On 3/28/14, 9:49 AM, Poquito Loco wrote:
On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 21:42:15 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 3/27/14, 8:51 PM, Gene Kearns wrote:
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 10:04:17 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld_tg4W7Hf8

Awesomely funny. And no comments? And no boating. WTF?



I thought Maher nicely combined the utter stupidity of those 60% of
Americans who think the great flood story is literally true and...boating.

There, Gene, that's what I was talking about.

Harry, can you give a site for the '60%' figure you posted? Or, is that just more **** you pulled
out of your ass?


There are many sites that will offer up a cite showing the approximate
number of 'Mericans who take the biblical tale of Noah literally.

Here's one just for you. I picked it because it ran in one of your
favorite right-wing newspapers, so it must be true (humor added). This
particular piece is based on a 10-year-old survey, but there is plenty
of more current data that indicates pretty much the same level of belief
in religious folk tales and superstition:

Most Americans take Bible stories literally

God’s creation of the Earth, Noah and the flood, Moses at the Red Sea:
These pivotal stories from the Old Testament still resonate deeply with
most Americans, who take the accounts literally rather than as a
symbolic lesson.

An ABC News poll released Sunday found that 61 percent of Americans
believe the account of creation in the Bible’s book of Genesis is
“literally true” rather than a story meant as a “lesson.”

Sixty percent believe in the story of Noah’s ark and a global flood,
while 64 percent agree that Moses parted the Red Sea to save fleeing
Jews from their Egyptian captors.

The poll, with a margin of error of 3 percentage points, was conducted
Feb. 6 to 10 among 1,011 adults.

“These are surprising and reassuring figures — a positive sign in a
postmodern world that seemed bent on erasing faith from the public
square in recent years,” said the Rev. Charles Nalls of Christ the King,
a Catholic-Anglican church in the District.

“This poll tells me that America is reading the Bible more than we
thought. There had been a tendency to decry or discount Bible literacy
among the faithful,” he said.

“But this indicates a strong alliance among Americans with the inerrant
word of God, as opposed to simply the inspired word of God, as viewed in
the context of faith tradition,” Father Nalls said.

The levels of belief in the stories, however, differed among Christians.

The poll found that 75 percent of Protestants believed in the story of
creation, 79 percent in the Red Sea account and 73 percent in Noah and
the ark.

Among evangelical Protestants, those figures were 87 percent, 91 percent
and 87 percent, respectively. Among Catholics, they were 51 percent, 50
percent and 44 percent.

http://tinyurl.com/kb78sc6

I side with those scholars who believe the biblical tale of Noah had its
origins in a huge flood of some sort some thousands of years ago in the
middle east, and that the spiritual leaders of that time embellished it
to fantastic proportions and used it to keep the more simple folk of
their time in line. The story was passed along, generation to
generation, and between the nomadic peoples of the region until the Jews
picked it up and made it part of their bible.