*Glah* yesterday it was bil with "Taxes are evil" today it was hubby

[GreenPartyVoter]

Mind you, hubby is a conservative but at least he _thinks_ where politics is concerned. Not so with religion.

Today I told him that I would in no way countenance sending our kids to a Christian school and he got defensive (used to teach at one, bro went to one, his college was one) and said, "Well, why not?"

I replied, "because of the day I helped out in your classroom and you gave me history to work on with one of your kids.

The book said, with diagrams of maps and arrows pointing the way, that all of the people currently on Earth are descended from Noah's kids. Larry went East and his descendants are the Asians, Moe went South and his kids are African, and Curly went North and his kids are Europeans."

And he said...

"Yeah, that's right."

And I said, "You gotta be frickin kidding me."

The rest of the ride to my dad's went downhill from there.

I am going to have to reinstate the no talking about politics and religion rule. *sigh*

[beyurslf]

1. Larry, Curly, and Moe? We are all decendants of the Three Stooges?

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. It would explain so much of why the world is the way it is

[gmoney]

2. Learn something every day...

I never new Noah's kids were Larry, Curly and Moe... sounds familiar somehow. Nyuk, nyuk.

And the wives they found came from the same place as Cain's wife?

Probably the same kind of guy who will bitch about the plot holes in some Hollywood movie, but thinks nothing of the pure ad hoc fantasy that makes up religious mythology.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. They were really Ham.. and the two other ones.. But you know what I mean

:P

[TahitiNut]

9. Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

:shrug:

According to Genesis 10, the present population of the world was descended from Noah's three sons. Until the mid 19th century, this was taken as historical fact (see External links). They are still taken as historical by Orthodox Jews, Muslims, and some Christians.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_Noah

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. Yep. Sad but true. God saw the world was full of evil, gave them

lots of warnings and they still didn't turn it around so Noah took two of every animals.. including billions of insects and those far away critters in the north and south pole.. and enough food for them all, and hung around in a boat for 40 days and nights.

Seriously, how many "evil" babies did God kill at that time? More than every abortion ever performed??

[housewolf]

20. And of course all the predators got along

with all they prey, not to mention with each other...

If Noah only took 1 male and 1 female of each species in order to re-populate the world with them, what did the carnivores have to eat during their 40 day-and-night voyage? :shrug:

[GreenPartyVoter]

24. Ah, but hubby says you have to believe God can do anything which means

that is how all the animals got along and all fit on the ark. :eyes:

[xray s]

5. AHA!! A flaw in their argument!

They can't explain Shemp or Curly Joe!!!!!

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. *lol*

[mike_c]

7. holy moly-- my ex and I had raging fights about politics...

...and religion and we're both liberal atheists! I cannot imagine life with a fundy conservative.

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. He's not as conservative as some. Believes in some "evolution".. believes

dinosaurs lived before man (His brother thinks they were concurrent).

But still, he is cosnervative enough that it makes problems. AS far as he is concerned, I am not a Christian because I think the Bible is fallible. (Written by humans with free will and all that) And that I don't take everything literally.. or believe that gay people are sinners.

[LibDemAlways]

8. I hope you remind your "taxes are evil"

brother-in-law that taxes pay for roads, sewers, police and fire protection, schools, courts, libraries, parks, public health agencies, the FDA, the FAA, and, yes, the military. Would he like to forgo paying taxes and lose each and every one of these?

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. He only wants money to go the the military.

[LibDemAlways]

15. Well he probably wouldn't be too happy if

his house caught fire and he had to stand and watch it burn to the ground or the chicken he ate put him in the hospital or schools closed and kids ran wild in the streets. No one enjoys paying taxes, but those who fail to see the benefits are dumbasses.

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. He believes in school vouchers so kids can go to Christian schools

on them. Hates social security and whatnot. Doesn't believe in the common good, and thinks Jesus was a capitalist. :shrug:

[xray s]

13. Of all the fundie beliefs, the literal belief in the Flood is the goofiest

I mean, how the hell can almost all life on earth be destroyed 5 thousand years ago, and then, from a single breeding pair of each animal species, grow to the current population of today? Not to mention the fauna population that would have been wiped out and reinstated worldwide in 5 thousand years.

Personally, I think the whole point of the Flood story is their attempt to try to explain rainbows before science taught people about the refraction of light.

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. Hubby says it was longer than 5000 years ago and that there is

geological evidence of the fact.

_I_ say that there was a flood in the area where the Jews were living, which to them would have been the whole world anyway.

[xray s]

17. There is plenty of evidence of floods

But there is no geological evidence of a rainstorm lasting 40 days and 40 nights covering all the earth with water.

I think you are right. A big flood probably hit the eastern Mediterranean and killed a lot of people thousands of years ago.

I still think the rainbow at the end of the story is the real point of the legend though.

[GreenPartyVoter]

23. Me too :^) It's all about the rainbow

[Armstead]

18. You must really be in Love

Or he must have other wonderful qualitiesd to compensate

[madrchsod]

19. you missed the greatest comeback to this nonsense about Noah

so we are all related to noahs family-so it`s ok to marry your brother or sister then have kids. then marry cousins and have children if this is gods plan why don`t we still practice this? one of the things the bible doesn`t really explain

[gmoney]

22. Maybe that's why that behavior is so common in the Bible belt?

It also controverts those evolutionists who claim that a shallow gene pool will lead to birth defects and mutations... sheesh.

[blurp]

21. I'm so sorry

My wife and I are both atheist. I didn't realize how lucky we both were to find each other until I met her atheist father and his Christian wife.

[GreenPartyVoter]

25. Ah, another mixed marriage. How do your in-laws manage it?