Re: OT: Racial superiority / Intelligent design was Re: OT:Thanksgiving

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:46:26 -0800 (PST), Alistair
<alistair@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>I didn't say whether I believed in god. In the 1900s virtually
>everyone in the UK believed in god and the bible so faith would have
>been absolute. Since then the readiness of people to believe in the
>word of the bible has declined and some of the blame for that belongs
>to the various religious groups espousing different doctrines and
>interpretations of the bible.

We never know what people actually believe, especially in societies
where alternative thought is shunned.

But that era did have a considerable interest in non-Christian
supernatural.

 
>
>Please list all parts of the bible which have been irrefutably proven
>to be true. I would be particularly interested in knowing where Lot's
>wife, in the form of a pillar of salt, can be found.

The question here is how do we define "not much", and its converse
"much".

But does it matter which Holy work has the most verified background to
the unverified supernatural depictions?