Keith Collyer
1 min readNov 22, 2021

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Which would imply that a book as massively full of inconsistencies and internal contradictions as the bible is more likely to be true than not. Interesting… But not very convincing. Here’s my summary of the Bible:

God: I created you in my image

Man: OK

God: I’m giving you free will

Man: sounds good

God: but don’t eat the fruit of that tree

Man:.? What about free will?

God: you ate the fruit! You’re banished!

Man: for one fruit, maybe a bit out of proportion?

God: begone!

God: OK, I’m confused, I only created Adam and Eve, you had two sons, where the hell did they get wives from?

Man: don’t ask us, you’re the omniscient one

God: anyway, you’ve been bad again so I’m going to exercise my infinite love and compassion and commit genocide. Except for Moses and his family. And a few animals

Man: oh, OK

God: anyway, here are some rules. I put no murdering in there somewhere

Man (sometime later) we’ve been dashing the heads of infants against rocks

God : ah, that’s OK, I didn’t like them anyway

Man: we’ll carry on then

God: you’ve been bad again

Man:doing what?

God: oh, you know, stuff

Man: so, what this time

God: I’m really going to punish you

Man: how?

God: I’m going to kill my son

Man: WTF?

God: don’t forget to worship me because I am the god of love

Man:…

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Keith Collyer
Keith Collyer

Written by Keith Collyer

I’m a husband, father, grandfather, retired Systems Engineer, bassist, cyclist and will write on any and all of those things as the urge takes me.

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