God created the world in 7 days. Define "Day"

[Cerrone]

The creation story, is basically a babylonian myth. In those days they didnt know about science and the big bang, evolution etc etc. I think people have a responsibility to look at the bible in the right context. because parts are to be taken literally and other parts are to be taken Metaphorically and. This part falls into the metaphorical category.

Because even though it is not a scientific account of how the universe came into being. The underlying important bit is that it was God who created it, and it was designed with intention and care. It is also explaining Gods relationship with humans.

Now im expecting a reply saying, how convenient it is metaphorical. well im sorry for the convenience but it really is, ask any scholar.

Sure you can take it metaphorically, and some christians tend to do so. But the sheer insanity here is that the christians who recognise the flaws still continue being christians. Why? I mean come on the inquisition and the church realised that any source that contradicts them proves them to be wrong, thats why people were burnt at the stake, murdered, tortured, cultures destroyed and countless ancient texts destroyed by the christians throughout their history.

It's pretty simple, if a source reveals the bible to be untrue in its accounts, then it reveals the chruch and god to be untrue also, therefore the correct course of action is to realise that god and the church is bullshit. That's called common sense.

It's almost as ridiculous as "gays supporting catholicism", they can't shake off the hold religion has on them (or should I say the addiction they've got to it, more accurately), even though they're hated by their religion and disobey their religion. There comes a point when you've made somebody aware of the flaws of their socially institutionalised beliefs and they realise their error, and they keep doing it anyway... that's called plain and unforgiveable stupidity.



Your religion demands that you take everything the bible says literally, even the talking goats, and that itself is the absolute illogical insanity of mainstream religion today. If you want to take it metaphorically, then do so; take the lessons from the babylonians and egyptians as the helpful metaphors they were designed to be, but don't advertise yourself as a chrisitan, because everytime you make that statement you're putting youself on the same side of a lot of nasty ignorant bigots by default. So consider that.