Dear Christians: What does your god actually do?

[drfuzzy]

There was a flood.  Actually, there were a lot of floods in southern Mesopotamia approx. 3500 - 2800 BCE.  Archeologists find flood strata at Ur and Kish and Shurrupak.  It's widely accepted that these floods were the most likely origin for the Ut-napashtim story.  They were pretty massive - they weren't global, that's not even possible by the planet's own ecology - but they put a good chunk of land underwater.  Any trader, carrying family and livestock on the Tigris or Euphrates rivers could have floated around for quite a while - - possibly even lost in the Persian Gulf.  

I don't believe the bible is a credible historical document.  But I do like the thought that some of these old fables probably had a basis in fact.  
Who knows?  There could even have been an Exodus.   A small group of Hebrews in Egypt could have pissed off their neighbors, and packed up their toys and left. They got lost and forgot which way was north for a while.  Or something.  And the tale gets told generation after generation, and the next thing you know they're being led by a minor Egyptian prince who was born a Hebrew (which actually started as the birth story of Horus) and their God was a pillar of fire who parted the sea and killed the Egyptian army and . . . yeah.  Stories get embellished. 

It's kind of like the difference between Santa Claus and St. Nicolaus.