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Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
first question: can you accept that a person can be so degenerate that there is no point to them living?
second question: can you accept that the same thing can happen to a society?
third question: can you accept that God has a right to judge if that has happened and a right to apply that judgement?

No !
No !
No !

I'll take my chances of eternal damnation rather than bowing to any divinity capable of drowning the whole world.

And so would many others. Which is probably why many variations of christianity, including the dominant Protestant variation over here, dismiss the whole story as a fable.