(June 27, 2014 at 8:00 am)Rhythm Wrote: It doesn't really matter, even if we redefine 90% of the words in the text so as to not look like imbeciles for believing the story - we'll be left with a redneck hanging on to the roof of his chicken coup with his toothless wife and inbred children, two donkeys and a goat- while some rinky dink creek damn releases it's "floodwaters". The narrative will still be wholly untrue.
Hallelujah!
And yet, proponents of this method never extend it to their "core" beliefs. There's no way Jesus was just a street magician who got more caught up in politics than he'd originally planned. He's the son of an infinitely powerful god, and simultaneously is that god.
There's no way Satan is a metaphor, originally meant to be "the accuser" or "the adversary" to represent opposition to the religion. He's really a super-powerful entity responsible for all the doubts and misunderstandings of the One True Faith.
