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Originally Posted by ProfessorMayhem
I drowned once. Trust me, it's anything but "painless."
In regard to flood mythology, the only common factor with flood myths from various cultures is the actual inclusion of some sort of flood. When you get right down to the details, it becomes evident that the various flood myths from around the world have little in common beyond that. Cultures from around the world have different dates, different origins, and vastly different accounts.
One doesn't even have to venture into the complete lack of sound empirical evidence and various physical impossibilities associated with a worldwide flood to recognize the fact that flood mythology amounts to little more than the a cultural construct centered around retellings of bronze age tall tales. Myths about floods are common because....
Get ready....
Floods are common.
They have been throughout history, and they will continue to be for as long as this planet has a water cycle. There are other myths from various cultures that revolve around other themes that are far more common than floods, but you don't see many people trying to advocate a literal interpretation of these myths.
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Those who attribute(d) the deluge to spiteful deities tell us more about their paranoid authoritarian personality than their gargoyle of a god(s)
In my considered opinion, that’s why a comparatively compassionate Jesus was introduced into the Mein Kampfish Old Testament, to capture the more perceptive Librul punter.
The more removed we become from our brutish past, the more urbane our gods become. (Check out Scientology.) With the exception of the authoritarian Abrahamic religions, of course, who still use fear to keep the irrational faithful conforming to their clearly absurd creeds.