Why bring actual facts into this? You know they are going to just be ignored and replaced with 'God works in mysterious ways'.

This one is great, too!


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to put all the continents underwater since the time that the continents were formed.

More magic, I guess.

Clouds just form naturally. More clouds, more rain. More rain, more water to form more clouds that the rain can fall from. After a while the sun comes out and heats up the clouds until they disappear and then the water soaks into the ground. That is why you can dig wells and get water. The water in the lakes and oceans haven't had time to soak into the ground yet. It has only been a few thousands years since the great flood.
See, no mystery at all.

you can't explain that either.

In other words the most ignorant people produce the most offspring. The most ignorant reproduce faster than they can be educated. it is a losing battle

60% of Americans actually believe this shit literally about Noah's arc.
http://freethinker.co.uk/2014/03/17/sixty-percent-of-americans-believe-that-the-noahs-ark-myth-is-true-that-makes-it-a-stupid-country/

You don't need a lot of education or advanced critical thinking skills to know that is complete rubbish. All you need is a belief in simple answers that make no sense at all.

This is Old Testament stuff which is loaded with all sorts of ignorant stuff. Most Jews I know don't take must of that literally. The problem is the Christians. To me, it is shocking that more than a few percent of Americans take this literally. I lay this squarely on the clergy. Other than the Baptists, Pentecostals and other fringe ones, I think most of the clergy know that is bullshit, or metaphor if you would like a more polite term. As a professional musician, I attend a lot of church services -- hundreds (if not thousands) of different churches over the years. I cannot remember a single time where a preacher took the time to educate his congregation, with some=thing like "Now we know that there wasn't literally a flood that covered the entire planet and we know that there wasn't a boat that literally housed all species (or even all "kinds" for a year. This parable is a lesson, and the real meaning God wants you to have from this is ..."

Not one time. They just leave it alone. And likewise, I don't think in all those services I have ever heard a preacher claim it was literally true either. They know it is bullshit so they just don't go there at all. But they allow their congregations to remain ignorant, and that is a disservice.

(There are plenty of churches that do preach about this crap literally, I'm sure. I won't work for those churches. I don't need the money bad enough to surround myself with such abject stupidity for a couple of hours. Life is too short.)