I had to Google and see if people were really pissing on her grave. Sadly it appears it’s heavily guarded behind barriers. One comment astutely observed that this setup also helps keep that “vampiric bitch” in her grave where she belongs.
During an x-mas family gathering when I was around 9 years old, I noticed that “Santa” looked suspiciously similar to a relative who just so happened to walked away for a “smoke break”. 🤔
Thats when “faith” started to seem ridiculous to me.
The metaphysical / new age religions have a version of “a desire to be totally rational” that is honestly just as bad.
I grew up in one. No glass and steel, but quite the desire to be made out of cosmic sunbeams and spiritual joyfulness.
Humans feel more than that. Pain, grief, loneliness, stress, rage, and pride aren’t toxic energy: they are existence. You can’t aspire to something that cuts out half of your existence, or you’re always going to feel inadequate.
A lot of them were also understood to be parables, obfuscations, and metaphors but Europeans in the early 300s lacked a decent grasp of literary concept. In particular there are two tellings of the demolishment of the walls of Jericho. There’s the one where the trumpet blast did it, but there’s also the one where the trumpet blast was a signal to the sappers under the walls to knock out the support beams they’d rigged while they were working to undermine the foundations of the wall
yeah the only way i can square it would be that they're making a distinction between the general "light" available on day 1 - and very well publicised - vs the more specific creation of the sun and moon and stars later on (day 3? maybe ) .
I'm guessing that god probably got bored of having to invoke the voice activated light switch each time , so by day 3, decided to subcontract the sun to do it.
Even if he did forget to do the lights again on day 2 there might have been some emergency grow lights set up that the authors of genesis thought might slow down the plot so skipped over - either way I'm sure the plants'd have been fine for a day.
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