Hellfire? and fundamentalist, fear-based religious doctrines

[Ali Quadir]

Is there a way, a thought that would sabotage that "bible is 100%" correct idea?

This is the very reason why they disallow bible invocation in professional atheist vs. God debates. The bible is considered to be 'The Truth' or 'The Source' of all divine wisdom among believers, they don't care if there are contradictions or failings. However, interestingly since it is a fear based religion, many if not most will stop short at acknowledging those problems and instead try to show how as humans we can't fully understand God's full meaning.

As if the dude would write us a letter and be incapable to make it something we can understand.

There was a lecture given by Alan Watts that I listened to a few months ago, where he speculated that nobody really, *really* believes in the [fear based religions, or the] bible. Because if people really truly believed that a place like Hell existed and that a God such as is painted by the church existed, people would be running mad in the streets with fear. God would be the biggest and worst tyrant of them all, casually brushing billions of souls off his sleeve in to the furnaces of hell for ever, and ever, and ever. Who was it that said if God existed, it would become necessary to get rid of him? The western religions paint a bleak portrait of God, and I'd have to say also, a childish and immature one. The highly religious (and I have to say, some political leaders also) like to paint reality in black or white. You're with us or against us. Your good or you're evil. It's either this, or that. But as we all know actual reality is both black, white and every shade in between, not to mention all the colors.

I agree brother...

Most of those who are opposed to religion or the notion of God are not so much opposed to religion or the notion of God but simply to the suffering caused by dogmatic application of irrelevant rules. Unfortunately they do not see the difference between the majority of the peacefully religious who would not impose those rules and the few who would.