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In reply to the discussion: Today's Republicans do in fact have Christian values [View all]ancianita
(43,307 posts)called freedom.
So Exodus is another hoax, huh? Amazing that so many have been duped because of lack of evidence for a few thousand years. Take your claim up with Jews and their Hebrew Bible scholars about their ancestors who wrote the Masoretic text of their story.
Exodus 12:40 "Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masoretic_Text
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_literalist_chronology
Yet, biblical scholar Graham I. Davies notes that several literary texts from Ancient Egypt document the presence of Semitic peoples working for building projects under the 19th Dynasty of Egypt, suggesting a possible historical basis for the account of Israelite servitude to the Egyptians.
In a few hundred years people might just as casually say there's no evidence that a democracy ever existed in America, too. Destroying documents is what revisionists do when authoritarians win. That our 'experiment' of living by "an idea" and rule of law was for nothing. Just a myth, some cult of freedom, when future leaders say "don't say gay" and the only freedom is through work and obedience.