use of a black poodle as a representation of the devil. any moron that cannot understand literature or allegory has no business discussing the bible beyond its atheist circlejerking.

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thanks for posting this
i wonder how the christcucks will explain this away
"it's just a story bro"

the file compression makes the red text hard to read

It's worth scoffing at and treating differently than other literature considering the effect it's had on the human race.

it's pretty funny how much time christians waste reading a primitive book from the stone age about talking snakes and stoning women and not eating oysters when they could be learning about black holes
i mean fuck how awesome is this photo and yet you stare dumbly at a burning bush

Just google bible contradictions, inconsistencies, not exactly hard to find a plethora of information on the subject if one is actually keen to look.

fuck you

>advertising your fallacious logic
we knew but we didn't know you don't know and now we know you don't know.
good job.

That's why it shouldnt be pushed aside for "talking snake lmao."

stop posting the porn me and your mom made

I don't know what my false logic is but keep posting memes and funny pictures, hence you must be right.

people like you are the reason why there is isis

The difference is people actually do take the Bible completely seriously. More so than any other medium actually.

we should treat literature like science books
reading the bible is like reading a science book that says the earth is the center of the universe and there is no such things as germs
just because something is "influential" doesn't mean it should be read
isn't it about time we got over the bible and focused on something you know actually logical and that furthers mankind?

Science books are boring, though.

The bait in all of these replies is phenomenal, I almost took a couple of them. Bravo people bravo.

You're pretty fucking retarded my man

It has well written stories about archtypes that are universally applicable throughout life?

Old testament is too hard to read :( :/

It's hilarious how one can spot a Christian nowadays. They have sunken so far back in defending what was once holy scripture, then assertion and is now increasingly just abstract guidelines that cling to a sadly unconquerable base belief.

Literal interpretations of the Bible are a relatively new development

keep believing dumb fairy tales because they make little baby feel good

i love this image. it is my favorite meme.

you sound pretentious

I dare you to name ONE

Nice inaccurate graph. (Im an atheist too btw, im just not autistic)

the joke
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your heads

I'm well aware of many apparent contradictions but they fall apart with deeper readings. For example lets look at the supposed contradiction on drinking alcohol in the "10001 bible contradictions" website. John 2:3 and Timothy 5:23 promote drinking wine but Numbers 6:3 and Proverbs 20:1 condemn drinking alcohol. Proverbs 20:1 only condemns being led astray by wine and beer, not drinking alcohol in general, Likewise the prohibition in Numbers 6:3 only applied to Israelites who had taken the Nazarite vow, not all people or even all Israelites. Since Jesus first miracle involved turning water into wine it follows that the responsible drinking of alcohol is not a sin.

Here's another example for good measure. Should we pray and do good deeds in public? 1 Timothy 2:8 and Mathew 5:16 says we should, but Mathew 6:1-6 says we should pray and give alms in secret.

The Catechism says that Christians should practice "almsgiving, prayer and fasting, directing them to the Father who sees in secret, and not from a desire to be seen by men." This is because our intentions are essential to the moral evaluation of an action. An added bad intention such as vainglory makes an act evil that, in and of itself, can be good, such as almsgiving. In Mathew 5:16 Jesus says, "Let your light shine before men, they they may see your good works and give glory to your father who is in heaven." The point of our works is to glorify god, not ourselves. Jesus command in Mat 6:1-6 prohibits publicly praying and doing good deeds in order to receive praise from other people. Jesus was not condemning prayer or almsgiving done out of genuine desire to please god--even if other people see us pray or perform good deeds.

Besides the one where you have to kill your son to prove devotion to god, and the genocide and pillaging and total devotion and worship to a god for all eternity..

i admit it's a rough sketch but we both know there is a grain of truth to it
and just because someone owns you at an argument it doesn't mean they're autistic, face it dude i'm just more intelligent than you

This. Modern christians are fucking retarded. Christianity used to be very existential in its nature and was about the individuals relationship with the harsh infinite (god). The stories all contain important moral archtypes that you objectively teach you how to interact better with world (given you understand them correctly)

look at the mental gymnastics a christcuck will go through to believe in such nonsense
religion is a crutch for the weak minded

Not necessarily true. You may FEEL more intelligent. However going around the Internet flaunting your faux intellect tell me, and others, that youre compensating for something. Perhaps lack of legitimate intelligence?

dude just stop you're embarrassing yourself

Thank you for proving my point.

Where does this "the Bible is good literature" meme come from?

No, not really. You'll grow out of your edgetheist stage and eventually come to respect religion and spirituality, even if you dont believe in it yourself. Christianity has shaped a large part of the western world we live in today, and its morals and guidelines are all throughout our society.

it's a rich interesting story that informs how our culture shaped itself
same reason i like reading the greek myths

Hey idiot your bus is leaving to the Bible study you're going to be late

it's because most people were brought up to believe it there are huge institutions set up around it
so basically brainwashing
they'd say the same thing about the book of mormon is john smith existed thousands of years ago

>look mom im interepreting the bible literally!
Sometimes the world will require great sacrafices and you will suffer if you dont make them. Are you opposed to the death sentence, because killing people who commit crimes against humanity seems fine to me.

christian "morality" is harmful to the human species

The last 5 words there are completely damning to your argument

yeah his mind checked out a long time ago

I dont its kike bullshit

i don't

Unfortunately this is true

Can you prove this?

i would tell you to read nietzsche but a pea brain like you couldn't comprehend him
in a way i'm glad you're a christian, society needs slaves like you

He just read the Wikipedia article on Nietzsche and has a fundamental misunderstanding of his philosophy so no he couldn't

Notice how when the atheists start losing their arguments they fall back "just pretending to be retarded" and "we were trolling the whole time lol I got you." It's pathetic.

We would be on Mars now if it wasn't for those meddlesome hebrews.

nah actually i have read all of his books more than once

Im not a Christian. Atheist here.

you subscribe to christian ethics therefore you are no different than a christian

>we should treat literature like science books
holy shit no
>just because something is "influential" doesn't mean it should be read
holy shit no

Ignoring the bible is to ignore over 2000 years of history, you cannot understand a vast amount of history, literature, philosophy, etc. without an understanding of the bible and the religions it inspired

No, i just acknowledge that it has had a large impact on our society and should be respected.

2000 years of history is a blink of the eye in the grand scheme of things

What the fuck do you mean literally? You are a Christian that doesn't take the Bible literally? How could one say that straight faced about their faith? How far will one bend their mind to justify belief? So god is speaking all in hypotheticals? Would you tell your god right now in front of his face the Bible is not meant to be taken literally. Fucking Christ.

Oh you're a fan of Nietzsche? Name five of his books. I'll wait pleb

any second now he will play the faith card

The Greek Music Drama (1870)
The Greek State (1871)
The Birth of Tragedy (1872)
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense (1873)
Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks (1873)
We Philologists (1874, posthumous)
Untimely Meditations (1876)
Human, All Too Human (1878)
The Dawn (1881)
The Gay Science (1882)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)
The Case of Wagner (1888)
Twilight of the Idols (1888)
The Antichrist (1888)
Ecce Homo (1888)
Nietzsche contra Wagner (1888)

If you have, explain the difference between Apollonian and Dionysian

Is that thunderf00t

i'm not dumbing it down for you idiot if you want to know read it yourself like i did

Neckbeards BTFO!!

>thread with barely any discussion od literature
>most bumped thread in the past hour by countless fedoras
really encourages one to ponder...

Hitler had a large impact on society

God is a hypothetical. I am a materialist atheist and I see value in the bible. Not every bible verse is a perfect undebatable lesson, but if you cant see how many lessons are applicable to everyday life then youre simple not trying

hitler was also a person
therefore you are hitler

>atheist reasoning

This board is a lot dumber than I thought

The pages are usually thin and don't make too harsh of a rolling paper in a pinch.

>asked to name five of his books
>names 18
Atheists everybody

No this would be your reasoning considering the fact that you think because something has a large impact on society it should be respected. Acknowledged yes, lest we forget - but respected, that is a dangerous word. Let's face it, you're an apologist and you're not very articulate about it.

The fact that this thread isn't comprised of a bunch of these posts makes me sad for humanity.

How fucking stupid are you? The OP is "Im an atheist and I enjoy the bible because __"

Nowhere did I say i was a christian, the entire point of this thread is for atheists to explain what they like about the bible. Jesus fucking christ

You have activated my faith card!

dude you're making it pretty clear that you're completely unfamiliar with the Bible; why do you feel so strongly about something you've never read

Hitler's impact is now we try to do everything he opposed

Christianity for the greatest part of European history was followed, and even today most of Christian morality is still respected and integrated into our laws

If you can't see this you're deluding yourself because you follow morality that's derived from that religion

Also to bring up Hitler when it's not the topic of the conversation just childish because the only argument is "it resembles something we all disagree with!!" and you're trying to appeal by common opinion

You are implying that humans don't have the innate ability to be moral or know what is ethical without a book or religion to give them (outrageously bad) lessons. Tell you what, I know I'm not supposed to murder you, even though that's really what I want to do right now. To believe that a god provides this and it isn't ingrained in our human senses is just mind blowing.

>le loss of faith in humanity :'(
back to plebbit

Why do you say that? What are these obvious things you allude to?