@One Degree There's a distinction between something being history and something influencing the course of history. I am by no means denying that the Bible shaped the course of history, but the events depicted in it are not real. Besides, the history of the West, let alone the rest of the world is much more than just the bible. In fact, millennials and younger generations are favoring other works (Like the communist manifesto
) over the bible.
@Drlee Can we quit with the personal attacks? There's no reason to treat the Bible is real. Hell, if I got ousted as a communist here in the US, I would be attacked to no end! Why don't my beliefs get the same respect as Christians! At least I can point to more evidence than they can!
@Hindsite The events depicted in the bible are not real. The world was not created in 6 days (or in even thousands of years). No one stopped the Sun. The first humans didn't fall out of a magical garden. No one rises from the dead. Rather, scientific evidence shows that the Earth formed over tens and hundreds of millions of years, the Sun can't be stopped by a single human with no technology, and the first humans split off from, and therefore share a common ancestor with, Chimpanzees, and at earlier times, other primates.