specter-global Communism is so powerful that even God fears it

The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. - Genesis 11:6

  • Poogona [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    Tbh I read a lot of this stuff the way I read other mythology, which is to assume the writers may have understood irony and subtext the same way a modern writer might. It's a position which may not always be appropriate for the material but which almost always provides me with good questions to bring into interpretation.

    The Mayan popol vuh has a more overt presentation of what you describe btw, a story in which the creation of mankind is done by two primary deities so that they will simply have some new people to talk to. Their first attempt makes the men of stone, who are solid but clumsy, the second the men of wood, who are flexible but eventually snap, and finally the men of maize (us) who are soft but solid. I like how underneath it all, the two gods' great efforts are to make people who are good talkers, who are solid like stone, but flexible like wood, and the trick was to make us soft and sensitive. It's nice imo

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      4 months ago

      In the NT, god only gives one real commandment to Adam before the Fall, and that's to name shit. God is literally bringing stuff to Adam and saying "What do you call this?" like an excited parent and a child who'd just started talking. And it's not entirely clear which one is which.