Again, how do you know other than a book? Were there measurements done? Repeated testing? Data analysis? Nope, you just ASSUME that there was a god that created the universe.
The "evidence" is one. SINGULAR. BOOK. If I were to believe everything I read in a book, I'd believe in everything from the Buddha to Harry Potter.
Issue there is, you have to prove a god exists before you can prove he's all-knowing. Also, being correct about human behavior isn't being correct about everything. Now, if the Bible authors were correct about something that literally couldn't have been understood at the time, like predicting that the sun uses nuclear fusion for energy, THAT would at least be something. But humans existed back then, and the Bible authors could have easily pulled from their understanding of human behavior at the time.
This is what I dislike about Christianity, tbh. Screw the transphobia and homophobia, the worst part is that it completely breaks down any achievement anyone could ever have and makes it completely meaningless. An epiphany you had no part in has no meaning, overcoming a challenge has no meaning if you did it because someone else willed it, and love dictated by someone else is meaningless too. And then, as if to add insult to injury, it blames humans specifically for all the BAD things in the world. Like, come on man, consider having faith in YOURSELF for once. Maybe that's why people believe in religion; it's easier to tell others the things one desperately needs to tell oneself, so perhaps faith follows that trend too.
It can't operate on something that's not there, but it can produce results that aren't there based on things that are there. That's literally what "projection" is; seeing factors that are there and imagining something that isn't there so hard you think it's true.
That is, in fact, the problem. If your god is all-powerful and all-knowing and all-good, then literally any possible actions that occur could be chalked up to him. Compound onto that the fact that you also believe this all-good god can do evil in the service of good, and yeah, it's literally impossible for any action taken to NOT fit with the existence of your god, which makes the criterion meaningless because it can explain literally any data.
Every other religion in existence that hasn't been actively disproven and features vague criterion for human behavior that can be interpreted to fit the moment?
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Oh yeah, and one other point I forgot to mention. How do you know that the motivations that you fit to the Bible, AREN'T just you seeing motivations that aren't there? How do you KNOW that a transgender person, or a homosexual person, or even and Atheist, is motivated by a desire to rebel against your god? Hell, in the last case, that's literally impossible because you can't want to rebel against something that doesn't exist.
And herein we find the TRUE root of all suffering and evil; people assume that the motivations of others are what they WANT to see, instead of trying to come in with an open mind and without assumptions. I'm not completely innocent of this; you already know that from a recent comments thread. However, you seem to be doing it a LOT. 99% of the time, hate and evil come from people saying the same thing in different ways.
As an example of this, a story I heard from a friend; A teacher once asked their philosophy class whether they believed in women's suffrage. All but one raised their hands. When the teacher asked the one individual who didn't raise their hand why they didn't believe in women's suffrage, they said "Because I don't want women to suffer". All the students were saying the same thing, just in a slightly different way, but if that student's intent were never revealed, it would have seemed he was advocating for taking away basic rights from women, rather than actually wanting women to NOT SUFFER, which would include maintaining their basic rights.
Again, it's all just people using different means and different words to do and say the same things, but they vilify each other because of those surface-level differences. I would encourage you to try to stop assuming things about others in your conversations with them, you will at least have better conversations, and you might just surprise yourself with what you realize you were missing and how much common ground you have with someone who's transgender or homosexual or Atheist.
