(September 27, 2015 at 2:01 am)robvalue Wrote: Why are people impressed that a book written at a certain time contains some very easily obtained information from that time? And even weirder, that we should believe a load of ridiculous magical stories on the strength of the author knowing what his own town and king were called?
I guess it's the overly simplistic religious binary thinking. It's all true, or it's all false.
My favorite bit is how the religious crow over the early jews knowing that water rinses things.
Fuck me man, who doesn't?
