Let me get this straight. A religion takes credit for a genocide and canquest as part of their origin. The conquest of

[brewens]

Canaan. They have apologists that tell us how the God that commanded that is alright anyway somehow. Only thing is the conquest and genocide never happened. Make that make sense.

[DavidDvorkin]

1. The captivity in Egypt also never happened

It's all mytholical.

But what's your point? That the religion's origin story never happened? The same is true of almost all religions.

[brewens]

2. Yeah. As far as the exodus they are down to maybe it is a memory of some group of slaves escaping and making it

back to Canaan. That could have happened.

A couple million people roaming the desert for 40 years? Nah. Probably not. If anything close happened, they would still be finding artifacts every time they looked and always would have. Relics from the exodus would have been all over the middle east and Europe by the Middle Ages.

[atreides1]

3. Here's a little information.

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/jews-and-arabs-descended-from-canaanites/


After examining the DNA of 93 bodies recovered from archaeological sites around the southern Levant, the land of Canaan in the Bible, researchers have concluded that modern populations of the region are descendants of the ancient Canaanites. Most modern Jewish groups and the Arabic-speaking groups from the region show at least half of their ancestry as Canaanite.

[The Magistrate]

5. And Most 'Arab' Palestinians Descend From Long-Ago Jews

Who had found it expedient to become Christians, and then Moslems, as events made advantageous and the years rolled on.

Conquerors don't kill everybody: who'll work the fields and pay the tax and tribute if you do that?

[brewens]

7. I believe they also have inscriptions in Jordan showing Arabs were worshipping Allah before Mohammad.

That's a little inconvenient.

[brewens]

6. I've been studying nothing else. It's fascinating the clusterfuck that got us where we're at. I just know this

and that so far.

[The Magistrate]

4. Back When The Document Was Contrived

Title claimed by conquest was more secure than title by nativity.

The best way to say it was yours was to claim you'd over-run the place, killed or sold people you found there.

[msongs]

8. conquest, murder and genocide were standard for the tribes back in those days. Jericho anyone? nt

[twodogsbarking]

9. Religion has directed the masses for a long, long time.

Maybe not in the right direction.