Oh, okay. I went to Catholic school to sixth grade. The sisters taught it in a certain way.
I suppose you're talking about Noah's Flood and original sin. Little kids wouldn't understand it, so they became wicked lol.
That was still a pretty stupid thing to say. Now, it makes sense that she was a frustrated old dyke in front of a classroom of kids... and she took her anger out on us.
But still pretty stupid, and didn't answer the question.
Not that any God-botherer has ever done a BETTER job of telling me why a "good" deity would drown babies.
The global flood is key to understanding how the fossil layers came to be. It was the atheist scientists who made up their evolution science. Thus, you're being FOOLED even worse by atheists James Hutton, Charles Lyell and crew.
Um, no, evolution is supported by fossils. A world wide flood is not.
I guess you do want to discuss the whale news.
‘Oh My God, I'm in the Mouth of a Whale': What It's Like Being Swallowed by a Humpback. I don't think it was for three days, so you got me there.
Um, a humpback couldn't swallow a person, it's a baleen whale, it feeds entirely on plankton.
As for Jesus' second coming, that's what I thought might be the reason, i.e. the Christian majority ends up believing in evolution. The reason may not have anything to do with it. Jesus comes to fulfill the Bible's prophecy.
So Jesus is going to come back and kill us all for believing in Evolution. Um.. yeah, that kind of sounds messed up.
I can see why you are sarcastic about Catholicism, but Christianity is different from it. It's not that Catholicism is wrong, but it adds some things to the religion. I don't think it adds or changes what the Bible says or does it?
Oh, the main problem is that you have 1000 sects of Christianity, all with their own bible translations and their own interpretations. Except the Mormons... they made up a whole additional bible to justify their crazy. Seriously, **** the Mormons.
The problem is, Christianity- and for that matter, Judaism and Islam, are all built on the same bits of crazy. An angry Bronze Age deity who got blamed for everything ignorant sheep herders didn't understand, who they tried to evolve into a more advanced version.
My story is while I went to parochial school until sixth grade, I never was baptized. It wasn't until 2012 and I was almost 50 when I found the Christian faith.
ETA: If you go back 2200 years or so, we find the people during that time were warring peoples. Doesn't the Bible state that God used the global flood because these warring people became so warring that innocent people were in danger?
You're the bible expert, you are asking me? The flood was supposedly 4000 years ago. But even that makes little sense, because we know of civilizations that are older than that which continued on after the Flood, such as Egypt.
If you delve into the text, what God was upset about was that Angels were going down to earth and having sex with them.
Then you get this passage.
5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 And
it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the LORD said,
I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth;
both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air;
for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Okay, a WHOLE lot of problems with this. Since God is an eternal being who knows the future, how could he NOT foresee that man would become evil.
Furthermore, if the whole purpose of the flood, and drowning all those poor innocent babies, was to end "evil", the fact is, evil continued even after the flood. So what was the point of the whole thing.
That doesn't even go into the more complex problems of the flood story, such as how could all the species (including humans) have survived when they all descended from a single set of parents (The inbreeding would have wiped them out in a few generations), or how God got animals from diverse parts of the world to migrate to where Noah was, and go back to those places when the flood was over. (i.e. the marsupials in Australia).
Or how he could fit thousands of animals, and their food to cover them for a year, into a boat that was only 137 meters long. Or how 8 people could care for thousands of animals. Or how the flood didn't kill off all aquatic and marine life, as the change in water salinity would have killed most of the water born species.