All That's Wrong with the Bible Quotes

“There is really no nice way to put it; the average Christian is intellectually lazy and embarrassingly ignorant. The vast majority have never read a single book on Church History, Textual Criticism, Theology, Biology, Psychology, biblical languages, or other religions. Their beliefs are a nice little get-out-of-hell-free card that makes them feel good about death and suffering in this life, and they simple do not care to examine it at any greater depth. They go to church to sing songs, hear an inspiring message, and talk to their friends. That’s about it.”
― Jonah David Conner, All That's Wrong with the Bible: Contradictions, Absurdities, and More

“Religious conservatives, like many people, cannot stand the idea that what they have believed their whole life just may be wrong, so they go to great lengths to convince themselves of their baseless doctrines. The difference between me and them is that when I realized the evidence was against me, I changed my beliefs. I went where the evidence led whether I liked it or not, yet they stick to their dogma at all cost. They push skeptics like me aside as people who are “just bitter,” or who have an axe to grind, or are living in sin and blinded by the Devil.”
― Jonah David Conner, All That's Wrong with the Bible: Contradictions, Absurdities, and More

“Why would Yahweh give us Genesis 1 if the universe is really billions of years old and there were several pre-human species that lived and died on earth? Why not reveal what actually happened instead of telling us fables about gardens and talking snakes? I realize the Bible is not a science textbook, but it could have easily explained to us at least the basic tenets of biology without having to discover it all on our own many centuries later.”
― Jonah David Conner, All That's Wrong with the Bible: Contradictions, Absurdities, and More

“To me it never made sense why a god would choose one people group for anything at all. Why would he or she not reveal the same message to everyone in all times and places? I have never heard a convincing answer for this. There is no way to get around the fact that millions of people across space and time have lived and died without hearing a word about Yahweh or Jesus. How can Christians possibly claim their God cares about everyone equally? However, when we realize the Bible was written by Israelites, it makes perfect sense why they would say Yahweh chose Israel. Every people group thinks they are special in some way, and the ancients were no exception.”
― Jonah David Conner, All That's Wrong with the Bible: Contradictions, Absurdities, and More

“If there is no freedom to dissent, there is no freedom at all.”
― Jonah David Conner, All That's Wrong with the Bible: Contradictions, Absurdities, and More

“Pretty much everything about the flood story is illogical. An all-knowing and all-powerful god created man, and when they did not turn out as planned (surprisingly?), the best way to deal with it was to drown everyone including animals and plants and “start over” with the same beings, who very quickly went back to doing all they did before.  The whole trouble of building an ark and gathering animals could have been avoided by just giving the perpetrators a heart attack or a plague or something similar.”
― Jonah David Conner, All That's Wrong with the Bible: Contradictions, Absurdities, and More