Raiders of the Lost Ark claims examined - Part 2

Continuing on with our exploration of the claims from the Raiders of the Lost Ark, we come again to the scene where Indiana Jones and his buddy Marcus Brody are chatting with some g-men about hit'er's interest in the Ark of the Covenant.

• Large G-man: What does this ark look like?
• Jones: well, there's a picture of it right here. That's it.
• Small G-man: My God.
• Brody: Yes, that's just what the Hebrews thought.
• Large G-man: Well uh, now, what's that supposed to be coming out of there?
• Jones: Lightning, fire, power of God or something.
• Small G-man: I'm beginning to understand Hitler's interest in this.
• Brody: The bible speaks of the ark leveling mountains and laying waste to entire regions. An army which carries the ark before it is invincible.

<tangent>I don't know what book that was Jones had, or how he could flip to the page in the middle of the book so quickly, or who drew the picture, but I know it wasn't a photo, and I don't think you could see much of the ark around the priests in the picture.</tangent>

Really, Brody, you think the army is invincible because it has the ark? That's what Hophni and Phinehas thought too. If the writers had read this story, they may have changed Brody's wording slightly. It seems to me that they would do well to let Hitler have the ark, it would be more dangerous to his own army than anyone else (but I'm getting ahead of myself).

But Brody makes some serious claims about the Ark of the Covenant. But what do we know it actually did?

• It can part the river Jordan at flood stage
• It can level city walls
• It can break statues
• It can ruin your day, cause people close by to die and also give them tumors in the groin 
• It can cause an out break of rats to accompany the tumors
• It can override mother instincts
• It can strike you down for looking in
• It can strike you down for touching it
• It can make kings spare your life

All this in a pretty package. I bet it was beautiful.