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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You guys can gussy up organized religion in fanciful terms, obfuscate things, and try to normalize it all, but at the end of the day you believe in stories that are no more believable than Greek myths. It's 2017. We have the internet. We have observable facts. You try to bend these facts to fit around your narrative and they simply don't fit. All the animals in the world can't fit on one boat. Your parents did you a disservice by raising you on this bs and unfortunately your psyche won't let you escape for fear of some hell that doesn't exist. Let go of the fear. Grow up.[/quote]

So many misconceptions wrapped in a package of immaturity and beligerance. You must be so proud of yourself.[/quote]

What part was incorrect?[/quote]

This poster is just phoning it in. The refusal to understand that such a thing as faith exists. The refusal to understand the distinction between bible literalism/Old Testament stories about arks vs. the deeper messages of all faiths. The refusal to accept that almost nobody is a bible literalist anymore.

You can tell her a million times, but she still always comes back with her same non-answers.

Most likely a troll. I don't think this poster is actually so dense as to be unable to understand, for example, that almost nobody is a bible literalist anymore. She's probably the Horus-Mithras poster given the reference to Greek myths.  But does anybody else sometimes wonder if this poster does social media for an atheist group? The wrapper of bigotry and hate is still there. But the rest reads like somebody spewing the party line, without thinking about whether the party line makes any sense in the context of everything else she's been told and knows. Unless you're paid to do this, why spend your life hating on religion, instead of, you know, going out there and enjoying the only life you think you'll get?  [/quote]

Very few bible literalists? What about Ken Hamm and his quackery, and the 24% of Americans who believe, literally, the earth is less than 10,000 years old? It's these people, for whom reality must bend, you should reserve your ire. The people under the inherent tribalism of organized religion - visibile most places there are war - who judge others and hurt the unusual. Most studies now show that non-religious parents raise less judgemental children.[/quote]

There are still biblical literalists out there and there are also many people who take only some of the bible literally.  For instance, they may not believe that there were was a male/female set of every animal on Noah's ark and may not even believe that the Great flood even happened,  And they may not believe ( or many not care) that Jesus turned water into wine. But they do  believe that Jesus died on the cross and then rose from the dead and now sits in heaven at the right side of his father, who is god.

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Yep, this is why nobody can be bothered to argue with you anymore. You deliberately miss the point every single time.[/quote]

Ah yes, the atheist-hating poster who speaks in absolutes and for everyone. [/quote]

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