Comic of the Day
who says it has to be funny?
I think I gave up believing in this stuff when I was about 8 years old.
WetGeek I have no idea what a 'skeptical materialist' is in that cartoon but it does go a long way to equate these Olde creation stories in the same boat as Santa and E. Bunny. The Old Testament is full of them. The NT not so much at all. But they are two different books separated by hundreds of years and two different belief systems and had no business being welded together in the first place many scholars say.
Lotsa words to say you are right, even as a child you draw the line some places.
The irony is when mom said "you have to eat your vegetables, they are good for you".....at 8 years old I wasn't buying that either .
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brent The NT not so much at all. But they are two different books
The last thing I want to do is get into a religious argument here, or even a philosophical one, because it just isn't the place for it. But the New Testament is also full of stories that are unbelievable as well, unless they can be attributed to magick and the supernatural, and that's something I'm not comfortable basing my life on.
There are religious philosophies I stand behind 100%. I'm a firm believer in "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," and the Pagan equivalent, "An it harm none, do as ye will." But I draw the line at believing water can be miraculously turned into good wine, or a woman becomes pregnant spontaneously, and such. Like some product sales pitches even today, those require believing--without proof--in unfounded claims that a product can do something that it can't.
The cartoon above above made me laugh. My apologies if it offended anyone. I'm just not superstitious.
