Comments by "ncwordman" (@ncwordman) on "DeSantis suffers woke coma, loses control of his mouth" video.

@BeginsWithTheEnd No, yeah. Don't even try that cliched garbage. To assume you know the Bible is absurd. Don't do it. Just accept you have no clue, and move on.
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@jamesvonborcke "It's a collection of mythology" Absolutely true. Just like Odin, Hercules, etc. "Perfectly reasonable to dismiss it and utterly unreasonable to believe." If you dismiss mythology normally, sure, then dismiss this as well. But if you think mythology has lessons to teach, about how people think, about the world and each other, if you want to learn about the morality of humanity, and how to fight against the mindlessness and cruelty we have within us, then it would be absurd to dismiss it. "utterly unreasonable to believe." Also true. Belief is extremely dangerous. But belief is religious in nature. I'm not talking about religion. Religion is dangerous. I'm talking about storytelling. The ancient Jews had a unique brand of telling stories that I have seen nowhere else in my studies: Their heroes were all too human. Their Hercules was Samson, who lost all his power because of his vanity and ego. Jacob (later renamed Israel for how important he was) betrayed his own brother by fooling his father, at the behest of his own mother. We aren't talking perfect and overpowered heroes here. I can find this nowhere else in mythology. "written by primitive savages" They had the insight to show that human traits never change. Sure, cultures change. Heck, our culture changes by the decade. But it doesn't matter if humans live on the other side of the world, separated by thousands of years, we all still have the same weaknesses and strengths. Culture changes, humanity stays the same. I think that's an important lesson. Among other things, it shows we are all "primitive savages."
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@BeginsWithTheEnd "no" What a well thought out, intellectual reply. I take it you're a voracious reader, with a mind that never sleeps, and is always hungry for knowledge and understanding. And you never just go along with the misunderstandings and cliches of others. You always look for yourself, so that you can actually learn, instead of dismissing what you don't know.
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Because these Republicans get almost no push-back. Now and then someone will ask for clarification, but they're side-stepped, ignored, or insulted, or the Republican blathers on about some conspiracy or other. Republicans need multiple push-backs. That happened some with Trump, and it infuriated him.
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