If you are still 10, you are still a dick. If you are older, you are simply a bigger one.

It's not a question of hate. Just dislike.

Reasons to dislike religion? That's a hard one... having to choose...

Let me check again the good book... I guess I could just open it on any blind page and I would find a reason.

But let's pick a good one:

"No one born of a forbidden marriage nor any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, not even in the tenth generation." or
"If a person is illegitimate by birth, neither he nor his descendants for ten generations may be admitted to the assembly of the LORD"
Deuteronomy 23:2 (check different translations here: http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/23-2.htm)

Yes, you read it well. If up to about the year 1700, one of your ascendants was born out of marriage or from a forbidden marriage, you are going straight to hell, no matter what all of them did after or you did in your entire life.

Well, up to the tenth generation, you have 1024 ascendants. If only one of them was a bastard, you are nailed.

Moreover, since the text isn't clear ("not even in the tenth generation"), you might not be off the hook even if you have ten clean generations. No where the text says that at the eleven generation everything will be alright again.

Good luck.

The passage you quoted was for the religion/government of ancient Israel. It doesn't have anything to do with salvation, but only with being part of the nation (assembly).

Since Jesus came and did His work of salvation, and since the passage you quoted was part of the ceremonial and governmental regs, it isn't really even for the Israel people of today, to say nothing of not being for anyone else.

However, if you keep on being dishonest about it, none of this will matter to you. Why not? The whole Bible and Israel thing is about salvation for eternal life. And you simply won't make it.

In God's sight, even one sin is enough for damnation. And we all have sinned many times. This means that you have a chance to get to Heaven through Jesus salvation, just like all the other people who believe. Turn to God for salvation through Jesus, now, while you have the chance... and avoid the damnation.

The Bible is God's Word to mankind telling about salvation. God has seen to it that His Word is accurate. If you can find some of the originals, we would be interested. The best we might have is a few scraps from some of the originals of the New Testament. But we are not sure, and probably we don't.

speaking of old- and new testaments. It looks to me Jews and Arabs stick with the first 5 or so of the 'old testament' even in varied form, altered and adjusted to their liking, while the Christians like the 'new testament' guite a lot since this is where Jesus came to save the day. What is interesting about all 3 of these religions - Judaism, Islam and Christianity is if you look at the males in these religions they all have these head coverings on; they do it because they are exceptionally exclusive. That is also the reason why it is so difficult to reason with these people - they know it all, and only they do and only they are right all of the time.

Since, this time, the post at least had some sense and can suggest my post wasn't accurate, I'll add this:

The term Assembly of God (Congregation of God on the King James translation) doesn't mean nation or people of Israel.

When the Torah wants to designate the people of Israel calls it Assembly of Israel (for instance, Joshua 8:35; 1 Kings 8:14; Deuteronomy 31:30), not Assembly of God.

The Torah uses the term Assembly of God with the meaning of saved ones: "You have come to the assembly of God's firstborn children, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God himself, who is the judge over all things. You have come to the spirits of the righteous ones in heaven who have now been made perfect" (Hebrews 12:23; New Living Translation); or "To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect" (Hebrews 12:23; King James).

Moreover, Deuteronomy 23:3, says that the "An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD", because "they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee" (Deuteronomy 23:4). But "the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee" (Deuteronomy 23:5).

So, god blesses and loves the Israelites, but not the Ammonite or Moabite. They can never enter the Assembly of God. They will go to hell.

The same is said explicitly on Ezekiel 25:2 "Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites and prophesy against them." and Ezekiel 25:7 "therefore I will stretch out my hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will wipe you out from among the nations and exterminate you from the countries. I will destroy you, and you will know that I am the LORD.'"

Therefore, god will destroy the Ammonite (and Moabite). They won't be saved and will go to hell.

Since this was the meaning about these fellows, of course, the same applied to bastards/people born from a forbidden marriage up to the tenth generation.

This interpretation is confirmed by the practice of excommunicating Jews that refused to divorce their foreign wifes (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interfaith_marriage_in_Judaism#In_the_Bible).

The same can be concluded from Nehemiah 10: 29 and 30 ("bind themselves with a curse" to "not to give our daughters in marriage to the peoples around us or take their daughters for our sons") or from Malachi 2:11.

Of course, the rule of the ten generations wasn't applied. They would have to be crazy to apply it. But that was the good book rule.

No doubt, currently, this interpretation isn't consensual. Some call the Assembly of God a kind of political or religious body and not the saved chosen ones, in order to try to avoid the natural (terrible) and traditional sense of this rule.

But those are modern reinterpretations of terrible rules.

In any case, it's consensual that Assembly of God doesn't mean the Israelites.

But I'm going to be more polite and assume that the contrary post was determined by ignorance, not dishonesty.

On the enlargement by Jesus of salvation to all believers, Jews laugh out and say all Christians will burn on hell for believing on a false prophet.

And, nevertheless, the Old Testament is part of the bible, accepted by Christians, so they have to acknowledge these terrible statements that were adopted and even partly applied during centuries before Jesus in the name of the same god.

Interesting how the cash of the poor always ends up in the coffers of the religion keepers - the sophisticated wealthy ones who 'act' as gods themselves with their insatiable lust for more and more, while preying on the emotions of the 'lost' poor and draining them till all is gone and they die.

Thank GOD crypto is open to all, neutral and unbiased.

In America, among Christian religions, money is not generally taken from the poor by force. Rather, the poor donate it to God, to continue the work of spreading God's word. This doesn't mean that the money is always used in a right way. But the point is that God's Word is spread, and along with it, salvation. God rewards the poor who give, in all kinds of ways for their generosity and love. And, they will end up with eternal life, which is way more important.

Those who spread Gods Word directly - the religious leaders - are doing a great and wonderful work. They deserve to get paid just like anyone else who works. And since this work is saving souls for eternal life, it is the best work there is, and should be rewarded accordingly. It's too bad that some religious leaders are drawn away towards the things of wealth and this life, and start to use the wealth improperly. If they don't change, they will be punished for this, by God.