• olutukko@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Amen. This is what they should teach in schools. It’s not like you would go outside and tell people that you’re a flat earther but you don’t really believe that earh doesn’t have curve. Then why do people go outside claiming they a christians but don’t really believe in thw crap that happened in the great folk lore fantasy book called the bible. I would love to read it some day completely, like a folk lore book, not to convert. Same goes for koran. It would be interesting

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      8 months ago

      You’d be too annoyed by the contradictions, repetition and nonsense to finish it.

      There are some pretty raunchy bits though.

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        8 months ago

        Yeah propably. I should maybe just stick to kalevala. It’s a huge collection of finnish folk lore which almost got lost but then some guy decided to collect it all and make a book. It’s actually extremly significant for finland and tolkien took inspiration out of it while writing lotr

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      8 months ago

      I started it. But when I got to the part in Genesis where there’s entire chapters devoted to the generations of who begat who, I realized that it was crappily written and wouldn’t be enjoyable.