 Beelzebub |
 Baal |
 Hercules |
I get emails from Fundies who tell me that since I spend soooooo much time speaking out against something I don't believe exists (i.e. Biblegod), I must therefore deep down inside really do believe that Biblegod DOES exist, as "no one would spend time writing against things they don't really believe exist."
Following that line of "reasoning", then all the Gods and Goddesses (even the tree gods) mentioned in the Old Testament must also be real- at least as real as the god of the Bible who rails against them. Biblegod expends enormous amounts of time and energy speaking out against and battling Baal, Tammuz, Ishtar, and all the other gods of days gone by. Should I even have to mention what the 1st of 10 Commandments is about? (I probable should, as the average Fundy is so ignorant of his own religion that he doesn't even know The Ten Commandments) The Bible even says that Biblegod had punished* the gods of Egypt. HOW can something be punished UNLESS that something EXISTS??? If I said to you in all seriousness that I cooked and ate the Easter Bunny, that would strongly imply either that I'm friggin' NUTS, or that I really DO believe the Easter Bunny exists, and was delicious.
Thus this Fundy line of reasoning, rather than being some "silver bullet" to defeat Atheism, actually opens up a veritable Pandora's Box of pagan gods with which to haunt and infest both the Christian worldview AND the space under their beds at night! (And oh, by the way, this can o' worms also happens to destroy monotheism and firmly establish polytheism.). So dear Fundy, when on Sunday morning your hired windbag spouts some spiffy sound bite that he jerked off a sermons web site the night before, you might actually want to stop and think about it a minute before you run off and use it against the nearest Atheist.
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* From The Bible: Numbers 33:4
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While the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn... upon their gods also the Lord executed judgments. (Amplified Bible)
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The Egyptians were burying all of their oldest sons. The Lord had struck them down. He had done it when he punished their gods. ( New International Readers Version)
NOTE: You can not "execute judgments" or "punish"
beings that don't exist. It's impossible, even for Biblegod.
Therefore, IF you believe in Biblegod, THEN you have to believe in
these other gods as well. There is no way around this. IF Biblegod
exists and IF the Bible is true THEN all these other gods exist as
well, and note that the Bible itself calls them GODS (not demons
etc.), so that excuse dear Christian is shot. So...goodbye monotheism, hello polytheism.
NOTE: Not ONE Christian has tried to rebut this. They don't even try, because they can't. This is an air-tight argument.
A List of Some of the Gods Mentioned in the Bible
By Norbert Sykes, http://www.holysmoke.org/hs00/bible2.htm
Adrammelech II Kings 17:31 Sepharvite God.
Anammelech II Kings 17:31 Sepharvite God.
Ashima II Kings 17:30 Samaritan Moon Goddess.
Ashtoreth I Kings 11:05 Canaanite Goddess.
Baal I Kings 18:19 Canaanite God ("Lord") of
fertility, vegitation, and storms.
Baal-berith Judges 8:33 A regional variation/aspect of Baal.
Baal-peor Numbers 25:03 Moabite regional variation/aspect of
Baal.
Baal-zebub Luke 11:19 Philistine/Ekronian regional
variation/aspect of Baal.
Baalim I Kings 18:18 Canaanite Gods ("Lords"), a
collective of the different
aspects of Baa.
Bel Isiah 46:01 Assyrian/Babylonian/Sumerian God
("Lord").
Chemosh I Kings 11:07 Moabite war God.
Dagon I Samuel 05:02 Philistine/Ekronian/Babylonian God
of agriculture.
Diana of the
Ephesians Acts 19:35 Ephesian moon and nature Goddess,
("Divine/Brilliant").
Jehovah Exodus 6:03 Hebrew God
Jupiter Acts 14:12 Roman God (possibly derived from
'Zeus-pater', Father Zeus).
Lucifer Isiah 14:12 ("Light-Bearer")
Mercurius Acts 14:12 Otherwise known as the Roman God
Mercury, God of communication and
travel, and messenger of the
Gods...which is probably why Paul
was called this at Lystra.
Milcom I Kings 11:05 Ammonite God
Molech I Kings 11:07 Ammonite God, also called Moloch,
most probably Baal-Hammon of
Carthage.
Nebo Isiah 46:01 Assyrian/Babylonian/Chaldean God of
wisdom and writing, also called
Nabu.
Nergal II Kings 17:30 Cuth/Assyrian/Babylonian war and
underworld God, also called
Meshlamthea.
Nibhaz II Kings 17:31 Avites God
Nisroch II Kings 19:37 Assyrian God
Rimmon II Kings 05:18 Babylonian/Syrian storm God
involved (as Ramman) with the
Deluge, according to Hebrew texts;
also known as Ramman/Rammon.
Succoth-benoth II Kings 17:30 Babylonian fertility Goddess ("She
Who Produces Seed"), also known as
Zarpanitu/Zerpanitum.
Tammuz Ezekial 8:14 Assyrian/Babylonian God
Tartak II Kings 17:31 Avites God