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Originally Posted by Cybermat47
No it isn't. Saying that the book of Genesis has been proven wrong is a fact. Saying that the Bible as a whole has been proven wrong is an opinion. A large number of Christians believe in Evolution, including a member of Darwin's party. The fact that we evolved from fish doesn't mean that Jesus didn't exist.
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Religion-critics usually do not attack people claiming that
the bible speaks in metaphors to deliver a piece of wisdom. Metaphors often do a wonderful job in doing so. Parables. Fables. Even fairy-tales. Maybe that is why that rebellious carpenter talked so much in parables - it was the best way to adress a crowd of uneducated simpleminded Peters and Pauls most of which never attended a school and could neither read nor write. Not to mention joining philosophy classes and courses on ethics and history. Would you discuss Einstein'S theorems with a goat shepard who never had left his mountains and thinks some deities are angry when thunder and lightning strike the earth?
Metaphors. Parables.
Trouble with people swinging the bible like a club starts where they take its miracle stories as real matter and fact that is to be taken for real and as factual truth. And when the barbaric and inhumane content - that the Bible also includes and in large quantities - is taken as an argument why to shape the world according to this blueprint, barbarism and hate kill tolerance and humane peacefulness, and life turns into a hellhouse inhabited by hopeless stupids and hate-filled fanatics.