[ars]

> Was he being serious or just trying to score some sympathy of Jews and Christians?

He's just ignorant. Jews would not vote for someone who knows so little about their history. Christians may not be as familiar with the history.

According to Jewish history Josef stored grain in the year 1532BCE, but the pyramids were mostly finished by 1759BCE, more than 200 years earlier.

The pyramids having anything whatsoever to do with the Exodus is a myth created by Hollywood, it is not a Jewish belief at all.

[nightspirit]

> The pyramids having anything whatsoever to do with the Exodus is a myth created by Hollywood, it is not a Jewish belief at all.

Any source? Google only returns articles about Carson, so it looks like it may be his idea.

edit: It seems to be an old story, easily predating both Carson and Hollywood.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/secret-chambers-grain-s...

[ars]

Source for which? For grain in general? For Josef supposedly being the one to store it? Or for the pyramids having nothing to do with the Jews being slaves in Egypt?

[nightspirit]

For Hollywood. You said that associating pyramids with Biblical events was their idea, so I thought that maybe there was some particular movie which spawned this meme.

[mcv]

I don't think it's created by Hollywood. I don't think it'd be all that odd to assume they might be the legendary grain silos when they'd just been found and hadn't been opened up yet. It's just that after they've been opened and examined, and we know a lot more about them, it's silly to cling to something that's so obviously false.

[ars]

The grain might not have been Hollywood.

I meant the idea that Jewish slaves built the pyramids. That idea comes from Hollywood, it is not a Jewish belief.