[ExI] atheists declare religions as scams.

[Stathis Papaioannou]

2011/1/7 John Clark <jonkc at bellsouth.net>:
> On Jan 4, 2011, at 4:32 PM, spike wrote:
>
> A christian evolutionist is not necessarily a contradiction
>
> There are christian evolutionists but it is a contradiction, they just live
> with it the same way all religious people deal with the absurdity of their
> beliefs, by putting their ideas in little air tight compartments with no way
> for them to interact with each other. Christians believe in a benevolent God
> who can do anything, so He could have produced the complexity of our world
> by just snapping his metaphorical fingers but instead he used Evolution, a
> hideously cruel process. That is FAR more evil than anything Satan did in
> the Bible.
>  John K Clark

There is no contradiction in accepting a religion but rejecting its
ancient beliefs as literal truth. Some theologians take the Bible
about as seriously as classical scholars take the Iliad and the
Odyssey; that is, they take it very seriously but they don't actually
believe that any of the supernatural stuff happened.


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Stathis Papaioannou