Come and get me, right wingers!

Well, do you want evidence that Genesis was cribbed from an older tradition?Read the ugartic creation myth. Look at the names of god, and the sons of god in the ugartic religion.In the Ugartic religion Yawhew was the son of EL, and one of the sons of God.In the early hebrew religion, all the names of God were different sons of El.. all assimulated into one God. The hebrew religion was the Borg of the bronze age.

Ah... you got the to the crux of the matter.I notice there are two styles of christians. Those who look at the words of Jesus, and try living a moral life based on those words.And those who concentrate on his dying for their salvation. They focus on his sacrifice for THEM, and how HIS blood wash THEM clean. It seem that as long as they proclaim him as 'Lord and Savior for the remission of their sins', they don't really have to follow the message of Jesus.

Well, that is a big assumption. Considering that the writer of the Gospel of Matthew didn't even get his facts for the geography of
Jerusalum right, and Luke plainly says he is writing down the stories
written by other people, that is an assumption that is contradicted by the gospels themselves.

If his school plays Saugerties, then he is still in High School. Give him some time.Mark Twain told the story :"When I left home at 16, my father didn't know anything. When I came back at 21, I was amazed at how much he had learned".