You obviously need to grow up!

Submitted by Nick4693 (Japan), Apr 26, 2010 at 23:54

"Telling a 53 year old doctor who has been around Japan and quite a bit of this world to grow up is somewhat misplaced."

What am I supposed to do? Bow down to you just because you are a doctor? Why bring up your profession? I know several quacks who have been de-registered because of their dubious activities, so you won't get any special respect from me just because you are a doctor.

And why bring up Japan, just because you see that's where I live? I am not Japanese, but I have lived among them for decades, and I have traveled across the globe. You bring up the Japanese militarists who started the war in the Pacific as though I was in league with them, meanwhile you conveniently forget that the beginnings of Israel in 1948 are still as controversial today as they were 62 years ago. Don't judge a book by its cover!

As for your silly assertions that the prophecies in the Bible, plus the story of the Exodus, are "facts," it just goes to show that you really should do your homework.

Let me point out one thing. scriptural scholars of many persuasions -- including Jewish scholars -- are now of the firm opinion that the Exodus from Egypt NEVER HAPPENED! The myriad contradictions and inconsistencies of the OT prove beyond a reasonable doubt that it comprises spurious documents at best. All fictional books contain a few facts, but that does NOT authenticate them in their entirety.

Likewise, considering your adamant statement about the credulousness of the biblical stories, plus your use of the F-word, your doctor's degree -- mail order or otherwise -- seems neither to have endowed you with much common sense or with much sense of decency.

But, of course, it's your prerogative to continue to believe in those biblical myths.

By the way, doitashimashite!

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