RE: "Laughing At Religion" Meme Thread
January 6, 2021 at 11:28 am
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2021 at 11:55 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Well, technically we already knew the story from artifacts and inscriptions, we just didn't know that the biblical narrative was placed out of time. One of magic books strengths in the argument over it's historicity was how well it described warfare in the late bronze age - and one of the longest nagging anachronisms were those moments when it certainly did not.
We wondered how the narrative could so effortlessly switch between what seemed like a mid level camp officers view of an extent battlefield, and some rube on a turnip cart telling tall tales.
Additionally, we were laboring under the misapprehension that these really were distinct groups of peoples, rather than internecine warfare described by one (then-minor) faction who would, by an accident of history, become the historians of their culture. Magic book is the history of a conflict and a cultural shift as told by Yall Qaeda. If we prefer, the story of the pandemic as related by the priests of an anti mask militia, centuries after the fact.
(and it's probably useful to point out that our mid level officer narrator would have understood perfectly well that an iron chariot is an ineffective weapon, not used on the battlefield even when it became possible...and feasible.. to manufacture them - which dovetails again with the fact that we find them literally nowhere. The author of that tidbit was very clearly being informed by ceremonial chariots of his own time - which, for their part, actually are/were plentiful.)
We wondered how the narrative could so effortlessly switch between what seemed like a mid level camp officers view of an extent battlefield, and some rube on a turnip cart telling tall tales.
Additionally, we were laboring under the misapprehension that these really were distinct groups of peoples, rather than internecine warfare described by one (then-minor) faction who would, by an accident of history, become the historians of their culture. Magic book is the history of a conflict and a cultural shift as told by Yall Qaeda. If we prefer, the story of the pandemic as related by the priests of an anti mask militia, centuries after the fact.
(and it's probably useful to point out that our mid level officer narrator would have understood perfectly well that an iron chariot is an ineffective weapon, not used on the battlefield even when it became possible...and feasible.. to manufacture them - which dovetails again with the fact that we find them literally nowhere. The author of that tidbit was very clearly being informed by ceremonial chariots of his own time - which, for their part, actually are/were plentiful.)
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