RE: The story of Noah' s Ark - or - God is dumber than you.
September 19, 2021 at 3:45 pm
(This post was last modified: September 19, 2021 at 3:48 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 19, 2021 at 2:31 pm)Ahriman Wrote:(September 19, 2021 at 2:18 pm)Ten Wrote: Yeah, see? ^^^Not sure what you're getting at here. It really is an allegory, so all the in-depth analysis and "look how impractical this is" shit doesn't work with this story.
Half the time, you put all this work in with arguments only to get back, "No duh." At least with the Noah story.
Absolutely and certainly wasn't. Deluge beliefs are and have always been common the world over. No one wrote it as an allegory. They thought it really happened. It's not now nor has it ever been some smart story with a hidden meaning. It is and always was an ignorant superstition about things that never were and could never be.
Here's what I'm guessing, though. You being wrong about it being allegory won't matter to you anymore than the story being wrong about a silly flood ever mattered to the faithful.
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