RE: Who is the last prophet?
September 24, 2020 at 7:10 am
(This post was last modified: September 24, 2020 at 7:20 am by The Grand Nudger.)
A contemporary analog would be people claiming that god is going to destroy us with plagues and wars and famine if we don't shape up and act right, which is true in the sense that if we don't shape up and act right we will be layed low by plagues and wars and famine.
It's climate change, not god, but the difference is procedural.
The pastoralist commentators of that ethnic tragedy helped post exile myth makers to conceptualize their circumstances in transportation. The demise of isreal and the utter depopulation of jerusalem in reality a century beforehand being held forward as proof of the secondary conjectures - that god prefered one way of living over another, that this happened because god was angry, and since the isrealite cohort was ground to dust while the judahite cohort became a client state and collaborator - the judahite flavor of these proclamations of doom and their heavy bias against the isrealite priests who ostensibly failed to enjoin god in the conflict to save them and who live The Wong Way™ persisted... and made their way to the establishment legend and even to new magic book.
That's why jesus, the shepherd, had a problem with priests. That's why big cities are dens of sin abandoned by god. That's why pork and shellfish are unclean. That's why poly blend cloth is verboten. All of these things were cultural identifiers.
It's climate change, not god, but the difference is procedural.
The pastoralist commentators of that ethnic tragedy helped post exile myth makers to conceptualize their circumstances in transportation. The demise of isreal and the utter depopulation of jerusalem in reality a century beforehand being held forward as proof of the secondary conjectures - that god prefered one way of living over another, that this happened because god was angry, and since the isrealite cohort was ground to dust while the judahite cohort became a client state and collaborator - the judahite flavor of these proclamations of doom and their heavy bias against the isrealite priests who ostensibly failed to enjoin god in the conflict to save them and who live The Wong Way™ persisted... and made their way to the establishment legend and even to new magic book.
That's why jesus, the shepherd, had a problem with priests. That's why big cities are dens of sin abandoned by god. That's why pork and shellfish are unclean. That's why poly blend cloth is verboten. All of these things were cultural identifiers.
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