In Defense Of Atheism And Reason-Based Thinking

Atheism is not a belief, just a greater awareness of the real nature of reality, untarnished by our ancient past's emotion-based thinking.

I'v read the Bible 3 times (twice in the Iron Bar Inn!) and extensively researched history particular to that time-frame, and I can say with great certainty that anyone who knows the larger context of the history of religion knows that the Bible is a horrid bit of ancient mythological nonsense that advocates slavery, advocates stoning to death as appropriate punishment for ridiculous transgressions, was assembled primarily by tyrants, and used to exploit and control the masses.

There is very little truth in the Bible. Except for a few philosophical ideas that anyone with any modicum of ethics would presume. It's mostly a gallimaufry of mythologies by bronze-age cultures that had not an inkling of understanding of physics or gravity or the properties of light, molecules or atoms, and who thought the earth was the center of everything.

The Jesus story is simply a rehashing of so many earlier mythologies, including the Ammen-Ra myth from Egypt ('Amen' at the end of christian prayer comes from Ammen-Ra), and Dionysus from the Mycenaean culture, all of whom were born of a virgin, had 12 disciples, walked on water, performed miracles and were crucified or killed and then resurrected after 3 days. These ubiquitous ideas represented the winter solstice when the Sun is 'Dead', or lowest in the sky and in the vicinity of a constellation called 'Crux', or cross, for three days between Dec 22 & Dec 25. On the 25th the sun starts to climb higher every day, forshadowing spring and renewed life. Thus, the sun died on the cross, was dead for three days, and then resurrected. This is what the Jesus story clearly represents, and the meme is from thousands of years before "Christianity" was even a twinkle in Abraham's eye! Seriously!
(Islam, Judaism and Christianity all share the same heritage, as sons of Abraham)

And last but assuredly not least is the unmitigated fact that there has been more suffering and death in the history of the world due to the Bible than by any other cause besides plague and famine.

Just the facts man.

Think for yourself. Question and research EVERYTHING! Don't take others word for it, after all, we're all born atheist.