[11,000-Year-Old Temple Found In Turkey]
This is so beautiful. It needs to be saved and shown to people who visit there. No one except God knows how old it is. The works standing alone almost look like a cross. How about that! Why do men continue to say they know how old something is? One day you will be surprised to find out, you are all very incorrect. Thanks for sharing.
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Why do men continue to say they know how old something is? One day you will be surprised to find out, you are all very incorrect.
Zing! Young Earth Creationism irony here.
But... I know how old I am. D:
Then again, I'm not a man, so maybe I'm exempt from that.
"works standing alone almost look like a cross. How about that!"
Yeah, that's proof positive that it's a prophecy of Jesus, huh?
What I find more disturbing is all the people jumping to claim it as Armenian because it's on what was historically Armenian soil. Never mind that the Armenians split off from the Phrygians, who originally came from the Balkans; admittedly, some of the builders could have descendants in modern Armenia or in the diaspora, but they wouldn't have been Armenian in any meaningful sense until a little over 2000 years ago. Nationalism sucks almost as much as fundamentalism.
No one except God knows how old it is.
Except for the archeologists. I'd bet they have a pretty good idea of just how old it is. It's astounding what you can learn when you apply knowledge in a rational and systematic manner.
What is so sad is that as I read this article, I was truly overwhelmed by how awesome humans are. How can you read this article and try to explain it away? Its a beautiful story of where we came from and how we wanted ritual and community. Before we even had tools, we made sure that we took care of our own.
The works standing alone almost look like a cross.
Yeah, if you redraw the cross so it looks like a letter T.
'People of the jury, I realise you think I killed that girl. What with her blood all over my clothes and the murder weapon found in my home in the same drawer as a pile of polaroids showing me killing her but before you give your final verdict please consider this ... One day you will find out you are all very incorrect.'
'Hmmm, he makes a good point. We find the defendant not guilty.'
Time fail. An 11,000 year old temple, even if it did have a structure that resembled a cross, wouldn't have anything to do with your particular fairy tale. And I think you're going to be the one surprised to find out your timelines are all fucked up, and you were the ones wrong all along.
You'd have thought that in 11 000 years and more. we'd have outgrown the need for someone to hold our collective hand.
The only way for an adult to face eternity is face on, unafraid of the fate of us all.
From the photograph in the article, they look like the pipes from the Mario Nintendo games to me.
If they worshiped Nintendo, did God do that to?
What exactly is a fundie doing, looking at a Smithsonian website? The folks there use that most godless of tools, scientific method, to establish nasty atheistical things called facts. Merrie's eternal salvation is in jeopardy. Pray for him, brothers! (and sisters, should any of you have your husbands' permission to use the internet).
This is so beautiful.
It is, isn't it? Fucking glorious what humans can do.
It needs to be saved and shown to people who visit there.
Oh, I agree!
No one except God knows how old it is.
Oh bugger, not again . . .
The works standing alone almost look like a cross. How about that!
That's the letter T you twit! Go back and relearn the alphabet!
Why do men continue to say they know how old something is?
Because they do. It's kind of required in their field to know how to find that out.
One day you will be surprised to find out, you are all very incorrect. Thanks for sharing
I want to rip that smug smile right off your face and set it on fire.
She mistakes a thick T shape for the cross but wonders how anyone, even people educated in such things, can suggest it's age.
Read the whole article, can tell you this, absolutely no suggestion these monoliths resemble a cross or that anything found on site has any Christian like markings at all. Give it time, the amount of crosses carved or scratched onto Stonehenge and Egyptian structures over recent history will probably occur.
Not surprized to see a Christian jump to this unwarranted conclusion. They pulled a cross girder section out of the world trade centre rubble and have unashameably called it a miracle cross despite having to add to one arm to even it up and ignoring perspective making it an X just as easily AND ignoring that many cross section I beams looked pretty much the same.
In the comments on that Smithsonian article one commentor tries to tie the Garden of Eden to it with the usual vague as can be attempts at comparisions they always use. It's no wonder most of 19th century archeology had to invest so much of its time debunking earlier Christian biased conclusion on ancient sites.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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