Couldn't agree more, throughout my life, I had never even considered my self an atheist, as religion played no part in it, I never thought about it. So I knew what I had been told in school of basic stuffs and heard all the good words in the churches when I ventured there at Christmas etc. It were all the terrorism that made me wonder what people were actually believing in and could get them to do these things, that got me started. So I decided to read the bible with an open mind since so many people believed it, maybe there were something about it, that I had missed. And honestly, after maybe one to five pages, I knew I were an atheist, absolute non sense. But I decided to keep reading it and have read most of it now, some of it several times in fact. except some of the minor texts, but even after having read the rest of the bible, it made me wonder even more why people believe in it. So I decided to look at all the explanations that people have about what is written in it. So besides obviously reading on the internet, I have spoken to JWs, contacted website with scholars and prof. in both old and new testament with questions. Which they normally say they will answer in about 3 weeks only to be contacted around 10 month later, with an answer that either they are to busy to answer, they couldn't find one willing to do it or that they didn't find the question precise enough. Even though the person, I spoke with accepted the question and helped formulate it. And when I say "formulate", its typical to remove all my references to the bible to why the question have to be asked the way it is, but instead they simply turn the question into a generic one, that people asks all the time and have an easy answer when people haven't read the bible. That makes me loose respect, we are not talking about average "believers", but people highly educated in these text from churches, universities and so on. As an atheist not being able to even ask questions about religion and expecting some answers to them, to why people should believe it in the first place, is not really something I appreciate.
Well wicked people according to the bible is also non believers, if I remember correct. But a lot of scientist are non believers and definitely not what I mean by incompetent people.
What I mean with incompetent people, is those that rule by greed, with no understanding of the long term effect of what they are doing have on the planet. Because it suits there short term goals, scientists are normally, if not the only ones capable of making us aware that we even have a problem in the first place. And im not making a distinction between scientists that believe a God and those that don't, both are equally competent when it comes to science as long as they leave God outside the lab.
Thank you for your replies.
First, I see I was Not clear enough about saying about many incompetent......
To me the figurative haughty ' goats ' are claiming to be followers of Christ at Matthew 25:31-33.
They could be either competent or not, but they are using their ' belief ' to claim to be Christian.
So, to me it is No wonder in Matthew chapter 7 that Jesus said 'many' would come in his name but prove false.
Thus, those continuing to play false are will end up as wicked.
Back in the 70's when a power plant was being built and a Big Shot at the plant was being interviewed about the danger of nuclear waste.
His response was that each generation has its problems to solve, so that 'waste' will be that generations problem to solve.
I was surprised the interviewer did Not then ask him what if that generation can't solve the problem, then what ?
A business man could be competent and become rich, and that is how he can be led to be greedy.
One business man told me if you give into greed it takes all of you (at least in his case he felt it did).
Greed seems to enter into the future picture as found at Revelation 18:11-19.
Please notice the world's businessmen, the merchants, weep and mourn.
They cry, Not because of loss of life, but have sorrow because of their loss of revenue.
BIG business, the commercial empire, has made profit from the false materialistic religions.
(the making, the buying and the selling or religious objects, religious idols, the sin of simony)
Christians are to walk by faith, and Not by sighted things as per 2 Corinthians 5:7; Galatians 5:22-23.
So, once the political surprisingly turns on the world's religious realm (which is also a business) then they will loose all the profits they have made off of her.
The religious realm has dealt more with 'monkey business' than the 'spiritual business' of Jesus - Luke 4:43.
None of this makes the Bible as wrong, but corrupted religious people as wrong.
