Barneyisfat

Jonathan is thoroughly modern. I am thoroughly postmodern. A lot of moderns believe that my generation's shift to post-modernity is bad. Simply not true.

Jonathan watched a scientific explenation of the plagues on Egypt. Supposedly a volcanoe caused all of them. An eruption 700 miles away caused enough of a ground shift to release iron sulfide (or somthing like that) into the nile which turned it blood red. The frogs could get out of the water, and had to do so to live - thus the frogs. The dead animals who didn't get out of the water would have attracted the flies. The flies would account for the pestilence. The volcanic ash still in the air could have produced the swarms of locust. (something about their migratory routine being interupted by darkness) The kicker for him was that the first child of every household slept on a bed of privilege low to the ground. The other children slept on the room or in a higher bed with their parents. The smog produced by the volcanoe would have been lower to the ground and could have killed all of the first born.

I am disgusted by this idea. I prefer to think of an all powerful God who turned the nile into blood and killed the firstborn. I like the mystery in that. I'm postmodern.

Jonathan likes that God could have used science (which we can explain) to create the plagues. He is modern.

I think in this case the post-moderns have it.