What really matters to the Judeo-Christian God

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All of your points are incorrect.

I watched the entire video and it's consistent with a proper interpretation of the bible on one key point. It's the most common point and it's the asiest to find. Something is always lost in translation.

I didn't read more than 25% of your mindless prattle however.

Okay - look - make it easy for the old Prof.

Watching the video does not for me work.

So - WHAT is the key point consistent with the scriptures, and what do YOU see as appropriate Bible interpretation?

I will endeavor to do so.

I'll start with the second [part of the] question first.

One of the first things you learn, or should learn when you study a religion, or religion in general is to never take the text as it's written literally. I come from a Jewish background, and the meaning of some words used or how they're used in the Torah aren't always clear. There's literally books and books of commentaries written about the meanings of every single passage in the hebrew bible, and arguments from people all through history debating the meaning. Most of the time, you're left with the text, the commentaries and debates, and you're left to form an opinion. Most if not all the of Torah is interpreted through public opinion because everyone see's things from a different angle. The idea of the Torah is, this is an example, make the best of it.

What I find amusing about (most) religion, and there are some exceptions, is not the fact they get it right, it's the fact most of the followers don't. The keepers of the religions (priests, rabii's e.g.) are usually quite studied, read all the monotheistic versions, commentaries and what not and form their own opinions.

The part that bugs me about so called studious atheists is THEY don't have a proper understanding of religion despite their claims they "know the book better than the followers do". Maybe in a literal sense they do, but they miss the point completely much like the bible thumpers.

They both sound the same to me, so I really don't get the chest thumping of who's better than who.

To answer the first part of the question, the only consistency in religion is the inconsistency of the knowledge base of the general population who follow it, and the people who don't. The only people you'll get a well studied answer to any religious question is from someone who studies it without prejudice. Atheist isn't without prejudice in this context because unanswerable questions cannot by definition have a definitive answer, but OP's video post claims to know it all despite his general ignorance.

I think there's something to be said about America's doctrine on religion also. In America there is no state religion, but that doesn't mean there's no religion in the state. The founders did put references to a creator in the declaration, it was not because they were forced into it, but because they wanted to make sure to be explicitly vague, as to not to endorse one particular religion.

Having the ten commandments in or around courts is merely a nod to the religious contribution to law.



Yeah I say a lot of stupid crap, I stir the pot to find out who's a zealot and who isn't. I also call BS when I see it. I don't lay in it and make BS angels.

Thankee - it gets fustrating when people rabbit chicken on about videos I have no key into.

It is sadly true that may of the antitheists do not really know what they are talking about. But that is, as you say, in part because a large number of the pew warmers have only a minimal and often distorted understanding themselves. Which unfortunately includes the staff and student body, pastors to be, of many a seminary.

It helps to have been a lifelong researcher and skeptic. It made me a better atheist [I was never an antitheist] and makes me a better theist.