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God & the Fairy Tree

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Coragyps
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06-26-2007 11:26 AM

I'm reminded of the difference between a fairy tale and an oilfield (or cowboy, or fisherman) story: a fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time..." and an oilfield story with "Now this ain't no shit...."
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Religion/God stories tend to start with a prettified version of the latter.
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06-26-2007 12:20 PM 		Reply to: Message 44 by New Cat's Eye
06-26-2007 12:05 PM

Re: I thought of a difference
....while there are not a lot of intellectually mature people who are fairy-ists.
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In 2007 in the industrialized world, yes. 2200 years ago in Britain it's quite possible that nearly all of the intellectually mature people were fairy-ists. Bunches of God-ists today view the half-billion Hindus in India as fairy-ists of some stripe. And all those folks had/have the same amount of evidence for their fairies as Christians do for their uber-fairy.
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06-26-2007 12:25 PM 		Reply to: Message 46 by New Cat's Eye
06-26-2007 12:15 PM

Re: Check your logic, Mike.
That way, god has more evidence than the fairies and then you have your difference.
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Again, that's in 2007. In Celtic Britain, there was plenty of evidence for fairies and none for YHWH. Cows dried up due to mischievious fairies. Old folks suffered "elf-stroke," now known as just "a stroke." The little buggers were everywhere!
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