Message from @LittleGiantJ
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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
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 itβs 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.
the principles behind christianity is good but how they do it is terrible
The bible was totally tampered with I don't believe for a second it was perfectly preserved
Yes and that is my Criticism of Dawkins and Harris: They didn't try to improve it.
the principles that have survived are good
they just tore it down