[js1138]

Faith is not suppose to reason. I have difficulty deriving any great moral lesson from the Flood, but some people seem to. The notion of teaching a lesson by killing children and infants seems a bit -- well, to put it bluntly, Islamic -- but everyone to his cup of tea.

I also get a bit chafed at punishing trillions of bunnies with terror and violent death for the momentary disobedience of a couple of -- what amounts to -- children. I have trouble with these stories even as parables.

Jesus is a demonstration that religion evolves. I consider religion to be what people say about God. I try not to confuse this with God, which remains ineffable to me.

[shubi]

"I also get a bit chafed at punishing trillions of bunnies with terror and violent death for the momentary disobedience of a couple of -- what amounts to -- children. I have trouble with these stories even as parables."

The bunny hypothesis! ;-)

I really have trouble figuring out what spiritual lesson we should draw from the Noah tale. It reminds me of a German Stuble-Peter story.

[shubi]

http://www.struwwelpeter.com/SP/daumen3.html

I got the German spelling wrong. The link is to the gross series of children's stories I was talking about:
Struwwelpeter