gjm comments on A Parable On Obsolete Ideologies - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 15 January 2015 08:26:01PM 1 point [-]

the Bible contains a number of other really glaringly obvious mistakes [...] which they explain away in some [other manner]

Few that are quite as glaring as this one, I think.

even when the above reasoning doesn't really apply

For the avoidance of doubt, I am not attempting any general defence of the thinking and behaviour of religious believers in general or Christians in particular. (I'm an atheist myself -- though I was a pretty serious Christian for many years, and have quite a good idea of how they think.)