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jour brought to you by allegorical bible references helping us

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feel self righteous since zero Eighty first check out passage

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there conceivably me like a lot It's a long pass

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it's all that farming in ecology and community and doing

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right by each other When you think we do that

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All right we're skins All right the rhetorical reason for

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referring to moses and the deck a log line fifty

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two fifty three There is most likely tio what And

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here the pendulums that what is that purpose of that

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line there Fine Well why would the author make a

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biblical reference and then talk about students of history Is

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he implying the bible's historical fact Well actually the paragraph

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has very little to do with religion It's overall just

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is that moses himself didn't write the deck log a

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ten commandments They were instead written collectively by the community

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of israel lights And like how mission statements are written

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collectively by bureaucrats Well he's not making some figurative argument

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about permanence of laws or trying to tie ecology too

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biblical tradition the ancient is realized probably didn't have much

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to say about modern land used and the passage isn't

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trying to reconcile old arguments between science and religion or

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imply that land ethics came down from above The bible

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has no book of landscape What the author is really

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saying is that moses was a public spirited guy Who's

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summarized a lot of people's good ideas and gave seminars

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kind of a biblical tony robbins Because ethical laws emerged

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from communities making c correct now don't you feel enlightened

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like paul writing to the romans Or like a teenager 00:01:48.475 --> [endTime] who got a question right That's good too

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