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@vivify saidI should point out that those biblical-literalist American Christian ‘sects’ are overwhelmingly Lutheran/Evangelical groups who were persecuted in Europe as schismatics and fled to the New World: Calvinists, Puritans, snake handlers, Anabaptists, Pentecostalists, and various other Bible worshippers.
Not at all. In the U.S. Christians still try to get Biblical creationism taught in schools:
https://www.aclu.org/news/religious-liberty/west-virginia-lawmakers-are-pushing-public-schools-to-teach-creationism
At one point the Supreme Court had to strike down a Louisiana law that banned the teaching of evolution unless creationism was also taught. It's not some fringe gr ...[text shortened]... ieve in Biblical creation:
https://news.gallup.com/poll/261680/americans-believe-creationism.aspx
Roman Catholic and Greek/Russian Orthodox traditions do not treat the Bible as anything but a tertiary source.
@moonbus saidInbreeding when the life span was hundreds of years long is different when it is much less the generic errors we share now have a better chance of causing all of the issues you brought up. When there were fewer issues, less likely. That it?
Inbreeding leads to severe mental retardation and infertile offspring with six or seven generations. Therefore, Homo sapiens cannot be descended from only two original specimens.
-Removed-Oh the irony , lol .
If your bible is just a load of made up nonsense then we are in total agreement . It has all the validity of a Harry Potter book or a Superman comic .Your version of Christianity seems to align more with the Unitarian view . That is an extreme minority opinion among Christians .
Your assessment of your intelligence seems grossly exaggerated .