That's because they're stupid and don't even understand what "taking the Bible literally" means I mean they don't understand the basics of how language works, which is why they don't understand what "taking the Bible literally" means
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They act like they believe the NIV Bible appeared written in English on magic tablets inscribed by God, and God also inscribed the current year's edition of the Oxford English Dictionary next to them so you can know what each word "objectively means"
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(The Hebrew word "dag" meaning "sea creature" is translated as "fish" but doesn't *mean* "fish" the way English-speaking biologists today mean "fish" because none of those biologists were born yet Hell "fish" doesn't really mean that either, hence "shellfish")
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(But I already did a tiresome nerd thread a while back on how the Chinese word 鼠 doesn't really mean "rat" but the general idea "rodent" But it doesn't mean the modern scientific definition of "rodent", it just means "ratlike thing")
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Btw the fact that the Hebrew word for "fish" is "dag" is what led people to think the ancient Canaanite deity "Dagon" was a sea-god, and led Lovecraft to write The Shadow Over Innsmouth where he's a horrifying fish-man who spawns a race of hybrid fish-people
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SINCE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT LANGUAGE it was at best what led lovecraft to call his middle-period sea god "dagon" and not what led him to write SHADOW; the actual roots of SHADOW in his own horror of a) black people and b) fish are independent of the so-called "new testament"
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Once you understand that the root of Lovecraft's writing really is nothing so much as rampant, positively galloping xenophobia everything else makes sense.
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**lovecraft obsessive hat** actually, the thing that distinguishes lovecraft is that underneath the galloping xenophobia was a restless xenophilia he could never fully disavow there's a reason SHADOW ends with the narrator going to dwell in wonder and glory for ever and ever
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Also fair! The two often exist in (uneasy, quite often fetishized) concert with one another. Funny how that works out.
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yeah i follow the modern mythos school that says the tension between that xenophobia and xenophilia is at the root of all of lovecraft's most enduring writings which fact has frequently been obscured by the "AaaH! a cosmic Tentacle!" reading/recapitulation of love craft
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Most of his plots simply would not happen at all if the monsters didn't exert some kind of irrational fascination on some human somewhere
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