Date: March 22nd, 2010 03:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] raven-moon.livejournal.com
...which is why I routinely question its value as anything other than mythology. Things like this only reinforce my feeling that it's time we shelved this millenia-old work where it belongs, on the same shelf as the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Hesiod's Theogony, and the Epic of Gligamesh - lovely literature to read, helpful in understanding history, but nothing we have any need or desire to live by...

To make it relevant, we are forced to either interpret, cherry-pick and selectively ignore bits an pieces of it, or else we end up stuck with outrageous positions like this one.
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