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Thread #131699   Message #2976557
Posted By: Steve Shaw
31-Aug-10 - 07:27 AM
Thread Name: BS: The God Delusion 2010
Subject: RE: BS: The God Delusion 2010
" 'passing off myth as truth to children'

There you go again, making assertions of certitude. Really, if you have a disproof of the existence of God, I'd love to see it. I don't want to believe something that isn't true."

A good deal of what's in the Bible is mythology under another guise. Parting the waters, bloke talking to God up a mountain and coming down with a clutch of laws, all those miracles, Jesus coming from the dead. That is mythology, but the near-certainty (sorry, that's the best I can do) that these things are no more than made-up yarns emanating from tendentious authors (and very childish yarns at that, clearly intended to strike awe into believers and keep an ever-tightening grip on them) is never relayed to children. As for what you believe, your evidence bar is set very low, which means that, whilst you don't want to believe something that isn't true, you don't mind believing something that is almost certainly not true.