RE: "Cut and paste" Christianity
October 31, 2009 at 12:04 am
(This post was last modified: October 31, 2009 at 12:05 am by Minimalist.)
(October 28, 2009 at 10:04 pm)AngelaRachnid Wrote: WEEEEL according to the latest illustrated edition of the Genesis story by R. Crumb (a little death bed reading) cmon where is the sympathy.
the oldest daughter says " Our father is old, and there is no man on earth to come to bed with us (note no mention of marriage) like the way of all the world, Come lets give our father wine to drink, and lets lie with him so that we may keep alive seed from him."
Nothing about last women alive etc, just that there was no other women around to carry on his seed, and a mixed referance to no other men around?..................maybe this was written after they drunk the wine?
The real story is probably more like the father couldn't find any sheep or goats so got his daughters pissed and shagged them as opposed to the daughters worrying about their fathers seed.
Something which is reflected today in christianity with all the child abuse
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In The Bible Unearthed, Professor Israel Finkelstein takes some time to put this silly story into a 7th century BC context. Judah was a trade rival with fellow Assyrian vassal states Ammon and Moab. Lot's daughters get him drunk, have incest with their father and give birth to the founding figures of Ammon and Moab. As Finkelstein notes, no 7th century Judahite could have heard the story and not failed to suppress a smile at the ignominious beginnings of their rivals.
It is, in short, a 7th century BC propaganda story which has lost all relevance in modern times as none of the states of Judah, Moab or Ammon remain in existence.
Yet, stupid ass xtians will run around believing in such abject nonsense!
