Mark Gagnon

Because myself, growing up Catholic, right, I would read the Old Testament, I would read the Tetragrammaton of Yahweh, and you'd be like, all right, this is the God of the Israelites.

And the secular view I understand is that, oh, this is a desert God of war.

And that seems like it is at odds with what the religious belief of who Yahweh is.

And I can see that the framing of this makes it pretty clear.

If you're in a debate with someone about, you know, the nature of Yahweh, someone could pull this up and be like, yeah, this is a...

A deity of war.

This is no different than, you know, Ra or, you know, some type of Norse god or something like that.

Right, right.

Which I can see being at conflict with someone that believes, like, no, this is the one true god.

I see.

Right.

Secular scholars will say that Yahweh was a desert deity, yada, yada.

But amongst Jews and Christians, Yahweh is the God of the ancient Israelites.

I see.

Yes, this makes sense.

This makes sense.

I can see that the subtlety of the way of the framing can really lead people into believing one thing or another.

When it's not as clear as your argument.

I see.

Could I ask you a question on this specifically?