Re: A Question For Evil Editor of Evilbible.com

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 10:25:18 +1030, ýøwíë <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Message ID:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in alt.atheism;

>Anti Theist said in alt.flame.jesus.christ...
>> Hello Evil Editor.  After looking at your website on why you do not
>> agree with christianity, I have a question for you about this bible
>> verse that I saw on Skeptics Annotated Bible.
>> 
>> I told this christian guy on a Web Tv discussion group about how god
>> send the bears to attack a bunch of kids for making fun of Elisha in 2
>> Kings 2:23-24 
>
>23  Then from there he went up to Beth-el; and on his way, some little 
>boys came out from the town and made sport of him, crying, Go up, old no-
>hair! go up, old no-hair!
>24  And turning back, he saw them, and put a curse on them in the name of 
>the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the wood and put forty-two of the 
>children to death.
>-BBE
>
>> Then this christian tells me that there is nothing in the bible verse
>> that say anything about god attacking the kids with the bears even
>> though Elisha cursed them in the name of the lord as the bible verse
>> stated.  Then he tells me that even if god did this, he have the right
>> to do that because when kids do something like make fun of someone,
>> there will be repercussion in return.
> 
>> The question that I want to ask is, how can I confront this christian
>> about this bible verse that say that their god uses those bears to
>> attack those kids?
>
>If reason and evidence were effective against the willful ignorance of 
>Xians, there wouldn't be any.

Exactly.  Emotions, namely fear, rules their day.
         

   
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