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>>10389381
Be as it may, your argument is fucking retarded and you should kill yourself.

>>10317251
This post makes the one where you accused me of begging the question hilarious in hindsight. Here, let me show to you the huge question you're begging:

0. ASSUMING GOD ACTUALLY FAVORED THE ISRAELITES...
1. The Lord is with Judah and has promised them victory against their enemies
2. etc...

There. If you don't give the Bible that item #0, then it becomes a collection of culture hero stories / annals of kings / phylosophical works. I'm not giving you the question #0 to argue on your terms.

Once you read about humanity's story, it becomes quite obvious that God, if he exists, doesn't play favorites and showers all the humanity with mostly random blessings and curses. The israelites become then, just yet another self-righteous tribe of their time and place, following a warlike tribal god that's simply their own tribal identify projected on the plane of ideas.

Genesis is a book of culture heros. Abraham, Joseph and co. are trickster heroes that clearly succeed by their own wits and project their victories on "god" to become legend. By the time Judges is happening, there's a priest caste that's interested on keeping everybody believing that everything that happens is thanks to god's designs. They write the books with this mindset. And so on. (there's also the plainly bullshit parts like Jericho's walls)

But Judges is part annals too, and so the iron chariots incident. It's not a warning about what happens when people lack in faith, it's a cleric forgetting to add the editorial opinion after making a record of some battles.

Finally, here's two demons, to keep things on topic.

>>8469062
Like you'll never get to tell them fantastic stories about the outside world.

Flan Flan Chu~, Youmoe or Patchykyu.