sadmanbarty
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And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
stunningly beautiful on its own.
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
It is worth thinking about - the need we've always had for mythologies.
In the atheistic 21st century it seems we're denuded of myth but perhaps it's just been siphoned off into other things. Obvious things like conspiracy theories, but other less obvious things too.
it's why the homophobia in dancehall's so delicious.
it's taking something as petty as violent anger and imbuing it with millenia of history, with religious awe, with magic, with moral sacrosanctity...
taking an every day emotion and making it so rich.
Well there's an object lesson in why religions oppose booze.
Catholicism most cerainly does NOT. Quite the contrary. Plus: there are countless references to wine in the Bible.
to be fair, i've tried listening to the bible and the quran a couple of times and they're much more boring than you'd think. all the magic and wars and rape and all that obscured behind torrents of family trees being spelled out or repeating the same thing over and over and over again.
the spirit of god moved upon the face of the waters