RE: Does Atheism make sense?
January 15, 2012 at 9:16 am
(This post was last modified: January 15, 2012 at 9:24 am by The Grand Nudger.)
@Darkest.
That would be Lot's wife, not Noah's. Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt in the narrative after disobeying her husbands command (supposedly a dispatch from the heavens) to avert her eyes. Great warning there. "Wives, do what your husband says or you'll be turned to a pillar of salt". Directly following, Lots daughters decided that it would be prudent to get their old man drunk and train him (for two consecutive nights) in order to preserve the bloodline. I'm not entirely sure how drunk you'd have to be to have a threesome with your daughters, but I'm assuming that this would have had to occur before he lost use of his dick due to alcohol...so...not at all that drunk.......
In any case, this narrative was just a clever way to offer a bigoted and ethnocentric origin myth for the Moabites and the Ammonites. We see what (supposedly) became of these peoples, and thusly this little myth is fairly easy to understand. The narrative has a rough parallel in the Eurydice narrative of Orpheus.
That would be Lot's wife, not Noah's. Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt in the narrative after disobeying her husbands command (supposedly a dispatch from the heavens) to avert her eyes. Great warning there. "Wives, do what your husband says or you'll be turned to a pillar of salt". Directly following, Lots daughters decided that it would be prudent to get their old man drunk and train him (for two consecutive nights) in order to preserve the bloodline. I'm not entirely sure how drunk you'd have to be to have a threesome with your daughters, but I'm assuming that this would have had to occur before he lost use of his dick due to alcohol...so...not at all that drunk.......
In any case, this narrative was just a clever way to offer a bigoted and ethnocentric origin myth for the Moabites and the Ammonites. We see what (supposedly) became of these peoples, and thusly this little myth is fairly easy to understand. The narrative has a rough parallel in the Eurydice narrative of Orpheus.
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