Bill Maher Explains Noah...
 

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?

Bill Maher Explains Noah...
 

On 3/27/14, 6:42 PM, 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.

The Great Flood theory has a lot of basis. South Americans also tell of
a great flood in their tales. Lots of the coal deposits are all at the
same general elevation, and had to have huge piles of vegetation to make
the thick seams. May not have been a Noah, but there have definitely
been floods. Those major meteor collisions would cause flooding like
the tales tell of. Anything that altered the spin of the earth very
much would do the job. Theory that a lot of the Wooly mammoths in the
North were flash frozen by an earth wobble. Those frozen Mammoths are
found with undigested food in the stomach and flowers in their teeth.
They are big enough that if not flash frozen the stomach contents would
be fermented or digested. Get a small wobble and a temperature drop
below freezing and you would have -200 degree windchill factors. Say 10
Degrees F and a 200 mph wind. The inertia in the oceans would easily
cause the oceans to roll over the continents with a major speed change
or wobble.

Bill Maher Explains Noah...
 

On Thursday, March 27, 2014 5:51:59 PM UTC-7, 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?

According to Genesis. Noah had a boat, and was the first boater. ..

Bill Maher Explains Noah...
 

On Friday, March 28, 2014 4:58:14 AM UTC-7, F*O*A*D wrote:
According to Genesis. Noah had a boat, and was the first boater. ..







Are you trolling, Tim? :)


boating content

Bill Maher Explains Noah...
 

On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 20:51:59 -0400, 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?

No comments because Harry has a habit of using 'religious' posts to mock and ridicule the beliefs of
others. What's 'funny' to some may be hurtful to others, so many find it best just to stay away from
them.

Bill Maher Explains Noah...
 

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?

Bill Maher Explains Noah...
 

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.

Bill Maher Explains Noah...
 

On 3/28/14, 10:47 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:31:18 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

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.



It is sort of like the number of people who think the bible gave
European Jews the right to invade and occupy Palestine after WWII huh?



I suppose it is possible you have no understanding or knowledge of
either the biblical or post-biblical history (not folk tale, history) of
that part of the Middle East.

Bill Maher Explains Noah...
 

On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:31:18 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:


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.

Fine. Now STFU with your anti-religion crap.

Bill Maher Explains Noah...
 

On 3/28/14, 11:17 AM, Poquito Loco wrote:
On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:31:18 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:


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.

Fine. Now STFU with your anti-religion crap.




Once again, Johnny...

rec.boats isn't the army, where someone mistakenly made you an officer
and gave you the feeling you had some clout. There's no bandwidth limit
here, so there is plenty of elasticity to hold my posts about whatever
subjects interest me and your posts about your seemingly endless list of
hobbies you use to fill the vacuum of thought in your days.

It is a little interesting to me that you consider my posts
"anti-religion" when my many "religious" friends consider some of the
religious issues I raise on occasion with them worthy of discussion.
We've had some fun debates recently about Noah, what with the new movie
coming out.

What do you discuss with your friends? Barbecue rubs?