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and-justice-for-all

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Tue Apr-28-09 07:08 PM
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The 5000 year old bible...

really, that is just what a fundi told me in an email. That the Bible was 5000 years old. So, where does this development come from? Are they pushing the actual date back in order for their religion to appear older than it really is??

This new to me, never heard of the 5000 year old bible before.

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tiddlywinks

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Tue Apr-28-09 07:38 PM
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1. yes@ of course they are pushing it back

they are afraid of being perceived as the primitive bullshitters they are!!! haha!
i'm having such a great time in the atheist forum!!
THANK GODS yall are here!!
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stopbush

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Tue Apr-28-09 11:59 PM
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2. You're mistaking blatant stupidity for intent.

Edited on Wed Apr-29-09 12:00 AM by stopbush

There's no plan or strategy in place. The guy's just a morAn.

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Random_Australian

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Wed Apr-29-09 05:40 AM
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3. If it fits with your religion, it is true. Have you learnt nothing?

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muriel_volestrangler

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Wed Apr-29-09 08:35 AM
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4. That would, if you believed the dates in it, push it back to before Noah

ie before Abraham, regarded as the first proper believer. Of course, to get the description of creation, a literalist would have to believe it was dictated by God anyway, so they can claim whatever date they like for it. If you've believed 665 impossible things before breakfast anyway, why not add one more to make it a round DCLXVI things?

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TechBear_Seattle

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Wed Apr-29-09 10:32 AM
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5. The New Testament is 5000 years old?!

So why is the "year of our Lord" only 2009? :eyes:

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and-justice-for-all

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Wed Apr-29-09 08:05 PM
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6. Beats the hell out of me....

I replied and he never responded to my inquiry as to who told him that. Because its bullshit.

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onager

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Wed Apr-29-09 08:36 PM
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7. Just ask Sherri Shepherd of "The Void..."

Edited on Wed Apr-29-09 08:37 PM by onager

Sherri Shepherd Doesn't Get That Whole BC Thing, Insists "Jesus Came First"

Huffington Post -- December 4, 2007

For whatever reason, the ladies on "The View" were discussing ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus this morning. Naturally, talk soon migrated to the topic of religion, and Sherri "I don't know if the world is flat" Shepherd came out to play. More specifically, to spew ignorance and a complete lack of understanding of basic world history! Discussing whether Christians were around during Epicurus' time (Epicurus lived from 341-270 B.C.), Sherri chimed in, "(The Greeks) had Christians 'cause they threw them to the lions."

When Whoopi tried to cautiously navigate her through the timeline of basic world events, saying, "I think this might predate that," Sherri responded, "I don't think anything predated Christians." Joy's attempt to explain the Greek-Roman-Christian chronology was futile, as Sherri insisted, "Jesus came first before them." Sherri's argument was all the more powerful due to her convincing "use your finger to write on the table" trick, but she can't fight the facts. Perhaps if Barbara were on today she would have explained THAT WHOLE B.C. THING (you know, as in, Before Christ).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/04/sherri-shepherd-doesnt-g_n_75292.html

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Skeeve

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Wed Apr-29-09 10:04 PM
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8. Of course Jesus came first...

I give a damn good reach around. :)

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and-justice-for-all

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Sat May-02-09 01:45 AM
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10. Thats one dumb wench....good grief. nt

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dmallind

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Thu Apr-30-09 02:55 PM
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9. Ask him who wrote the first five books then

All fundy traditionalists cleave to the silly notion that Moses was responsible for first writing of Genesis et al.

Their "Archaeology proves the Bible!" lies put the Exodus between 1450-1410 BCE. By their own claims then the Bible is at the very most 3450 years old.

In reality it is of course much younger. Nobody knows exactly when. The earliest fragments are from Qumran and about 200BCE, but there is no reason to claim they were never written down before that - only that they did not survive.

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