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    They just so desperately WANT it to be true, because then they can ask for forgiveness for being the horrible people they are and still continue to be horrible because they can just keep doing that until they die. Yay, religion.

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    The Torah is Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

    According to Deuteronomy 34, Moses died at age 120.

    I’m pretty sure Moses didn’t write the Torah.

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        Everyone’s ancestors were there first. We’re all descended from about 1,200 people who existed before private property

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        No, it proves that one person who knew their written language made a comb.

        That is literally all we can say for certain about that artifact. There was a ton of international trade amongst the people around the Mediterranean in the ancient world (and even plenty of trade beyond that).

        That we know for certain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluburun_shipwreck

        And of course that is only if the person who posted that isn’t full of shit about the comb.

  • I’m fuzzy on the history of writing, but there Code of Hammurabi dates to around 1750 BCE. I’m confused about what this person is arguing is controversial about writing being available in the 16th century BCE. People could write… so? Did they not invent lying or fiction until much later?

    People have written a ton of stuff, and much of it is fiction.

    Moses was stoned on desert mushrooms. I had a vision of his older brother complaining about how Moses was always out tripping with his hommies and writing stories instead of watching the sheep like he was supposed to be doing, and I know it’s a fact because God told me it was.

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      There was almost certainly no Moses. The story has no basis in historical fact. There is absolutely no evidence of a massive slave exodus from Egypt.