As Professor Israel Finkelstein writes here in "The Bible Unearthed" these bullshit stories served political/social purposes. They are in the fucking text for a reason and that reason has nothing to do with any silly-assed 'god.'
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A pretty compelling argument could be made that the biblical bitching and moaning about homosexuality could be a similar shot at the Greeks who, after 332 BC played an increasingly dominant role in the region. They successfully divided the population between "hellenized jews" and what we can call "fundamentalists."
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A pretty compelling argument could be made that the biblical bitching and moaning about homosexuality could be a similar shot at the Greeks who, after 332 BC played an increasingly dominant role in the region. They successfully divided the population between "hellenized jews" and what we can call "fundamentalists."