OK, for all the "religionists," who in this particular thread would be referred to as "Christianists" please address the following questions:


You routinely point to "the Bible" as *the* explanation for everything. Which version of "the Bible" is the "correct" one? How do we know?

"The Bible"--whichever one--was only written down something like 200 years after the alleged birth of someone called "Jesus Christ." Knowing what we do about "the folk process"--um, you DO go above the line from time to time, don't you?--how do we *know* that everything in it was faithfully (faithfully!) relayed to each successive generation without any changes?

If "the Bible" is the correct explanation for everything we "know," then why are there so many people who "believe" that some other book, or set of explanations, or philosophy is the "right" one? Are they all "wrong?" If so, are "we" committed to perpetually trying to "convert" them? Must we kill them? Make laws that deny them their religious practices?

If we are accepting a "Biblical" definition of something called "marriage," then which of the 8 or more "definitions" that are in "the Bible" should we accept? Why should we accept that one?

For starters. I don't really expect anything remotely resembling a rational answer to any of these questions, given what has preceded this post. But at least perhaps the "non-christianists" can pose some of these questions to see the "Christianinsts" run around in rhetorical circles and at least provide some amusement.

Saul