Warbler said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

But everyone's entitled to their opinions and beliefs, I just wish that these opinions were based on experience and logic rather than something they cherry picked out of an old book.

may I remind that to some, it isn't just any old book. To some, it is a book written by God himself.

I didn't say "any old book", you're seeing a letter 'y' where there isn't one.

But surely no rational person believes that the whole Bible, every single word, is the word of God. I could believe that every word in it ascribed to Jesus is. As almost without exception they are words, sentences, thoughts and ideas I too support as an atheist (In short his words are infallible). But the rest of it is sometimes arrant nonsence suggesting the fallible hand of man in it's writing.

I can't believe that God would approve of slavery but according to the Bible he does. Since slavery was fine in the time it was written, it seems obvious that those passages were man-made. Of course mankind has moved on and now believes slavery to be wrong. But surely it was always wrong and God would have known that?

Which is why I said 'cherry picked'. If a Christian is pro-slavery then fine, they can quote away about the couple of sentences that condemn homosexuality (Because I can at least see that that person is being consistent). But otherwise, they should make up their own mind.