Re; Genesis as Metaphor

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Pretty much everyone in the more civilized places have to cherry pick. You can't keep slaves and drown people for trying to lead people away from christ. Jesus says it's better to tie someone to a millstone and throw them into the river than let them lead someone astray, but you tell that to a judge in the US after you drowned a bunch of people, and you'll go to prison.

I agree, but that's entirely their problem, not ours. If they choose to take any of their biblical text literally, then they need to define the distinction between the literal and non-literal and, further, explain why we should give a shit about any of it.

Case in point, wheat this morning indicated that the bible shows the universe is 13.7b~ years old, despite the fact it doesn't anywhere, especially not in Genesis. It effectively requires him to make stuff up by using contemporary reasoning and bolting it onto the original claim (that the universe was created in 6 days). That's fine, but he didn't understand when we retorted that his interpretation is no more valid than the literalist perspective, which effectively renders his apologist argument moot.