Ok for years we have seen Stories of the Bible advertised on tv, when

[mrcheerful]

did it switch over to history and science of truth? Just had me wondering because it seems like yesterday that was how the bible was seen, stories to be taken with a grain of salt. I mean come on, a guy lives in a whales belly for weeks and survives, what did he eat? Or how about the great flood myth, a guy builds a big boat and puts every animal on it in the world, except one fact is missing, the animals that lived in regions of the world that were unknown at the time the flood story was wrote. Not to mention the natives that had thriving cultures and none of those ever mention a great flood nor a nutty guy coming along only saving animals, leaving every human to die in the flood. Pulls out hair, damn stories anyhow, maybe Zeus and Odin were asleep? Or did Loki pull one of his well known pranks on us dumb humans.

[sam sarrha]

1. stories get stretched from 2000yrs of sitting around a fire of dried goat

turds in the desert wilderness,

[Richard Steele]

2. I agree with your sentiment, but feel compelled to point out 1 tiny error:

When you say,
"the natives that had thriving cultures and none of those ever mention a great flood",
you are factually incorrect.

Many, if not most, have some sort of "Great Flood" in their oral history/folklore.

[donco6]

3. Fundie answers to YOUR questions!

Courtesy of 15 years entrapped in a mind slaving cult:

I mean come on, a guy lives in a whales belly for weeks and survives, what did he eat?

He didn't. You can survive three weeks without food. Actually, it's water he'd have had trouble with - you can only live 3 days without that.


Or how about the great flood myth, a guy builds a big boat and puts every animal on it in the world, except one fact is missing, the animals that lived in regions of the world that were unknown at the time the flood story was wrote.

The Bible says God brought the animals to Noah. Problem solved!


Not to mention the natives that had thriving cultures and none of those ever mention a great flood nor a nutty guy coming along only saving animals, leaving every human to die in the flood.

None of those cultures survived to write about the Flood because the Flood killed everyone on earth except Noah.

. . . . . .

I know it's all bullshit, but that's what they'd say.

[KharmaTrain]

4. Been Going On For Years

I remember when the first Creationist morons started popping up in the late 70's...along with the goofy series of "in search of Noah's Ark" and the attempts to find some kind of legitimate documentation to bible stories. The attempts by those who want to make fantasy into reality will persist as long as their are those who need to think their "reality" exists.

Actually I don't think it's a bad thing to grow up with these stories...it happened to me...and in time gave me the background in what these people were about. It also fueled my scepticism in my teenage years when I sought answers to the legitimacy of organized religion and came up with my own conclusions...that have remained steadfast ever since. I've seen the same thing happen with my children. It's a good basis of comparison to when one encounters someone who is steeped in these stories and to at least understand how messed up and confused they are.