The Bible

I never argue the Bible with a Believer. Because I don't believe in the bible. Believers say it is the word of god, and I say whose god and they say The God and I say well you're god ain't my god and my god didn't write the bible, some old white straight men striving for power wrote the bible to keep the masses in line and some hundreds of years later the bible is still controlling people.

if you need a book, albeit written by your "god", to tell you what to do and what not to do, how to treat others and how not to treat others, and what is a sin and what is not a sin, then I think you're in pretty bad shape. For morals are pretty easily defined: Treat others like you'd like to be treated and consenting adults can do what they want with each other and themselves as along as they are consenting.

So want to steal from your local grocery store? well, treat that grocery store as you'd like to be treated: I'm sure you'd dislike it if someone stole from you. Want to have sex with a prostitute? As long as she (or he) says sure, then go for it. Want to smoke some dope? fine, go ahead it is your body. But want to smoke dope and then drive a car? would you like someone to smoke dope, drive a car and possibly hit and kill you with it? I think not, so smoke your dope, but don't drive afterwards.

life would be pretty simple if people just knew what was right from wrong, but i guess they must all have failed at morality 101 for they think it is an open book test, with that book forever open (and open to as many interpretations as there are readers of it).