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You dont even have to take it literally. I learned from Asop's fables and I acknoledge animals can't talk. What I got from Noah's ark wasnt that God is a genocidal maniac or he loves us all very much, but that if you know what needs to be done, do it and don't care what others think.

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Yeah, even if the whole base of the story is lunatic.

Sorry, but the Noahs story does not makes sense logically (all the different animals on one ship) nor morally. Killing everyone and only spare some lunatic.

But if you can take from it "do what needs to be done" well, good for you. But I would argue a common trivial dantasy book contains as meaningful wisdom if you neglect 90% like with the bible.

It doesn’t have to - there’s flood myths in other Middle Eastern cultures like Sumeria

I do not call the flood lunatic. I rather meant the idea that the all-loving god send it to wipe out his own creation but then decides to spare some and instruct him zo build a boat so humans and animals can survive....

Btw. that the scenario is allmost word for word the same as in the Gilgamesh epos, is another funfact.

Yes, it's very true, my grandfather told me about that.

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