Believers just want that to be true — even though
the story in the religious texts is very different.
Not exact matches
But the process of ecumenical and interreligious dialogue that Pope Benedict XVI has repeatedly endorsed may cause participants to question whether any canonical
story of violence — such as the conquest narratives
in Joshua and Judges, or functionally equivalent
texts in the history of Islam — may legitimately be claimed to offer a
religious warrant for continued violence
in today's world.
He also makes quite a few arguments from omission, concluding from the fact that the
text doesn't explicitly report that Esther «went to synagogue» that she must have been a worldly, lukewarm Jew, forgetting that Esther is the one who calls for a fast later
in the
story, reflecting something of a
religious background and personal
religious conviction.
There are a great number of other
stories about the world
in many other
religious texts.
In it he found the great myths of the creation, the fall, the flood, the escape from Egypt, the promised land, the twelve tribes, the exile, the prophets, all full of Semitic poetry and wisdom, and great human
stories, followed by the incomparable
religious texts of the New Testament — «He who would save his life must lose it».
This isn't the Old Testament prehistory we've seen before — Aronofsky draws from both Christian and Jewish
religious texts to fill out the
story (which is actually quite short
in the Bible) and offers bleak, poisoned world before the flood quite different from the Mediterranean deserts and forests of previous films — and it accomplishes something quite powerful, vivid and unexpected as a result.