Quote:In short, the Old Testament records the tragic history of living by the "letter of the law"
The OT is the excuse made up by a bunch of primitive goat herders towards the end of the first millennium BC to explain why they were living in an arid shithole and always getting the shit kicked out of them in spite of the "fact" that they were god's chosen people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiology
Quote:An etiological myth is a myth intended to explain a name or create a mythic history for a place or family.
There's nothing "holy" about it. Except the holes in the plot.
