by Noah Sunday Thoughts:
Since, due to stronger and stronger hurricanes, it's flood time here in the East, I just wanted to toss this one out there.
As a child, we are exposed to the tale of the Biblical Flood and how a Noah guy of long ago heard voices from the sky that told him he had been selected (Sure, buddy!) to build a big boat and save the animal kingdom by taking "two of every kind" aboard. Yeah, whatever. To this day, people indoctrinate their offspring into believing the absurdities of religious nuttery (and more) by beginning with the tale of Noah's Ark. They even give them little Noah's Ark models and a nice assortment of little animals to play Noah with. Historic flooding or not, it's tragic how attaching a simple story to it can breed a continuing insanity down through the multiple millenia. It opens up a whole lifetime of believing bullshit. Teach a kid that one man heard God talking to him and they believe you forever. It gets even better when they start thinking that God is their invisible buddy, too!
Now we have billions of people walking around convinced that God talks to them. That's one hell of some kind of viral epidemic of delusional people hearing voices, ain't it? Oh well, even when I was five, I knew about boa constrictors and I'd been warned about the Diamondback Rattlers that lived nearby. Something told me it wouldn't work out too well on Noah's boat. Skeptical kid. Snakes on a plane? Fuck that. The Bible beat that by centuries. Bunch of animals stuffed in a boat? I'd already seen a cat punch out the neighbor's beagle, practically ripped its nose off. When I politely raised my hand in Sunday school and questioned a story that made no sense, that was the beginning of a realist being called a cynic all his life.
Thanks for saying this Noah! I also remember that Noah's Ark model with the little animals thy had us kids playing with in Sunday school at my church. The church ladies glossed over the fine details of the Adam and Eve story. They sure didn't want to go there. Too icky! Ooooh no, not sex! Don't talk to the children about that! Slavery, too. But give the kids some toys and it's so easy. The flood tale came with drama little minds could really relate to.
Amen to that. However: "To this day, people indoctrinate their offspring into believing the absurdities of religious nuttery (and more) by beginning with the tale of Noah's Ark."
The first absurdity in the bible is genesis. adam and eve had 3 sons, one of whom killed another, leaving 3 dudes and eve. yada yada yada ... and here we all are.
yet, incest is bad! To say nothing of inbreeding issues.
At least Jewish "tradition" (I guess that's the stuff they add in because shit in the bible is just nucking futs), Adam and Eve had hundreds(!!) of children. The math gets a little easier, but the genetics and incest things are not solved... and the effect on a bod…
Love you Noah! My atheist cousin actually disparaged me for stating that a political case made in an article he sent me that started out with a lengthy rationale from the Bible was not my cup of tea. I really got annoyed with him. Um, the Bible was written by a bunch of men, hello! Yes, mass delusion on a massive scale. Opiate of the masses.