Comments on: OMG, Oh My God, or WOW? http://skepticum.com/omg-oh-my-god-or-wow/ A Godless Skeptic's Notes on Liberty, Religion, Society, and More... Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:25:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Mana http://skepticum.com/omg-oh-my-god-or-wow/#comment-990 Mana Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:35:58 +0000 http://skepticum.com/omg-oh-my-god-or-wow/#comment-990 When you say nobody reads the old testament anymore, it makes me think that in modern Christianity the decrees of the new testament overwrite the rules of the old. So in a sense, yeah, no one reads the old testament anymore :) When you say nobody reads the old testament anymore, it makes me think that in modern Christianity the decrees of the new testament overwrite the rules of the old. So in a sense, yeah, no one reads the old testament anymore :)

]]> By: Scepticon http://skepticum.com/omg-oh-my-god-or-wow/#comment-989 Scepticon Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:59:21 +0000 http://skepticum.com/omg-oh-my-god-or-wow/#comment-989 I've always found it curious that many people of the Christian persuasion actually think that "God" is their god's name. Nobody reads the old testament any more. This should really be a non-issue. I’ve always found it curious that many people of the Christian persuasion actually think that “God” is their god’s name. Nobody reads the old testament any more. This should really be a non-issue.

]]> By: Billy http://skepticum.com/omg-oh-my-god-or-wow/#comment-977 Billy Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:52:22 +0000 http://skepticum.com/omg-oh-my-god-or-wow/#comment-977 Weird post. Intriguing, but weird. My teenagers have started speaking in IM, and now I really don't understand them. Not that I did before, but . . . On a different (but related) note: My first experience with biblical literalism was a boy I went to school with in Arizona. We had an assembly in which a professional story teller spoke for more than an hour to the entire school (less than 250 kids, k-12). The guy was brilliant. His last story was a retelling of genesis. It was beautiful. He spoke of god's footsteps creating the valleys and mountains (keep in mind, I lived at Grand Canyon at the time, the greatest monument to time and geology in the U.S.). Afterwards, I mentioned to one of my friends what a neat myth that was. He turned to me and said, "That's what actually happened. It's in the bible." This launched into a discussion about the bible, religion, god, etc. (we were fourth-graders, so the discussion was most likely not that deep). I had forgotten one of his arguments for the existence of god until this post: "If a man falls off the rim of the canyon, what will he say? He will always say, 'Oh, my god.'" This was his primary arguement for the existence of god and the innerency of the bible. Thanks for bringing up weird memories of my childhood long, long, long ago. Good memories, but weird. Weird post. Intriguing, but weird. My teenagers have started speaking in IM, and now I really don’t understand them. Not that I did before, but . . .

On a different (but related) note: My first experience with biblical literalism was a boy I went to school with in Arizona. We had an assembly in which a professional story teller spoke for more than an hour to the entire school (less than 250 kids, k-12). The guy was brilliant.

His last story was a retelling of genesis. It was beautiful. He spoke of god’s footsteps creating the valleys and mountains (keep in mind, I lived at Grand Canyon at the time, the greatest monument to time and geology in the U.S.). Afterwards, I mentioned to one of my friends what a neat myth that was. He turned to me and said, “That’s what actually happened. It’s in the bible.”

This launched into a discussion about the bible, religion, god, etc. (we were fourth-graders, so the discussion was most likely not that deep). I had forgotten one of his arguments for the existence of god until this post: “If a man falls off the rim of the canyon, what will he say? He will always say, ‘Oh, my god.’” This was his primary arguement for the existence of god and the innerency of the bible.

Thanks for bringing up weird memories of my childhood long, long, long ago. Good memories, but weird.

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