Darkland

Yeah I was just teasing you, your teapot analogy was Bertrand's and I came across it first in Dawkin's "The God Delusion" which is a fascinating read.

I usually stay out of these conversations. I have studied world religions for many years and was indoctrinated in one for close to 20.

Anyone who even has the slightest grasp of human history and religion should KNOW that all religions are an assimilation of a prior one. Most theologians will readily admit that most of what you read in the bible is mostly allegory. Personal Stories, Fictional Parables, Historical Accounts, etc. that someone one day said, "I am going to put these things together and call it a holy book. Let's start a bigger, better religion!" Hell, some of the books in the bible where written centuries apart and after Christ died and at the time almost no one even KNEW about what eventually became the old testament.

Let us also not over look the fact that almost all of the original writing was in Sanskrit and copied over and over again. Then people started converting it from one language to the next. Even to this day there are still incorrect translations that most people are unaware of when they sit in their pew and read from the book.

The funniest part for me is that all christian holidays are pagan in origin.

Anyways, trying to have a conversation with uneducated people is like trying to teach a 5 year old on the principles of quantum physics. They just don't understand what the hell you're talking about.

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