Mark Gagnon
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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?