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H0ary H0bbit Religious Views: “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” - Edgar Allan Poe Re: RE: talking snake
February 10, 2013 at 5:52 pm
(This post was last modified: February 10, 2013 at 6:03 pm by fr0d0.)
(February 10, 2013 at 3:44 pm)justin Wrote: If you believe in the bible how would you defend the Genesis story? It is beyond crazy to believe in these stories so why does that not affect your beliefs in this religion? Read John H Walton " the lost world of Genesis one". It's atheist friendly, even written with you in mind in part. Although I'd more like fundamentalist Christians to read it. I know a few have revised their opinions after reading it. The crux is, that you can take Genesis literally, but what we've become accustomed to calling literal is just about the opposite of what is actually written. This is no fly by hypothesis either. This guy has been onto this for years. This thorough study gently reasons against all objections until you cannot see anything but the obvious conclusions and must agree with them. This is no theist bias. The book is for everyone. 
I don't much care if its a snake or serpent if either start talking to me I'm doing one of two things.
1) Throwing whatever I have in my hands at it and running away. 2) Start convincing it to be my friend and start making a ton of money.  RE: talking snake
February 10, 2013 at 6:14 pm
(This post was last modified: February 10, 2013 at 6:16 pm by Confused Ape.)
 Where are the snake and mushroom smilies? (February 10, 2013 at 3:44 pm)justin Wrote: If you believe in the bible how would you defend the Genesis story? It is beyond crazy to believe in these stories so why does that not affect your beliefs in this religion? Are you of the opinion that animals do not communicate with each other? Or is it your opinion that man is at his zenith now,and every other incarnation of man is inferior to man as he stands today? The creation account says we were created perfectly, and at the fall that perfect creation died. In short maybe snakes didn't loose the ability to communicate, but maybe we just lost the ability to interperet. 
So now we've gone from a serpent getting quite chatty with a pair of humans, telling them not to worry about the tree and everything, to snakes hissing to each other? Just how much of this stuff are we willing to jettison in the name of not looking silly before we get to throw the whole thing in the bin?
(Side note: I actually drafted, and rejected, half a dozen versions of this reply before settling on this one. This is the politest I could manage.)
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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