3. TIL 12% of Americans believe Joan of Arc was Noah's wife!!!

TIL 12% of Americans believe Joan of Arc was Noah's wife!!!

I'm reminded of the story about Sodom and Gommorah. Lot's wife looked back and was transformed into a pillar of salt. Lot and his two daughters fled to a cave.
While the angels decimated these cities and any living creature within, somehow God wasn't concerned, whatsoever, with the details of the rest of the story! The daughters worked together. They managed to get Lot drunk enough to 'rape' and become pregnant. One daughter went first; then the next night daughter #2 managed a repeat.

Their offspring went on to become leaders among the 12 chosen tribes.

Regardless of her name, at least Noah's reputation is free of the incest that is so willingly disregarded as people focus their hatred and condemnation on the 'homosexuals' of S&G.

I was raised Baptist and I earned my first degree at a Baptist college. It was only later in life that I became concerned about this indisputable incest. Most everyone is familiar with S&G. How can ANYONE read the explicit words that follow, should they continue reading the 'inspired by the Holy Ghost' words published in the Bible??? On a side note, remember the son that covered himself in the skin of a wolf so that his blind father would believe he was giving his blessing to the chosen son? The chosen son was hairy, but blind or not, the notion of trickery with a blind man's certainty a hairy wolf skin (confirmed by touch) WAS his hairy son is one of the silliest stories in the Bible.

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