When will religion be overteken by logic?

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  1. FreshAir

    FreshAir Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    when is the last time you talked to him, what did he have to say?
     
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    FreshAir Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    lol, there is no heavens gate, that is a fairy tale your religion teaches
     
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    Giving credit to God makes more sense than the godless liberal Dumb Luck Theory
     
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    does it really, does your dumb luck theory apply to God too, woudl be pretty lucky if a God always existed - a jealous God at that, now that would be dumb luck
     
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    Most are tolerant of you and your notions as well.

    My favorite Christian creation myth is still Ussher's biblical calculation that it happened at nightfall preceding Sunday, October 3, 4004 B.C.:

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    God had angels when he created Adam and Eve
     
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    Yes. Pelosi.
     
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    and we look like God and the Angels?
     
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    I think he was wrong about that

    But he never claimed to have devine inspiration
     
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    interesting, and the Sumerian texts were written in 4500BC - many years before the bible, seems obvious the bible is based on the Sumerian texts as they have the same characters, many similar names, ect...

    so

    --> Sumerian texts
    ----------------------> Jewish Texts
    ---------------------------------------> Christian texts
    ---------------------------------------> Muslim Texts
    ---------------------------------------> Mormon Texts

    wonder what is next.. the new is often built on top of the old
     
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    Many, Christians among them, have claimed to have "divine inspiration"

    Ussher's biblical chronology is based upon a literal interpretation of a book that many Christians believe was divinely inspired.
     
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    Probably not

    But I am just speculating

    Physical appearance is just one way of being created in God’s image
     
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    Ussher is human and fallible

    Just as some who claim to know when the Second Coming will occure
     
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    The "Great Flood" myth certainly got around - Gilgamesh, Deucalion, Noah. No copyright in the religion business,
     
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    As are you, obviously, and, possibly, even me!
     
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    Sure
     
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    and the bible writers can't claim they did not know about them, they included them in their bible

    "29 Bible Verses about Samaritans"

    https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Samaritans

    "
    Kings 23:19
    Josiah also removed all the houses of the high places which were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made provoking the LORD; and he did to them just as he had done in Bethel.
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    The God of the Bible of course...
     
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    Nope it means that the government is not supposed to tell you when where and who or what to worship or not worship. The government is supposed to be neutral amongst religious choices and that includes no religion at all.
     
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    DERIVATIVE Я US.

    The various pre-scientific explanations of natural phenomena and cosmological speculation are poetic, and forcing them to compete with science as literal truth diminishes them. That's not their bailiwick.

    Either, in the realm of the other, is woefully out of its element, but science can inspire awe as well as establish empirical truths.

    When a bunch of Christians were verklempt over Darwin's explaining biological evolution that contradicted their static, immutable creation, he observed,

    There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers,
    having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one;
    and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity,
    from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been,
    and are being evolved.
     
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    And you of course have no Idea who the Samaritans were.
     
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    Nope, as the courts have consistently pointed out.
     
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    Because science not support the idea that the Universe always existed. Hence the Big Bang Theory.
     
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    sure I do, and I know the bible tried to put them down to put down the old religion

    just like the snake in the garden was to put down previous snake religions

    that is how you create new religions, re-write them and put down the old religion and hope to convert them
     
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    Yep See the latest ruling.
     

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