I think what the Bible often lacks is proper context

A few days ago I criticized the story of Noah's arc

Not necessarily you can hate and not have to kill people. Just like you can lust and accidentally squeeze to hard when she says choke me.

Then they me too you or just die

The idea of the seven sins is excess. Any of them can work, without causing much, or any harm, but in excess they become what they were named for: Deadly.

What does his story teach us? He believed there were signs that a huge, never before seen flood would come and he centered his whole life around surviving that flood. He had no piece of evidence except what God told him. Now, no one else had God tell them that there was a flood coming, so from a purely scientific perspective, Noah was vastly outmatched by the evidence.
And what happened? The flood came, he survived, along with the animal kingdom, and he was proven right.
How is that a good moral of the story? Noah was clearly insane. He should've been proven wrong, the flood should've never come.

It wasn't a moral statement, it was a "fear me" from God.

But it is a moral statement, too

@Lios that's why you got the 7 virtues. You can imagine people would limit these 7 deadly sins as best they could and tried instead for the virtues.

It tells us that the insane man who tells us the world's gonna end was right and we should listen to him

Even if we don't have any evidence for that

That sounds like a horrible message to me to teach kids

Believe some unbacked claims without evidence... but not the others.

@ETBrooD so is some guy in a lab coat saying the earth will be swallowed by the sun and the universe will die of heat death so embrace nihilism and modernity and fuck a tranny amirite?

Yeah, like washing your left hand but not your right hand, because why not

No, get the fuck off this rock @JoeyJoestar1337

Uhm

Whole universe out there, this place is bound to get boring

Science has evidence for the heat death of the earth

Not "a voice in my head that no one else heard"

I ain't arguing that dude lmao

But that's my point, it's about evidence

Well the heat death is for the universe. Even that is under questioning, and is only theoretical, but it's the strongest one we've got.

The heat death of the universe is one possible outcome, right now the big freeze is more commonly accepted

But the idea is to find a way to beat it. Not just give in completely and just give up.

We humans are clever fuckers.

But what if you believe in the wrong thing because you don't use good evidence to justify your belief?

Then you can just as well believe in anything

Humans will not live to see heat death of the universe.

Yeah, it's unlikely. The chance is there. Also there's the idea that it will occur so quickly, we wouldn't even know when it happened.

Humans will be wiped out by nuclear war, meteor or Ebola-chan.

Basically

A good example are the recent Amazon fires

Me voting Giant Meteor in the US elections these past 12 years hasn't helped much

Especially considering that near-miss recently. Almost buddy, maybe next year.

Next time vote Hillary. Vote for nuclear holocaust.

Even actual scientists have started yelping about. "Ohhh the Amazon fires, they're terrible, do something, that president is crazy"

Nah, too many will survive :^)

Vote for meteor is a vote wasted.

Turns out the evidence shows the Amazon is perfectly fine.

Still a damn nasty fire, but California is just laughing.