Grim, I never thought most Christians believe that. Just Christopublicans. BTW, Grim, the Bible doesn’t say the Earth is 6,000 years old — that would be Bishop James Ussher in the 17th century:

“The Ussher chronology is a 17th-century chronology of the history of the world formulated from an interpretative reading of the Bible by James Ussher, the Anglican Archbishop of Armagh (in what is now Northern Ireland). The chronology is sometimes, and often mockingly, associated with Young Earth Creationism, that holds that the universe was created only a few millenia ago.” [...]

“The chronology is sometimes called Ussher-Lightfoot chronology, including the name of John Lightfoot, who published a similar chronology in 1642-1644. This however is a misnomer, as the chronology is based on Ussher’s work and not on that of Lightfoot. Ussher deduced that the first day of Creation began at nightfall preceding Sunday October 23, 4004 BC in the proleptic Julian calendar, near the autumnal equinox, while Lightfoot similarly deduced that Creation began at nightfall near the autumnal equinox, but in the year 3929 BC.”
– From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussher_chronology#Ussher.27s_history_of_the_Earth

Grim: “Huck has said as much. Both he and Mitten (hee, hee) say there are parts in the Bible that are supposed to be allegorical. No sensible person, for example, believes that a Bible character actually lived in a whale for three days.”

I don’t know about Romney, but since he follows the LDS Bible and the Book of Mormon he wouldn’t think every word in the King James version is true. I seem to recall Huckabee saying in a speech some months ago that he took every word in the Bible literally, though. Perhaps that ‘whale story’ in the OT was a mistranslation; maybe Jonah just had a wail of a time for three days.

Grim: “Not only that, the Bible wasn’t written in English.”

In fact, the Bible was translated from Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek and Latin before it made it into English; it also has been subject to heavy editing, such as the dropping of the Gnostic Gospels, which included the Book of Mary Magdalene, among others, and takes a different view of Jesus than the Holy Roman Empire started by Emperor Constantine circa 300 AD.

Grim: “This makes it just as difficult to understand as the Koran.
harder in fact because it was written in several languages, being, as it is, a collection of books.”

True: the Koran has gone through as many translations, misinterpretations and adulterations as the Bible. Glad you seem to be appreciating the fact that the Koran is not inherently an ‘evil book’ but as misused as the Bible by evil men to achieve their ends.

Grim: “I would ask you, therefore, to allow that perhaps not all of us republochristians are cracked pots. grim”

You’re right, Grim; I was raised Christian so I know you can be both a Republican and a Christian without believing the nonsense of the far-right Christopublicans, although I’m hard pressed to find a Christian Republican these days who doesn’t buy into the literal Bible/6,000 year-old-Earth/Armageddon/Rapture song and dance. Ironically, the Book of Revelation from which Armageddon and the Rapture emanate only stayed in the Bible by one vote of a Catholic Bishop in the year 1000. If he had been home with the flu that day, what would the Christopublicans be fixating on these days?

BTW, when you’re in an agnostic mood, you might want to read this:
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/glory.html

I saw him give a speech ay a high school in Iowa last week; he talked about bringing back music and art programs to the schools — he almost sounded like a liberal! And what can you say about a guy who, as governor, ‘pardoned’ Keith Richard for a reckless driving conviction rendered years before his election.

Meanwhile, in Iowa, NH and SC, Obama has the ‘Big Mo.’

Here’s a tidbit about Barack: When he was a State Senator, he played poker and hung out with the lobbyists in Springfield but then sponsored and passed one of the most stringent anti-lobbying bills in the state’s history.

Who knows, if he’s president maybe he’d do the same.

Im sure Chuck and Huck can hold a steelcage tag-team deathmatch against the IRS and the Dept of Education for much conservative amusement.

We tried to tell you Reps not to take your marching orders from the Hollywood elite. I can hear Reagan’s ghost laughing at me.