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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
I don't care about the religion, it's the drive-by nature of the statement without any supporting arguments that I object to.
Marginal thinkers adopt some philosophy they barely understand that happens to feed their prejudices and they feel comfortable tossing word grenades about without any understanding of the logic and reasoning behind that philosophy.
A forum about books is, by its very nature, about ideas and reasoning. KennyC has shown us his anger, he has shown us his contempt, but he hasn't shown us his thoughts and his reasoning.
I'm not calling him out on his religious beliefs or lack of them, I am challenging him to start a thread to explain what he believes and why he believes it.
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Well, I have no problem with you "calling me out" It's clear what I think and I stated it with supporting information. No need to "challenge me"
If you have historical documents to mirror the Bible then fine, if not then it is just one more alternate history (with some things that do match as Tom pointed out).
And I don't know where you get the idea that I've shown ANGER and CONTEMPT by making a suggestion as to a book to read. If you really want to discuss the topic - ALTERNATE HISTORY let's not try to restrict to some even further limited (no politics, no religion, etc.) "What If" which is clearly all you want to discuss - well other than taking pot-shots at me.
The topic is "Alternate History" and that includes all of human and perhaps non-human history.