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Envy is a syndrome, a complex of poisonous thoughts and feelings about people who have what we want but cannot get. It's not simply wanting what another person has. That's greed, which is a much more wholesome sin. Because wanting what someone has can inspire us, it can fuel our own ambition, it can even motivate us to improve ourselves. And sometimes people call that envy, but it's not really envy. It's emulation, or admiration. At worst it's what the Bible calls "coveting."
— Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)
According to the Bible, one of the first events in human history is the story of Caín y Abel. Los dos hermanos. I don't know why I said it in Spanish, I guess I just thought it would sound cool. Was I wrong?
— Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)
Back in Bible times, the Hebrews had laws of retributive justice that were similar to the code of Hammurabi. Like in the book of Exodus, God gives a bunch of laws to Moses including some relaunches of Hammurabi classics. Viewers at home may now open up your Bibles to Exodus 21:22.
— Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)
I need to be touched by a real woman. I'm, I'm losing my goddamn mind. It's so deeply embedded in our culture that marrying a man is the end-goal of womanhood. And it's not just Disney movies, like, it's the Bible, it's Greek mythology, German fairytales, Victorian novels. The whole weight of cultural history is telling you that what it means to succeed as a woman is to marry a man.
— Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)
The dictionary is simply a usage guide, it's not the Bible. And for that matter, you can even change the Bible. I mean have you read the Contemporary English Version? The prose is atrocious, appalling. I won't stand for this.
— Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)
Speaking of which, what exactly are the family values we inherit from Christendom? Two kids and a dog, just like the Bible says?
— Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)