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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Not much. I'm just saying that any "facts" presented by that bunch are quite possibly wrong because they believe fiction (the ark story) is fact. Who knows what other "facts" are not facts in there?
Just for fun though I'll say what you quoted is correct. So now we know that Judaism and Christianity didn't borrow the messiah from Mithra and Zoroastrianism. So what?
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Rouge, that's the whole problem right there. Right from the start, what may be fact is assumed non-fact. Why? Because you probably sought validation to fit a prejudice:
All believers must stretch truths or create facts to believe that crap in that archaic book. The same can be said for the opposite side. Non believers stretch things as well. Very rarely does either side state holes in their own theories - its all painted one way most of the time. And this is not to say that the site I quoted is doing that either.
The sad part of all of this is that one never learns if they cant see things from both perspectives objectively. I've been on the "other side" as an atheist. I constantly fed my mind anything that aligned with that paradigm just as a believer may do. Any source "claiming" evidence that rubs against my opinion is written off as lies and mistruths. Too many hold security in their opinions and can't let go of anything that goes against it. I've been guilty of that but I strive to look and think beyond. Some of you may find this hard to believe.
AS a believer I do not claim to have all the answers just as I never did as an atheist. If it were all black and white with the evidence that exists today then I guess we'd all have trashed that Christian myth long ago. Yet each side still holds itself up with some degree of faith - some degree of estimations of what exactly happend 2000 years ago.
Anyways, Rouge, I'm not fingering you out here. I guess I'm just a little fed up with what I feel is this forums constant intolerance of people who do believe. I don't want alignment - just some degree of mutual respect that we can share different views instead of being written off as some crazed nuts who were somehow brainwashed at some point. Maybe then and only then can we actually learn from each other for once.