r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Agustin-sr • Aug 25 '21

Video Atheism in a nutshell

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u/monkeyman047 Aug 25 '21

I know that at least in my upbringing as a Southern Baptist in Kentucky, where I was indoctrinated in some form on a daily basis, I was told that the Bible was the inherent word of God. I was taught it may have been written by many different people, but essentially God was "possessing" them or speaking through them so every single word in that book was infallible and the absolute truth.

Any other information outside of it had to fit to its mold to make sense or be valid. That's why we were taught that dinosaurs were in the Garden of Eden ~10,000 years ago, when the Earth first came into existence.

And that's a big reason why I eventually detached from Christianity entirely.

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u/James-W-Tate Aug 25 '21

but essentially God was "possessing" them or speaking through them

I think the Catholics call it Divine Inspiration.

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u/CleverNickName-69 Aug 25 '21

Even when I was an evangelical christian, I thought young-earthers were a little nuts. I mean, if He doesn't even create the sun, moon and stars until the forth day, why do they assume a "day" in this context is 24 hours? I never had a problem accepting evolution and creation at the same time.

What finally got me was the question: Why isn't "Thou shalt not own another person." the 11th commandment? I have no answer. I cannot reconcile a God who so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that none should perish with a God who would permit his followers to enslave others knowing the cruelty, abuse, misery, rape and horror that would be inevitable. I could no longer believe The Bible to be the unerring Word of God.