RE: God Yahweh Allah was a volcano.
August 5, 2011 at 5:29 pm
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2011 at 5:33 pm by Minimalist.)
The "mission statement" from Trinity Southwest's own web site.
They are a bunch of bible-thumping fundamentalist morons and Collins works there. He's been pushing this Sodom and Gomorrah horseshit for a generation.
The simple answer to this tall tale is etiology, defined as:
In short, someone spotted a ruined city in their midst and made up a story about how it got that way.
It's also about 620 miles from Santorini to the coast of the Levant plus however far inland you want to go to reach "Sodom and Gomorrah." That's really pushing it.
Quote:The mission of Trinity Southwest University is to provide quality higher education to adult learners, teaching them (through a variety of biblically based disciplines) to uphold the divine authority of the Bible as God’s inspired representation of reality to humankind, and equipping them to apply its eternal truths to all phases of life.
They are a bunch of bible-thumping fundamentalist morons and Collins works there. He's been pushing this Sodom and Gomorrah horseshit for a generation.
The simple answer to this tall tale is etiology, defined as:
Quote:An etiological myth is a myth intended to explain a name or create a mythic history for a place or family.
In short, someone spotted a ruined city in their midst and made up a story about how it got that way.
It's also about 620 miles from Santorini to the coast of the Levant plus however far inland you want to go to reach "Sodom and Gomorrah." That's really pushing it.
