"I believe Trump was sent by God" yeah I mean I kinda do too, God is exactly the kind of massive piece of shit who would do something like that
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It's funny because as long as you accept the model of YHWH as the "tribal" god he was from antiquity, and not an all-encompassing, monotheistic benefactor to humanity, all the MAGA shit they say about him makes total sense Like of course God wants to hurt marginalized people
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Yeah I mean it's very obvious that the original YHWH religion was a monolatrist-not-monotheist religion and in the original conception he was one god among many, scrapping for position and power
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Most of the things God does in the Torah make *sense* if he's a new god struggling to establish his territory against older, more established rivals and he's doing it by going scorched-earth really hard, breaking the existing terms of truce in favor of all-out war
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Which is, you know, a deconstructive take that's been applied to the Bible a ton, going back to Fritz Leiber's cynical view of gods in the Lankhmar books It's the theme of Pratchett's Small Gods, or Scalzi's The God Engines
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The whole thing being that the official story where he's the all-powerful creator of the entire universe and all the conflicts with other gods are some kind of test makes him look... a lot worse It's the whole thing the Book of Job is about
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You'd rather have someone who can just admit he fucked up, you know "No, the coronavirus outbreak was part of my plan! You just don't understand it! Liberal journalists hate America!"
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I mean the genocidal decree against the Canaanites makes sense if it's the only thing God can think of to make sure the Israelites aren't culturally absorbed by them and his nascent reign ends with him being swallowed up by Baal
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Not so much if he, you know, also created the Canaanites, ordained their destiny, allowed them to fall into the delusion of worshiping lifeless husks of stone and bronze, and then just didn't choose them for his team
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Honestly I say this is a "deconstructive" take from modern fantasy or whatever but it really isn't The ancients openly understood the idea that gods stood in for governments and cultures and when one city overthrows another on Earth the same war is reflected in Heaven
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The Enuma Elish is the story of Marduk *becoming* the Creator of the Universe and the King of Kings *even though he's a new god*, by earning the title by defeating Tiamat
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
There's a very modern-feeling passage where he proves that he's God now and Ea doesn't have the title anymore by doing a magic trick in front of everyone (showing he has the power to make a cloth vanish and reappear) Marduk is Ea's heir, as Babylon was the heir to Sumer
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And Genesis is, of course, a chopped-down version of the Enuma Elish Genesis 1 doesn't even make it super clear that God ("Elohim") is one guy, it's a plural word being treated as singular (as is fairly common for speaking of "the gods", like "the government" or "the feds")
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