TrinityPower
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Ahhhh...I finally found it! The dung beetle of the message boardOh, well as long as familial relations are not reflected in glowing terms, we can all feel better about incest.If you had read any of the bibles, you would understand that familial relations are a theme in the bibles.I think the thing to take away here, Synth, is that the story of Lot's daughters is not saying how great it is to engage in incest. The scholarly view, according to Dr. Amy-Jill Levine, is that the story is intended to smear the Moabites and Ammorites by making reference to their questionable parentage and incestuous origins according to Genesis 19:36-38 which reads, "36 So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father. 37 The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab; he is the father of the Moabites of today. 38 The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the Ammonites of today." It is worth notice that you did not include that part in your OP as it seems to make the point quite clearly.
Other explanations have been advanced including the need for women to have children to care for them in their old age, the possible thought that it was because the girls thought they needed to repopulate the world, etc. Regardless of how you look at it, these all consider the acts a necessary evil, not something that should be done just for shits and giggles.
Your OP, that suggests that the Bible teaches that incestuous pregnancy is a good idea, doesn't seem to have a whole lot of merit unless you ignore the cultural context and/or cherry-pick it to remove verses that clarify the literary context.
The Noah fable leaves us with the gawds providing for Noah and his immediate family to re-populate the earth.
Lovely, lovely folks those gawds.
Yeah clearly I have never read a Bible. Sheesh. Yes family relations are a common theme but they are not reflected in glowing terms. Further, as I pointed out, the stories in Genesis especially are legends designed to make a point. They are not records of historical events.Go back and read my post about the Gospel of Philip and the Tao Te Ching.
Couldn't all of that have been avoided if the gawds hadn't first decided to wipe humanity from the planet? I'd have thought that the gawds wouldn't have magically poofed humanity onto the planet only to wipe them out a few thousand years later because they were a disappointment.
Seems kinda' petty, cruel and nasty, that serial mass murder, thing.
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Perhaps if you put half the energy into learning about things as you do rolling your ball of elephant shit around the boards, you might actually come across as if you know what you are talking about.