You claim to "hate religion" (strangely enough because of what the biblical god said) clinton yet you profess a belief in hell and satan and you reacted defensively to jackuuls opposition to abrahamic religions. You should probably figure out exactly what it is you believe before defending such beliefs publicly. natural selection isn't particularly fair. But it isn't conscious. it's a natural law. it's not fair that people who can't swim drown, It doesn't negate the fact that people who can't swim do drown. I don't really understand what point you are failing to make here. Have another go at constructing a coherent point.
Quit picking a part every thing I say, I said I hate religion, I do believe there is a God. Since you fail to understand anything I say. Thats that. bye
Humans have subverted survival of the fittest because we do have a collective conscience. That is why the strong will survive, but the weak may live, in human society. Blind, deaf, deformed, mentally deficient... all can live as humans because other humans have evolved the capacity to have empathy. Primates as well - that is a rare trait for animals I do believe, and further shows why we have an easier time of domestication other social based animals like dogs, horses, and many more. It is the social aspect of the human brain that lets us feel the way we do when we see someone in need - not religion, and not god. Unfortunately this also allows stupid people to live too - add to the mix the fluoridation of water starting with the baby boomers (proven to lower IQ and formally used by the NAZIs for population control), the continual hammering of the nation's children with false history, dumbing down materials and utterly contemptible advertising tactics promoting stupidity... then couple those with the culture of unintellectualism... and you have the current state of the union. I found a math book from a high school printed in 1943. You know what it was? Trigonometry. You know what grade was signed into it? 9th. Today most 9th graders are still taking basic math or beginning algebra. Many seniors are not even yet to Geometry. This nation is screwed...
I pick it apart because it's contradictory. You can't say you hate religion and then believe in satan, hell and quote the bible. That doesn't make sense.
Actually it does make sense. Religions for decades have not taught from the Bible. Hence, why they do it all wrong and that's why people hate religion. Not the Bible, just the religious organisations. Surely you can see the sense in how this works? If you don't, you will need to re-read the Bible. You know how the saying goes "Faith without works is dead" (James 2:26).
We get the notion of hell, the devil and the bible from religion. They are religious ideas. To believe in them is to believe in religion. You can argue against what some religions have become or how some people practice their religion, but you can't disbelieve in religion without rejecting the bible, the devil and hell.
Hating a religion and disbelieving in it are different things. The other guy hates religions but believes in stuff with religious origin probably.
According to you I have met hundreds of people that reject religion outright but still read and believe in the Bible. That's just in my area. There would be tens of millions around the world today doing the same.
You can certainly read the bible without being religious, You can also think it has good teachings, But you can't believe it is inspired by god without being religious.