[Hyper Sonic]

Originally Posted by SillyEvee

Dude! That is so disrespectful! What makes you think that's even a little bit acceptable? It's one thing to say "I don't believe that." It's another to deliberately and with explicit language insult another person's beliefs. That is so not classy.

Mary: the answers to all your questions from a religious standpoint are, of course, because G-d wanted it to be so. (That's the standard answer to pretty much every religious question, lol.) That's if you're taking a literal interpretation, where G-d has a hand in everything and every word of the Torah is literal truth. If you don't believe that G-d can do anything, then there's no reason to take every word as literal truth and it becomes an embellished, inspiring story where the message, not the details are important.

Because it's true