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WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts)
Tue Feb 17, 2015, 07:55 PM Feb 2015

TYT: Bible Story About Man Living In Whale Is True, Says Fox 'Historian'



"Minister and self-described “public advocate for the Christian faith” Dr. Tom Dickson assured Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt on Sunday that there was ample evidence for the story of Jonah living in the belly of a fish for three days and other Bible tales to convince atheists.

During a Fox & Friends segment titled “Keeping the Faith,” Earhardt pointed out that 19 percent of Americans were skeptics who did not believe that the Bible was sacred, up from 10 percent in 2011.

Dickson explained that many people were turned off by the Bible because it had been used as a “tool for oppression and slavery and violence.”

But he argued that those were “universals of human culture, you don’t need the Bible to have war, violence and slavery. They were there in Greece and Rome before the Bible.”"* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
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TYT: Bible Story About Man Living In Whale Is True, Says Fox 'Historian' (Original Post) WhoIsNumberNone Feb 2015 OP
Link? ret5hd Feb 2015 #1
The guy on fox outside Feb 2015 #2
"He made his home in....... trusty elf Feb 2015 #3
I was laughing my fool head off saying this can only be Mira Feb 2015 #5
drive-through redemption! trusty elf Feb 2015 #7
“universals of human culture, you don’t need the Bible to have war, violence and slavery. rpannier Feb 2015 #4
I hope this guy gets acid reflux. Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2015 #6
However... TahitiNut Feb 2015 #8

Mira

(22,378 posts)
5. I was laughing my fool head off saying this can only be
Wed Feb 18, 2015, 02:38 AM
Feb 2015

trusty elf.
I am still laughing except by now I have to get tissues too

trusty elf

(7,349 posts)
7. drive-through redemption!
Wed Feb 18, 2015, 07:14 AM
Feb 2015

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Hi Mira!

Of course, the Bible is God's word, verbatim, in the original English. Every one of those words is literally true.

The principle I live by is "Let he who is without sin cast the first asparagus!"

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or, as Jesus said, and I quote: "People who live in stone houses shouldn't throw glasses!"

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rpannier

(24,304 posts)
4. “universals of human culture, you don’t need the Bible to have war, violence and slavery.
Tue Feb 17, 2015, 10:23 PM
Feb 2015

Does he extend that courtesy to Muslims?
“universals of human culture, you don’t need the Qaran to have war, violence and slavery.

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