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The 'Funny (ha, ha)' side of religion
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"Maybe I didn't think this through all the way ..?"
From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.
— Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut
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We all knew this. Which is why Irish women are considered the most modest dressing women on the planet. (If you don't believe me check out Temple Bar of a Friday night). Irish men are consequently devoted to their women and there are no known cases of infidelity or adultery in Irish society, which leads to NO earthquakes!
Now that's how to do science!
Take that, atheists!0 -
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Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.
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"Maybe I didn't think this through all the way ..?"
One question I've always had about that is how come there's no mention in the Bible of the Hebrews revolting? You've got a slave race that is claimed to be roughly equal in population size to their oppressors and the Pharaoh orders their children killed...and yet the Hebrew parents do nothing. So either
A) There was no enslavement of an entire race
The Hebrews just didn't care about their children
C) They did revolt but for some reason, this event was deemed so insignificant that it wasn't worthy of mention
D) The Egyptians didn't go out and kill all of their children0 -
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RikuoAmero wrote: »One question I've always had about that is how come there's no mention in the Bible of the Hebrews revolting? You've got a slave race that is claimed to be roughly equal in population size to their oppressors and the Pharaoh orders their children killed...and yet the Hebrew parents do nothing. So either
A) There was no enslavement of an entire race The Hebrews just didn't care about their children
C) They did revolt but for some reason, this event was deemed so insignificant that it wasn't worthy of mention
D) The Egyptians didn't go out and kill all of their children
A) is the correct option here, for three reasons. 1) There is no record of any Jewish slaves in Egypt other than the mythology of the bible, 2) The "promised land" they were "lead to" (the fact that the Jews were a Canaanite tribe who beat up on their neighbours, and that the Jewish elders wanted legitimation for this, and the fact that yhwh was originally a minor god in the Canaanite pantheion, is the reason for the whole Moses mythos) was at the timeframe the story was set in an Egyptian possession
and finally 3) even if there were Jewish slaves in Egypt during the pyramid building events (there probably were some) they were very unlikely to be working on the pyramids themselves, the reason being that there was little to no slave labour at the pyramid sites, most of the work needing skilled labour, which is kind of hard to get out of slaves.0 -
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