Just so there's no confusion,

I'm not against Christianity, or spirituality, or the main message of the Bible, BUT, I am totally convinced you can't take the entire Bible literally, 100% of the time, as many people do. There are MANY passages I could quote, as in God sending bears to eat 42 lads who made fun of a bald guy, Elisha, in 2 Kings 2:23-25, or you should be killed for mixing crops in your field, or fabric in your clothes, (Leviticus 19:19), BUT, if I had to choose ONE, as in, 'you gotta be kidding me', it would have to be the story about God stopping the sun, so the Jews could kill more people, in Joshua 10:12

12Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, "O sun, stand still at Gibeon, And O moon in the valley of Aijalon." 13So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, Until the nation avenged themselves of their enemies. Is it not written in the book of Jashar? And the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day.

Really? This made a good myth in the pre-science days when the church taught that the earth was the center of the universe (and they killed the heretics who disagreed), but now we know differently. For the sun to 'stop', the earth would have to stop rotating, and, if you anything about 'momentum', can you imagine the damage caused as the oceans sloshed over the land, among MANY other problems? Like several stories in the Bible, (written by fallible MEN, not the hand of God), it just didn't happen, and it's hard for me to imagine anyone believing it ACTUALLY did, but, FOX found their perfect audience, when they realized they could tap into the 'true believers'. If you LITERALLY believe the entire Bible, then FOX versions of reality don't seem so strange, cuz you're pretty easy to fool. FOXNews 'keeps the sheep riled', with their stories about that damn Muslim Obama, vs the righteous Chrisitans. Nothing new here, as the largest voting block in the country, gets herded by Murdoch/Ailes, and the clowns at FOXNews. Best return on political dollars, EVER, cuz once you believe FOX is real news, story over.....

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