White evangelical Protestants are fully disrobed. And it is an embarrassing sight.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

It has always struck me as strange that a narrative about genocide — Noah and the ark — should be employed as a children’s story. As the other boys and girls in Sunday school focused on the cuteness of the rescued animals, I remember thinking about the mass of humanity desperately clawing to get into Noah’s boat. This exposed an early tendency to see the glass as half-empty — particularly when it contained so many floating corpses.

Now I understand that all the best stories have sharp edges of tragedy and danger. Even so, the story of Noah is an odd curricular choice for young children. Fresh off the boat, according to the biblical account, he plants a vineyard, gets drunk and lies naked in his tent. This is a source of consternation to Noah’s sons, who don’t want to see the dark side, much less the backside, of their father. So they cover him with a handy duvet.

Rabbinic and early Christian scholars — figuring that there must be more to the story than meets the eye — postulated that adultery, rape or castration were somehow involved. But there is an application closer at hand.

I thought of drunken, naked Noah while reading the Public Religion Research Institute’s 2019 American Values Survey. In the PRRI survey’s pages, white evangelical Protestants (WEPs) are fully disrobed. And it is an embarrassing sight.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/evangelicals-have-been-reshaped-into-the-image-of-trump-himself/2019/10/28/f37f5154-f9c0-11e9-ac8c-8eced29ca6ef_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions&wpmm=1

[jberryhill]

1. The story of Noah is an early intro to the basic Christian principle of...

...fuck you, I’m saved.

To be a Christian is to understand and accept that the vast majority of people you know are ultimately going to be discarded by a loving God who doesn’t care what they, you, or anyone else did with their lives, so long as they rely on Jeebus to save them.

[Collimator]

2. The story of the drunken Noah. . .

. . .And the different responses from his three sons is used as a lesson in the origin of the three major "races" of mankind and their eventual value and status in human history.

I remember that point made very clearly in my Sunday School lessons book.

And as a bonus, let me bring up the story of a group of little children teasing a man about being bald. The guy was a prophet, so God sent a bear to tear the children limb from limb. Gotta make sure children learn the value of not making fun of their elders.

An important point to that story is that no one can fob off the violence on any human agent who may have been overzealous in intrepreting God's commands. (That's a classic defense move among those who insist that "God is love" and yet have to face the many violent accounts in the Bible.)

Those bears (sometimes I can't remember if it was one or two bears) were wild creatures sent straight from God's omnipotent self and they tore up some 72 (I think) children that day. Apparently not one of the 72 children was able to escape while the bear or bears were engaged in ripping apart the other 71 children. . . Or maybe they were superbears.