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Religion Ask a Christian - Continued in Part 2
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That's very Christianly behavior to be fair
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Very old testament of him, to be sure
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A true believer. Not like those old testament ignoring apologists.
No-one is obsessing about God. What people are discussing is people's behaviour based on a belief that has no evidence behind it.
The point of the argument which went way over your head is if God is omnipotent, why did he create homosexuals? I can explain why women have vaginas and men have penises (A good read is The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins if you really need to know more). However your argument suggests the only reason people have sex is to procreate which a) we know is not the case and b) would be pretty bloody sad.
Again you totally miss the point of the argument. In the Great Flood myth, God floods the world due to the behaviour of some naughty people. Why did God have to wipe out all life bar what got taken on the Ark? Why not just punish the naughty people? Why did all of the sheep (and indeed all of the other animals) have to suffer for the sins of man? While we're at it, isn't it interesting that the Noah story is pretty much the same story as recited in the Epic of Gilgamesh which was written approximately 900 years before the Old Testament.
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It's like there were two versions of me posting on here.
Also lets not forget about Atrahasis and Ziusudra, whose stories also pre-date the clearly fictional Noah, and are eerily similar. You might even suggest that one of these stories were plagiarized.
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Old testament god is badass; one of my favourite fictional characters.
I’m sure you jerk off to selfies of you jerking off to selfies.
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Honestly I think darthbards isn't all there.
A lot of Christians don't seem to be, to be fair
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Only the FSM can make him whole again.
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I know that already adds up to 100% but he takes it even further than that. He regularly boasts about the excitement he feels from killing animals and he trolls the other boards forcing his flat earth conspiracy theories on people. Then he follows posters around the forums thumbs downing them for months if they disagree with them. This bloke isn't right
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True, but not all are barely literate and are flat earth conspiracy nuts.
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Yep. Not only the story of Noah. And not surprisingly since Genesis appears to have been written about the time of the Babylonian exile when the Mesopotamian source material would have been easy to access.
The Genesis genealogies post Adam and post Noah are based heavily on old Sumerian king lists and have a fair bit of invention thrown in for good measure. The invention of exalted ancestors for a particular individual or a particular family is very common. The Anglo-Saxon kings for example invented genealogies stretching back to the god Wodan.
The Biblical Adam very probably comes in part from Alulim (king of Eridu), the first king in the Sumerian King List. He ruled for 28,800 years.
The Sumerian tale of Emesh and Enten reflects the later story found in the Bible of Cain and Abel.
Enmunderana appears to be the forerunner of the Biblical Enoch. In Enoch's case, both Enoch and Enmunderana are the seventh name in a list of patriarchs with long lifespans. Enmendurana is associated with Sippar (which was associated with sun worship) while Enoch's lifespan in the Bible is 365 years which is parallel to the number of days in a solar year.
The development of the story of Noah in Genesis goes something like this
2700 BC: Calculated time of the figure of Gilgamesh as per dating of walls of Uruk.
2100 BC: Apparent origin of the oldest Gilgamesh epic (Akkadian, AKA Old Babylonian). Alludes to the Flood.
Before Hammurabi (~1700 BC): Apparent time period of Atrahasis story
1830 BC: Oldest Estimated age of CBM 13532 - also sometimes called the 'Nippur Flood Tablet'
1600 BC: Apparent origin of the oldest copy of the Atrahasis story (bit likely to have ben assembled 1800 - 1700 BC
1400 BC: Standard Babylonian version including all 12 tablets. Flood story complete as copy of Atrahasis.
1170 BC: Youngest Estimated age of CBM 13532
668-626 BC: Assurbanipal finds and stores the oldest preserved copy of the Epic of Gilgamesh in his library. Rediscovered in 1849
The approximate time of the writing / assembling of the Book of Genesis was between 600-300 BC.
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You are a true font of knowledge here.
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God really stuffed up with the arse design.
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It’s not that I don’t believe, I know it doesn’t have the capacity to exist.
I don’t need to jerk off.
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You're giving Yahweh too much credit there, let's not also forget - incest, pedophilia, infanticide, human sacrifice, kidnapping, animal sacrifice, and abortion (not that we are all against it, but Christians are, despite the fact their god clearly endorses it), etc.
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It’s not so much about the infanticide so much, but the way they went about it and celebrate it!
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