035. Genesis 30 and Behemoth (And Dinosaurs)

I've cleaned up the audio as best I could, this is a re-release responding to some articles I came across a few weeks ago. I think we've identified the issues and so hopefully audio quality will improve, if it doesn't, beatings will until quality does.

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When viewed in the context of Asherah's supreme awesomeness it because clear that Ba'al and Yahweh used her to sleep their way to the top. So there's a bit about them, and then tracing through the first half of the Old Testament (the second half is more of the same) and covering a poem before cementing Asherah and Leviathan in show canon as watery-warrior-wizard and mighty steed.

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They-dies and gentle-thems! In this episode there is an addition to the roster of show characters and Patreon tiers! Asherah is a sea (sometimes sun (always mommy)) goddess written about in the Ugaritic texts. Her cult has been revived by Cee (who has a history of drowning fools apparently) and she is El's ex-wife and provides much needed context for Yahweh's subsequent hatred of Baals. This episode covers who she was, a coming out of the closet for a man hating feminist, and also Cee clarifies what she means when she has a soaking wet body count (because of the drowning). 

This episode is covering a constitutional and historical analysis from a guy who bursts into tears any time he goes near a history book.

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In which Phineas explains to Cee how one the recent decisions from the Supreme Court affects her uterus, and what exactly they said because, to quite Brett Kavanaugh's diary I assume, "You can't read if you have a uterus because they go where your eye balls should be."

The episode starts off with Phineas glossing over Judith Jarvis Thomson's violist argument and Philippa Foot's Doctrine of Double Effect essay to say where he's coming from and why the 'women's bodily autonomy' fails before getting into the truly stupid things that Samuel Alito said.

Sources:

The decision: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf

The Vox article: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23167397/abortion-public-opinion-polls-americans 

The abortion statistics: https://www.aecf.org/blog/child-welfare-and-foster-care-statistics
https://nacac.org/help/how-to-adopt/steps-to-adoption/learn-about-adoption/
https://www.state.nj.us/njfosteradopt/adoption/AdoptiveParentHandbook_5.2013.pdf (edited)

Hey all,

Sorry this is late, I don't have anything in the way of show notes (except https://www.patreon.com/apostatesplayground). I wanted to include here that I sat down to edit and had to take my son to the E.R. cause he quit breathing right and was nearly admitted, and then sat down to edit it and had to take my wife's grandpa to the E.R. because his insides were in horrible pain and he was admitted. So I'm hoping you can forgive me.

Love,

Phineas

Full disclosure, I mangle a Shakespeare monologue in the beginning for no reason other than because Lee Strobel is tedious.

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References: https://youtu.be/t9Dhhxnvt2Y
https://youtu.be/ww47bR86wSc
https://www.thekitchn.com/the-science-of-roasting-turkey-nathan-myhrvold-explains-the-maillard-reaction-197591
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4745522/
https://newswire.caes.uga.edu/story/7780/Frying-Turkeys.html
https://www.mashed.com/314799/this-is-why-we-call-a-turkeys-tailbone-the-popes-nose/
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/the-war-of-the-noses/article18275122/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/nzzkpm/science-explains-why-oil-and-water-don-t-mix-how-viruses-attack

In which 2 cases of possession and Satan's handwriting samples are discussed amid Cee Cee tricking Phineas into disparaging Italian Sorcerers until he has a breakdown, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.