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Where are we now with 'Noah's Ark'???
#11
RE: Where are we now with 'Noah's Ark'???
It's a bit more complicated than that.  Just as we laugh at mormon and scientology fuckwits for following religions which were invented in recent times the ancients expected religion to have some sort of ancient roots.  Who wants to follow a johnny-come-lately god?

As Bart Ehrman writes on page 251 of Lost Christianities:


Quote:If any other form of early Christianity
had established itself as dominant within the religion, would Constantine
have embraced it? Would he have been willing to adopt a Jewish form of Christianity,
which would have required him and his fellow converts to become
Jewish, undergo circumcision, keep kosher food laws, and observe other traditions
of the Jewish Law? Or would he have been inclined to accept a Marcionite
form of Christianity, which could claim no “ancient” roots, since it abandoned
the ancient traditions of Judaism? Would he have been likely to adopt any of
the Gnostic forms of Christianity, which maintained that only a spiritual elite
could truly understand the revelation of God, that the majority of believers
misunderstood the true teachings of Jesus?


The proto-orthodox variant which morphed into the catholic church offered a thug like Constantine a religion which was just like him.  It told people to STFU and do what they were told, pay their fucking taxes, and remember that the king was "appointed" by fucking god.
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#12
RE: Where are we now with 'Noah's Ark'???
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#13
RE: Where are we now with 'Noah's Ark'???
The Onion's comment is epic. "Sumerians look on in confusion as God creates the Universe."
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#14
RE: Where are we now with 'Noah's Ark'???
But it gave us rainbows, which in turn lead to LGBT. 

Thank you god.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental. 
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#15
RE: Where are we now with 'Noah's Ark'???
(January 15, 2017 at 8:09 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: The Onion's comment is epic. "Sumerians look on in confusion as God creates the Universe."

Always good to be reminded of a classic.

http://www.theonion.com/article/sumerian...-worl-2879
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#16
RE: Where are we now with 'Noah's Ark'???
Quote:Always good to be reminded of a classic.

Here's one of my old favourites...

http://www.theonion.com/article/creation...-rex-sk-13
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#17
RE: Where are we now with 'Noah's Ark'???
(January 16, 2017 at 5:30 am)Autolite Wrote:
Quote:Always good to be reminded of a classic.

Here's one of my old favourites...

http://www.theonion.com/article/creation...-rex-sk-13

Oh, god. Sue should sue.
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#18
RE: Where are we now with 'Noah's Ark'???
I think the Vatican is trying to ignore the obvious BS and hope the story loses popularity.
It tends to be the more rabid protestants that take it literally before setting off to declare yet another rock on the side of Mount Sinai to be 'The Ark', if they even get that far now and not just some Google Earth screenshot...
Quote:I don't understand why you'd come to a discussion forum, and then proceed to reap from visibility any voice that disagrees with you. If you're going to do that, why not just sit in front of a mirror and pat yourself on the back continuously?
-Esquilax

Evolution - Adapt or be eaten.
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#19
RE: Where are we now with 'Noah's Ark'???
Sodomy and GoForMoria is my favorite. Lot, that righteous bag of shit offers his supposedly virgin daughters to the mob hunting God's messenger, because, you know, angels can't deal with horny men. Then God zaps the Mrs. because she looked back at her home and family going up in flames. Pissy God with stupid rules normal humans can't follow.
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RE: Where are we now with 'Noah's Ark'???
(January 16, 2017 at 8:58 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Sodomy and GoForMoria is my favorite. Lot, that righteous bag of shit offers his supposedly virgin daughters to the mob hunting God's messenger, because,  you know, angels can't deal with horny men. Then God zaps the Mrs. because she looked back at her home and family going up in flames. Pissy God with stupid rules normal humans can't follow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6DnujiVCwo
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