Scholar Sings About Ignoring Controversy

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Scholar Sings About Ignoring Controversy

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“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
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Re: Scholar Sings About Ignoring Controversy

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Let's think of other subjects scholars intentionally avoid

1. Matthew and Luke are forgeries of Mark
2. God doesn't know where Adam is in the garden
3. Patristic texts have been written and rewritten to the point the original text is impossible to retrieve
4. Moses calms God down from having a meltdown
5. Jerusalem isn't mentioned in the Torah and thus can't be a sacred place
6. heaven has an iron dome
7. there's something gay about David and Jonathan
8. the Church Fathers picked up on the gayness of David and Jonathan
9. Jewish people have always ridiculed Jesus prompting at least some of the persecutions perpetrated against them
10. the earliest full citation of Romans 1:21 - 28 proves that all the anti-gay stuff was added later by someone who wasn't Paul
11. the earliest tradition understood that only the ten utterances were from God, the rest was invented by later editors of the Pentateuch in the name of Moses
12. circumcision isn't a divinely ordained commandment (see 11)
13. the Book of Exodus was corrupted to remove parts of the narrative showing Israelites seeing one god on Sinai and hearing another in heaven to Deuteronomy
14. water was pre-existent to Creation
15. the earliest gospel had a flying Jesus
16. any male celibacy movement (i.e. don't have intercourse with women) or any overtly misogynistic tradition is probably endorses closeted gay activity in secret
17. Nachmanides lost the disputation at Barcelona
18. the study of exegesis of religious texts is really boring, has little social value and departments devoted to the study of religious texts will likely disappear from most universities in the next 100 years
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
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