Shouldn't We Demand That Religion-Based Policies Prove They Have Objective Fact Behind Them?

[SoutherDem]

11. The problem is they think they are facts.

To the Atheist community they are not facts. To the Christian community they are facts.

All Christians (to the best of my knowledge) accept the Holy Bible to be the word of god. They may differ in the amount of inerrancy they believe it has, but they do believe the book was in some form or another was written by the creator of the universe. As such for them what the bible says is as much a fact as that the sun will rise tomorrow morning, actually more of a fact because the bible tell of how god once made the sun go backwards and even claim (believe) that astronomers have calculated that there is a missing hour from time.

Some Christians are more reasonable. They are open minded, they follow the bible with an understanding that it does have some things which are not possible. They follow the "good" of the bible and dismiss the "bad" while also dismissing the things which have been proven wrong. How can they accept the book as the "Word of God" yet dismiss so much of it I don't know. But these aren't the problem.

The problem are those who are claiming the Earth is 6000 years old, believe that women should be submissive to men, that homosexuals should be killed or at least have no rights. They are the ones who want to push their "facts" on everyone else.

What I find odd is how these who believe in the whole bible will still do so many things which the bible tells us is wrong. They somehow find a way to justify following some parts while dismissing other, based on what they want to do. Most can't go one day without breaking dozens of religious laws, of course Christ came and did away with those, but although Christ didn't say one word about homosexuality, he somehow didn't do away with those.

I agree with you they are NOT facts.

For me when I realized how much of the bible I couldn't believe in I gave up on religion completely. I am now an Atheist and place no more value in the Bible than the cost of the leather, ink, and labor it took to print.

For me the problem is not only they feel they are facts but also feel that somehow their having a freedom of religion, means that their freedom allows them to infringe on the freedoms of other. Freedom of THEIR religion.