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#394859
davros
a talking snake ,dragon ,unicorn's,cud chewing rabbits
they all still do not exist
fail
1/30/2008 8:56:05 PM
#394861
big baby jesus
so, dragons are proof of dinosaurs and since the serpent is a dragon, a dinosaur got adam and eve kicked out of paradise? it has the benefit of being slightly more interesting, at least. more biblical passages should call to mind jurassic park.
1/30/2008 9:00:52 PM
#394883
Illuminatalie
As far as I am concerned, if the Bible says a SNAKE WAS TALKING, then it means what it says. But that's the fundy way : the bible must be taken literally unless it's obvious that it can't be. Then the resulting explanatory gibberish starts rolling out. The tree Judas hung himself was on the edge of a cliff, and the rope snapped, and then his body fell into a field and hit a rock and his guts spilled out.
1/30/2008 9:27:54 PM
#394887
TheReligiousCommie
@Illuminatalie
No, It's that whether or not a fundie takes a verse literally is inverse to whether or not it should be taken literally. Why else would they seem so backwards and hypocritical?
1/30/2008 9:33:36 PM
#394903
David D.G.
"The bible says that the snake was considered an intelligent creature."
As opposed to fundies, who can't even recognize a fable when they see it.
"I suspect that the snake was actually a dragon, which every society has a reference to as being intelligent enough to communicate, and yet, calls it 'worm' and 'Snake'."
They also call dragons "mythical" and "fictitious." Don't forget those.
~David D.G.
1/30/2008 10:28:10 PM
#394947
Caustic Gnostic
No no no no...Eve was a secret agent, and the snake was her contact.
1/30/2008 11:42:15 PM
#394970
Bryan65
I thought fundies didn't use hypotheticals!
1/31/2008 12:03:28 AM
#395027
Septic Sceptic
So if the snake was an intelligent creature, God must have sapped it's IQ in addition to taking it's legs and vocal cords. Of course the bible says nothing about the IQ bit, so we must assume that snakes- er, "dragons" are still of the same intelligence. Maybe i'll go out and catch an adder, see if I can teach it to hold a pen in it's mouth and write it's messages of evil down. If it tells me to eat more fruit, then your theory will be sound.
1/31/2008 12:51:27 AM
#395073
tracer
No no no, it's spelled WYRM, with a Y.
Plus, it would, like, totally breathe fire all over you.
1/31/2008 1:45:33 AM
#395094
Reverend Davidius
Bill Hicks had a nice bit on dinosaurs in the bible, though I will not commit the sacrelige (however that may be spelled) of trying to paraphrase it.
1/31/2008 2:32:03 AM
#395096
antichrist
THE BIBLE MUST BE TAKEN LITERALLY!!!
Oh,,, uhh,,,, except for that part.... and where Jesus said to give you're possessions to the poor, and anything else we don't like.
1/31/2008 2:36:22 AM
#395211
Mattural Selection
@ Reverend Davidius:
"What about Dinosaurs? If the world is 6000 years old, and the bible covers it, you'd think dinosaurs would be mentioned somewhere in the fucking book."
"God put those there to test our faith."
"I think god put you here to test my faith dude. God's running round, burying fossils. 'We'll see who believes in me now. Hoho, I'm a prankster god. I am killing me.'"
1/31/2008 6:50:10 AM
#395259
FMG
Okay... I shall allow you that point.
However if you leave a knife around little kids at floor level where they can grab it and hurt someone with it, you take the blame. Not the kids. You can't blame talking freaking snakes. They had no knowledge. This means they don't know right from wrong. Meaning they would listen to the talking snake because they were morons.
1/31/2008 9:53:26 AM
#395270
Freboy
We interpret the bible literally, but when it becomes too ridiculous, we just make some shit up...
1/31/2008 11:37:49 AM
#395274
Viva
D & D is a exiting game, but it's not real.
1/31/2008 11:55:19 AM
#395282
Mister Spak
Snakes might be intelligent compared to you.
1/31/2008 12:19:37 PM
#395291
Frank
Ah yes. A talking snake would be crazy, but a talking dragon makes it perfectly alright.
1/31/2008 1:01:14 PM
#395406
Nirjuana
If you have a intelligent dragon, it can speak and nobody is amazed?
1/31/2008 7:03:37 PM
#395491
J-Hay
Do you all want to hear something sad? I'm the only one in my intermediate family who doesn't believe in shit like this. It's a miracle I'm not an alcoholic yet.
1/31/2008 9:23:44 PM
#395576
Kristy
"I suspect that the snake was actually a dragon, which every society has a reference to as being intelligent enough to communicate, and yet, calls it "worm" and "Snake". "
But you would think an omniscient god would know the difference and be able to communicate that into his written word, wouldn't you?
2/1/2008 12:21:47 AM
#395593
Quantum Mechanic
Take another drag on that fattie ....
2/1/2008 12:44:56 AM
#395645
Fanatic-Templar
Intelligent dragons, in western culture anyway, mostly come from the works of the divine prophet Tolkien.
2/1/2008 1:54:16 AM
#395685
Old Viking
Oh, well, a talking dragon. That's different.
2/1/2008 3:10:07 AM
#395790
Ambrielle
If you think so.
2/1/2008 6:18:57 AM
#395832
RevDG
i like this one later in the thread from theidi0t
"Perhaps it was her first encounter with a snake, so she might have thought that talking snakes were the norm?
But I'm with the other poster here, and I think the serpent was a dragon, and not a snake, because talking dragons are much more believable."
i've debated him, he lives up to his name lawlz
how are dragons more believable that talking snakes?
2/1/2008 7:28:12 AM
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