How many has God killed?

[Henry]

I must say I agree with Mr. Devaney about this. It was something I figured out a long time ago, after I grew up and started thinking for myself. Throughout my entire childhood, my parents forced me to blindly accept anything that the Church and priests says. And I was happy in doing so, and I loved that God was in my life. Then when I was about 17, I had decided to read the entire bible from the first to the last page. Ironically, it was because I had done this that I started to seriously question the Bible as the true inspired word of God. I was horrified at reading so many passages that was never read to me at Church or by my parents. All those obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled. It would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel.

I am now a a grown man (34 years old) and I'm peaceful & good, not because I fear going to Hell, but because I like living like this. I don't steal only because it is wrong. I don't kill only because it is cruel and evil, and that's not my nature. I don't do anything considered sinful by the Bible, but only because I choose to live like this, not because I want to please our God or fear going to Hell. I think any normal sane person with no psychotic tendencies or mental illness would also be a good human being like me.

As I got older, I had done a thorough research about the Bible. I found out how it was put together by a committee of men, and that it was not the word of God. It was derived mostly from stolen pagan sources. Garden of Eden and Adam & Eve were taken from the Babylonian accounts; its Flood and Deluge is but an epitome of some four hundred flood accounts; its Ark and Ararat have their equivalents in a score of Deluge myths; even the names of Noah's sons are copies, so also Isaac's sacrifice, Solomon's judgment, and Samson's pillar acts; its Moses is fashioned after the Syrian Mises; its laws after Hammurabi's code. Its Messiah is derived from the Egyptian Mahdi, certain verses are exact copies of Egyptian scriptures. Between Jesus and the Egyptian Horus there are over 100 similarities (virgin Mother, died on a cross, resurrected, etc), and those between Christ and Krishna run into the hundreds. Even the cross symbol itself was stolen from the pagans. The whole process was a pathetic act that should never have caught on like it did, and cursed the human race for almost 20 centuries now. Shame on Constantine and his committee. They have a lot of blood on their hands because of that book.

I have also given up trying to show others that the Bible is mostly nonsense. I have tried to explain how the Bible was put together, and how the stories about Jesus were borrowed from past stories many hundreds of years before Jesus's time (like Hercules & Zeus for example). But every person that I tried to "free" from these delusions always have some outrageous excuse that keeps them cemented to their beliefs, and keeps them believing in these fairytales. For example, many of them say that the Devil has tricked us to believing all those "lies". That the Devil was the one who planted all those similar stories about the Bible and about Jesus, many hundreds of years before Jesus and the Bible was even around. Even the stuff in the bible that they don't like, is casually dismissed with such gems as "God works in mysterious ways", or "we cannot judge God, he has his reasons", or some other load of BS. And they look at me like I was evil for even questioning the Bible and Jesus. Like there was something wrong with me for not believing as they do. And they all feel sorry for me and promised to pray for me. So I gave up trying to reason with these brainwashed individuals who don't want to think for themselves.

As for me, I do believe in God, I am not an atheist. I just don't believe that the Bible has anything to do with him. For that matter, I sincerely believe that all religions on Earth were created by men and do not represent God at all. An all mighty and omnipotent God just would not behave as depicted in the Bible. Any intelligent person who reads the Bible in its entirety (not just the nice stories they read at Church), will come to the same conclusion. I am not evil, and I have no agenda at all. Live and let live is how I operate now. If God wants to punish me for being a peace loving intelligent man who thinks for himself, then I'll just blame him for making me that way.

Stay true to yourself,
Henry Paine