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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Yes, I'm aware catholics are not adepts to biblical word-by-word literalism like most evangelicals and rather take a more nuanced view of the events of the Old Testament, particularly the Genesis.
I was just pointing out the stuff biblical literalists take seriously like the Great Flood being a global event.
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Sure, but there's then two "literalist" interpretations on top of a metaphoric one, which is what I'm pointing out. As I'd pinged the other week, for example Sodom and Gamorrah may have been real historical events. I don't think it's insane or unreasonable to imagine that a supernatural God expresses His will through natural phenomenon.
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