Originally posted by: Gurck
I don't feel threatened by it at all, this is guesswork on your part and quite wrong. I find it annoying that at this point in our evolution as a species there are still hooks holding us back. I see religion as a lot like our inclination toward fatty foods; formerly useful and not only no longer needed, but actively detrimental to us.
Knowing what a fictional deity told a fictional man named Matthew (or whatever) in a fictional book is not knowledge.
It must have been very difficult for you to post without calling me names, I guess we should celebrate all victories big and small. It's a good first step, at any rate.
Now, now. We already established who starting calling people names first, and that was you. Pointing out my faults without acknowledging that you share those faults as well is not wise (Matthew 7:3-5 btw

). But then that's the philosophy in the book that you choose to ignore, probably because it is inconvenient to your destructive agenda.
Your 2nd paragraph simply illustrates your ignorance on the issue, and that I am actually quite right in my "guesswork". God as God never spoke to Matthew. Nor was Matthew a prophet. He was a tax collector. Nor is the book fictional -- I suggest you talk with archeologists who dig in Israel and use the Bible as an accurate guide for their work.
Addressing your first paragraph, that is because you don't understand evolution either I would say. Humans evolve more than just physically, but behaviorally as well. In fact, I would argue that the majority of the evolutionary possibilities left to human are behavioristic. Inside the Bible is a history and a guide to that behavioral evolution.