Thread: Penn & Teller; The Bible is Bullshit
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Old 08-10-2007, 06:46 PM   #49 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Brotherbass View Post
What are you basing this assertion on? How can you say that "clearly even the authors of much of the Bible intended it as allegory?" provide some evidence.
Did God not give us the ability to reason and think logically?
Isn't it somewhat insulting to God to NOT employ those gifts He's given us?

That's about all the "evidence" I need to know such stories as a guy being swallowed by a whale and then barfed back up a few days later are NOT intended to be taken literally.
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