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[–] NeptuneOrbit@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago (24 children)

Not every Christian believes in a literal Genesis and a 6 thousand year old earth etc. , but yeah, probably many were likely (and/or surely) deist, agnostic, uncaring, or even atheist.

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (23 children)

Honestly I have more respect for the literalists than the ones that recognize the crazy, but pick and choose which beliefs within their religion they're willing to swallow the crazy of rather than walking away.

If you're going to choose to be a nutter, at least fucking commit.

[–] olutukko@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Amen. This is what they should teach in schools. It's not like you would go outside and tell people that you're a flat earther but you don't really believe that earh doesn't have curve. Then why do people go outside claiming they a christians but don't really believe in thw crap that happened in the great folk lore fantasy book called the bible. I would love to read it some day completely, like a folk lore book, not to convert. Same goes for koran. It would be interesting

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You’d be too annoyed by the contradictions, repetition and nonsense to finish it.

There are some pretty raunchy bits though.

[–] olutukko@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah propably. I should maybe just stick to kalevala. It's a huge collection of finnish folk lore which almost got lost but then some guy decided to collect it all and make a book. It's actually extremly significant for finland and tolkien took inspiration out of it while writing lotr

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