The primary way evangelicals "read" the Bible, as prooftexts in fortune-cookie snippet form, is such total utter bullshit It's the most disrespectful thing you can do to any text, much less a "sacred" one
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The urge to talk back to the guy like "What do you know about it? How do you know it? Why, exactly, do you think that Bill Clinton is an analogue for the Pharaoh in Exodus" was overpowering
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So, so, much this.
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the wheels fell off my personal wagon when we had a guest preacher claim with great certitude that all the water from noah's flood came from an "envelope" that used to surround Earth, blocking harmful UV radiation from the sun, and that's why people used to live so long back then
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at that point it was like, "okay, I don't have to reject my religion over this but I absolutely have to reject YOU and everyone who put you in a position to share this idea with others."
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After a quick, unsatisfying chat with the priest I left the Catholic church when I was 11.
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