(July 2, 2016 at 10:09 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(July 2, 2016 at 4:37 pm)Nihilist Virus Wrote: The main problem with the exodus story is not their stupidity in making the golden calf. It's the premise that we're supposed to believe they continued with their Jewish (or pre-Jewish) traditions, and maintained their spoken language, throughout 400 years of slavery. Africans have been in America for almost 400 years, over a century of which was not involving slavery, and their cultural identity is gone as fuck. They don't know the language of their ancestors or even their names. The majority of African Americans are Christian.
And yet somehow we are supposed to believe that the Jews did not borrow any Egyptian mythology, culture, or language? Dafuq? Noah's flood takes the cake as far as Biblical stupidity, but this Egyptian slavery claim is underrated and should be up there.
Not even close to being the same, The people taken from Africa weren't all from the same culture, they were separated from their families and robbed of their names on top of it; so it would be impossible to maintain any type of cultural identity in that situation.
The Hebrews on the other hand were all from one culture, they were already settled in Goshen; which remained separate from the Egyptians even after they were enslaved, and families were not broken up. Therefore it is much easier to maintain their cultural identity.
Ok. Differences noted. So you are saying that with those differences, it is plausible for a group to be saturated in another culture for 400 years and show no signs of being influenced? That's reasonable to you?
Jesus is like Pinocchio. He's the bastard son of a carpenter. And a liar. And he wishes he was real.
