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Act_of_Reparation

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3. If that is true...

Reply to songbookz (Reply #2)

Thu Aug 1, 2019, 02:13 PM

Aug 2019

...then:

1) These stories started off as metaphor; then

2) Everyone forgot they were metaphor and started interpreting them as literal accounts of the creation of the universe; then

3) Darwin; then

4) Everyone totes coincidentally remembered these stories were metaphors all along, never intended to be taken literally cuz only literalists do that shit amirite lulz.

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