Doug Metzger
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2,647 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Doug Metzger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If I had found a vessel in which I could make man
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These passages on the evil nature of Africans and women are needless to say lamentable and depressing by modern standards.
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The misogyny, as ugly as it is tiresome and predictable, is parf of the course in ancient and medieval theology written by male clerics of various religions.
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The derogatory rhetoric against Africans demonstrates the increasing prejudice toward particularly sub Saharan.
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as the Islamic slave trade flared to life during the early medieval period.
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Following its account of how humanity was created and disseminated across the world, the Bundeshion discusses how various animals came to be.
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Birds, for instance, the text tells us, first spend forty days as semen, thirty days in a mixed state, fifteen days in the egg, and ten days until their wings grow.
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Fish, the book says, are all female, and they become pregnant when they rub themselves together and their sweat mingles.
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Nothing like sweaty lesbian fish to fill the seas with plenty.
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Following the book's overview of the generation of animals, there is a chapter on plants.
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The Bundeshans chapter on plants contains other scientifically dubious claims.
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For instance, that plants had no bark or thorns before the coming of evil Araman to earth.
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At the same time, the variety of plants mentioned in the Bunda Hijan shows the vastness of the Abbasid Empire, as the vegetation catalogued in the book came from all over Europe and Asia.
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Just as the Bundeshion sees Ormazd and Areman ruling over the light and darkness, respectively, the book also proclaims that every species and genus has a master.
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Zoroaster, for instance, is the master of humanity, and the book describes which cows, horses, dogs, and fish are the masters of their groupings within the animal kingdom.
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And powering all of the animated things in the world, the Bundeshan says, is fire.
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Different kinds of fire fuel different kinds of processes and organisms.
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Plants are said to burn with a certain kind of fire, as well as clouds.
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The sense of an essence or rhythm permeating created materiality appears elsewhere in the central section of the Bundahision II.
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A chapter on songs emphasizes that when Zoroastrians sing their scriptures,
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