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Why do people believe that Beowulf is fiction?

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Why do people believe that Beowulf is fiction?
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RE: Why do people believe that Beowulf is fiction?
June 5, 2018 at 3:26 am (This post was last modified: June 5, 2018 at 3:30 am by Fake Messiah.)
(June 4, 2018 at 9:32 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: There are creationists who believe Beowulf is non-fiction and the hero fought dinosaurs.

Yeah creationists believe Beowulf really existed (just ask Dirch or GC or Alphamale) not just that but they are taught by their biology textbooks that Nessie is also real as well as some other cryptozoological/ mythical animals. Here's a page from creationist's textbook

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Here are some articles covering it
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ans...aad75ff72a

https://www.salon.com/2012/06/19/shockin...s_salpart/

https://www.alternet.org/story/155926/th...page=0%2C2

And it's all payed by taxpayers.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Why do people believe that Beowulf is fiction? - by Fake Messiah - June 5, 2018 at 3:26 am

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