{"id":7220,"date":"2023-03-06T11:53:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T16:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=7220"},"modified":"2025-11-13T14:38:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:38:41","slug":"117-inventing-god-and-law-humility-is-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=7220","title":{"rendered":"117. Inventing God and Law: Humility Is Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1543\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pt02pg107-Yahweh-Part-K.webp\" alt=\"Upon their return from exile, Yahweh's &quot;chosen people&quot; started dreaming big dreams of restoring their mythical glory days.\" class=\"wp-image-9924\" style=\"width:1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pt02pg107-Yahweh-Part-K.webp 1200w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pt02pg107-Yahweh-Part-K-768x988.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a1aed7206edf3028425680' value='6a1aed7206edf3028425680'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a1aed7206edf3028425680' value='View Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a1aed7206edf3028425680' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a1aed7206edf3028425680' ><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Constitutional Law<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Part 2: \u201cWhat Were They Thinking?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Digression: \u201cA History of Government in 6 Revolutions: From the Paleolithic to Philadelphia\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">117. Inventing God and Law: Humility is Hard<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Title: Part K: Humility is Hard<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Pane 1: Two Yehudite men react with horror and dismay, one grasping his head while the other flings his arms wide to bewail the heavens. A Yehudan woman looks on with disdain, her hands on her hips.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">NARRATION:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Though their captivity barely lasted 50 years, the Yehudite elites had plenty of time to <strong>reflect<\/strong> on what had just happened.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">MAN 1:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">What just happened?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">MAN 2:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">We wuz special!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">We wuz powerful!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">WOMAN:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Well, we wuz <strong>wrecked.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Maybe this\u2019ll teach us some <strong>humility.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">-=-<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Panel 2: Two small figures look at the broken, razed, and smoldering ruins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">NARRATION:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">But humility is hard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">After the Persians \u201cfreed\u201d them, a thin trickle of former exiles returned (over a period of many decades) to the rubble that was once Jerusalem\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u2026and they returned with <strong>dreams.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">-=-<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Panel 3: A sparkling, dreamlike throne room, all pastel blues, greens, and yellows, with Egyptian-style columns, a great skylight in the ceiling, a highly-polished marble floor with geometric designs, and decorations everywhere. Soldiers with spears and shields stand at attention along the walls. King Solomon sits on a golden throne, wearing a golden Babylonian-style crown, his feet on a cushion. He is gesturing to an empty golden throne and cushion at his side. The Queen of Sheba, in a sheer red gown and a nifty headdress, is addressing Solomon. She holds a pet cheetah by a dainty chain. A barefoot slave girl fans the air with a long pole at the end of which are a spray of ostrich tail feathers. Other barefoot young women sit on the floor or dangle their legs over the edge of a platform. The scene is far too sparkly and shiny to be real.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">NARRATION:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">In this minor province of the Persian Empire, they dreamt of <strong>restoring<\/strong> Yahweh\u2019s kingdom. And they dreamt of restoring those mythical <strong>glory days<\/strong> of King David\u2026 the majesty of Solomon\u2026 the opulence of the Queen of Sheba\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">It sure wasn\u2019t going to happen on its own.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">They needed something new. Something big.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">They <strong>needed\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-6a1aed7206edf3028425680' class='bg-showmore-plg-link bg-arrow '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>View Transcript<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48,35,63,60,1,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-brief-history-of-government","category-constitutional-law","category-inventing-the-law","category-the-institution-revolution","category-uncategorized","category-what-were-they-thinking"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10588,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220\/revisions\/10588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}