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| The Rape of Dinah by Sebastiano Ricci, 1700, via Bremen Museum |
JMSmith retells a tale from the bible.
The Rape of Dinah and Annihilation of Shalem
I'm not big on reading the bible myself, but I used to go to bible study after church. We had a very sharp pastor leading the class and he did a lot of back filling on some stories. Stories in the Bible can be very spare and if you don't know the situation they may not make much sense or seem very significant. But add a little back story and now you can understand just what's happening. Anyway, JM does the same thing here. The fact that we have any kind of civilization at all is pretty amazing. We should do what we can to preserve it.
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When the pastor fills in the backstory I wonder where he got it.
Did he "create" it with a mix of history knowledge and imagination?
Did someone tell it to him? If so, did that person "create" or hear it?
If they heard it did the person telling them "create" it?
How far back does the back story go?
Religions are chuck full of cool stories we accept on faith because if we don't, as least if we say we don't, we can't be part of the group.
The internet works the same way.
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