On 1/30/2018 11:35 AM, graham wrote:
> 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.
Those who wish to erase history condemn the rest of us not to learn from it.
I still have some old Motors Repair Manuals even though cars have
advanced quite a bit since then.
Core concepts matter.