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Freelancer

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11. Microbe stuff wasn't in Bible. I was trying to be sarcastic...

Reply to RussBLib (Reply #10)

Wed Mar 28, 2018, 01:07 PM

Mar 2018

in a "oh, thanks for letting me know about the brakes now that the car is wrecked" sort of way. The bible didn't warn about poop-water at all.

I was just saying that, if the prophets in religions indeed had a pipeline to a God, they should have known about that. Instead, we didn't discover that micro organisms caused diseases like cholera until after the Civil War.

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the end nt msongs Mar 2018 #1

Not terribly sarcastic, but high marks for pithiness and brevity (-: -nt Freelancer Mar 2018 #2

I'm not going to even read it b/c i like the my favorite part of the bible thing!!! juxtaposed Mar 2018 #3

Well, the Bible's rhymin ain't got good timin angstlessk Mar 2018 #4

LOL. Well, bless yer heart. -nt Freelancer Mar 2018 #5

Seriously, I thought about this concept SCantiGOP Mar 2018 #6

What a perfect selling point -- unfolding ratification! Freelancer Mar 2018 #8

Verily, I say unto you... Ohiya Mar 2018 #7

I'd argue, but don't want to seem plutocratic (-: -nt Freelancer Mar 2018 #9

but, I thought that people didn't discover not to drink/eat where they pooped until like the 1500's RussBLib Mar 2018 #10

Microbe stuff wasn't in Bible. I was trying to be sarcastic... Freelancer Mar 2018 #11