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Graham

On 2018-01-30 9:17 AM, CaÃ*da de la casa wrote:
> On 1/30/2018 9:11 AM, graham wrote:
>> On 2018-01-30 9:00 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> On 2018-01-30 10:12 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>> On 1/30/2018 9:54 AM, wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Very interesting - so that made her good enough to have baby Jesus
>>>>> without actually having sex with a man?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Never was taught that in 12 years of Catholic school.
>>>> I'm too skeptical to be a good follower of any religion anyway.
>>>
>>> Churches have a way of indoctrinating people into believing a lot of
>>> their rhetoric.Â* Repeating it over and over helps. While they may say
>>> that reciting prayers remind us of our faith and believes, it also
>>> acts to make us believe it is actually true. The Bible is quite clear
>>> about Mary being a Virgin. Granted, most of us get that from modern
>>> English versions of the Bible, and some will argue that the term
>>> meant something else at the time, like that they weren't yet married
>>> but were engaged...
>>>
>>> Another common on is about Eve getting sucked into eating that apple.
>>> There is no apple in the Genesis story.Â* There is no apple tree. It
>>> was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
>>
>> What it boils down to is that it is all squit, twaddle and bunkum!
>
> Prove that.
>
Look how far we've come since the Enlightenment yet you prefer to
believe the musings of ignorant, Bronze Age goatherds.