2. IIRC, your God told a man to sacrifice his son. This is exactly the sort of thing you'd see out of the Middle East, and a perfect precursor to the Jesus story. You see, in the Middle East, a sacrifice of a son is the ultimate, because men are worth so much more than women, and the father makes the sacrifice because he CAN. He's the father. That's how that culture is. The Bible is an absolutely accurate reflection of that culture. What I am saying (for about the fourth time now) is that no American need bow to that culture. Whether you're bowing to Mecca or Jerusalem, you're bowing to the Middle East.
3. I didn't dodge any questions about the universe, I told you (or whoever) to check out Dr. Lawrence Krauss's youtube talk "A Universe From Nothing." I am not an astrophysicist and I cannot put his lecture in bumper-sticker form for you. If I had a question about the Bible, would I be better off asking you, or looking for myself? Well, the same goes for you. If you have a question about how the universe could theoretically have come from nothing, go right to the person who has the theory and is willing to explain it to you.
1.) No, I certainly don’t feel like I lost anything. Muslims follow a Bible of their own, called the Koran (I thought you knew this, sorry) and they do pretty much what Christians do. Pick what they like and explain away what they don’t. That is why all religions have so many conflicting (sometimes even warring) factions. And every side has “proof” they are right.
The Koran is a derivative of the Bible, and in significant cases, it differs from the Bible. It would be hard to argue that Muslim culture and Christian culture are similar. Christians may interpret particular sections of Bible differently, but they all agree that there is a God. It doesn’t take too much digging to find that there exists atheist infighting with your common belief that there is no God. Hmmm....
2. IIRC, your God told a man to sacrifice his son. This is exactly the sort of thing you’d see out of the Middle East, and a perfect precursor to the Jesus story. You see, in the Middle East, a sacrifice of a son is the ultimate, because men are worth so much more than women, and the father makes the sacrifice because he CAN. He’s the father. That’s how that culture is. The Bible is an absolutely accurate reflection of that culture. What I am saying (for about the fourth time now) is that no American need bow to that culture. Whether you’re bowing to Mecca or Jerusalem, you’re bowing to the Middle East.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
Any American that “bows” to a culture does it out of faith not because of some “religious law”. They do it of their own free will. You seem to be intolerant toward people of faith... almost afraid. It’s interesting.
3. I didn’t dodge any questions about the universe, I told you (or whoever) to check out Dr. Lawrence Krauss’s youtube talk “A Universe From Nothing.” I am not an astrophysicist and I cannot put his lecture in bumper-sticker form for you. If I had a question about the Bible, would I be better off asking you, or looking for myself? Well, the same goes for you. If you have a question about how the universe could theoretically have come from nothing, go right to the person who has the theory and is willing to explain it to you.
Regrettably for atheists no man knows what happened at the exact “moment” of creation of our known universe. In fact, they are still trying to figure out the creation of life on this planet.