This 911roofer post introduced me to /r/wikipedia, a subreddit where apparently redditors post wikipedia articles . From a brief glance it seems that most of these posts are blatant agenda posts designed to bait politisperging and slapfights
Let's take a look shall we?
I found this thread pretty quickly: the linked article is Sources and Parallels of the Exodus. Immediately redditors jump in crowing how fake the bible is:
Very few people create a myth where they were all slaves at some point in the past.
Another comment springs a multi pronged
He gets dunked on immediately for being such a neckbeard
Ok Ted take it easy. It wasn't meant in the literal sense…see what I did there (-41)
Why is this guy calling the other one Ted? I don't get it. Anyhow, the other side of that chain:
Never fear though Christcels , a champion has arisen to defend your honor!
An actual good faith engagement with this?
A separate subthread:
You think Moses parting the sea is historical rather than mythological?
This really got them mad:
After reading this incredibly intelligent discussion I wanted to go into the article itself to see what was happening
No real drama on the talk page unfortunately but I did notice
some fun stuff in the article itself:
Hmm, very interesting. So just in these few lines we have: the Jews were kicked out (chuds is this country 1/109?) and the Hebrews were originally insular, antisocial, and criminal?
And all written by a guy named Assman
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Sources and Parallels of the Exodus:
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Not really surprising. All peoples had their origin myths but not all of them wrote them down or had people read them for thousands of years. Most everything in the Bible pre-Babylonian exile is questionable because that's the time at which the strict Yahwists became predominant over the polytheists. The Exodus story makes more sense if you imagine it as one told by an exile community in Babylon trying to reinforce their faith and cultural cohesion. Or returning from exile and refounding a kingdom. There was certainly continuity with earlier legends and memories, but even the best kept legends aren't quite historical records.:
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Very few people create a myth where they were all slaves at some point in the past.:
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Wow shocking….a religious text not being historically accurate after thousands of years and translation…I mean who'd of thunk it:
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Nearly every ancient 'historical' text has the same problem.
Also, the dead sea scrolls are 2300 years old and are in Hebrew and Aramaic, so the translation point doesn't really apply. It's not about translation whatsoever. If genesis is translated or not, it doesn't change the fact that it's an origin mythology, just the same as exodus.:
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Ok Ted take it easy. It wasn't meant in the literal sense…see what I did there:
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You posted a cringey Reddit atheist take, so I was just actually discussing the content of the article and adding some context to your basically unrelated comment.:
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Ahh yes the great debate stage of the Reddit machine. I didn't say anything of atheist ideology there Ted. Take it easy will ya..everyone sees how smart you are:
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