Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary?

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Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary?

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RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary?

March 4, 2015 at 5:54 pm

(March 4, 2015 at 3:37 pm)FiveSpotCharlie Wrote: What am I missing?

Where you are mistaken is in any belief that the purpose of religion is to understand our reality in any consistent, rational manner.
Looking from a different perspective, the purpose of religion is to establish, support and protect a population of individual humans forming a robust and resilient society. In this view, denial of obvious fact contradicting dogma is an important mechanism to protect the group at the expense of honesty or even coherence for the member.
Not only does it not matter that the dogma is contrary to observation and reason, that is a feature, not a bug, which welds the adherents into a functional, brain-eatin' machine.

So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? Huh

Huh

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Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by FiveSpotCharlie - March 4, 2015 at 3:37 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Cato - March 4, 2015 at 3:42 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by FiveSpotCharlie - March 4, 2015 at 3:45 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Faith No More - March 4, 2015 at 3:50 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Thumpalumpacus - March 4, 2015 at 3:55 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Faith No More - March 4, 2015 at 3:45 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Ben Davis - March 4, 2015 at 3:49 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Norman Humann - March 4, 2015 at 3:50 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by FiveSpotCharlie - March 4, 2015 at 4:07 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Neo-Scholastic - March 4, 2015 at 4:07 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Cato - March 4, 2015 at 4:09 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by dyresand - March 4, 2015 at 4:17 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by comet - March 4, 2015 at 4:20 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Norman Humann - March 4, 2015 at 4:21 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Ben Davis - March 5, 2015 at 6:31 am

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Norman Humann - March 5, 2015 at 7:47 am

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by watchamadoodle - March 4, 2015 at 4:21 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by professor - March 4, 2015 at 4:21 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Crossless1 - March 4, 2015 at 4:41 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by FiveSpotCharlie - March 4, 2015 at 5:04 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Godschild - March 4, 2015 at 11:28 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Ravenshire - March 5, 2015 at 6:58 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Drich - March 4, 2015 at 4:40 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Brakeman - March 5, 2015 at 8:31 am

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Brian37 - March 5, 2015 at 8:45 am

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Strider - March 4, 2015 at 4:51 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by FiveSpotCharlie - March 4, 2015 at 5:11 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Minimalist - March 4, 2015 at 5:00 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Minimalist - March 4, 2015 at 5:06 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by FatAndFaithless - March 4, 2015 at 5:08 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by dyresand - March 4, 2015 at 5:25 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Void - March 4, 2015 at 5:37 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by dyresand - March 4, 2015 at 5:50 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by JuliaL - March 4, 2015 at 5:54 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by JesusHChrist - March 4, 2015 at 5:56 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Minimalist - March 4, 2015 at 7:22 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by FiveSpotCharlie - March 4, 2015 at 9:45 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by dyresand - March 4, 2015 at 9:52 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Godschild - March 4, 2015 at 11:02 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Minimalist - March 4, 2015 at 11:04 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by professor - March 4, 2015 at 11:12 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Esquilax - March 4, 2015 at 11:15 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by JesusHChrist - March 4, 2015 at 11:16 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Ravenshire - March 4, 2015 at 11:16 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by KevinM1 - March 4, 2015 at 11:44 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Strider - March 4, 2015 at 11:46 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by dyresand - March 5, 2015 at 12:49 am

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Esquilax - March 5, 2015 at 1:04 am

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Mudhammam - March 5, 2015 at 1:49 am

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by robvalue - March 5, 2015 at 5:04 am

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Brian37 - March 5, 2015 at 8:14 am

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by ManMachine - March 5, 2015 at 9:02 am

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by FiveSpotCharlie - March 5, 2015 at 10:50 am

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by ManMachine - March 5, 2015 at 11:57 am

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by FiveSpotCharlie - March 5, 2015 at 1:54 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by ManMachine - March 5, 2015 at 6:44 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by Neo-Scholastic - March 5, 2015 at 4:07 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by dyresand - March 5, 2015 at 6:40 pm

RE: Genesis is not fact, there for Jesus is not necessary? - by FiveSpotCharlie - March 5, 2015 at 4:19 pm

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