Sweet tapdancing christ has this mutherfucker not read Exodus? has he not read the Cliff's Notes for Exodus? THE BOOK OF EXODUS IS FULL OF PLAGUES, MUTHERFUCKER. It is the Kill Bill of biblical literature. It suggests that if God is on your side, genocide is A-OK. They were one of thirteen colonies, Dave. The Carolinas weren't at all about fleeing Cromwell. It's like watching the Church Lady on shrooms.The book of Exodus is full of social justice — care for the vulnerable, the equality of all souls.
It suggests that history is in the shape of an upward spiral.
The Exodus narrative has pretty much been dropped from our civic culture. Schools cast off the Puritans as a bunch of religious fundamentalists.
It should be possible to revive the Exodus template, to see Americans as a single people trekking through a landscape of broken institutions. What’s needed is an act of imagination, somebody who can tell us what our goal is, and offer an ideal vision of what the country and the world should be.
