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If the bible/quran/whatever was better, would you've remained theist?
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RE: If the bible/quran/whatever was better, would you've remained theist?
Religious narratives already have a fair few good parts to them.  Sure, sure, alot of filler...but that's not the authors faults - the filler is generally an attempt by lesser editors to bridge the gaps between disparate works of fiction or commentary.  Never made me believe in a god regardless.

If the books read, as a poster above suggested...more like a textbook, I'd simply accept that someone understood "x" earlier than we expected them too. It's not as if these books were written by gods. Human hands, human ink, human paper, human knowledge.
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RE: If the bible/quran/whatever was better, would you've remained theist? - by The Grand Nudger - August 28, 2016 at 10:08 am

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