I don't feel ashamed, but I often feel cold.

My youngest thinks it hilarious to be naked 🤷‍♂️

Shhh, you're ruining the vibe...

I was pretty sure we wear clothes to protect ourselves from the elements. They’re tools. Were tool ~~monkeys~~ apes.

Plenty of African tribes run around with their tits out.

They haven't learned it, and probably never need it either.

And God declared "Let this cloth cover your shame! Wait.. we're not at that part yet. Here's a tree that grows food which you cant eat."

Clothes are tools

Not only is it colder outside of Africa but it's colder everywhere, than it was when humans first evolved.

The claim swings from glacial, to interglacial, to temperate. Humans evolved in a temperate period, but since then we've had an Ice Age (It was kind of a big thing), and now we are in an interglacial period

Don't some animals sweat & have fur, though (horses for example)? Why did we need to lose our fur to sweat?

The first humans were covered in fur. Once we created fire it was common to feel colder when away from the fire. This led to the creation of clothes. Once humans had created clothes to stay warm away from the fire they started shaving their bodies in order to display rock hard muscles to their mates in order to get laid. Over time only the strongest of hairs survived the constant shaving which is why we still have limited and varying degrees of body hair today. It used to be a very politically contentious subject on if it was moral to shave a baby or if you should wait until they were old enough to shave themselves. The down side to waiting for the pro shaving portion of the population was that the babies hair would thicken significantly as they aged if you waited. This would create a major disadvantage to them if they wanted to display as smooth chiseled tone as an adult. It is important to remember that back then adulthood was commonly accepted to start at the age of 12. The anti shaving populace quickly fell out of favor as a significant majority of humans would ultimately end up shaving regardless and it is undeniable that a major evolutionary advantage existed for those who were shaved as babies.

I would get it if they all just openly said they were in it because they want something to belong to or they enjoyed the community. But I grew up in that shit and know they all hate each other, or at least judge the fuck out of and talk tremendous shit about each other.

I’d love to have a place where I can go weekly and see the same folks and bond and fellowship(as the Christian’s say) with my neighbors. But I guess it’s hard to do that when there isn’t the threat of damnation for not attending

Hey, if your religion has a bunch of stupid shit, but you practice it without believing the stupid shit...sounds like a win to me. Most of us would be better off if more Christians were like that.

I know a lot of Catholic people that don't believe in the bible shit. Which defeats the purpose of the religion if you ask me.

Actually, this is the normal state of things. The old testament especially was originally written in a sort of literary mode. It's meant to be interpreted in a sort of metaphorical sense, not taken as a literal account of events. To quote from this video by someone with a background in religious studies:

The Bible is a collection of documents, written in many different literary genres, edited over a long period of time, whose main purpose is to make theological points, not to serve as a record of literal history.

This other video from the same creator, particularly the final section on "genre", is also good. It explains how the bible was written in a literary mode and not in the way that a historical document attempting to describe events literally would have been written.

The idea of interpreting the bible as telling literal events is a comparatively recent event. In ancient times, people probably would have been confused at the idea that some people today take it literally.

Immediately

I think you'll find that monkeys and humans evolved from a common ancestor - an ape who wore sweatpants. Some of these apes evolved into suit-wearing bankers and some evolved into monkeys who gave up on clothes all together

There is nothing natural about loans though.

Hahaha it's the grown up version of going to school naked

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Turns out he was lying anyway & the 'deceptive' serpent was telling the truth.

I love this detail. It's one of my favorite go-tos for the OT.