The Religious Challenge – Step Right Up!

In light of the current times, where religion has become the center point of all dissension, division, extremity, resulting death and repulsive hypocrisy and behavior, I beg my "Christian" friends & family to tolerate my rants and raves in regard to religion in general and approach my lines of questioning with a realistic and open frame of mind. If you can, I'll respect that. If you can't, I obviously won't and you can do what you will with my, or lack thereof, response.

I've created a category on Cheydes Of Black for "religion", because I feel like I am going to be revisiting it often, and you will likely see most of my posts veering that way because of the fact that it's so poisonous.

I am very aware of the talking points. I've heard it from birth. I even remember them as a baby being in the nursery at Ridge Chapel Church of the Nazarene when I was probably months old. Down the hall to the left.

My first question is in regard to Noah's Ark. How did the animals cross continents after and before the "flood"? How did they become displaced? How did they co-exist, predator vs. prey, on the same boat and, without the process of evolution, multiply in so many ways since then as to make it physically impossible for a boat that size to house all of the animals on the planet we have now, even if there were only two of each?

Each needs to be fed. If the lion looking over at the deer across from his temporary prison cell can't eat, what did they feed him in the meantime for all of those days? And what did they do with the waste? The waste alone from "two of all of the animals on the planet" for that amount of time could, from an engineering perspective, sink the ship on its own accord!

Not to mention that "Adam & Eve", the beginning of "mankind", had to start over. So, it was basically a Garden of Eden reset. God killed a shit ton of people, whole planet except for the people in "the Ark with all the animals", with no remorse because he didn't feel that they liked him enough.

Hey, personally, people can 'not like me', and I'll feel no ill will. It's their prerogative. If I were a "god", I'd probably not wipe out humanity, being perfect, 'cause I'm a god, and having a good vision in the first place, wouldn't have to reset all these humans that I created, kill 'em off, with no empathy for life, and start over, but who am I?

Thoughts?