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Originally posted by Dottore
The old testament was put together in an extraordinarily haphazard fashion from rumours, various second and third hand stories, gossip, accepted wisdom, superstition, anecdotal morality tales, and a bit of history - to the extent there actually was recorded history at the time. It was written in various languages that have been more or less successfully translated - a subject about there is much debate. It has no one coherent source - that much is clear. It is internally inconsistent to the point where anyone at all can interpret anything at all into it. It is brutal and primitive because it was born of brutal and primitive times. It is full of tales of extraordinary violence, rape, incest, fraticide, infanticide and bestiality.
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And this makes it different from this morning's newspaper or CNN online in which way???
- Contains second and third had stories? Same in both.
- Contains accepted wisdom and superstition? Same in both
- Anectotal morality tales? Check
- Bits of history? Check
- Originally written in various languages? no difference here either!
- Has no coherent source? Same for both
- Can be interpreted by the reader? Check for both
- Is full of tales of extraordinary violence, rape, incest, fraticide, infanticide and bestiality? Most of those were covered on CNN this week alone, although I may need to search a bit for the bestiality.
Do you trust CNN? or the newspaper?