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RussBLib

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15. I'd never really thought of it like that before
Sat Oct 10, 2015, 12:07 PM
Oct 2015

Here we have this awesomely powerful being that created the universe, the earth, and everything. But knowledge of that - that rather valuable "information" - would have vanished from the earth but for a few determined individuals who wrote certain stuff down?

Surely no one would dare alter or embellish anything from the "original" information when it came time to "translate" that information for a different group of humans who lived in foreign lands that had never heard of that particular "information" before. Indeed, many of those humans in different lands had their own information; their own stories, tales, and fables that these "foreign" humans considered the "truth" of their origins.

The "dominant" translation was not well-liked by everyone. A group of humans in Asia/Africa developed their own version of the "truth" and those two versions began warring with each other.

Not to mention the whole of American natives murdered by followers of one version of the "truth". One wonders if the native American holocaust would have not happened but for the insane religious beliefs of a large group of people.

What a fucking tragedy.

You talk about a mistake of epic proportions.

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Yep, seems totally legit to me.... [View all] WillParkinson Oct 2015 OP
Two points... Binkie The Clown Oct 2015 #1
The myopia and narcissism of religion is astounding. Arugula Latte Oct 2015 #2
Stop spewing that sciencey bullshit. Curmudgeoness Oct 2015 #3
The universe: AlbertCat Oct 2015 #4
OMG. Curmudgeoness Oct 2015 #5
Here is the explanation from my tome "The Riverside Shakespeare" AlbertCat Oct 2015 #6
Ya know, I kinda sympathathize with people who lived hundreds and hundreds of years ago. Arugula Latte Oct 2015 #10
what the eff is their excuse? AlbertCat Oct 2015 #11
Maybe Floating Kitteh can explain all. Arugula Latte Oct 2015 #12
At least Kittehs are real! nt Curmudgeoness Oct 2015 #13
I would have enjoyed that much more Curmudgeoness Oct 2015 #14
Blasphemer! progressoid Oct 2015 #7
that phrase covers every possible situation so nicely RussBLib Oct 2015 #9
Though there are a couple billion Christians edhopper Oct 2015 #8
I'd never really thought of it like that before RussBLib Oct 2015 #15
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