re: The church is now proselytizing through Match - firsthand experience

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I had to look it up when I was sent that message

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i just looked it up, I am supercilious as frick

She is a salesperson using your interest in dating to sell her wares. Only 12.95.

You are a gracious person.
You deserve someone not buying the myth. Don't saddle yourself with half a person.

The premise of faith means you put aside thinking and accept authority including the authority of mythic god as revealed by control freak rabbis.

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People actually believe the Creation story was meant as historical fact rather than as an allegory?

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This is what drives me nuts--that people actually DO believe this!!

I'm Catholic, and a biologist. I just cannot bring myself to see the Creation story as the complete truth. But it makes sense to write it that way, because how can anyone 2000 years ago fathom that the world is billions of years old? Hell, we know dinosaurs existed, but the closest thing you get to a dinosaur in the Bible is the serpent and the beast in Revelations.

Not to mention the fact that if 2 cousins get together now-a-days, they produce a kid with webbed feet and two heads. Yet, somehow all of mankind comes from Adam and Eve?

I just don't see how anyone could take that literally. It's just a simple way of explaining it.

People are stubborn though.