Atheists believe the bible is a big giant hoax, so why don't they prove it untrue by duplicating the hoax?

You're not serious, are you?

"If you think the big bang is a hoax, why don't you just duplicate it?"

Would you like some logic with that crazy?

Randi wasn't all that bright. Thinking that if you are able to fake something, that "proves" the original thing was a hoax, is a huge logic fail, and yet people seem to accept it anyway.

Many, many books and essays and stories have been written about morals and such, and fantastic miracles, and copies have been made, distributed and have gathered major amounts of followers. The Bible is not unique in this regard. I would recommend you read more things, especially fiction. You might try Lord of the Rings -- the series has all the narrative elements you mentioned above, plus thousands of fans. Some people even believe the books had a basis in reality -- so much for telling fantasy from reality!

For a couple reasons. For one, even though I don't think that any religion is true, I don't have anything against most of them. Especially Christianity. Why would I try to make people stop believing in something that makes them happy, even if it isn't true? Another reason is because people used to be much more ignorant than they are. We understand so much more about the world now. The only reason these claims still exist is because of how popular Christianity has been for such a long time. If these kinds of claims were to be made today, and people weren't so used to it, nobody would believe it. But if you backed up a few hundred years and made something similar to the Bible, I think you would get similar results.

Shocking question, , hardly worth a response. .. we evolved from common ancestors of chimpanzees. .. we developed larger brains after a few millions of years and thought the sun and moon were gods and became more self aware and question things... we EVOLVED. 5000 years ago man thought the earth was flat, worshipped many many gods because life at first look appears to be created. We now clearly understand evolution by non random selection. Here is something that almost everyone must believe. .. mormanism was written in 1800s by a know charlatan and con man and managed to create a cult some serious wacky beliefs. That's a hoax.... if understand anything about religion you'd know that's a hoax.... rather than make up another wacky story lets focus on science and the interesting things it can tell us...

Kumaré is a documentary about a man who impersonates a wise Indian Guru and builds a following in Arizona.

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So what is Scientology if not a perfect example of how to create a religion from a fabrication?

So the hoax has been duplicated.

So Christianity invented Jesus or rather the Romans who invented Jesus also invented Christianity around the NT Jesus the story which the Romans also wrote. Since Jesus is your star or the star of Christianity and has been debunked many times over the years, what does that really leave you. Nothing but a shell and nothing but a 'whole lota empty claims. I never cease to be able to laugh about Christians making so many claims and they are too afraid to do any research into real history because they know that history shows nothing about their Jesus. I thought you guys claimed to be about love and honesty and truth, but yet you do not want to know the truth about your belief system which is that it is not truth.

You can't duplicate fictional stories in real life, especially ones that involve gods, demons and angels.

Also, flooding the whole world would not be possible to duplicate.

JRR Tolkein already did it. His "hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings" books (far more self-consistent and interesting than the bible, by the way) have a very religious following of billions.

Muhammed already did it. His entirely made-up book of ignorant superstition and magic (the Quran) has a fantatical, devoted following of more than a billion.

Joseph Smith already did it, his entirely made-up book of Mormon has a fantatical religious following in the tens of millions.

How many times does the hoax need to be exposed?

Every hear of Scientology? What about Mormonism?

You just described each perfectly.