naturalplastic wrote:
Where did I extrapolate it from? Lol!
From your 9000 posts. Most of them clearly imply that you're a Biblical literalist, and a YEC.
So you are saying that you walk, talk, and quack, like a Yec, but are NOT a YEC?
Well then tell us what you Do believe, and then tell us why you pretend to be a YEC when you're not one.
Actually what I did was present a couple of theories that suggest an Ancient Earth Creation theory. Such as the gap theory. Which is probably something a Bible litteralist and YEC would reject. Failed attempt at pigeon-holing me. Not to mention putting words in my mouth and setting up a strawman. And just because someone knows about something, doesn't necessarily mean they are into it.
naturalplastic wrote:
The fact the every religion preaches from its own canon of scripture has nothing to do with whether or not they take scripture literally as history. Most churches temples and etc are concerned with saving souls, and not with geology, so they are not concerned with the Holy Books as works of journalism, or as geology textbooks.
Saving souls is a christian concept.
What I said about what is taught in Synagogues and Mosques and believed by the majority of practicing Jews and Muslims is a fact. You put a spin it all you want, but that but the fact is immutable.
If one is going to call people who believe god created them and the earth idiots, then one has to call the majority of practicing Jews and and Muslims idiots, which is anti-Semitic and Islamophobic. You don't get to have your cake and eat it too. A dilemma for the liberal.
If one consistently expresses their opposition to religion, why should one feel any obligation to give some religions special treatment?
Also, NP made an oversimplfication. Most of those clerics he mentioned aren't so much concerned about 'saving souls' as 'maintaining a body of faithful'. That said, they also tend to focus on teachings that won't drive people out by having little to not relevance to day-to-day life, like how old the rocks are, or how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
20 Aug 2017, 7:43 pm
