Too much bullstuff to quote. You'll need to use your brain to follow along.
When you say "I'll dumb this down for ya", you are indeed calling me stupid. It even has the word 'dumb' in the statement. To reword you: "I'm sorry, but you remind me of a child. Let me kneel down so we can see eye-to-eye." Again, I find that offensive and an unwarranted personal attack. This is a logical fallacy known as Ad Hominem.
"I am going to kill that guy" doesn't mean, in a casual scene, that you're going to kill someone (usually). However, in a document such as the Bible, which is now being considered a historical recording by some, it is not casual. Imagine law makers sitting down and writing, "Yo, jefferson dude, whatif a bitch sleeps with another dude, dude?" "Haha, she gonna get stoned dawg!" No, I'm sure if the Supreme Court ordered that all 'unfaithful' woman were to be put to death by stoning, they wouldn't be joking around and using phrases that meant something else.
If Morality is common sense, why do you need religion? Okay, don't kill people. That seems right. Don't lie, don't think you 'need' your neighbors Flatscreen LCD. Right, that's all fine and dandy. However, the Bible is much more than 'Common sense,' it's a set of rules. If all the Bible was was a collection of Durrhurrs, there wouldn't be such a fuss over it. What it does do, however, is list historically incorrect fairytales, informs people to kill their wives and misbehaving children, and has caused war in every period of time after its conception. That's much more than common sense.
I could say the EXACT same thing to Christian mothers. I wasn't asked as an Infant, "Hey, want the foreskin of your richard lobbed off?" No, I got a circumcision. I wasn't asked "Want me to splash some magic water over your head?" No, I was baptized. I wasn't asked "Do you think that the Bible is a correct set of Moral Guidelines that you wish to follow for the rest of your lives?" No, but I still attended Church. Take a step back and ask yourself when you decided that you wanted to be Christian instead of just following what you had been told to believe and do all your life.
When I was a young boy, I was told not to steal. I am not a thief. Obviously, I was taught morals. However, your definition of morals is not "Don't steal, do good in school, be nice, play fair", yours is "BELIEVE IN THE WORD OF JESUS CHRIST, OUR SAVIOR WHO DIED ON THE CROSS TO RELIEVE US OF OUR SINS."
Okay. I'm folding my hands and closing my eyes. I saw darkness and heard some spraypaint from Blockland. Is that the voice of God?
And, finally, the only thing I can say towards being 'so desperate to prove you wrong' is...
Were any of those judgments wrong?
