• TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    This unlocked a memory for me. Back when I was a kid I remember one of the religious whackos told us that the reason the ark of the covenant killed the dude that touched it was because it was a battery. He used the fact that there was no battery technology at the time to support the fact that god is real.

    I know it’s off topic, but harnessing energy reminded me.

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        4 months ago

        This would have been a decade before that.

        You don’t realize how much batshit stuff you’re told as a kid and I never examined it as an adult. A lot of this shit is coming back to me and I’m realizing just how much of a thing all this crazy shit was even before it became widespread on the internet.

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      4 months ago

      The fun part is we don’t have any real evidence outside the Bible that the Ark of the Covenant even existed. Did it exist? Who knows? You can’t really take the Bible’s word for much.