Congrats on your female eating.



In regards to the biblical ignorance, you just can't argue with people who believe what they want to believe.



Case in point, I have a neighbor who won't dial my phone number, even in times of an emergency because it ends in 666, but she's come over willingly to help several times when I needed help with one of my snakes. Somehow the symbol of evil is not consistent with her as is with many other religious people as well.



It is said in the bible that God created all animals on the Earth - Genesis Ch.1 V.26 "And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good." So, if God made every living animal and it was good in his eyes, then when did the snake become evil? Even Ch.3 V.1 reinstates the fact that God created the serpent "Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made." Satan could have used any animal as a guise but chose the serpent because of it's stealth. The bottom line is, God created all animals according to Genesis, not Satan.



Another interesting tidbit that also comes from Genesis is the story about Noah's Ark. Lets examine Ch.7 V.7-9:



"7. And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.



8. Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,



9. There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah."



Hm, looks to me like Noah was commanded to save every animal including those that "creepeth upon the earth". Sounds like snakes were included in that as well. If they were evil, then they would have been left behind to be wiped out by the great flood along with all the wicked people now wouldn't they? Obviously, they were not evil at all and that they were wanted to be saved by Noah so that they would reintroduced after the flood.



And that's just what I found by glancing through a couple of things I remembered. Sad thing is, I'm not even religious, I'm a happy agnostic that is of an open mind and objective. I've probably read more of the bible than most religious people, or at least I believe to understand parts of it it better than some.



One thing that always got me with most Christian people is they always associate Satanists with animal sacrifices and yet, more animals were sacrificed to God and often times commanded by God to do so as part of a religious offering to God. I don't think I've read in the bible where an animal was every sacrificed in the name of Satan, but if there is a reference depicting such an act, I'd love to see it.



The bottom line is, people are going to believe whatever nonsense they want to believe and they are going to associate and cement it with whatever makes them feel comfortable. While they might be ignorant in making such claims, you might actually be foolish in your endeavors towards trying to make them believe otherwise. In my experiences dealing with such people, I have found that only those that have an open mind and want to learn something will listen to what you have to say, but the others will stand steadfast in their beliefs and what you have to say to contradict their beliefs might actually make those ignorant beliefs even stronger just by sake of needing something to hold on to. In other words, you are wasting your time trying to educate the "converted".



For fun though, you might want to bring up to that particular person that they might not ever want to enter a hospital again as it probably is a temple of Satan or have anything to do with doctors, what with the medical symbol of the caduceus and all.



You can always live by one of my favorite motto's "I refuse to have a battle of the wits with an unarmed person." :D



Good luck with your debate! Trust me, I love it when Jehovah's Witnesses knock on my door. :D
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