RE: Why I am still a Christian.
September 3, 2012 at 7:29 pm
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2012 at 7:31 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 3, 2012 at 6:43 pm)greneknight Wrote: Not just familiar literature. It's also the bedrock of our civilization and the source of a lot of our art and culture. Yes, that's about it. If you want to look for something supernatural, look elsewhere. Narnia is a good start. Grimm's Fairy Tales is another.
Actually, amigo, our civilization had it's bedrock laid before the first jesus shaped uttering ever left the lips of man, as did a vast amount of our art and culture -not to mention that people are the source of both of these things in the first fucking place-.
Weak. Look, I get it, the church is quaint and familiar to you, and that's cool. But this whole "bedrock and art and blah blah"..nah, no dice. I wish I knew more about my deep ancestral past, for example, but knowledge of this was eradicated both in the minds of many and in the physical representations of that culture. If the church ever put a brick on the road it took two from elsewhere and destroyed a fourth.
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