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[Izuna]

I assume you meant to say "You could pay people jobs to help with the transporting and distributing food, but it's [not] the only job that should exist" in which case I agree, but these construction workers could make something more useful like farming equipment, irrigation systems, the chronically underfunded desalination of sea water, or homes for the homeless. We're not going to solve the problem but that doesn't mean we can't improve it. At least the 100 million would make a difference for something good as opposed to this which brings nothing positive.

Well, I don't disagree I suppose.

Yo what if they actually build a Tower of Babel and then get smote.

The Tower of Babel was already made. It's the internet.

 

[navco79]

As a Jehovah's witnesses and pretty hard core gamer that thinks gaf is the best gaming forum there is I smirk when people seethe when some biblical comes up .Satan really has people in a daze.. well on to armaggeddon.

 

[Kibbles]

Kinda hope lightning strikes it...

 

[User 463088]

Because it is an allegory, it is not supposed to be taken at face value.

A lot of American Evangelicals believe in verbal plenary inspiration. There's also issues with viewing the story of Noah as allegory in light of passages like Luke 17:26-27 and Isaiah 54:9.

 

[Izuna]

As a Jehovah's witnesses and pretty hard core gamer that thinks gag is the best gaming forum there is I smirk when people seethe when some biblical comes up .Satan really has people in a daze.. well on to armaggeddon.

I can respect that you believe what you believe, but where do you get off calling us Satan?

 

[partyphone]

As a Jehovah's witnesses and pretty hard core gamer that thinks gag is the best gaming forum there is I smirk when people seethe when some biblical comes up .Satan really has people in a daze.. well on to armaggeddon.

playing video games is probably a sin

 

[Mr. Poolman]

Nonsense.

Everyone knows the dinos died fighting outside the ark.

 

[adj_noun]

I bear a small spark of hope that at least one person will enter that thing and go, "Wait a minute...you couldn't fit two of every animal in here..."

Everyone knows the dinos died fighting outside the ark.

Oooooooh, so dino feathers were ANGEL feathers.

 

[Mahonay]

As a Jehovah's witnesses and pretty hard core gamer that thinks gag is the best gaming forum there is I smirk when people seethe when some biblical comes up .Satan really has people in a daze.. well on to armaggeddon.

 

[jchap]

I want to see it floating.

 

[User 463088]

My favorite part of the flood story is that the fish drowned, apparently.

 

[Trail Guide]

These people get to vote. That what scares me the most. It should be one or the other. You can go to the Ark museum or vote in November but not both.

 

[daemonic]

I bet the dinosaurs were easily escorted onto the ark and caged without any trouble too.

 

[adj_noun]

My favorite part of the flood story is that the fish drowned, apparently.

Asking stuff like that did not endear me to my Sunday school.

 

[HStallion]

As a Jehovah's witnesses and pretty hard core gamer that thinks gag is the best gaming forum there is I smirk when people seethe when some biblical comes up .Satan really has people in a daze.. well on to armaggeddon.

Hey all I'm saying is if you really believe in the stuff you preach you had better not walk away when I answer the door naked because its 9am on the weekend. God gave me a dick, you can certainly try and save my soul while its swinging in the wind.

 

[Brakke]

The Tower of Babel was already made. It's the internet.

This is fucking me up right now. We share this universal language of memes and look at what great feats we accomplish thusly.

 

[Hollycat]

Is it wrong to hope the park floods.

Everything's washed away by the waters, and when they return the only things left intact... Are the model dinosaurs.

 

[User 463088]

Asking stuff like that did not endear me to my Sunday school.

I went to a Christian school my entire life. So, when I brought it up, my 6th grade teacher launched himself at me and told me I was "feeding into the devil with my thoughts."

Mess.

 

[obin_gam]

As a Jehovah's witnesses and pretty hard core gamer that thinks gag is the best gaming forum there is I smirk when people seethe when some biblical comes up .Satan really has people in a daze.. well on to armaggeddon.

Hail Satan to yourself, good sir

 

[SneakyStephan]

As a Jehovah's witnesses and pretty hard core gamer that thinks gag is the best gaming forum there is I smirk when people seethe when some biblical comes up .Satan really has people in a daze.. well on to armaggeddon.

Are you even allowed to leave your cultlike echochamber?

My mother's step mom was a jehovas witness and back then she wouldn't be allowed to mingle on here by her peers.

Do they know you're on here?

 

[Viewt]

Huh? You can do whatever you want. If you want to visit the giant arc in the middle of god-knows-where Kentucky, I'll wish you well.

I meant that more as a rhetorical question in agreement with your post, but thanks haha.

 

[Beer Monkey]

This is why skeptics can NOT publicly debate creationists, anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists, GMO alarmists, et al.

It gives them credibility.

 

[Dai101]

Nonsense.

Everyone knows the dinos died fighting outside the ark.

SCIENTIFIC FACT

As a Jehovah's witnesses and pretty hard core gamer that thinks gag is the best gaming forum there is I smirk when people seethe when some biblical comes up .Satan really has people in a daze.. well on to armaggeddon.

Cool. Have an ETA on that? To cancel my internet sub and block all payments i still have.

 

[pokeystaples]

So...really just not paying taxes on this? What in tarnation?

Would have been more impressive if it had been built as one would have at the time, but still not impressive enough to skimp out on taxes.

 

[Jenov]

A plague of termites would go well there

 

[Vincent Alexander]

Who is really in the cage here...

 

[AntChum]

I'm not sure that's the recommended square-footage for keeping dinosaurs in. PETA is going to have a field day with these bozos.

 

[adj_noun]

I went to a Christian school my entire life. So, when I brought it up, my 6th grade teacher launched himself at me and told me I was "feeding into the devil with my thoughts."

Mess.

I almost got booted out when I asked which of Jesus' body parts we were eating.

 

[hawk2025]

As a Jehovah's witnesses and pretty hard core gamer that thinks gag is the best gaming forum there is I smirk when people seethe when some biblical comes up .Satan really has people in a daze.. well on to armaggeddon.

As a Jehovah's witness, should you be smirking and reveling on other people being compelled by Satan, though?

 

[StMeph]

To really make it a theme park/museum they just need to make room for and include other exhibits, like Jesus on toast or Mary in a tree.

 

[UncleSporky]

I bear a small spark of hope that at least one person will enter that thing and go, "Wait a minute...you couldn't fit two of every animal in here..."

Based on this quote in the OP:

The interior features several exhibits, including displays of Noah’s family, rows of cages containing animal replicas, and even the odd dinosaur. (Answers in Genesis, like many fundamentalist Christians, believe that dinosaurs existed 6,000 years ago but were wiped out in the Great Flood.)

It would seem that's already accepted that not all animals survived.

 

[DeathoftheEndless]

Man the Bible had a dude NAMING all the animals in the Garden of Eden. I'm sorry but, whoever is Christian and thinks Scientology is loony is a hypocrite.

Taking everything in the Bible literally is a fundamentalist thing.

 

[Spiral Insanity]

Messi should have just founded his own church.

 

[Skellig Gra]

Those dinosaurs...

 

[snacknuts]

As a Jehovah's witnesses and pretty hard core gamer that thinks gag is the best gaming forum there is I smirk when people seethe when some biblical comes up .Satan really has people in a daze.. well on to armaggeddon.

 

[CornBurrito]

We are ALL Young Earth Creationists on this blessed day.

 

[User 463088]

I almost got booted out when I asked which of Jesus' body parts we were eating.

Mwahahaha.

As a Baptist, we didn't believe in transubstantiation, so I never had to cross that particular bridge.

 

[Izuna]

Taking everything in the Bible literally is a fundamentalist thing, not a Christian thing.

Adam and Eve isn't meant to be taken literally now?

In my Primary School it was taught in assembly as being pretty damn literal.

What is the non-literal version of Adam and Eve?

 

[MrPressStart]

I am not religious by any means... but I do find it rather funny how many people trash people or talk shit about a person's views.
If these people want to build the ark or have services there... who really gives a fuck? Why bash them or make fun of them for their beliefs?

 

[Baron von Loathsome]

My favorite part of the flood story is that the fish drowned, apparently.

"Alright, two ducks."

"We're not coming."

'Well, there's going to be a huge fuck-off flood."

"So?"

 

[Neuromancer]

Wait why aren't dinosaurs considered to be 'clean'?

There is so much about religion that I don't understand.

 

[Ahasverus]

I wish Armageddon was real so Jesus would come and slap some bitches. Fuck creationists.

Adam and Eve isn't meant to be taken literally now?

In my Primary School it was taught in assembly as being pretty damn literal.

What is the non-literal version of Adam and Eve?

To give some credit to the Catholic Church, they've been advocating for the metaphor explanation for the old testament since forever. Adam and Eve are supposed to represent the first humans. Evolution is accepted of course.

 

[KefkaPalazzo]

Not religious, but that's an impressive project.

 

[mcz117chief]

A lot of American Evangelicals believe in verbal plenary inspiration. There's also issues with viewing the story of Noah as allegory in light of passages like Luke 17:26-27 and Isaiah 54:9.

The story could have happened in some capacity, many theologists believe that the Black Sea, as we know it today, is the result of the Biblical Flood, that Bosporus and Dardanelles broke during a particularly violent storms and the mediterranean Sea flooded the area.

 

[Mahonay]

I am not religious by any means... but I do find it rather funny how many people trash people or talk shit about a person's views.
If these people want to build the ark or have services there... who really gives a fuck? Why bash them or make fun of them for their beliefs?

They are getting a tax break for this.

 

[Apt101]

I forgot they claim dinosaurs roamed the Earth at the same time as man so that it lines up with whatever timeline they're working with. I'd visit this exhibit, it looks kind of cool.

 

[Dalek]

Asking stuff like that did not endear me to my Sunday school.

I was the same way. I just spent my time asking questions trying to get them tripped up. Former Southern Baptist checking in.

 

[ampere]

$100 million

In another boost, a federal judge recently said the religious project could receive sales tax incentives worth up to $18 million, so long as strict religious tests were administered to employees.

That's really... a frustrating waste of money.

I almost got booted out when I asked which of Jesus' body parts we were eating.

omg :lol

 

[Hollycat]

Wait why aren't dinosaurs considered to be 'clean'?

There is so much about religion that I don't understand.

apparently snakes and all the animals that weren't good to eat still passed though.

 

[User 463088]

Adam and Eve isn't meant to be taken literally now?

In my Primary School it was taught in assembly as being pretty damn literal.

What is the non-literal version of Adam and Eve?

The problem is, it's textually difficult to not believe in a verbal plenary, literal interpretation of the Bible. 2 Timothy 3:16 (All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. The Bible is pretty clear on things that are presented allegorically and things that are not.