Anyway it was better than the dehumanizing clichéd "those wacky natives" kind of plot you see elsewhere
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Plutoburns
I've said before that I'm the kind of atheist who'd be totally open to worshipping a god who was there and who honored the ancient godly deal of giving you shit in return for the worship
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Plutoburns
At a certain point, worshiping a god like that—particularly out of a selection that offers several varieties—seems like the most intuitive choice ever Basically it's like taking a Prestige Class for the part of your personality you like best
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @Plutoburns
I keep saying the word "covenant" is just a fancy word for "contract" and YHWH, like all his contemporaries, starts his relationship with his people by laying out a deal It's some bullshit when Job comes along and he's all like "Yeah I don't actually have to honor my part"
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He got too big to take to court The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was the Facebook of the Ancient Near East
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Plutoburns
This is only reinforcing my "only a God that resembled Trump would allow for Trump" doctrine
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @Plutoburns
Did you see that thing from a staffer on THE APPRENTICE where Trump would just show up at the end of the episode and fire someone at random without having actually watched the preceding show
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And sometimes it would actually be the contestant who'd done the best on all the preceding challenges So then the staffers would have to scramble to comb through hours of footage to recut the episode to make the fired person look bad to retroactively justify it
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The story of Job and Job's comforters is pretty much exactly this
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Even the twist ending makes sense, where Trump just shows up after his people have been doing days of damage control and is like "Nah they're full of shit, I just fired you because I can"
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"Here, take a look at this Leviathan I got. It's huge, the biggest, absolutely tremendous. Gold scales all over, makes tidal waves when it splashes. See, you own one of those, you get to fire people whenever you want"
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