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Originally Posted by Charlatan
There is no real need to believe that the first five books of the Bible are anything but etiologies.
Like any good myth, they have some universal truths and lessons that can be shared. But like Greek, Roman, Chinese, Norse, etc., myths, there is no need to believe they are factual stories.
It's fine if you want to believe in the power of God and the resurrection of Christ, but really... what benefit is there to believing the there was an actual flood, Tower of Babel or Garden of Eden?
I just don't get the need to believe in something that is clearly an important story but just doesn't jive with *anything* we know of the complexity of nature.
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That just about sums it up, Charlatan.
Although I despair for a world that needs to fabricate increasingly irrational flights of fantasy to defend what is fundamentally a hand-me-down folk tale.
Of course it
could have happened that the Hebrew’s hereditary Iraqi
God
did drown all his sinful snot gobblers, except for a prize crawler and his kids, in a fit of spiteful pique.
And furthermore, that he is gonna fry my agnostic arse forever for applying my God-given (or Satan-inspired, according to
my reading of the Bible) logic to an ancient allegory, and not simply ILLogically grovelling before the unsubstantiated prose of some paper Pope, written exclusively by
men with a vested interest in their subject.
However, I am just as sure as our global religious regulators that this is not so.
Omar Khyyam said it best for me,
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Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin
Beset the Road I was to wander in,
Thou will not with Predestin'd Evil round
Enmesh me, and impute my Fall to Sin
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