a survey

[cellio]

If you are so inclined, I'm curious about your response to the following (replies initially screened; will unscreen and explain Wednesday):

Without looking, summarize what happened at Mount Sinai according to the torah, starting with God beginning to speak and ending with the golden calf. I'm looking for up to a few sentences, not detailed essays. (You can skip the building of the calf.)

If you like, please also say how you identify religiously (or that you don't).

Edit: Comments no longer initially screened. Also, there was one comment that the poster asked me to keep screened, which I thought I had done, but it's gone now. If I screwed that up, I apologize!

Comments

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

Okay. God "set before [us] the blessing and the curse, even life and death". He told us to "choose life". Moses went up the mountain for 40 days; the people grew restless, feeling that they had been forsaken by God and/or Moses, and demanded that Aaron make a god for them to worship; they contributed their jewelry and what they had taken from the Egyptians and a golden calf was made from this. They were in the throes of worshipping this calf when Moses appeared, radiant, with the tablets of the Law that God had given him on the mountain. Seeing the goings-on, he threw the tablets down and shattered them.