Islam, a growing threat to the free world?

[Watson]

The liberal Christian, on the other hand, wants to slap the label "allegory" on events in Genesis that not only have bloodlines (you don't trace your ancestry back to Luke Skywalker or other fictional characters) but are events critical to the very theology of Christianity.

Are you saying fictional stories can't explore their backstories while still being allegorical? What the fuck kind of logic is that?

Without a literal "fall from grace", as described in Genesis, there's nothing for Jesus to save us from. You need too come up with some way that sin entered the world or else admit that Yahweh created us as sinful beings (and then sent himself to sacrifice himself to convince himself to forgive us for being what he made in the first place).

Think for a second about what you just said. Actually think. The story is allegorical. Allegory suggests that the story itself is metaphotrical for something literal. It doesn't just mean 'the story is an allegorical piece of hogwash without meaning.' It means that 'the fall' is something being described through allegory by means of fictional, metaphorical tale.

Goddamn, this problem bugs me. Do you know how to read, DP? I'm betting you do. So actually read the book, and don't just take it at face value. Think about what you are reading.

Ugh. This is why my generation desspises reading so much. It takes too much thinking.

The fundy I get. The liberal Christian, I don't.

Obviously not.