Message from @Ehzek
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If you accuse someone of cherry-picking, you shouldn't cherry-pick regardless.
If you do, you are no better than the person you accused and, if anything, you look worse than the person you are accusing.
Its pointing out the hypocrisy of the religion
By being hypocritical yourself.
That's the problem.
What you are basically saying is that they shouldn't point out the hypocrisy..
If you're being hypocritical yourself, your argument is invalidating itself.
No you aren listening
"Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone."
Atheist are not cherry picking their own beliefs
Ehzek, but they are cherry-picking from the Bible to make their point.
Yes
Which they accuse Theists of doing.
Hypo critical would be if there was an atheist bible and they cherry picked that
Ehzek, two lefts don't make a right.
You are argueing false equivalence
No.
I am arguing for consistency.
If you are going to argue against a religion, don't do the thing you accuse your enemies of doing.
They arent cherry picking their religion
No.
They are accusing Theists of cherry-picking from the Bible itself.
Whichbis their text
They argue that Theists cherry-pick from the Bible to validate their points.
If an Atheist cherry-picks from the Bible to validate their points, then that is no better than the Theist doig it, Ehzek.
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Except it points out the discrepancy in the relgion
No because it is increduous most of the time.
Then how should they do it
I've actually bothered reading the Bible.
Half of the stuff they cite is heavily doctored to fit their needs.
Instead, they should actually focus on the bigger picture.
If they want to criticize religion, they should focus on where inconsistencies lie.
As they are acting now, they're a laughing stock to anyone who has a Bible by their side that they can cross-reference.
How can you point out an inconsistency without "cherry picking"? Thats literally how you find them
By not taking one passage and running with it and, instead, taking larger sections or entire books, in their entirety, and then analyzing them in detail to see what they describe and whether they actually fit in with other books.
So you want a meme page to be a university research paper?
Because thats where you will find that sort of information.
Like here lets use something from the GET page