- 20 May 09, 17:08#119590It just goes to show how much undue respect religion gets. bud makes a perfectly legitimate comment, but the God squad and other relativists leap on it. If, however, you criticised somebody's political views, nobody would care. It's time to stop the undue and unearned respect. Religions, of whatever kind, are a thought-system like any other, so are not above question and reproach.
It seems that creationists love playing with language, particularly with the word "theory". Unfortunately, they're too unintelligent and too brainwashed to realise this is only scientific or philosophical term. In laymen's terms, theory in the sense of, say, natural section means fact.
Religion constantly backtracks as well. Several hundred years ago, the Roman Catholic Church insisted the world was the centre of the universe. Recently, however, the Holy See has backtracked and issued Galileo an apology and admitted he was correct.
And the Bible cannot even correctly report the events of Jesus' birth. Luke's gospel does not add up historically: It was Quirinius - not Augustus - who commissioned the census, and the census was only of the province of Iudaea - not the whole empire. Moreover, it was not Roman custom to ask people to return to the land of their ancestry. And, this would never have worked in practice anyway. In terms of dates, the census was conducted in A.D. 6 - a minimum of eight years after Jesus' supposed birth, and two years after Herod the Great's death.
And what do religious junkies do in the face of such overwhelming evidence disproving the Bible? Rather than accept that the Bible has been proved to be false, theologians - who have the cheek to call themselves scholars - try to manipulate the scientific facts and twist their holy scribblings to suit their own evil agendas. "The Bible is only a symbolic text." "Its authors have made some mistakes." (All in certain places, of course.) Is there any point in religious people even reading Holy texts, saying they deviate from them so much?

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