Ben Carson Admired Joseph For Being the ‘Best Slave’ He Could Be
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Retired neurosurgeon and erstwhile knife-fighter Ben Carson’s ride atop the GOP presidential polls has brought with it a renewed scrutiny of the crazy, stupid, and just plain weird things he’s been saying for years. This week, Buzzfeed‘s Andrew Kaczynski surfaced a quote from a 1998 speech in which Carson theorizes that the ancient pyramids of Egypt were built by Joseph to store grain:
“My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain. Now all the archeologists think that they were made for the pharaohs’ graves. But, you know, it would have to be something awfully big if you stop and think about it. And I don’t think it’d just disappear over the course of time to store that much grain.”
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“And when you look at the way that the pyramids are made, with many chambers that are hermetically sealed, they’d have to be that way for various reasons. And various of scientists have said, ‘well, you know there were alien beings that came down and they have special knowledge and that’s how-’ you know, it doesn’t require an alien being when God is with you.”
I don’t know who the “various scientists” who attribute the pyramids to aliens are, unless that guy who did the voiceover on the original Battlestar Galactica counts, but I’m pretty sure there’s a decent scientific consensus on that whole “tomb” thing. See, you don’t need a “theory” when you’ve already got fact.
As usual, though, the media is missing out on other Carson nuggets from that same speech. For example, he begins his riff on Joseph by explaining that the Old Testament fashion icon is one of his favorite Bible characters, because when life gave him slavery…READ MORE
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