I think we've all learned something here... I'm just not sure what...

Is it wierd that my mind somehow added the boat salesman from Monkey Island to the story above and had him offer a three-year-warranty for eyes, teeth and rotten genitalia for the low, low price of just two boys at the age of no more than five years?

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There's some crazy shit in that, and most holy texts.

I'd downvote this if I could.

We all know the Bible/Torah/Koran etc all have stupid shit in them and the joke has been done to death, you won't ever win a debate quoting this stuff, nor are you likely to entertain or enlighten anyone except already like minded people. What you will get is one of the following replies:

1. Old times, Americans had blacks slaves for X long, the British had Indian slaves for X long...

2. It's only a story/metaphor/shouldn't be taken literally.

3. So? Hitler was an atheist! (don't ask me why this has any relevance, even though not true but it comes up a lot)

4. Your favourite circular logic goes here.

While I'm all for ridiculing the absurdities of religion, I think there is better and smarter ways to go about it, these are very easy targets.

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^ Yes, but the joke never gets old when fundamentalists continue to claim that the bible is the literal word of God handed down for us all to follow strictly.

Stuff like this is just the opposite reaction to that action.

"And there is no new thing under the sun." Everything has been done to death. Does that mean we should downvote every cute cat video? Or every politician-fucks-shit-up video?

It's not about making the most clever response, the more clever it is, the harder it is for an idiot to follow it. By now we need to make the most blunt and obvious arguments that are hard to reason away.

Those are all good points, I concede to being a bit zealous

"if man is created in god's image, why do we have circumcision?"

>> ^yellowc:
1. Old times, Americans had blacks slaves for X long, the British had Indian slaves for X long...
2. It's only a story/metaphor/shouldn't be taken literally.


1) And we now repudiate slavery and we have amended our highest document, the constitution, accordingly. Good luck amending the bible.

2) None of those apply here. This is not a metaphor. It is a straightforward instructional guide to slave management. If you think this slave guide should not be followed, how do you know which other parts to follow?

>> ^dag:

^ Yes, but the joke never gets old when fundamentalists continue to claim that the bible is the literal word of God handed down for us all to follow strictly.
Stuff like this is just the opposite reaction to that action.


Obviously the Christian god just meant for mankind to pick and choose which of his edicts they would like to follow.

You have to hand it to people like the Westboro Baptist Church and fundamentalist Muslims; they really do follow every word of their holy books and treat them as the literal word of their respective god regardless of what century they're living in.

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