[mariuolo]

I don't know if this article is supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, but Amodei is clearly the patronymic form of Amedeo or Amadeus (Lover of God).

If the rest of his etymological analyses are on par, they can't be taken seriously.

Unless the author wanted to demostrate that by playing with words one can prove anything.

[joenot443]

> Unless the author wanted to demonstrate that by playing with words one can prove anything.

I think that roughly is what Scott is going for here. It's not one of his more interesting pieces, I ended up skipping the latter half, but my understanding is he's angling to show that given some fuzzy descriptor, with enough imagination and wordplay you can take an idea pretty far. He's written before about esoteric numerology and gematria, I think it's just something he finds fascinating, from a secular POV.

This is Scott's sense of humor, it's not meant to be taken seriously.

[skeezyjefferson]

> Unless the author wanted to demonstrate that by playing with words one can prove anything.

not to be facetious but what hes doing is what most of the popular religions do - come up with your own "interpretation" or "reading" of the text. how popular would any major religion be if it was stuck with its original BCE values, ethics and beliefs? They would be dead. They must change with the times.

Why is any "reading" of the bible more valid than the next? This guy is a pastor