Menstruation, Turtles and Pigeons

[Esquilax]

Being a lifelong heathen with no religous pressures I find it so interesting that I love to just dip into parts of the OT and see what wonders are there.

I can sort of understand how mythical nonsense can be fed into a young mind but I don't have the experience/indoctrination to really know what that means. Each time I read scripture I try hard to imagine what it would be like to believe but always fall short. In fact I don't think I ever really get close because it's so distant from reality.

I'm with you there, but what I find particularly fascinating is the studies that have been done on how that mythic crap affects the minds of children who are forced to engage with it. They have a harder time distinguishing between fantasy and reality, in that they'll more often peg a fictional story as true, merely by dint of having been indoctrinated to believe that magic is totally a real thing. The boundaries of their perception of the world are wider than those of children raised normally- who have no trouble at all distinguishing what's real from what's not in the same studies- and so they're more willing to accept obviously untrue things as true, because they simply don't understand that magic isn't a thing.