 Originally Posted by Wyldwraith
This issue bothers me,
As a Christian and as someone with a mind I believe my deity wished me to have so that I might apprehend the nature of my existence, I find this new pseudo-scientific Creationism outright offensive and deceitful, where the old Creationism was merely out of touch with reality and obviously wrong.
First of all, there are FOURTEEN places in the bible where it is inarguable the text is describing a year or a day as highly variable in duration. One passage indicates that the biblical "day" in question is actually 1,000yrs long. I could go on and on about this, but anyone with sense can see the obvious implications there. Second, the Bible should be taken for what it actually theologically is. Ie: A guide to the establishment of a relationship with God via His Son Jesus, and a manual depicting the necessary actions, words, and beliefs to secure Salvation/The forgiveness of Sin and in essence reconciling one with God. Over and over in passages left dusty and unused because they do not serve Biblical Literalist agendas it is intimated, implied and even stated that this is the real purpose of the document collection that is the Bible. God intended it to be a Manual on Attaining Spiritual Salvation, NOT a step-by-step blueprint of how Creation was brought into being by God. Lastly, I find it beyond offensive when adults use childhood against children to condition them to think/perceive in ways that will cause them no end of trouble in later life.
Amusingly enough, many fundamentalists would identify me as an Apostate for what I just said.
In the end, people like those tour-givers make me mad because they besmirch the credibility of my faith as a viable spiritual path to God. Lies never got anyone closer to any God worthy of worship.
theres an even simpler flaw with the hard core creationism zealotry. asuming there is in fact a god and he did create us, has the ability to do so, how in ,well, gods name do they think we could understand such a process NOW, let alone thousands of years ago y'know?
Like how did intelligent design go from the relatively logical thought process of the whole "well to have the planets the right distances and the moons at the right points and such to allow life at such a small chance of occurring maybe god set up this solar system as a 'garden of eden?', maybe he tended it over billions of years to shape our evolution with minute changes like a wise sage clipping a bonsai tree" that sort of 'it can be explained by science, but theres a director who sets the laws for it' type thing- which i dont believe in but i can see how others could, how does it go from that to "IT WAS MAGIC, STEPHEN HAWKING IS WITCH, FLAMING BALL IN SKY DEMANDS BOOK BURNING TO BE PLEASED!".
As ive said before, the worst things these people do are not just attempting to stop people getting an education based on fact, but they get so much press as loud, obnoxious d-bags that they make the world think ALL christians are like them. Like the christians get less like there christ every year y'know? we all hear about the pedo priests or crazy book burning racist priests, what about the ones who help feed and cloth the homeless? not newsworthy or edgy enough i suppose. But when shit like the phelps family gets so many viewers all they do is give christianitys enemys more fodder. Also lengthening the tense divide between the religions and races of the world further. seriously. they do absolutely nothing good for there religion, or humankind as a whole. if i were them that would no doubt get me angry and chomping at the bit, but as an educated man gifted with the ability to reflect on my words and theres it just makes me sad.
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