Why most major religions are hypocritical....

[Azaleya]

Alright, i bet you've noticed this already, but doesn't it seem like most religions and such are based on hypocrasy? For example, in the bible "thou shalt not commit murder". also in the bible: god smiting people for not agreeing with him. Now consider this--if i smote someone for disagreeing with me, i'd be accused of murder. Doesn't this mean that god would also be a murderer, thus violating one of his own commandments? Also: god is supremely good, and yet his actions throughout the bible are to me rather evil. And besides, good and evil are human preconceptions, so how could a supernatural being, who is not human, be good or evil?
Anyone have anything to add on this?  

[Confuzzled Assclown]

I could write a book about this, but I'll only leave it at this single line:

#6 "Thou shalt not murder" - 8 crusades, thousands murdered  

[Lesilrok]

Confuzzled Assclown

I could write a book about this, but I'll only leave it at this single line:

#6 "Thou shalt not murder" - 8 crusades, thousands murdered

someone beat it to you

here is a list of contradictions from S.A.B

http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra/by_name.html  

[Seabhac]

One thing that I might note here is that the god that smote people and the god that people today call supremely good might not be the same god. The smiting bits were written a long time ago, and over the ages people may have realized that they did not want a god that smites, they want a god that is good. When the idea morphed, the scriptures stayed the same.

A different thing that one could argue is that perhaps these people being smote deserved it, and so it would actually be good to smite them. Similar to a superhero-- when the hero kills the bad guy, is he considered a murderer? No, he's a hero. So if the god was right and these people did deserve the smiting, then the god may continue to be supremely good in the eyes of the people.

These are just arguments; I am not agreeing with them. XP  

[Azaleya]

I've never actually seen a superhero murder someone, except perhaps Jean Grey...but that wasn't quite her. Anyway, some people would consider it murder.  

[Lee Retalis]

Confuzzled Assclown

I could write a book about this, but I'll only leave it at this single line:

#6 "Thou shalt not murder" - 8 crusades, thousands murdered

If I may play Devil's Advocate,
The Theists would say "People did that, not God."  

[Confuzzled Assclown]

Night Hawk

Confuzzled Assclown

I could write a book about this, but I'll only leave it at this single line:

#6 "Thou shalt not murder" - 8 crusades, thousands murdered

If I may play Devil's Advocate,
The Theists would say "People did that, not God."

thats kind of missing the point, the point is that religions are hipocritical. The christians say God says it is wrong to kill someone, then go out and kill thousands. Thats pretty hypocritical.  

[Orson Welles]

[Night Hawk]

Confuzzled Assclown

I could write a book about this, but I'll only leave it at this single line:

#6 "Thou shalt not murder" - 8 crusades, thousands murdered

If I may play Devil's Advocate,
The Theists would say "People did that, not God."

Yes, but they did it for their God. 3nodding  

[The Zenogias]

Seabhac

One thing that I might note here is that the god that smote people and the god that people today call supremely good might not be the same god.

Like Seabhac suggested, these 'Gods' may not be the same Entity.

Lets, for the moment, suggest that for the sake of arguement, all of the 'Gods' and 'Goddesses' of history are, instead of actual 'Omniscient' entites, rather various advanced forms of life, Extra-Terrestrial, Extra-Dimensional, whatever.

Mix with their interference with humans on Earth the kind of Monarch fearful story telling used by modern Religions to control people, and you have a recipe for disaster in this day and age.

This is only a suggestion however. mrgreen