Noah didn't even know about the Garden of Eden, Adam, Eve, or any of God's commandments because nobody was writing this shit down until Moses.

I don't know how anyone can read Genesis and not think:

these people just made shit up to try to explain natural phenomenon as best they could, then try to convince their children that something would get you if you were bad, and reward you if you were good, and our people are super special direct descendants of the first people god created. insert popular flood myth copied from other cultures that were formed around floodplains but this time our descendants are the only ones to survive.

It's all so silly.

• "oh and the reason there are so many languages and not one like you'd expect is everyone came from common descent is because people built a tower and god didn't like it so he made people speak different languages"

• "oh and you know those natural geologic formations of salt crystals, no I can't explain them so I'll just say that it's actually a lady turned to stone because she didn't listen to god"

• "look at these two brothers, one is strong but the other is smart, but even when the smart one deceives the strong one the strong one still loves his brother, also he wrestles angels, aren't our peoples great?"

• "oh look how cunning our people can be, aren't our peoples great"

• "Look our people are so great that they rose to power within the Egyptian empire"

It's so masturbatory. And all of Christian doctrine hinges on it. And all of American foreign policy is determined by people who take it as the literal truth. Fricking christcucks and Jews.