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RE: Age of the Universe/Earth
January 3, 2020 at 7:02 pm
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(January 3, 2020 at 6:31 pm)Ferrocyanide Wrote: At least the young Earth creationists are not reinterpreting the story into something it is not.
They most certainly are, lol. Jewish folks have been trying to tell the christo-pagans they got magic book wrong ever since they stole it and ran.
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RE: Age of the Universe/Earth
January 3, 2020 at 7:26 pm
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RE: Age of the Universe/Earth
January 3, 2020 at 8:31 pm
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Unfortunately, no, the christians got magic book wrong cover to cover, not just some bit about a messiah.
Mainstream jewish thought is dominated by the likes of Gaon and Maimonides. The emphasis is on the ethical rather than factual significance of the stories in old magic book. The creationism that your friend is involved with has nothing to do with any 19th century academic discussion. It's only tangentially related to the initial misapprehensions that created jesusism. It's a contemporary political strategy, meant to bolster a claim to social authority.
Islam, well...they're not at their best right now.
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RE: Age of the Universe/Earth
January 3, 2020 at 9:41 pm
Ethnocentric at best! All cultures have creation myths. Why the Jewish myths? Why not the Hopi or any from the Hindu myths?
God thinks it's fun to confuse primates. Larsen's God!
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RE: Age of the Universe/Earth
January 3, 2020 at 9:53 pm
Intentionally ethnocentric. Old magic book was kwanza for jews. Inventing traditions and history out of a hodgepodge of partial information left after the eradication of their culture.
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RE: Age of the Universe/Earth
January 3, 2020 at 11:54 pm
When you interpret the Bible literally you end up with an incoherent and particularly stoopid deity.
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RE: Age of the Universe/Earth
January 4, 2020 at 3:16 am
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The god of the bible is a fuck up. That's the beauty of it. He created a perfect place for people to live and manage. Every physical aspect and living thing fit together working for ideal harmony. People were the end goal of his work. So well designed he not only granted them dominion over earth, he provided a test that, if failed, would result in god abdicating earth to a seemingly endless cycle of death and cruelty. That's how sure he was about his design.
Adam was god's own image. Eve was god's own image's bone, made because Adam was lonely, meaning god created Eve to satisfy a horny bastard. God made the test for Eve, which should she fail, would result in all manner of horrors, then appear to her as a huge talking penis. At this point of the story, I can't decide who to cast as god. Tommy Chong or Foster Brooks? Dom Deluise?
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January 4, 2020 at 9:12 am
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RE: Age of the Universe/Earth
January 4, 2020 at 9:26 am
The Universe will turn 69 on January 12, 2020.
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