RE: Just how stupid were the ancient Israelites?
May 24, 2018 at 11:00 pm
(This post was last modified: May 24, 2018 at 11:06 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The exodus narrative is a microcosm of the entirety of the ot. Garbled semi-history, misplaced in time and edited for certain purpose.......then fucking shredded in transportation and recobbled back together by the remaining elements of society that weren't -always- the brightest bulbs in the set.
-then along comes some random nutballs...taking a look, they say to themselves "legit, Imma build a whole new religion out of this material, it;s fantastic!"
When you really step back and consider how all of this went down, theres no idiocy or atrocity committed in the name of god that;s even remotely surprising.
The answer to the OP Q is, pretty damned stupid, but not just the isrealites...and not nearly as stupid as the stories suggest. A significant portion of the target audience for any of these stories..were children. They were made to propagandize children.
-then along comes some random nutballs...taking a look, they say to themselves "legit, Imma build a whole new religion out of this material, it;s fantastic!"
When you really step back and consider how all of this went down, theres no idiocy or atrocity committed in the name of god that;s even remotely surprising.
The answer to the OP Q is, pretty damned stupid, but not just the isrealites...and not nearly as stupid as the stories suggest. A significant portion of the target audience for any of these stories..were children. They were made to propagandize children.
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