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Ha! Sounds like me when my sister-in-law went on a rambling explanation of

how people have been apart since the Tower of Babel. She was serious and didn't appreciate it when I told her most people stop believing in mythological literacy by age 5. Myths are important to culture and parables are useful for illustrating a point. But cultures typically don't take them literally. I mean, Babel is a great story, but the notion that God really punished man for having the audacity to build a tall building is pretty crazy, particularly with no concrete or structural steel. What was it a couple hundred feet high? LOL! Oh yeah, all tribes and languages originated there, too!

I couldn't believe what was coming out of her mouth. Of course, she believes in the Ark, and chemtrails, and One World Government conspiracies, too.

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Posted: 03/17/2021 at 5:36PM

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