I've often imagined the original authors of the bible sitting around drinking wine and saying, "Hey I gotta tell you man, that talking snake bit and global flood story are hilarious! Wouldn't it be funny if someone actually believed these stories?"
"Don't be ridiculous. Everybody knows we just made it all up. If anyone ever actually believes these fables then they'd have to be complete idiots. But I have to tell you, your book was just awful... I mean, it started out fine but then got into that endless boring 'so-and-so begat so-and-so' part. Come on, get with the program, man!"
"Yeah, I know, I kind of had writer's block at that point. But I've got one I've been throwing around about this magical guy who is God's son and born from a virgin. I'm not totally sure of the ending just yet, but I'm thinking of killing him off."
"Don't be ridiculous. Everybody knows we just made it all up. If anyone ever actually believes these fables then they'd have to be complete idiots. But I have to tell you, your book was just awful... I mean, it started out fine but then got into that endless boring 'so-and-so begat so-and-so' part. Come on, get with the program, man!"
"Yeah, I know, I kind of had writer's block at that point. But I've got one I've been throwing around about this magical guy who is God's son and born from a virgin. I'm not totally sure of the ending just yet, but I'm thinking of killing him off."
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
