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Cleansing the World
Title: Cleansing the World
Category: Society & Culture / Religion
Details: Words: 1247 | Pages: 5.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Cleansing the World
Cleansing the World (word count: 1,234)
All societies owe their existence, in some form or another, to the stories created by a myth or a religion. Whether these stories are used as a strict guideline for an orthodox government or relegated to churches and temples of worship, civilization has been formed around ideas laid down thousands of years ago. What is striking, however, is how similar many of these mythical and religious tales are to one …showed first 75 words of 1247 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1247 total…Gilgamesh are strong and boastful yet retain a semblance of humanness to them, while the ambiguous nature of the Hebrew God and the subservience of his mortal followers stress the faith and values of early Jewish society. Even though the writers of the Bible would be facing charges of copyright infringement in today’s society, we can still get an idea of what ancient society was like from these two versions of the same story.
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