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  • Noah is a Babylonian “deluge myth”. Judaism didn’t even exist until 1,000 years later:

    It tells of how Enki, speaking through a reed wall,[v] warns the hero Atra-Hasis (‘extremely wise’) of Enlil’s plan to destroy mankind by flood, telling the hero to dismantle his house (perhaps to provide a construction site) and build a boat to escape

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atra-Hasis

    The worship of Yahweh alone began at the earliest with prophet Elijah in the 9th century BCE

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahwism

    This means that originally the flood was caused by one god and mankind was saved by another. That’s a better explanation than “God was angry but bipolar, so he saved one family and killed everyone else.”




  • Thrush understands the appeal of vouchers for parents who want a leg up for their kid. But, he told me, “we need to be looking at how we’re preparing all students to be successful, not just my student.”

    This is a great example of how conservatives think. They are not inherently selfish; they think about how things benefit the larger group.

    The difference is, they think of the world as a hierarchy with different groups at different levels. Anyone threatening that hierarchy is bad, so they defend it. When this man says “we’re preparing all students to be successful” he means white Christian students in his particular area. That’s part of his group.














  • Exactly. Biden sounded a little confused and disjointed on a few answers, but always made his point. Trump sounds confused and disjointed literally 90% of the time.

    They are both old af but Biden has done a good job as president and sounds like a normal dude most of the time. Trump sounded worse every year and ended his time in office by killing millions of Americans through inaction.