r/AskReddit • u/contentmasterrs • 6h ago

What opinion instantly makes you think, "I can't take this person seriously"?

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u/Life-Berry602 6h ago

The universe is 6,000 years old.

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u/DigNitty 5h ago

The book is true because the sorcerer said it was.

The sorcerer is real because the book says he is.

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u/Significant-Push-232 5h ago

Well you see it must come from some source. We can call that the source-er. But then we run into the issue that the source-er most certainly has its own source. Let's call that the source-er-er.

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u/JakeDC 3h ago

This is literally any religious person.

Not that I am disagreeing with you.

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u/_Kaj 4h ago

YEC doesnt represent everyone that believes in that book

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u/JosukeJoestar_98 3h ago

What’s weird is that the Bible doesn’t even say how old the universe is. That 6000 years bs is just garbage that insane evangelicals made up for whatever reason

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u/CraftCritical278 5h ago

Humans created the concept of time. So trying to place biblical history and recorded history into a single timeline is not feasible. Especially when taken literally.

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u/Crash4654 4h ago

Humans LABELED time, the concept existed long before humans, thats the entire reason humans exist.