(April 10, 2016 at 4:17 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: Agreed.
A better metaphor, though, would be if you wrote a book about London in the 1600s, and people claimed that because there really is a Tower of London, etc, that it's really true... even though due to shoddy or unavailable research materials, you actually got a lot of stuff wrong (like putting a suburb that wasn't founded until the 1800s in the story because you didn't know it wasn't always there), and yet people claim your book is the definitive guide to 17th century England.
This is why they say get the children when they are young. By the time I took science in high school I was too firmly indoctrinated to question Joshua making the daylight last longer by praying for the sun to stand still.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
