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In reply to the discussion: Christmas turned the world upside down [View all]yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)68. Genesis to Revelation?
"Arbitrary bookends?"
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Well, that's how it should have happened. Sadly, that is not what did happen.
MineralMan
Dec 2017
#3
To two parties, the story is literally real, and it's getting people killed all the time.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2017
#13
The 'message' is couched as literal inerrant bilbical truth by evangelicals and others in the US.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2017
#12
You're asking the right questions, but you aren't thinking about the answers.
MineralMan
Dec 2017
#35
"religion" - "has opened its doors to the LGBTQ community" well, about that...
Voltaire2
Dec 2017
#43
The RCC still exerts influence worldwide to prevent legal recognition of same sex marraige.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2017
#66
UU's are 0.0114285714% of the world's population and the religion is only 60 years old.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2017
#64
Pagans. Deists. Agnostic Theists. Hindus. Jainism. Church of Satan. Take your pick, I got more.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2017
#62
I like how you just set arbitrary bookends to prevent analysis of the whole story, rather focusing o
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2017
#55
Speaking of cruel barbarity, god actually MADE the Pharoh evil, causing the death of children.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2017
#30
Does it require a god that engineers obstacles and pain/death/misery for bystanders on the way?
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2017
#53
Your excuse wears thin. There is a difference between me mockingly pointing out how long it takes
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2017
#58
I identify vicious torture porn, as vicious torture porn. Clearly the problem is with me.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2017
#52
Already read it. It's nonsense. Its not "corrosive patina" to observe that god is a character within
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2017
#56
Except I, and others, are willing to discuss the metaphorical/allegorical meanings of the story.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2017
#61
Including that the Pharaoh was controlled by god so that he could not relent is not
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2017
#65