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I think it is worthwhile examining how God ensured that only good people inhabited the Earth.
In the Beginning there was Adam and Eve. However, Eve was an air-head and was fooled by a talking snake with legs - This we know from The Bible. God noted that things went downhill from here until it got so bad that he had to kill every man woman and child on the planet.
So that there would be something living, he mentioned a disastrous flood to Noah, who built an Ark and invited his wife, his sons, their wives and the 8.7 Million species on the planet on to it. As soon as they came to dry land, Noah let all the animals out and they populated the world. He let his sons out and they made all the people, including you and me.
We have the Bible that was written down like God's Diary. Every day, an inspired scribe or a patriarch like Moses or Joshua, etc., would sit down and write it so that no one forgot bits or we got pieces wrong.
And that's how we Christians know it is true and that the world was repopulated and we are where we are today, just 4000 years later.
Nigras, injuns and other savage heathens (there were no Catholics or atheists in those days) also think they remember what happened but, because they were illiterate and less intelligent than the Whiteman, they got it wrong and it came out as ridiculous garbage.
I’ll give you some examples:
Hopi Injuns:
In Hopi mythology, the people moved away from Sotuknang, the creator, repeatedly. He destroyed the world by fire, and then by cold, and recreated it both times for the people that still followed the laws of creation, who survived by hiding underground. People became corrupt and warlike a third time. As a result, Sotuknang guided the people to Spider Woman, and she cut down giant reeds and sheltered the people in the hollow stems. Sotuknang then caused a great flood, and the people floated atop the water in their reeds. The reeds came to rest on a small piece of land, and the people emerged, with as much food as they started with. The people traveled on in their canoes, guided by their inner wisdom (which is said to come from Sotuknang, through the door at the top of their head). They travelled to the northeast, passing progressively larger islands, until they came to the Fourth World. When they reached the fourth world, the islands sank into the ocean.
Comment: absolute garbage, they got bits right but ‘fire’??? Come on people – get with the program! Everything would be black and there’d be no coal!
Aztecs (Messican’t nigras)
When the Sun Age came, there had passed 400 years. Then came 200 years, then 76. Then all mankind was lost and drowned and turned to fishes. The water and the sky drew near each other. In a single day all was lost, and Four Flower consumed all that there was of our flesh. The very mountains were swallowed up in the flood, and the waters remained, lying tranquil during fifty and two springs. But before the flood began, Titlachahuan had warned the man Nota and his wife Nena, saying, 'Make no more pulque, but hollow a great cypress, into which you shall enter the month Tozoztli. The waters shall near the sky.' They entered, and when Titlacahuan had shut them in he said to the man, 'Thou shalt eat but a single ear of maize, and thy wife but one also'. And when they had each eaten one ear of maize, they prepared to go forth, for the water was tranquil.
Comment: OK Aztecs – what about the animals?
Mi'kmaq - Eskimos
In Mi'kmaq mythology, evil and wickedness among men causes them to kill each other. This causes great sorrow to the creator-sun-god, who weeps tears that become rains sufficient to trigger a deluge. The people attempt to survive by traveling in bark canoes, but only a single old man and woman survive to populate the earth.
Comment: Eskimo Fail! (i) There may well have been people killing one another but why did the “creator-sun-god” get upset? (ii) Everyone knows tears are salty – where is the fresh water?
Australia - Abos
According to the Australian aborigines, in the Dreamtime a huge frog drank all the water in the world and a drought swept across the land. The only way to finish the drought was to make the frog laugh. Animals from all over Australia gathered together and one by one attempted to make the frog laugh. When finally the eel succeeded, the frog opened his sleepy eyes, his big body quivered, his face relaxed, and, at last, he burst into a laugh that sounded like rolling thunder. The water poured from his mouth in a flood. It filled the deepest rivers and covered the land. Only the highest mountain peaks were visible, like islands in the sea. Many men and animals were drowned. The pelican who was blackfella at that time painted himself with white clay and went from island to island in a great canoe, rescuing other blackfellas. Since that time pelicans have been black and white in remembrance of the Great Flood.
Comment: Give me a break Abos! A fucking frog!??? And only “many men were drowned” So what was the point of that? Only the Good should survive!
Yoruba: Nigras
In the beginning was only the sky above, water and marshland below. The chief god Olorun ruled the sky, and the goddess Olokun ruled what was below.
Obatala, another god, reflected upon this situation, then went to Olorun for permission to create dry land for all kinds of living creatures to inhabit. He was given permission,
He used sand to form dry land. He dug a hole, planted the palm nut, and saw it grow to maturity in a flash. The mature palm tree dropped more palm nuts on the ground, each of which grew immediately to maturity and repeated the process.
Many months passed, and he grew bored with his routine. He decided to create beings like himself to keep him company. He dug into the sand and soon found clay with which to mold figures like himself and started on his task, but he soon grew tired and decided to take a break. He made wine from a nearby palm tree, and drank bowl after bowl. Not realizing he was drunk, Obatala returned to his task of fashioning the new beings; because of his condition he fashioned many imperfect figures.
Without realizing this, he called out to Olorun to breathe life into his creatures. The next day he realized what he had done and swore never to drink again, and to take care of those who were deformed, thus becoming Protector of the Deformed.
The new people built huts as Obatala had done and soon there was a city. Olokun had not been consulted by Obatala and grew angry that he had usurped so much of her kingdom. When Obatala returned to his home in the sky for a visit, Olokun summoned the great waves of her vast oceans and sent them surging across the land.
Wave after wave she unleashed, until much of the land was underwater and many of the people were drowned. Those that had fled to the highest land beseeched the god Eshu who had been visiting, to return to the sky and report what was happening to them. Eshu demanded sacrifice be made to Obatala and himself before he would deliver the message.
The people sacrificed some goats, and Eshu returned to the sky. When Orunmila heard the news he climbed down a golden chain to the earth, and cast many spells which caused the flood waters to retreat and the dry land reappear. So ended the great flood.
Comment: Stupid names and this story is brought to you by Nigerians… need I say more?
OK, now you know why Christians know the truth! It's mainly because we aren't stupid.
In the Beginning there was Adam and Eve. However, Eve was an air-head and was fooled by a talking snake with legs - This we know from The Bible. God noted that things went downhill from here until it got so bad that he had to kill every man woman and child on the planet.
So that there would be something living, he mentioned a disastrous flood to Noah, who built an Ark and invited his wife, his sons, their wives and the 8.7 Million species on the planet on to it. As soon as they came to dry land, Noah let all the animals out and they populated the world. He let his sons out and they made all the people, including you and me.
We have the Bible that was written down like God's Diary. Every day, an inspired scribe or a patriarch like Moses or Joshua, etc., would sit down and write it so that no one forgot bits or we got pieces wrong.
And that's how we Christians know it is true and that the world was repopulated and we are where we are today, just 4000 years later.
Nigras, injuns and other savage heathens (there were no Catholics or atheists in those days) also think they remember what happened but, because they were illiterate and less intelligent than the Whiteman, they got it wrong and it came out as ridiculous garbage.
I’ll give you some examples:
Hopi Injuns:
In Hopi mythology, the people moved away from Sotuknang, the creator, repeatedly. He destroyed the world by fire, and then by cold, and recreated it both times for the people that still followed the laws of creation, who survived by hiding underground. People became corrupt and warlike a third time. As a result, Sotuknang guided the people to Spider Woman, and she cut down giant reeds and sheltered the people in the hollow stems. Sotuknang then caused a great flood, and the people floated atop the water in their reeds. The reeds came to rest on a small piece of land, and the people emerged, with as much food as they started with. The people traveled on in their canoes, guided by their inner wisdom (which is said to come from Sotuknang, through the door at the top of their head). They travelled to the northeast, passing progressively larger islands, until they came to the Fourth World. When they reached the fourth world, the islands sank into the ocean.
Comment: absolute garbage, they got bits right but ‘fire’??? Come on people – get with the program! Everything would be black and there’d be no coal!
Aztecs (Messican’t nigras)
When the Sun Age came, there had passed 400 years. Then came 200 years, then 76. Then all mankind was lost and drowned and turned to fishes. The water and the sky drew near each other. In a single day all was lost, and Four Flower consumed all that there was of our flesh. The very mountains were swallowed up in the flood, and the waters remained, lying tranquil during fifty and two springs. But before the flood began, Titlachahuan had warned the man Nota and his wife Nena, saying, 'Make no more pulque, but hollow a great cypress, into which you shall enter the month Tozoztli. The waters shall near the sky.' They entered, and when Titlacahuan had shut them in he said to the man, 'Thou shalt eat but a single ear of maize, and thy wife but one also'. And when they had each eaten one ear of maize, they prepared to go forth, for the water was tranquil.
Comment: OK Aztecs – what about the animals?
Mi'kmaq - Eskimos
In Mi'kmaq mythology, evil and wickedness among men causes them to kill each other. This causes great sorrow to the creator-sun-god, who weeps tears that become rains sufficient to trigger a deluge. The people attempt to survive by traveling in bark canoes, but only a single old man and woman survive to populate the earth.
Comment: Eskimo Fail! (i) There may well have been people killing one another but why did the “creator-sun-god” get upset? (ii) Everyone knows tears are salty – where is the fresh water?
Australia - Abos
According to the Australian aborigines, in the Dreamtime a huge frog drank all the water in the world and a drought swept across the land. The only way to finish the drought was to make the frog laugh. Animals from all over Australia gathered together and one by one attempted to make the frog laugh. When finally the eel succeeded, the frog opened his sleepy eyes, his big body quivered, his face relaxed, and, at last, he burst into a laugh that sounded like rolling thunder. The water poured from his mouth in a flood. It filled the deepest rivers and covered the land. Only the highest mountain peaks were visible, like islands in the sea. Many men and animals were drowned. The pelican who was blackfella at that time painted himself with white clay and went from island to island in a great canoe, rescuing other blackfellas. Since that time pelicans have been black and white in remembrance of the Great Flood.
Comment: Give me a break Abos! A fucking frog!??? And only “many men were drowned” So what was the point of that? Only the Good should survive!
Yoruba: Nigras
In the beginning was only the sky above, water and marshland below. The chief god Olorun ruled the sky, and the goddess Olokun ruled what was below.
Obatala, another god, reflected upon this situation, then went to Olorun for permission to create dry land for all kinds of living creatures to inhabit. He was given permission,
He used sand to form dry land. He dug a hole, planted the palm nut, and saw it grow to maturity in a flash. The mature palm tree dropped more palm nuts on the ground, each of which grew immediately to maturity and repeated the process.
Many months passed, and he grew bored with his routine. He decided to create beings like himself to keep him company. He dug into the sand and soon found clay with which to mold figures like himself and started on his task, but he soon grew tired and decided to take a break. He made wine from a nearby palm tree, and drank bowl after bowl. Not realizing he was drunk, Obatala returned to his task of fashioning the new beings; because of his condition he fashioned many imperfect figures.
Without realizing this, he called out to Olorun to breathe life into his creatures. The next day he realized what he had done and swore never to drink again, and to take care of those who were deformed, thus becoming Protector of the Deformed.
The new people built huts as Obatala had done and soon there was a city. Olokun had not been consulted by Obatala and grew angry that he had usurped so much of her kingdom. When Obatala returned to his home in the sky for a visit, Olokun summoned the great waves of her vast oceans and sent them surging across the land.
Wave after wave she unleashed, until much of the land was underwater and many of the people were drowned. Those that had fled to the highest land beseeched the god Eshu who had been visiting, to return to the sky and report what was happening to them. Eshu demanded sacrifice be made to Obatala and himself before he would deliver the message.
The people sacrificed some goats, and Eshu returned to the sky. When Orunmila heard the news he climbed down a golden chain to the earth, and cast many spells which caused the flood waters to retreat and the dry land reappear. So ended the great flood.
Comment: Stupid names and this story is brought to you by Nigerians… need I say more?
OK, now you know why Christians know the truth! It's mainly because we aren't stupid.
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