God made the rainbow as a sign
for post-Flood men to see.
The sign says, “I am Merciful–
and you better fucking agree.”
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According to the Book of Genesis, after God flooded the entire world He told the one surviving family: “I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.”
There are so many things to love in all this: the Noah’s Ark story, and the toys of it that delight children; the beauty of rainbows themselves; the alternative explanation that Irish leprechauns make rainbows to mark where they bury their gold; the Biblical suggestion that water droplets didn’t cause refraction of light before the Flood; the calculation that rain, to have flooded Mount Everest in 40 days, must have fallen at 29 feet per hour for that entire time… and above all the idea that God needed the rainbow to remind Him not to kill everyone whenever He gets angry.
But hey – rainbows are beautiful, at least we can all agree on that.
This poem was published in the most recent issue of Light.
“Noah’s Ark” by Svadilfari is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0.
The Gospel According to the Romans 
Funny how some take that Bible literally when it was meant to be read as allegorical and mythical. The African Greeks and Jews found Egyptian manuscripts that compiled the Septuagint. Egyptian scribes such as Amenomope wrote Psalms as well as parts of the Proverbs. Scholars suggest he wrote Psalms 40 as a means to explain monotheism( belief in one God).
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If you think that God destroyed any parts of the world or Eve took a bite of an apple and talked to a snake or Noah built an ark that animals pooped and crapped in it with 8 people onboard the ark to take care of these animals, I suggest you seek an appointment with a psychiatrist for mental observation.
As far as the New Testament, it was written by Roman Flavians by way of typology, and that was tampered with as well. What ancient African names existed that were Peter, Paul, Matthew, John, Issac? Keep in mind ancient Romans were ppl of color. Only Egyptians had a writing system. Europeans were still in the Caucus mountain cave’s learning how to be civilized by the Moorish who had conquered Europe and controlled it from 711-1492. Before that era, the African Egyptians controlled 30 Dynasties.
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