At the least some fairy tale’s had good life lessons.
The Moses fairy tale life lesson would be: get yourself a navigator and ask for directions
There’s also a bunch of repetition of the lesson that god is a fucking asshole in the Moses myth.
First off, god was the one who hardened the pharaoh’s heart. So that god could then kill all the firstborn of Egypt. All to punish the Egyptians for holding slaves, which I’m okay with if you kill the slave masters, not their kids.
Also, god sort of sentenced the Jews to be slaves? I think the slaves were the tribe of Ham, whose lineage was sentenced to eternal slavery by Noah, which was a dick move, but then he was raped by his own son when he was passed out drunk.
Anyway, so Moses then does a bunch of shit and parts of the story say that god is a whiny little removed who throws tantrums. Moses comes down off the mountain, and he throws a tantrum.
Then at the end of the story old man Moses hit the rock twice to break it open to release water, and in hitting the rock twice had doubted god? Then he’s sentenced to never see the promised land that other people already live in, the Jews then decide to massacre the previous owners…
There’s a modern parallel…
Religion says “we get this land” and anyone else who just so happened to live there gets dead. It’s a sin that every Abrahamic religion is guilty of at one time or another.
Well told. And this is why the Bible, and especially the Moses story here, sounds more like so very human ramblings rather than “told by God” or something. Even Lovecraft could write such an ancient story better
Why Catholics specifically?
Dumb meme. Assumes that Christianity is nothing more than Job, Jonah, David & Goliath, etc. and not the single-most scrutinized historical and cultural institution ever. The fact of the matter is, most of the book is practical, or an attempt at practically. Noah’s Ark is a fairy tale, but Paul of Tarsus wasn’t, and his gospel is perfectly mundane, offering prescriptions for life that made sense in his time, even if we see how clearly immoral they are some 1700 years later.
The Bible is maybe 10% parable. That’s the fairy tales. And, if you knew them, I think you’d be happy in a world where those stories are all the Christians live by. Unfortunately, the other 90%, much of which speaks with authority and/or makes “common sense” arguments, flawed as they are, that are enough to convince most people with a monkey brain, let alone one belonging to a child. But, I digress…
There is no God, Jesus is not the Lord, and the Holy Ghost can eat a bag of dicks. We all get it. But believing it’s all fairy tales is naive and lazy, and is as bad as thinking Noah put two of every animal on a boat.
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