But, in either case, I still get pretty annoyed when Atheists ask "well, who created God?"

I then proceed to explain why the question is arbitrary and pointless by pointing out that it's kind of stupid to invalidate your Father's contributions to creating you by saying "yeah, well, what about your grandfather, huh? Shouldn't *he* be more important than your father in creating you?"

It's a deflection from the main argument and a pointless argument because it doesn't make God's achievements any less impressive and important to us. In essence, God is our father and, if God happens to have a father of his own, it fundamentally does not diminish the fact that God literally created the entire universe and, in turn, us.

Thing is

God was created by man

Like Jupiter, Neptune, and the fucking Yeti

And how do you know God was created by man?

Who wrote the Bible?

*Searches frantically for fedora

God was created by man because there is too much overlap in too many stories for it to be the most reliable telling.

The church had a habit of co opting pagan culture and packaging it all into one easy to worship religion. There is probably truth in it when it was created but what we have now is almost entirely fictitious.

you can believe in God and not be Christian

God is not a concept you can easily discard just because muh religion is evil or corrupt or doesnt make sense to me 😦

there is very good reason for why so many people still believe in God in some capacity, whether it be through a religion such as Christianity, judaism, through Deism, or other movements and ideologies

And why does it matter who wrote the Bible when it comes to explaining how an entity beyond our scope of understanding was created by humanity?

da bible was written by hoominz so dat mean God isnt real haha chekkmayt kristunz! !!

Not worth the crusade to punish such degemeracy. It'll destroy itself.

Just explaining why people say that. To me a lot of religion means well and teaches food stuff (not islam) but there cant possible be subtance behind them. God in any book is likely fake. But they could be based on a true one or there could still be an actual god somewhere.

@Ehzek read Summa Theologica.

"Too many religions have overlapping stories."

Somehow this doesn't suggest that they might have happened, but that they definitely didn't.

Out of all the arguments I never understood this particular one.

Well. If a hundred people of different cultures say the same thing, could it probably have happened?

Like the Jews doing 9/11?

And blaming it on Muslims so that Israel can occupy Gaza?

Here we go again

Everything is the Jews' fault, Muslims did nothing wrong

Just another fucking teenager who thought Nazi uniforms look cool

The only things Christianity co-opted from paganism were some holidays. Some argue that the imagery of Satan was taken from pagans too. If that’s true, it just means that the horned red guy is the wrong image. Not that Satan came from pagans.

Overlapping stories is what historians use to confirm an event actually happened. Not sure why one would suddenly disregard that concept when it comes to the accuracy of the Bible.

Satan being a red skinned horned imp that resides in hell is the wrong image. The bible never describes him as such. It was artistic design.

And as for the holidays they have lost all religious meaning and have become cultural festivities.

The horned imp is based off a nature god called ban I think

Holidays aren't necessarily copied, just overlapping. If you combine every pagan religion, then the majority of the calendar is holidays

It's inevitable that we will overlap

All these new age "enlightened" atheists say we just copied holidays in an attempt to discredit Christianity

Because it doesn't allow them to fuck each other in the ass

I had one of those calendars before. There is quite literally a holiday every week.

Christmas really was Dec 25, Biblical chronology adds up to a nine month pregnancy, and shepherds are still outdoors in Israel in December

Whether you believe he was the son of God or the son of a Roman soldier, is irrelevant to his birthday

Sorry I should have clarified. What I meant by “copied” holidays is that some of the practices have pagan origins. Like the Christmas tree, Easter eggs, etc. I’m used to getting arguments started on Facebook, so that’s usually good enough.