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Permalink Reply by Laura Ann Johnson on January 27, 2011 at 8:16am

I meant to say I was just trying to understand, not that I was not trying to understand.

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Permalink Reply by Anathema6205 on January 27, 2011 at 12:28am

Ask them about the dinosaurs.
I always love to hear them 'logic' their way through their hair-brained theories.

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Permalink Reply by Laura Ann Johnson on January 27, 2011 at 10:54am

I may do that. It would be interesting.

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Permalink Reply by Kirk Holden on January 27, 2011 at 10:44am

You must have found

1. The stupidest rabbi ever

2. The smart rabbi who answered the mythology question not the theology question.

 

What is the cut of this man's jib? Conservative, Orthodox or Liberal. If liberal, you are not doing it right.

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Permalink Reply by Laura Ann Johnson on January 27, 2011 at 10:50am

All the rabbi's I was ever raised with were Orthodox and one Hasidic so they know what they know and are not stupid, however, the temple I was raised in was liberal because it was the only game in town. What is it that I am not doing right? That statement seems very broad.

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Permalink Reply by Kirk Holden on January 27, 2011 at 11:19am

The source determines the answer. If I asked the Archbishop of Canterbury about the authorship of the gospels he would tell me that they were all derived from Mark and of dubious orgin re: some dude named Yeshua ben Yoseph. If I asked Franklin Graham he would say every word came from The Angel Gabriel. If I then implied that Christians had no idea what was going on.

 

I would not be doing it right.

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Permalink Reply by Laura Ann Johnson on January 27, 2011 at 12:12pm

I am not sure what you mean, I was giving my story of what the rabbi said. There was no right or wrong. It was just for discussions sake, that's all. I did it right.

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Permalink Reply by Albert Bakker on January 27, 2011 at 11:46am

In this theory of the Rabbi in which people could keep their feet dry by standing behind a hill, admittedly a big hill, this possibility kind of defeats the purpose of the Ark. Maybe God should have offered Noah a map to show him how to safely walk around the hill instead of building instructions for such an excessively complicated and totally unnecessary project.

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Permalink Reply by Laura Ann Johnson on January 27, 2011 at 12:18pm

True, but the rabbi was saying when I asked him how the other people got here, that one of the son's climbed up a hill and saw other people were over that hill, I guess a big one, that there were other Arks apparently with other people, but maybe Noah was the leader of the pack and he was the one chosen to be in the big book. I heard on the news that there are people out there actually looking for the Ark. Good luck to them.

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Permalink Reply by Albert Bakker on January 27, 2011 at 12:54pm

I must say, I like this story better than the original one. So there where other Arks, but only the one with all the animals on board made it to the press. Maybe it's some kind of wiedergutmachung of God for killing all the rest of them despite being completely blameless.

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Permalink Reply by Laura Ann Johnson on January 27, 2011 at 12:21pm

That's neat.

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Permalink Reply by Julien on January 27, 2011 at 3:45pm

And people criticize me when I say that we should call them crazy not theists. That car, along with all the other proof, is more than enough to support my statement.

 

I have seen a photo with an atheist's car that expressed her lack of belief, here on Think Atheist. There were no animals on it, but, in my opinion, it was too crowded. When it comes to decorating a car, I would choose subtle things.

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