Evolution, who cares?

Nathan Poe said:

Didn't Jesus ever talk about anything else?

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Yah, but who cares? Skip over all that "Love your neighbor" stuff and go straight for the bits that tell you you're infallible in your interpretation of the text.

An aside, what's really important to your modern Christian? Jesus, or Genesis?

But Jesus spoke about a flood, (among other things) as some people seem to love to point out. To which I'd reply, imagining, for a moment that Jesus was who he is claimed to be. What do you think he came here to do? Give geology lessons? Maybe a bit of biology? Correct a few of the more interesting ideas about the shape of the world?

Or maybe, if it isn't too radical an interpretation, (and I'm an atheist, so it probably is) might it be that he was trying to, you know, save us using the stories he knew would resonate with his audience?

I mean, he was only at it for three years.

I always thought that way too. Jesus told parables, and He didn't always tell His audiences when He was parabling and when He wasn't. He related things in ways they could understand. He used down-to-earth examples. Would they have understood Him if He had talked about evolution and rocket science and advanced cosmology and random number theory or whatever it's called? Probably not. Instead He used understandable examples.

But of course, if you say anything against my personal literalistic translation, you are completely disowning everything in the Bible and rejecting it in the most horrible way possible, and there is a special place in Hell for people who believed in some ways but infected everyone else with heresy.

Talk about a false dilemma, geez.


(I wonder if using the word geez after a sarcastic comment on a fundie parody counts as blatant as far as Poe's law is concerned? Probably not.)

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