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[larisa57]

Just got to this Elsie passage. Still, just blinking at it. Captain Raymond quotes a bit from the Bible, then comments, "Verily I believe that we of the Anglo-Saxon nations are the literal descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, God's own chosen people, so that we have the strongest claim to these precious promises; but let us never forget that

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[debetesse]

Maybe you found an early occurrence of the use of "literally" as an intensifier (e.g.--"I literally died of embarrassment")....

[larisa57]

Well, a bit of googling found me someone else who was claiming that Europeans are the real descendants of the Biblical Jews, and that current Jews are actually Edomites.

[debetesse]

Because there's always enough crazy to go around.

Now I want a racially-entitled aspect of FSM dogma.