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DFW

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6. Just my view, of course, but........

Reply to wnylib (Reply #5)

Mon Oct 30, 2023, 10:24 AM

Oct 2023

Taking anything in the bible (or any other contemporary compilation of mythology) as literal history is equivalent to accepting Bartholomew and the Oobleck as a historical document. It's like teaching schoolchildren that Athena really did burst forth from the head of Zeus (so much for Olympic birth control).

"Faith" necessarily means one believes something without having concrete documentation of it. Fair enough, but make the distinction.

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