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GOP Oversight Member Suggests Smithsonian Hiding Bones of Giants (meidasnews.com)
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In June, Rep. Eric Burlison, a Missouri Republican serving on the House Oversight Committee, appeared on BlazeTV’s Prime Time with Alex Stein, where he discussed his belief that giants once existed. Burlison told Stein he was scheduled to be at “NephCon 2025,” a conference focused on fringe topics including the biblical Nephilim —figures in Genesis that some interpret as the giant offspring of angels and human women.

He credited Timothy Alberino’s podcast with sending him “far down the rabbit hole,” eventually reaching claims that the Smithsonian Institution is hiding evidence, the bones of past giants that lived on the Earth. Burlison suggested that, as a member of the Oversight Committee, he could investigate the Smithsonian.

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The story went that human women were so sexy that angels fell from heaven to fuck them. They weren't allowed back into heaven after that and became demons (that part isn't actually in the Bible, but it's a common belief).

If you give it the level of seriousness it deserves--the same level as Greek mythology or the works of Tolkien--Genesis mythology is fun. Tolkien has more consistent world building, though.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    So basically the same level of seriousness we should give Diablo?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Diablo has better cut scenes than the Bible.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I would say Diablo IV's story is about the same though.

    You spend an entire game hunting the creator of the world humans live in, because the whole purpose was to escape from the endless war of heaven and hell, and we just upright kill Lilith.

    She was right the whole time.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    The point was to establish a narrative that women are 2nd, of men, created by men and God giving them life. While men are obviously superior and created by God, also male (usually a substitute word for patriarch or ruler, even pastors are "God" locally within their group).

    The point was to enslave women. The entire point of Abrahamic religions were to enslave people, breed them, and cull the males especially via warfare. That's why Rome liked it so much and that's what the Catholic Church and Abrahamic religions export in exchange for tax free tithes - brainwashing.

    Thing is, no man is going to be cool with his mom as a slave, unless he has been coached into belief sets like:

    -women are inferior

    -women don't create life, "God" does

    -it is good to sacrifice your child's life to God, because God made it

    -it is good to sacrifice your life to work, because God wants us to

    -It is bad to not have children or waste semen, because God creates life and wants you to have kids

    Gee, and since "God" is a substitute word for the most powerful man in a person's sphere (made in God's image, after all), you can see exactly why these horrible religions infected poor people just trying to survive, enforcing authoritarianism while slow dripping actually mentally helpful and prosocial advice that was likely the original basis for the religion. Hard to know since Catholic Church hides many of the original texts.

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