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One is too many, but, the in American discourse at least, the implied equivalence is used to undercut and diminish the Atlantic slave trade, which I think no one can dispute echoes much louder into our present day.

One is too many, and I don’t mean to diminish that but at least in the context of the US I would argue there is slavery, and then there is Slavery.

Or that they will only negotiate with Hillary.

The ones that are safe?

I am genuinely not sure I ever see myself tiring of this format.

‘Cause she was living la Vida Loca…

Hi, have you seen our establishment recently?

Making an arbitrary and artificial connection with another country is more of an insight into you then it is a useful observation.

It’s like saying coal miners from West Virginia sound weirdly like coal miners from Turkmenistan - they both have black lung so it would be weird if they didn’t.

Yep it makes perfect sense in hindsight. It doesn’t actually hook onto history correctly. When you’re presupposing the the bible is inerrant and univocal, you just avoid reconciling certain things.

I am a huge fan of Dan and it’s his series that made me feel like I need to learn more about Cyrus.

An interesting feature of growing up an evangelical Christian, at least for me, is the sense that biblical history is somehow walled off from secular history. Obviously places and figures from that time are mentioned, but there is no sense of continuity. I have long been interested in history but since deconstructing I am now almost obsessed with reevaluating my knowledge of what was actually going on in the world, and in greater Canaan during the time of the bible.

Re-reading and actually studying the bible as the library it is, and reading it in its historical context as I gradually plug it in to my existing understanding of history is an incredibly rewarding experience. And I credit Dan Carlin in large part with my persistent fascination with history.

I’m really interested in studying Cyrus the Great, I just got distracted by biblical history as a fixation.

Random Cyrus-related fact: David Koresh of the Waco Branch Davidians changed his last name from Howell to Koresh which is the biblical name for Cyrus.

Agreed re: Solomon. My sense is that a lot of it was compiled during Josiah’s reign but my knowledge of the topic is sparse. Are you familiar with the theory that the David story is post hoc propaganda after David Coup’d Saul, and the David & Bathsheba story was fabricated as propaganda to legitimize Solomon after he coup’d David?

I’m certainly over simplifying.

I see you as having no reddit parallel. You are singular and we have no need of such comparisons.

Ahoy there me matee.

Yeah well mine’s an alcoholic, so.

I can do that easily.

My cats fave food is onion rings

(Don’t feed your cats onions)

Assuming we are talking about historical accuracy and not theological accuracy (whatever that is), I’m not sure how low the number is, but it’s certainly less than half of 96%, especially the Old Testament

I think you are correct

No and no. I make way too much money for the value that my job adds to society, which is nearly none, and I want to totally blow up my career and do something that helps people. It’s harder when I have folks relying on me but I am moving in that direction

Took me way too long to find Saddam.