WOTMQ: No Exit
If you're not familiar with "Holy Koolaid" on YouTube, you should definitely treat yourself. Thomas Westbrook does some great work. I especially like his series titled, "Nothing Fails Like Bible History."
His first video in that series deals with The Exodus, and I wanted to tag team him a bit and talk about the centrality of that story in terms of everything in the Bible which springs forth therefrom. I think you'll like it.
Thanks gang. Enjoy! More to come... still!!! B
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Oh, and thanks for pushing (doubting) Thomas' work. He works hard for no money.
Hahaha. So true!!! 😘
Hamm & his Hammsters! Love it. Thx BB
Most ancient myths and legends are probably spun around a few small kernels of truth. However, with the endless telling and retelling over the course of many years, the real facts become so distorted and embellished that we cannot know what really transpired. It's like some old geezer trying to remember what happened while playing a game of telephone that occurred during childhood. And a cursory glance at a map will tell you that to go from Egypt to the Sinai peninsula, you cross the isthmus of Suez, NOT the Red Sea.
It used to be the religious made fun of witch doctors with their rattles and evil spirits, but now evil spirits are mainstream belief. That reminds me, I need to buy stock in Big Rattle.
It's baffling that people can dismiss as silly make believe stories that Atlas holds up the heavens, Thor causes lightning and thunder with his hammer, Quetzalcóatl controls the wind, yet… the burning bush is absolutely true and historical…!?! Jeeeeezus on a cracker. We might as well take the Mayan stories literally, that the gods tried creating humans three times: once with dirt (rain turned them to mud), once with sticks (now monkeys), and finally with maize (why our humor is so corny?). Carl Sagan said it best: "Better the hard truth, I say, that the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy."
My mind boggles at the sheer gullibility of religious people...