My thinking is that it’s the result of someone hearing the original, and not being able to absorb the lesson of Job that sometimes very bad things happen to very good people. I also find it absurd. Admittedly this is something that an atheist might claim toward any scripture. But the claim doesn’t resolve around any sort of supernatural affair, which is what might cause an atheist to deride. Instead, it’s the spectacle of an entire community of grown women who helplessly swoon and are unable to control themselves whenever the protagonist enters the scene.

That’s quite a change to the story. Interesting.

I guess he is just following orders.
Geez, where have I heard that line of reasoning before ??

One of the few segments of the Koran that I’ve read is this particular story. The differences between it and the Judaeo-Christian version are… interesting.

Note that I didn’t read most of the Koran’s Joseph in Egypt story. I’ve only read the Potipher part of the story.

Basically, Potipher purchases Joseph, as in the version we’re familiar with, and Joseph catches the eye of Potipher’s Wife. He rebuffs her advances, and eventually is forced to leave his coat behind while fleeing her. And here’s where the versions diverge.

In the Koran, Potipher comes home and hear’s his wife’s accusation. He examines the coat, and notices it’s torn in the back. He realizes that this is where his wife grabbed the coat, causing it to tear, while Joseph was fleeing. As a result, he exonerates Joseph, and no action is taken.

Potipher’s Wife is now publicly humiliated because she’s been throwing herself at a slave. So she invites all of the women in the community to a meal. When all of the women are seated and eating, she has Joseph bring in some of the food. Joseph is so amazingly handsome and beautiful that all of the women are immediately distracted from their meal, and their knives slip, cutting their hands (but apparently not serious cuts). From this time forward, Joseph is constantly pursued wherever he goes by gaggles of besotted women, much like teenage girls and their favorite boy bands.

Potipher finally gets tired of the nonsense, and has Joseph thrown into prison just to make it stop.

I believe that the Bureaucratic State is the greatest threat to America and American democracy. The Democrats are, in my opinion, aligned with the Bureaucracy not the other way round. Our bureaucracy has the ability to make regulations that have the force of law. And have a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and/or a $250,000 fine. This ability bypasses the legislative process.

One of Trump’s acts was to require that for every new regulation the bureaucracy made, two regulations had to be stricken.

In service to the Bureaucratic State we now have political prisoners in America. Most of all might be guilty of trespassing. The people who took part of the J6 protest belong to a demographic that is overwhelmingly armed. The “insurrectionists” were unarmed-by choice. The only deaths that day were on the protesters side. No fires set, nothing broken except doors. Compare that with the BLM/Antifa riots .

Thats why i went with the python reference

Thought crime only punishable after 2020

Smith is going to win, get the death sentence for Trump,

On what crime?

Please tell me you are merely joking or trolling and not serious.

and witness Haley get slaughtered in the general election.

Haley is a fundamentally weak candidate after her failures between 2020 and now but seeing this kind of nonsense might propel enough outrage and disgust thst it could help propel her forward.

Smith is elite and brilliant,

Elite yes. Brilliant decidedly not. His conduct at Den Haag was disgraceful even if the accusations of outright bribery do not pan out, and his behavior now is only worse.

the decision on march 4th will unfortunately cement him as a national hero

Maybe in the American Democratic Republic’s Stasi. But not to any honorable person. And this kind of stuff underlines why I fear for the future. I know eliminationist rhetoric and buildup and it is why the infighting in the right aggravated me so, whether it is for or against Trump. The idea that people can avoid the axe if they disassociate with Orange Bad Man or that this will not have deep and dark lingering consequences is a folly. Possibly a fatal one.