Originally posted by Gary
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What is truly sad, ignorant, and pathetic is your ancient, superstition-soaked, middle-eastern fable. Educated people living in the 21st century should realize this and abandon it.
As I mentioned above, educated fundamentalist Christians such as many on this thread have abandoned the literal interpretation of many passages in the Bible that only a hundred years ago were believed literally by almost all Christians. The most glaring example is the abandonment by even evangelical bible scholars of the literal interpretation of the (two) Creation stories in Genesis. Why? Because the cumulative scientific evidence proving that they are pure nonsense is now so overwhelming that the harmonizations Christians previously used to justify believing them are no longer tenable even to educated conservative Christians:
The Beginninghttp://www.biblicalnonsense.com/chapter5.html
As I mentioned above, educated fundamentalist Christians such as many on this thread have abandoned the literal interpretation of many passages in the Bible that only a hundred years ago were believed literally by almost all Christians. The most glaring example is the abandonment by even evangelical bible scholars of the literal interpretation of the (two) Creation stories in Genesis. Why? Because the cumulative scientific evidence proving that they are pure nonsense is now so overwhelming that the harmonizations Christians previously used to justify believing them are no longer tenable even to educated conservative Christians:
The Beginninghttp://www.biblicalnonsense.com/chapter5.html
Oh, and copy-paste. Drink again!
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