@Punished Norm#4755 Were you talking to me? Was my sentence incomprehensible?

they completely misunderstand that the entirety of the bible was written in an oriental language, meaning that metaphor was a major part of communication

@Paradox he just left lol

the greatest fantasy book : Bible

That the Earth is only ~10,000yrs old, that carnivores once at plants before leaving the Garden of Eden...

oh, well, w/e

I get that a lot. My english is apparently not very good.

Oriental?

me? American.

I was raised Christian. I don't hate it; I just hate their cherry picking of scientific facts, and their fabrication of science to support their side.

```they completely misunderstand that the entirety of the bible was written in an oriental language```
Oriental?

Like the classic "bombardier beetle" argument...ugh, that one drives me up the wall...

If he didn't leave this server directly after calling it the dumbest I would have linked him all my stupid servers

what's the bombardier beetle argument? I'm curious now

I've heard the watchmaker argument, but not that one

And the "meat was not on the menu, in the garden of eden" idea...

or the dictionary explosion analogy

Yet the first son makes sacrifices of animals to God

that's explained by him not sacrificing until after they leave

but

That was post-Eden.

Still

So, just gonna drop that and not back it up.

Didn't take very long apparently

Also, I think he still has a very common misunderstanding of how jesus is veiwed in christian and islamic cultures, I could have elaborated if he wanted me to

Australia is more than enough to disprove Eden and Biblical Creation

i was also raised christian and i hate the way sunday churches oparetes ... i hate that i could smell death every time i was there

And the Pacific Islands

I just hate the rejection of science.

it was terrible and it drove me away from religion

@taekahn hebrew is an "oriental" language as in it shares certain characteristics with other languages in that style, it uses metaphors and parables quite often to explain things

And the way they look at outsiders.

and also christian elementary school

@LittleGiantJ it’s really just the fossil record.

it was awful

forced religion sesions and stuff i hated it

and still hate it

My second favorite islamic "Dogma" is that god speaks to people in arabic, When the idea of god not being mulitlingual is ridiculous

I just find it obnoxious that some people decide that the bible is completely whole and perfect and nobody decided to "touch it up" to fit their personal desires, and I'm a christian myself

I hate that too

Agreed, I believe the old testament is largely metaphorical and not a science collection of books, and barely a collection of history.