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Originally Posted by Charlatan
As the poster of #15 I have to ask if you have a sense of humour or is this just a blind spot when it comes to your belief system. Seriously.
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I have a sense of humor and there's no blind spot regarding my religious beliefs-- Your 'joke', as you want to call it, just wasn't funny. Though, I find it odd because I can't make a 'joke' about atheists and their lack of beliefs without being jumped on by three or four people
(See thread floating around 'Tilted Living'.)
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Since many of us "anti-Christian" types seem to have missed the "crux" of the insult perhaps you would care to point out where there was an insult because I can't seem to find one.
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There's no need. As I stated earlier, people are typically blind to that which they actively participate in.
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Back to the thread itself... my point was that many creation myths start with a world of water. It is held by biblical scholars that the creation myth in Genesis rises from other creation myths that precede it.
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For argument's sake, let's just assume that Christianity did borrow the idea of a flood from other religions in the reason. How would you qualify the striking similarities between Christian belief, Mayan belief and many Native American beliefs regarding a great flood? Mere coincidence, right?
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If you are offended by this take on things, all I can suggest is that you need to believe in your religion a little bit harder. Because, what I am writing is hardly new and it is hardly faith shaking.
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I don't believe I stated that I was offended anywhere in my posts.