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Did you interview the author? I'd like to read that.

• tomrod 7y ago
  That particular priest of the priestly class seeking to justify their predation of their bronze-age neighbors is probably dead. So, unfortunately, we are only left with their hagiographal and/or mythical prose.
  • achillesheels 7y ago
    You must be fun at parties.
    • tomrod 7y ago
      A blast, yes. Thank you for your personality assessment on a scant sub-tweet sized comment.
      • dang 7y ago
        Please don't respond to one bad comment with another. We just get a downward spiral that way. Instead, flag it and move on. That's in the site guidelines too: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
    • dang 7y ago
      Personal attacks will get you banned here. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
      • achillesheels 7y ago
        Is it expected that I compose a tangential lengthy rebuttal to what amounts to a wildly ignorant hypothesis on the emergence of the Abrahamic faith's idea of an eternal God as a civilizing power in world history? I'd rather be pithy and insinuate anti-social behavior, because a proper socializing actually leads to a more mature appreciation of the facilitation of history between generations than something baselessly contrived, i.e. an argument from silence. Also, I don't have the power to downvote vacuous comments yet.
        • dang 7y ago
          No, but it's expected that you do better than "You must be fun at parties." We're trying to avoid the classic downward spiral of internet forums here, or at least stave it off a little longer. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20stave&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
          • achillesheels 7y ago
            I'll aim higher next time, sorry for being lazy.
            • dang 7y ago
              Appreciated!