Was the Bible written by Satan?

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Nem said:

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Serious_frusting said:
Whoever wrote the bible has to be "satan". What kind of narcissistic brute would intentionally trick people into believing that drivel? That book is causing wars throughout the world and preventing the continued progress of man. Has done for many years.

The sooner basic logic supplants all religions the better off mankind will be.

I guess you are going to have to be resigned to dying disappointed, because it's never going to happen.

Completely it will never happen, especially muslims will take a bit longer. But, in the west at least we are reaching a stage where religion is seen a ridiculous fairy tale. Religion as a dominant practice has its days numbered (if it can even be called that anymore).

Just as it was eliminated in Communist Russia with the rise of the League of Militant Atheists, and Communist China with its widespread suppression of religion?

No, wishful thinking bud this is merely a bit of a low point for religion.

I think atheism will rise for about 50 or so more years and then people will start returning to a spiritual view of life, the universe and everything. Atheism is already starting to show signs of falling into fanaticism in the shrillness with which its most strident advocates take an increasingly militant attitude towards the defeat and eradication of religion from human society. People will continue to seek to get organised around atheism and in doing so it will become the very thing that the original individualist atheists hate most about religion: a group of people dedicated to the domination of their [a]theology over all others, and the cleansing of people's religious sensibilities "for their own good". Atheism will collapse under it's own weight of striving to become the dominant thought throughout the world.

There will always be people who have spiritual experiences which to them are proof positive of a spiritual reality and hence God, and there will always be millions of people who accept those spiritual experiences as valid and true even if they don't experience such things themselves. I know many people, some who are former atheists who've had strong spiritual experiences, and no matter how much you tell them that "you can't disprove Zeus, therefore God doesn't exist" they will never deny the reality of those experiences.

Enjoy atheism while it lasts, I get the feeling that most of us here are going to live to see it's intellectual purity become corrupted as people hungry for control and influence seek to use it to further their own agendas and thus herald the beginning of its eventual end.

Of course Christianity and Islam are also dying a slow death and they will be consigned to the pages of history too. They are old and worn out, and they are two of the newer religions.