It's really about getting drunk and having a difficult time finding the nearest White Castle.

was about?

You know there's one around... but can't remember where you saw it. Maybe Naperville?

"GOLDEN COW BLASPHEMER!!!!!"

It was caught on someone's cell phone or something. I saw it for myself in the documentary film, decades ago.

And the plagues? Well, those are recorded on some tomb somewhere in Egypt. It just hasn't been discovered yet.

Yeah, that's the ticket...

and for exodus, there is none.

And publish your refutation in a journal.

is ridiculous. You know that right? You don't? Really G? C'mon.

Meanwhile...

"There is no evidence against" is the same as saying "There is no evidence for." There is no evidence, period.

A claim that something occurred requires evidence that it did. If there is no evidence, one cannot claim that it ever happened.

English. Sometimes statements written in that language are clear. This is one of those times.

that the Hebrews were in Egypt anywhere near that time. And we KNOW that Egyptian slavery was more like indentured to work while not farming. It was nothing like that portrayed in the OT. The Egyptians recorded near everything, yet this mass rebellion and exodus escaped their notice.
But in Babylon, when these stories were originated, there was that form of slavery.
And lik Noah and other tales, this one resemples a Babylonian myth.
Like much of the Bilble, much evindence against, little to none supporting.

Citing that the Bible used real names and places is laughable.

someone else wants to be true. It's kind of like quoting from a website that advocates for homeopathic medicine as evidence that homeopathy is real and true.

Advocacy websites are never good sources of information. They advocate for things, so their bias is clearly toward whatever that website advocates for.

If you want information you will like about religion, you can go to religionnews.com to bolster your argument. Never mind that there is a strong bias there. If you want information about the Egyptian captivity, you can go to a biblearchaeology website and it will tell you that you are correct and that there was such a captivity. Bias.

The Internet is chock-full of biased websites with a story to tell and something to sell. You can find anything you want to support any idea you might have, no matter how cockamamie that idea is.

Advocacy websites fool lots of people lots of the time, because they confirm their visitors biases. "It must be true, because it agrees with me."

That is how "There is no evidence that the captivity did not occur" gets translated, somehow into "The captivity did occur, because there is no evidence that it did not." Which gets translated into, "Authorities confirm that the captivity occurred." Of course, it also means, "There is no evidence to support the Egyptian captivity."

It's advocacy and confirmation bias at work. Oldest thing in the book (or the website).

...despite genetic proof they aren't. Once again...

Ancient Aliens haven't visited Earth... So, ANCIENT ALIENS!

This is a game we can all play

The Pharaoh decides to let the Hebrews free, but God hardens his heart overnight, so God can send a new suffering to the Egyptians.

Plus isn't Passover celebrating the fact that the Hebrew first-born were spared the death plague that killed all the Egyptian first-born? or am missing something.

All in all if it's true it's nasty, if it's a metaphor, what's it a metaphor of?

I am the Atheist Passover Curmudgeon at Seder who cannot shut up when the alleged god allegedly deliberately inflicts horrendous suffering on innocents for no fucking reason whatsoever other than to show the pharaoh that he is a much bigger dick than pharaoh can ever be, and he has made this pharaoh stubborn just so he has the opportunity to inflict woe and demonstrate mightyness.

And that is the question nobody answers after they utter "it's just a metaphor". A metaphor for what? Huh?

Ugh.

Argie-bargie!

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