The thing about the Bible is that all stories in it which are too crazy even for Christians to defend are just metaphors. However, if a story can't be proven wrong, it's 100% true.
PS: The Bible tells the truth. I know that because the Bible says so.
I cannot imagine a heart-felt discussion like this taking place on an American show. The subject might come up, but they'd be falling all over themselves to insist that they still "respect" deeply held beliefs. Here, though, they call a spade a spade, and Bronze-Age mythology is called Bronze-Age mythology.
@NeosimianSapiens The thing about the way Americans handle religion is that we may hold certain beliefs, but we deeply respect the fact that there are others who share different beliefs. That's why there won't be many religious debates on American TV shows, because even though we may know that a certain religious belief is bogus, we support a person's right to believe it.
And we're certainly not the most religious country in the world. It's just that our religious people are more...outspoken.
@allamericandude15 I moved to the Appalachians from Canada and I found that people around here will refer to the local "snake-handler Christians" as idiots. Many Americans also scoff at people who let their children die by insisting that "faith" is preferable to modern medicine.
Americans can and do criticize patently absurd beliefs.
One day, perhaps, the average American will regard most of the Bible as "patently absurd" and false as the Book of Mormon. (And what a joke THAT is.)
@IoEstasCedonta Do you mean the mythology predates the Bronze Age? If so, I'm curious: which core beliefs are you referring to, and how far would you say they go back? (I am, in fact, keen to learn about the origin of core beliefs. Indeed, much of my blog is related to that topic.)
@NeosimianSapiens I mean they're from the Iron Age. The earliest significant portions of the Bible as we know them (aside from a few interpolated poems and folk tales) probably date to a power grab by Josiah, around the time of Draco.
(Believers, of course, think they come from Moses during the New Kingdom.)
The thing about the Bible is that all stories in it which are too crazy even for Christians to defend are just metaphors. However, if a story can't be proven wrong, it's 100% true.
PS: The Bible tells the truth. I know that because the Bible says so.
PPS: Sarcasm intended.
Rymdpandan 1 month ago
Why do the English say "coriander seed" with the odd emphasis that they do, anyway? "CoriANder-seed"...
IoEstasCedonta 2 months ago
I cannot imagine a heart-felt discussion like this taking place on an American show. The subject might come up, but they'd be falling all over themselves to insist that they still "respect" deeply held beliefs. Here, though, they call a spade a spade, and Bronze-Age mythology is called Bronze-Age mythology.
NeosimianSapiens 5 months ago 7
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Soon! Soon!
America is starting to slowly wake up from its Witch Burning Ways =^_^=
BlankPicketSign 5 months ago
@NeosimianSapiens The thing about the way Americans handle religion is that we may hold certain beliefs, but we deeply respect the fact that there are others who share different beliefs. That's why there won't be many religious debates on American TV shows, because even though we may know that a certain religious belief is bogus, we support a person's right to believe it.
And we're certainly not the most religious country in the world. It's just that our religious people are more...outspoken.
allamericandude15 2 months ago
@allamericandude15 I moved to the Appalachians from Canada and I found that people around here will refer to the local "snake-handler Christians" as idiots. Many Americans also scoff at people who let their children die by insisting that "faith" is preferable to modern medicine.
Americans can and do criticize patently absurd beliefs.
One day, perhaps, the average American will regard most of the Bible as "patently absurd" and false as the Book of Mormon. (And what a joke THAT is.)
NeosimianSapiens 2 months ago
@NeosimianSapiens Don't call it "Bronze Age mythology."
Only believers think it's actually from the Bronze Age.
IoEstasCedonta 2 months ago
@IoEstasCedonta Do you mean the mythology predates the Bronze Age? If so, I'm curious: which core beliefs are you referring to, and how far would you say they go back? (I am, in fact, keen to learn about the origin of core beliefs. Indeed, much of my blog is related to that topic.)
NeosimianSapiens 2 months ago
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@NeosimianSapiens I mean they're from the Iron Age. The earliest significant portions of the Bible as we know them (aside from a few interpolated poems and folk tales) probably date to a power grab by Josiah, around the time of Draco.
(Believers, of course, think they come from Moses during the New Kingdom.)
IoEstasCedonta 2 months ago
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NeosimianSapiens 5 months ago