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Atheists & Agnostics

FiveGoodMen

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6. The bible wasn't written by savages, but...

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Thu Jan 17, 2019, 06:27 PM

Jan 2019

it WAS written by people with access to a WHOLE LOT LESS knowledge about the planet they were standing on and the universe they lived in.

So, by today's standards, it WAS written by the ignorant.

And that's giving them the benefit of the doubt that they weren't just intentionally conning people from the get-go.

(Probably doesn't need to be said in this group, but seemed like it needed an answer)

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