Reply To: Reeling from Christian friend's bigotry

[erock68la]

I think the purpose of these arguments is not to definitively disprove god, but rather to attempt to meet theists where they are in their thinking and to get them to recognize just one inconsistency in what they think. Many theists wear their delusional belief systems like a suit of armor, and arguments like the problem of evil or inconsistencies in the bible, etc. try to find the chink in that armor.
For myself, once I allowed myself to accept the obvious conclusion of one such argument all the rest of it quickly fell apart like a house of cards.
Having already gone through all that on my own journey those arguments don’t do much for me now, but I did need to go through that phase to get where I am now. Now, arguing over the behaviors of god is like arguing over whether vampires are afraid of garlic or sparkle in sunlight – nonsense.