That Evil ... Pharaoh? ...

[pasithea]

4:21 And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into
Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have
put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let
the people go.

Um... So God gives Moe these parlour tricks to perform then says, "But I'm going to make Pharaoh hate your act. Why? Oh, because I've got an itch to do some smiting and this makes a good excuse."


And what's so bad about a plague of frogs exactly? Frogs are good eatin' and they eat bugs. Wouldn't that help your crops?

Also, we have a gazillion artifacts from that time period, and many tombs that were not discovered until modern times were already in place by then. Why isn't there evidence the water in the vessels turned to blood? Why isn't it in the geological record? Why doesn't anyone else remember it? And shouldn't we find some evidence of the corpses of all those dead stinky fish, frogs, lice, flies, and exploding cattle?

Come on guys. This doesn't pass the lightest examination.

Comments

[kyhwana.livejournal.com]

There was an Egyptian sun god called Ra, that the one you're thinking of?

[schlake.livejournal.com]

Mithra, born on December 25th. Symbolised by a phallus, just like the phalluses worshiped so often in Genesis.

[moonscream.livejournal.com]

No, she's talking about Akhenaton, and the god's name was Aton (also spelled Aten). His wife was Nefertiti, and the finding of her wooden head is one of the few artifacts from the city they built, which was pulverized after Tutankamun (who's original name may have been Tutankaton) was convinced to return the rule of Egypt to one of the other cities. Its unknown for certain what relation he was to Akhenaton and Nefertiti - possibly son or brother.

--Zhora