I've always said that the thing that turns me off about religion and the bible is that it is tended to and written by a flawed creature.
The Bible is often referred to as "The Word of God". A Christian believes that the scriptures are in fact the words of God, put to paper by people God used to do so.
Even though the bible talks about the 7 deadly sins and the 10 commandments they've put into place aspirations that are nice for every human to strive for, but impossible to achieve due to our nature. Thats a flaw especially when you consider that the church judges a person based on thier abilitiy to follow gods law, yet the bible also contains the phrase "Judge not unless you wish to be judged yourself" (The CaptainCrunch translation). so you have to ask yourself, who should be doing the judging?
It should not be the church, or its people that do the judging. Judging should be left to God, and God alone.
The one thing that religion tries to strip from every man is independance from forming your own form of worship. Is the church of god not within the beating heart of every man woman and child? And if it is, is there any point to going to church?
No, the church of any god is not in the hearts of every man, woman, and child. You so much as said so yourself, when above you stated that it is not possible for a human to achieve compliance to the 10 commandments.
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