Interesting Find in Turkey

[Minimalist]

Nice! This will surely stir up some controversy. I wonder what the excuse (from fundies) will be this time.

I'm not a fundie but I can tell you that the timeline doesn't quite work. 670 BC is way after the bible was started, which dates back to a religion that's 5,000-6,000 years old. Who copied who?

Hate to tell you but you ARE a fundie.

To you everyone who believes in God is a fundie. This way you get to launch the cliched atheist attacks reserved for fundies.

Incorrect, but I imagine you spend your life being incorrect.

There are plenty of reasonable people who maintain some belief in supernatural silliness without letting it take over their lives.

You are not one of them.

[AngelThMan]

Nice! This will surely stir up some controversy. I wonder what the excuse (from fundies) will be this time.

I'm not a fundie but I can tell you that the timeline doesn't quite work. 670 BC is way after the bible was started, which dates back to a religion that's 5,000-6,000 years old. Who copied who?

Hate to tell you but you ARE a fundie.

To you everyone who believes in God is a fundie. This way you get to launch the cliched atheist attacks reserved for fundies.

Incorrect, but I imagine you spend your life being incorrect.

There are plenty of reasonable people who maintain some belief in supernatural silliness without letting it take over their lives.

You are not one of them.

Since fundies denounce evolution, and I believe in it, that would disqualify me as a fundie, wouldn't it? Maybe it's you who spends his life being incorrect.

[Minimalist]

Nice! This will surely stir up some controversy. I wonder what the excuse (from fundies) will be this time.

I'm not a fundie but I can tell you that the timeline doesn't quite work. 670 BC is way after the bible was started, which dates back to a religion that's 5,000-6,000 years old. Who copied who?

Hate to tell you but you ARE a fundie.

To you everyone who believes in God is a fundie. This way you get to launch the cliched atheist attacks reserved for fundies.

Incorrect, but I imagine you spend your life being incorrect.

There are plenty of reasonable people who maintain some belief in supernatural silliness without letting it take over their lives.

You are not one of them.

Since fundies denounce evolution, and I believe in it, that would disqualify me as a fundie, wouldn't it? Maybe it's you who spends his life being incorrect.

I know fundies who believe in evolution. Most of them are Catholic. Fundies believe their bible shit is accurate.

Decide for yourself if it is or isn't.

[Eilonnwy]

Since we don't have an archaeology section of the board this will have to do.

Archaeology is a science. :/

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

@angel


"Fundamentalist' is not a pejorative term in itself,although it is often used as such. To me the pejorative sense refers especially to dogmatic literalists,which includes new earth creationists.

Any dogmatic believer is in danger being labeled a "fundie' here due to being incapable of independent thought. So far you seem to fit into that broader category.

If you could reason with religious people there wouldn't be any (Greg House)

[AngelThMan]

Nice! This will surely stir up some controversy. I wonder what the excuse (from fundies) will be this time.

I'm not a fundie but I can tell you that the timeline doesn't quite work. 670 BC is way after the bible was started, which dates back to a religion that's 5,000-6,000 years old. Who copied who?

Hate to tell you but you ARE a fundie.

To you everyone who believes in God is a fundie. This way you get to launch the cliched atheist attacks reserved for fundies.

Incorrect, but I imagine you spend your life being incorrect.

There are plenty of reasonable people who maintain some belief in supernatural silliness without letting it take over their lives.

You are not one of them.

Since fundies denounce evolution, and I believe in it, that would disqualify me as a fundie, wouldn't it? Maybe it's you who spends his life being incorrect.

I know fundies who believe in evolution...

That's because to you everyone who believes in God is a fundie.

[LEDO]

The article does not contain a translation so it is hard to tell how similar it actually is. This covenant, for those who have read my book, was not unique. The Akkadians had an identical covenant with their God as the dark haired chosen people, who god would gather up and return to the city of Ur. Likewise the God Ishum (very popular in Babylon circa 2000 BCE) pleads with Irra not to destroy anymore wicked cities with fire and brimstone.

This promise of God is astrological. It is the constellation we now call Coma, located near Hercules (the kneeling man) which represented Abraham.

[Minimalist]

Judah was also a vassal state of Assyria. Assyrian inscriptions portray several Judahite kings paying tribute. They would have known the wording of those agreements all too well!