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  • DistroMan 20:00 on November 30, 2010 Permalink
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    Deuteronomy 7: Driving out the Nations 

    Deuteronomy: Part 7 of 34
    Driving Out the Nations

    1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—

    You should thank your god that you aren’t one of those poor people who are being killed for no reason other than to get you to cower in fear and praise him.

    2 and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.

    And yet he calls himself a merciful god.  How is this obeying the Sixth Commandment?

    3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

    4 for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods, and the LORD’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you.

    They probably wouldn’t if you really were a loving and merciful god instead of a loveless and merciless god.

    5 This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire.

    Barbaric.

    6 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

    Yeah, playing favourites.  That’s not a nice thing to teach people.

    7 The LORD did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

    8 But it was because the LORD loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

    That still doesn’t explain why he chose them in the first place.

    9 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.

    This ‘thousand generations’ bit is just a load of bullshit.  He’ll stop loving and looking after the first generation to give up on him and stop worrying about doing everything he asks.  What he’s really saying is he’ll look after you and your offspring as long as you bow down and kiss his backside everyday of your life, but if you don’t you’re freaking dead.  Buzzard bait.  He’d do you in as soon as you did something he didn’t like.

    10 But those who hate him he will repay to their face by destruction; he will not be slow to repay to their face those who hate him.

    See?

    11 Therefore, take care to follow the commands, decrees and laws I give you today.

    12 If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the LORD your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your ancestors.

    13 He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land—your grain, new wine and olive oil—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.

    Increasing your numbers again.  Diddling your women.  Pervert.

    14 You will be blessed more than any other people; none of your men or women will be childless, nor will any of your livestock be without young.

    Ok, leaving that one alone and moving on…

    15 The LORD will keep you free from every disease. He will not inflict on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but he will inflict them on all who hate you.

    If he is going to keep you free from disease, then how come all the laws covering diseases earlier?

    16 You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God gives over to you. Do not look on them with pity and do not serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

    No pity, no love, no mercy.  That’s the God I’ve come to know and hate.

    17 You may say to yourselves, “These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?”

    18 But do not be afraid of them; remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.

    Yeah, he shat on them from a great height and called it good.

    19 You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand and outstretched arm, with which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.

    If that is so, then how come the Israelite people have suffered so much hardship ever since?

    20 Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet among them until even the survivors who hide from you have perished.

    Still hasn’t happened.

    21 Do not be terrified by them, for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God.

    Yeah, so awesome he can’t protect his ‘chosen’ against suicide bombers.  Not that omnipotent now are you dude?

    22 The LORD your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little. You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you.

    If you really were so powerful as you keep on saying, then why not kill some of the wild animals as well?  <sounds of crickets>

    23 But the LORD your God will deliver them over to you, throwing them into great confusion until they are destroyed.

    24 He will give their kings into your hand, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand up against you; you will destroy them.

    Hasn’t happened.

    25 The images of their gods you are to burn in the fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the LORD your God.

    If that were true you wouldn’t have had so much gold etc used in that idiotic temple and ark you had them build for you.  Vanity, they name is God.

    26 Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. Regard it as vile and utterly detest it, for it is set apart for destruction.

    This really shows how backward this idiotic book really is.  Things, items, objects, are NOT vile or evil or detestable.  They are just objects.  The crap this book projects onto items comes from the minds of delusional fools.  It is all mind made and can be undone the same way.

    The more I read of this book, the more I despair for the future of this planet unless we legislate to keep religion out of government, education and the rest of the public sphere.  Let the delusional go to church and bible study, but keep it away from the rest of us.

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  • DistroMan 20:00 on November 29, 2010 Permalink
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    Deuteronomy 6: What? More laws? 

    Deuteronomy: Part 6 of 34
    Love the LORD Your God

    1 These are the commands, decrees and laws the LORD your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,

    These ten commandments are growing.  Who taught you lot to count?

    2 so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the LORD your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life.

    A short life lived with love and contentment is much preferable to a long life lived with fear and repression.

    3 Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, promised you.

    I don’t need the winning lottery ticket to be happy.  Just freedom, love and justice.

    4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.

    One what?  I have a few suggestions.

    5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

    If he was real, I would have to despise him.  Anyone who acts in the manner he has doesn’t deserve love.

    6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.

    7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

    Good idea.  That’s the best way to create more atheists.

    8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

    9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

    Not likely.  I’d be locked up in a looney bin.

    10 When the LORD your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build,

    No, you murdered their citizens and stole their belongings.

    11 houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—then when you eat and are satisfied,

    I don’t know how God’s little army of sock puppets can live with themselves considering the atrocities they have either committed in his name themselves or silently approved of by following him.

    12 be careful that you do not forget the LORD, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

    13 Fear the LORD your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name.

    I’d trust someone who gave me ‘their’ word over someone who is delusional enough to think I’d believe their oath taken in the name of a mythical creature.

    14 Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you;

    Very good.  I won’t.  :)

    15 for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land.

    16 Do not put the LORD your God to the test as you did at Massah.

    I’m easily over halfway through my life and I’ve been putting God to the test all that time.  He’s a myth.  A moron.  A destestable son-of-a-bitch and he can go screw himself for all I care.  Test?  He fails.

    17 Be sure to keep the commands of the LORD your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you.

    18 Do what is right and good in the LORD’s sight, so that it may go well with you and you may go in and take over the good land the LORD promised on oath to your ancestors,

    Keep your rules, your laws, your commandments and let the people who rightly own the land keep that.  THAT would be good.

    19 thrusting out all your enemies before you, as the LORD said.

    Holding others as your enemy makes you their enemy.  Putting a stop to the circle of hatred sounds a far better proposition to me.

    20 In the future, when your son asks you, “What is the meaning of the stipulations, decrees and laws the LORD our God has commanded you?”

    You can tell him it is for power hungry dictators who are happier to kill and steal than do a decent days work to provide for themselves.  They are parasites.

    21 tell him: “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

    You were slaves because God allowed you to be.  If he was so powerful, that would not have happened in the first place.  People that either allow bad things to happen to others so they can save them or protect them, or willfully put them in that position so they can save them or protect them are criminals themselves.  We have laws covering that today.  :)

    22 Before our eyes the LORD sent signs and wonders—great and terrible—on Egypt and Pharaoh and his whole household.

    He sent plagues on the Insraelites too.  He made the Pharoah mistreat the Israelites.  It’s just a protection racket.

    23 But he brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the land he promised on oath to our ancestors.

    24 The LORD commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the LORD our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today.

    I wouldn’t be so sure of that.  I don’t see them living in safety and security at all.

    25 And if we are careful to obey all this law before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness.”

    No, that will be your delusion.

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  • DistroMan 20:00 on November 28, 2010 Permalink
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    Deuteronomy 5: The Ten Commandments 

    Deuteronomy: Part 5 of 34
    The Ten Commandments

    1 Moses summoned all Israel and said: Hear, Israel, the decrees and laws I declare in your hearing today. Learn them and be sure to follow them.

    That’s what you said last time and it was rubbish, so I’m not expecting much this time.

    2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

    Blah, blah, blah.

    3 It was not with our ancestors that the LORD made this covenant, but with us, with all of us who are alive here today.

    He might do better if he made a covenant with humanity as a whole and stopped playing favourites.  Parent’s who do that are bad parents.

    4 The LORD spoke to you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.

    Fire to face is NOT face to face.  You’ve just recently stated that the Israelites have not seen God.  Get your story straight.

    5 (At that time I stood between the LORD and you to declare to you the word of the LORD, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain.) And he said:

    You stood between them so they Israelites couldn’t see you were faking it.

    6 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

    Only to take slaves.  How about, ‘Do not do unto others as you would not want them to do unto you’?

    7 “You shall have no other gods before me.

    Is after ok?

    8 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.

    What?  I can’t have a picture of a fish?  Or a blind mole rat?  Not even an amoeba?

    9 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

    You’ve done nothing.  You are impotent.  You are a figment of over fertile imaginations and should be treated as a disease of the mind.

    10 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

    Sock Puppets.

    11 “You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.

    Screw God.  Donkey dung has more uses.  GOD turned around is DOG, so if I turn my dog around I should see you I suppose.  Yep there you are.  An arsehole.

    12 “Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.

    Taking a day off is fine, but I’m not wasting it on you.

    13 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

    Five will do fine thankyou.  I’m no overachiever.

    14 but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your ox, your donkey or any of your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns, so that your male and female servants may rest, as you do.

    Then I ask you about your priests, who work every sunday.  What about them?

    15 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.

    You kept them there for longer than was necessary and made them suffer to a greater degree than would otherwise have been the case.  For what?  Just to get your jollies?  Not to mention that you too the place of their owner.  You are the slave owner now.

    16 “Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

    I honour and respect those who deserve it.  To continue to have that honour and respect, one should earn it.  There is no sense in respecting or honouring those who beat, enslave or otherwise do harm to you, whether or not they are your parents.

    17 “You shall not murder.

    Then why have you had the Israelites murder so many millions of people?

    18 “You shall not commit adultery.

    Then why have you diddled other men’s wives?

    19 “You shall not steal.

    Then why have you made the Israelites take what is not rightfully theirs?

    20 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

    You made the Pharoah act in a way that was not in his nature.  That is as good as giving false testimony.  You had people believing those were his actions when in fact they were yours.

    21 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor’s house or land, his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

    Then why have the Israelites take women and girls from other nations, take their land, take their servants, take their ox, donkeys, sheep, lambs, goats and camels and everything else they could lay their hands on?

    22 These are the commandments the LORD proclaimed in a loud voice to your whole assembly there on the mountain from out of the fire, the cloud and the deep darkness; and he added nothing more. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

    Why ask you not to do things he has just taught you to do?

    23 When you heard the voice out of the darkness, while the mountain was ablaze with fire, all the leaders of your tribes and your elders came to me.

    24 And you said, “The LORD our God has shown us his glory and his majesty, and we have heard his voice from the fire. Today we have seen that a person can live even if God speaks with them.

    25 But now, why should we die? This great fire will consume us, and we will die if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer.

    26 For what mortal has ever heard the voice of the living God speaking out of fire, as we have, and survived?

    27 Go near and listen to all that the LORD our God says. Then tell us whatever the LORD our God tells you. We will listen and obey.”

    Sock Puppets.

    28 The LORD heard you when you spoke to me, and the LORD said to me, “I have heard what this people said to you. Everything they said was good.

    29 Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!

    Why do you need fear so much?  Why not love?

    30 “Go, tell them to return to their tents.

    31 But you stay here with me so that I may give you all the commands, decrees and laws you are to teach them to follow in the land I am giving them to possess.”

    The land you are taking from it’s rightful owners and giving to them.

    32 So be careful to do what the LORD your God has commanded you; do not turn aside to the right or to the left.

    No, turn right around and run like the wind.  Run Forest, Run.

    33 Walk in obedience to all that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.

    With the blood of millions on your conscience for the rest of your miserable lives.

    The Ten Commandments have either been broken by God himself or the Israelites at God’s command. What a load of pig’s swill this book is turning out to be. The hypocrisy is mind blowing.

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  • DistroMan 20:00 on November 27, 2010 Permalink
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    Deuteronomy 4: The Crap Continues 

    Deuteronomy: Part 4 of 34
    Obedience Commanded

    1 Now, Israel, hear the decrees and laws I am about to teach you. Follow them so that you may live and may go in and take possession of the land the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.

    Why laws?  Why didn’t God just make us in such a way so that we would just live in this manner naturally?  Why all the hype and drama?

    2 Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the LORD your God that I give you.

    He gives us freewill, but doesn’t allow us to use it without the penalty of death etc.  Very repressive I must say.

    3 You saw with your own eyes what the LORD did at Baal Peor. The LORD your God destroyed from among you everyone who followed the Baal of Peor,

    Not one of his best moments.

    4 but all of you who held fast to the LORD your God are still alive today.

    Veiled threat.

    5 See, I have taught you decrees and laws as the LORD my God commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land you are entering to take possession of it.

    Become the slaughterers of women and children and I will give you land.  Very nice.  NOT!

    6 Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding to the nations, who will hear about all these decrees and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

    Slaughtering millions of men, women and children does not make someone wise and understanding.   It makes them God’s evil minions.

    7 What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the LORD our God is near us whenever we pray to him?

    So you are admitting there are other gods?  Don’t let the boss hear that.

    8 And what other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and laws as this body of laws I am setting before you today?

    Probably most.  Everybody was making laws that allowed their citizenry to live comfortably with each other.  It just takes a while of trial and error.  All God did was take laws that others had already made anyway and call them his own.  Not to mention that they aren’t all that great.

    9 Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.

    We remember what we are taught, not the lessons learnt by the previous generations.  We know from history that we have to relearn many things ourselves, so this is not a great help.

    10 Remember the day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when he said to me, “Assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children.”

    Here Moses states that the people were standing there when God said, “Assemble the people”.  Why would an all knowing God say such a stupid thing?  Dumb book.

    11 You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain while it blazed with fire to the very heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.

    12 Then the LORD spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of words but saw no form; there was only a voice.

    Why did he feel the need to be such a drama queen?

    13 He declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments, which he commanded you to follow and then wrote them on two stone tablets.

    Where are these tablets?

    14 And the LORD directed me at that time to teach you the decrees and laws you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

    So why haven’t you done so?

    Idolatry Forbidden

    15 You saw no form of any kind the day the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire. Therefore watch yourselves very carefully,

    16 so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman,

    17 or like any animal on earth or any bird that flies in the air,

    18 or like any creature that moves along the ground or any fish in the waters below.

    But God has already stated that he made us in his image.  Why do that and then say this rubbish?

    19 And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars—all the heavenly array—do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.

    At least the sun and stars can be seen, unlike this God of yours.

    20 But as for you, the LORD took you and brought you out of the iron-smelting furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of his inheritance, as you now are.

    If Egypt is so bad, why make it in the first place?  Why not bring the Egyptians out as well?  Why choose the Israelites over the Egyptians or anyone else for that matter?

    21 The LORD was angry with me because of you, and he solemnly swore that I would not cross the Jordan and enter the good land the LORD your God is giving you as your inheritance.

    Yet another attempt by Moses to apportion blame where it does not belong.

    I will die in this land; I will not cross the Jordan; but you are about to cross over and take possession of that good land.

    23 Be careful not to forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the LORD your God has forbidden.

    24 For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

    Jealousy is a bad thing in itself, so why is God, who is supposed to be perfect himself, capable of jealousy?

    25 After you have had children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time—if you then become corrupt and make any kind of idol, doing evil in the eyes of the LORD your God and arousing his anger,

    Anger.  Yet another bad emotion.

    26 I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live there long but will certainly be destroyed.

    And even though they have committed these ‘sins’, they still live there.  Oh my.  I wonder what happened?

    27 The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

    Hey, we all scatter.  It’s what we do as humans.

    28 There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.

    Or kill you for forgetting to chop off your son’s foreskin.

    29 But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.

    After all the things he has done to people, I’d think they would want to forget him and let him fade away as is the proper thing to do as you grow up and leave childish beliefs behind.

    30 When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and obey him.

    At least the Tooth Fairy left money.

    31 For the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your ancestors, which he confirmed to them by oath.

    Being kind to people who are only a bunch of sock puppets obeying even the most base of your wishes is not being merciful.  Merciful is being able to forgive them and forgo punishing them when they stray.  So far I haven’t seen mercy from this vengeful bastard.

    The LORD Is God

    32 Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?

    I suppose in South America in the time of the Aztecs, when they sacrificed virgins and the crops were good the next season, they thought things were great.  I expect when the American Indians talked to their Sky Spirits and the Buffalo were plentiful they also thought things were great.

    33 Has any other people heard the voice of God speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived?

    Considering this lot had never left the small part of the world in which they lived, it is doubtful they’d have heard of many of the miraculous things happening around the globe.

    34 Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation, by testings, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, or by great and awesome deeds, like all the things the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

    Every army that ever went to war and won and prayed beforehand to their gods thought that it was because they prayed and obeyed.  Religions always blame the bad on the sins of the followers and the good on their god.  How can you argue against that kind of stupidity?  Morons.

    35 You were shown these things so that you might know that the LORD is God; besides him there is no other.

    36 From heaven he made you hear his voice to discipline you. On earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from out of the fire.

    Nobody heard anything whatsoever.  This is just storybook tale.  It could as easily be about dragons riding fairies into the evil abyss and overcoming the evil and ugly goblins that lived there.  Then you’d have idiots running around in skirts believing that rubbish.  Grow up and put away childish things.

    37 Because he loved your ancestors and chose their descendants after them, he brought you out of Egypt by his Presence and his great strength,

    But why did he love them and not all beings on this planet?

    38 to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you into their land to give it to you for your inheritance, as it is today.

    But those nations tamed the land.  They owned it and cherished it.  They looked after it and made it as good as it is so that you could covet it yourself.  Also, coveting is another problem.  Why is it that he teaches you to kill, rape, own slaves, covet, be jealous etc?

    39 Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other.

    You already admitted there is other gods.  Make up your mind.

    40 Keep his decrees and commands, which I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may live long in the land the LORD your God gives you for all time.

    They aren’t really doing a good job of looking after it though.

    Cities of Refuge

    41 Then Moses set aside three cities east of the Jordan,

    42 to which anyone who had killed a person could flee if they had unintentionally killed a neighbor without malice aforethought. They could flee into one of these cities and save their life.

    43 The cities were these: Bezer in the wilderness plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.

    Yes, but then they’d have to stay there.  Even innocent people aren’t free under your laws.

    Introduction to the Law

    44 This is the law Moses set before the Israelites.

    45 These are the stipulations, decrees and laws Moses gave them when they came out of Egypt

    46 and were in the valley near Beth Peor east of the Jordan, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon and was defeated by Moses and the Israelites as they came out of Egypt.

    47 They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan.

    48 This land extended from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge to Mount Sirion (that is, Hermon),

    49 and included all the Arabah east of the Jordan, as far as the Dead Sea, below the slopes of Pisgah.

    More geography lessons.

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  • DistroMan 20:00 on November 26, 2010 Permalink
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    Deuteronomy 3: The Crap Continues 

    Deuteronomy: Part 3 of 34
    Defeat of Og King of Bashan

    1 Next we turned and went up along the road toward Bashan, and Og king of Bashan with his whole army marched out to meet us in battle at Edrei.

    2 The LORD said to me, “Do not be afraid of him, for I have delivered him into your hands, along with his whole army and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.”

    3 So the LORD our God also gave into our hands Og king of Bashan and all his army. We struck them down, leaving no survivors.

    Where is the tenderness, concern and compassion for your fellow man?

    4 At that time we took all his cities. There was not one of the sixty cities that we did not take from them—the whole region of Argob, Og’s kingdom in Bashan.

    5 All these cities were fortified with high walls and with gates and bars, and there were also a great many unwalled villages.

    6 We completely destroyed them, as we had done with Sihon king of Heshbon, destroying every city—men, women and children.

    To think about this deeply and to try and understand what this would have been like is hard, but still, it’s sickening in it’s brutality.  We condemn people for much less these days, while at the same time call this a ‘good book’ and base our lives around it’s stories.  Truly atrocious.

    7 But all the livestock and the plunder from their cities we carried off for ourselves.

    8 So at that time we took from these two kings of the Amorites the territory east of the Jordan, from the Arnon Gorge as far as Mount Hermon.

    9 (Hermon is called Sirion by the Sidonians; the Amorites call it Senir.)

    10 We took all the towns on the plateau, and all Gilead, and all Bashan as far as Salekah and Edrei, towns of Og’s kingdom in Bashan.

    11 (Og king of Bashan was the last of the Rephaites. His bed was decorated with iron and was more than nine cubits long and four cubits wide. It is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)

    Who bloody cares about his freaking bed?  Do you base your actions towards others based on the size of their bed?  Colour me dumfounded!

    Division of the Land

    12 Of the land that we took over at that time, I gave the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory north of Aroer by the Arnon Gorge, including half the hill country of Gilead, together with its towns.

    13 The rest of Gilead and also all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (The whole region of Argob in Bashan used to be known as a land of the Rephaites.

    14 Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maakathites; it was named after him, so that to this day Bashan is called Havvoth Jair.

    15 And I gave Gilead to Makir.

    16 But to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory extending from Gilead down to the Arnon Gorge (the middle of the gorge being the border) and out to the Jabbok River, which is the border of the Ammonites.

    17 Its western border was the Jordan in the Arabah, from Kinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea), below the slopes of Pisgah.

    What is this?  A freaking geography lesson?

    18 I commanded you at that time: “The LORD your God has given you this land to take possession of it. But all your able-bodied men, armed for battle, must cross over ahead of the other Israelites.

    19 However, your wives, your children and your livestock (I know you have much livestock) may stay in the towns I have given you,

    20 until the LORD gives rest to your fellow Israelites as he has to you, and they too have taken over the land that the LORD your God is giving them across the Jordan. After that, each of you may go back to the possession I have given you.”

    If God was able to convince the whole Israelite nation to pack up and move, why couldn’t he have done the same for these people instead of having them all slaughtered.  If he’s been taking care of us right from the beginning, why not just have people settle in the areas set aside for them in the first place?  How can the slaughter of millions of men, women and children be a part of his plan?  To what end?

    Moses Forbidden to Cross the Jordan

    21 At that time I commanded Joshua: “You have seen with your own eyes all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings. The LORD will do the same to all the kingdoms over there where you are going.

    22 Do not be afraid of them; the LORD your God himself will fight for you.”

    Performing magic tricks is not fighting.

    23 At that time I pleaded with the LORD:

    24 “Sovereign LORD, you have begun to show to your servant your greatness and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do the deeds and mighty works you do?

    25 Let me go over and see the good land beyond the Jordan—that fine hill country and Lebanon.”

    26 But because of you the LORD was angry with me and would not listen to me. “That is enough,” the LORD said. “Do not speak to me anymore about this matter.

    Not very open minded or accommodating.

    27 Go up to the top of Pisgah and look west and north and south and east. Look at the land with your own eyes, since you are not going to cross this Jordan.

    28 But commission Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he will lead this people across and will cause them to inherit the land that you will see.”

    29 So we stayed in the valley near Beth Peor.

    You should all have stayed home in the first place instead of following some delusional lunatic around the desert for 40 years.  Morons.

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  • DistroMan 20:00 on November 25, 2010 Permalink
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    Deuteronomy 2: The Crap Continues 

    Deuteronomy: Part 2 of 34
    Wanderings in the Wilderness

    1 Then we turned back and set out toward the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea, as the LORD had directed me. For a long time we made our way around the hill country of Seir.

    It was very nice when we stopped at a caravan park.  Such lovely neighbours.  The wife and I took out the doubles championship in the eight legged race with a camel.  We’re thinking of going back next year.

    2 Then the LORD said to me,

    Do we have any deckchairs?

    3 “You have made your way around this hill country long enough; now turn north.

    Harumph!  Can’t even say please.  How wude!

    4 Give the people these orders: ‘You are about to pass through the territory of your relatives the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, but be very careful.

    5 Do not provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, not even enough to put your foot on. I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his own.

    6 You are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.’”

    7 The LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you, and you have not lacked anything.

    Except freedom of choice, equality, life without fear, etc…

    8 So we went on past our relatives the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned from the Arabah road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion Geber, and traveled along the desert road of Moab.

    9 Then the LORD said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any part of their land. I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.”

    10 (The Emites used to live there—a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites.

    And they were driven off their land as well?  Wouldn’t surprise me.

    11 Like the Anakites, they too were considered Rephaites, but the Moabites called them Emites.

    12 Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land the LORD gave them as their possession.)

    Well, that answers my question.  Typical.

    13 And the LORD said, “Now get up and cross the Zered Valley.” So we crossed the valley.

    When he said dig latrines you did that too, but what the hell has this to do with being a good person?  Running around the countryside slaughtering the innocent just makes you a bad person/people/nation.

    14 Thirty-eight years passed from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.

    Of course he couldn’t just allow them to go back where they came from and live out their lives.

    15 The LORD’s hand was against them until he had completely eliminated them from the camp.

    It’s what he does best.

    16 Now when the last of these fighting men among the people had died,

    17 the LORD said to me,

    18 “Today you are to pass by the region of Moab at Ar.

    There thou shalt take a dump.  It will be known as Dumpasmelione.

    19 When you come to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them to war, for I will not give you possession of any land belonging to the Ammonites. I have given it as a possession to the descendants of Lot.”

    20 (That too was considered a land of the Rephaites, who used to live there; but the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.

    21 They were a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites. The LORD destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place.

    And on it goes.  Kill, rape, pillage.

    22 The LORD had done the same for the descendants of Esau, who lived in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day.

    23 And as for the Avvites who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorites coming out from Caphtor destroyed them and settled in their place.)

    Defeat of Sihon King of Heshbon

    24 “Set out now and cross the Arnon Gorge. See, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his country. Begin to take possession of it and engage him in battle.

    I still want to know why God prefers blood and guts instead of just snapping his finger and either putting them somewhere else on the planet or zapping them out of existence.

    25 This very day I will begin to put the terror and fear of you on all the nations under heaven. They will hear reports of you and will tremble and be in anguish because of you.”

    Doesn’t sound a very nice thing to do to people.

    26 From the Desert of Kedemoth I sent messengers to Sihon king of Heshbon offering peace and saying,

    27 “Let us pass through your country. We will stay on the main road; we will not turn aside to the right or to the left.

    28 Sell us food to eat and water to drink for their price in silver. Only let us pass through on foot—

    29 as the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, did for us—until we cross the Jordan into the land the LORD our God is giving us.”

    30 But Sihon king of Heshbon refused to let us pass through. For the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to give him into your hands, as he has now done.

    Right there.  The King was willing to do the right thing and allow you free passage, but no, not good enough for God.  He has to change the game and have them killed.

    31 The LORD said to me, “See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his country over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land.”

    32 When Sihon and all his army came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz,

    33 the LORD our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, together with his sons and his whole army.

    34 At that time we took all his towns and completely destroyed them—men, women and children. We left no survivors.

    Oh so proud of your accomplishments too I see.  God must be pleased.

    35 But the livestock and the plunder from the towns we had captured we carried off for ourselves.

    36 From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the gorge, even as far as Gilead, not one town was too strong for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.

    37 But in accordance with the command of the LORD our God, you did not encroach on any of the land of the Ammonites, neither the land along the course of the Jabbok nor that around the towns in the hills.

    Evil bastards ruled by an evil god.

    Aren’t you glad this is just a fairy tale?  :)

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  • DistroMan 20:00 on November 24, 2010 Permalink
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    Deuteronomy 1: The Crap Continues 

    Deuteronomy: Part 1 of 34
    The Command to Leave Horeb

    1 These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan—that is, in the Arabah—opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab.

    Right near a little brown pebble that looked remarkably like another little brown pebble that he stood near a long time ago in a land far, far away.

    2 (It takes eleven days to go from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by the Mount Seir road.)

    About 30 minutes by helicopter.

    3 In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them.

    Hey you’s, listen up!  Dis is wot Da Boss said!

    4 This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, and at Edrei had defeated Og king of Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth.

    Who defeated them?  Who did the fighting?

    5 East of the Jordan in the territory of Moab, Moses began to expound this law, saying:

    6 The LORD our God said to us at Horeb, “You have stayed long enough at this mountain.

    Would you like a change of scenery Bob?

    7 Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the Euphrates.

    Yes, go to them and ask them nicely if they would mind giving up all that they own and all that they have known all their lives just so you can live there.  You do that.

    8 See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession of the land the LORD swore he would give to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—and to their descendants after them.”

    He didn’t give it to them.  He’d have had to have given them possession of the land, which he didn’t.  What a con.  By the time they did have possession of the land, they had to fight to get it themselves.  God didn’t give it to them at all.

    The Appointment of Leaders

    9 At that time I said to you, “You are too heavy a burden for me to carry alone.

    10 The LORD your God has increased your numbers so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.

    Great astronomers you weren’t.

    11 May the LORD, the God of your ancestors, increase you a thousand times and bless you as he has promised!

    And how did he increase you a thousand times?  Did he diddle your women?  Wouldn’t be the first time.

    12 But how can I bear your problems and your burdens and your disputes all by myself?

    13 Choose some wise, understanding and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will set them over you.”

    If they choose them, then they are setting them over themselves.  Good going Moses, you are learning really well from God.  Now you’re taking the credit for what others do.

    14 You answered me, “What you propose to do is good.”

    15 So I took the leading men of your tribes, wise and respected men, and appointed them to have authority over you—as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens and as tribal officials.

    And what happened when they came to you and complained about something?  God killed them.  Great lot of good it was.

    16 And I charged your judges at that time, “Hear the disputes between your people and judge fairly, whether the case is between two Israelites or between an Israelite and a foreigner residing among you.

    17 Do not show partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be afraid of anyone, for judgment belongs to God. Bring me any case too hard for you, and I will hear it.”

    18 And at that time I told you everything you were to do.

    Sock puppets.

    Spies Sent Out

    19 Then, as the LORD our God commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites through all that vast and dreadful wilderness that you have seen, and so we reached Kadesh Barnea.

    20 Then I said to you, “You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.

    21 See, the LORD your God has given you the land. Go up and take possession of it as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, told you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”

    Take possession of what did not rightfully belong to them.

    22 Then all of you came to me and said, “Let us send men ahead to spy out the land for us and bring back a report about the route we are to take and the towns we will come to.”

    23 The idea seemed good to me; so I selected twelve of you, one man from each tribe.

    Yeah, nothing like spying on your neighbours to create goodwill and understanding.  Oh, sorry.  You weren’t interested in any of that ‘friendly nations’ thing were you.  Just kill, rape and pillage.

    24 They left and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshkol and explored it.

    25 Taking with them some of the fruit of the land, they brought it down to us and reported, “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”

    Rebellion Against the LORD

    26 But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.

    27 You grumbled in your tents and said, “The LORD hates us; so he brought us out of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us.

    28 Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt in fear. They say, ‘The people are stronger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the sky. We even saw the Anakites there.’”

    29 Then I said to you, “Do not be terrified; do not be afraid of them.

    30 The LORD your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as he did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes,

    31 and in the wilderness. There you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.”

    32 In spite of this, you did not trust in the LORD your God,

    Which is an absolute load of bullshit.  Any people that had have seen what your fairygodfather had done for them, would not react in this manner.

    33 who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go.

    34 When the LORD heard what you said, he was angry and solemnly swore:

    I spit on your footsteps and hope your wives grow to look like your father-in-laws ugliest camel!

    35 “No one from this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your ancestors,

    Yes, you swore you would and then you changed your mind.  Some god you are.  Certainly can’t be trusted.

    36 except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land he set his feet on, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.”

    37 Because of you the LORD became angry with me also and said, “You shall not enter it, either.

    No, not because of them at all.  Moses should have said no to the spies in the first place.  That is what caused his problems.  He should accept the consequences of his own actions instead of trying to blame others.  Typical of this book though.  God and Moses never want to accept responsibility.

    38 But your assistant, Joshua son of Nun, will enter it. Encourage him, because he will lead Israel to inherit it.

    How do you know?  You’ve been wrong plenty of times before.

    39 And the little ones that you said would be taken captive, your children who do not yet know good from bad—they will enter the land. I will give it to them and they will take possession of it.

    They will fight for it and take possession of it themselves.

    40 But as for you, turn around and set out toward the desert along the route to the Red Sea.”

    41 Then you replied, “We have sinned against the LORD. We will go up and fight, as the LORD our God commanded us.” So every one of you put on his weapons, thinking it easy to go up into the hill country.

    42 But the LORD said to me, “Tell them, ‘Do not go up and fight, because I will not be with you. You will be defeated by your enemies.’”

    43 So I told you, but you would not listen. You rebelled against the LORD’s command and in your arrogance you marched up into the hill country.

    44 The Amorites who lived in those hills came out against you; they chased you like a swarm of bees and beat you down from Seir all the way to Hormah.

    45 You came back and wept before the LORD, but he paid no attention to your weeping and turned a deaf ear to you.

    Yeah, because he’s a compassionate bastard you know.  NOT!

    46 And so you stayed in Kadesh many days—all the time you spent there.

    They can’t go forward. What do you expect?

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  • DistroMan 20:00 on November 23, 2010 Permalink
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    Numbers: The Post Mortem 

    Numbers: What was it all about?

    Numbers was a bloody good name for this book of the bible.  All it boils down to is gloating about:

    • the amount of animals they have killed
    • the amount of people, adults and children, they have killed
    • how much land they have taken from the owners after killing them
    • how women are nothing but sex objects and slaves to the men
    • how God has nothing in mind but using humans to satisfy his own bloodlust and delusions of grandeur

    Whereas I saw Genesis as mostly idiotic nonsense from people that couldn’t have known better, Exodus as an atrocious story of victimisation against the Egyptians and Leviticus as a pathetic attempt to lay down laws as to how we should order our lives in the service of a mythical fairy tale character, Numbers has outdone them all in it’s barbaric and inhumane treatment of animals.  It then goes on to show how little they think of women and children.  When they kill everyone but female virgins, they say a lot about the type of people they are.

    God was supposed to have created us all, but he only helps a small percentage of the planets population.  They suffer under his vindictive dictatorship even when they are obeying his directions.

    After reading Numbers I am even more of the opinion that very few, very very few people, have ever really read the bible.  If they had then the numbers of religious followers would be so small as to make religion as inconsequential as I hope it will one day become.  I live in hope.

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  • DistroMan 20:00 on November 22, 2010 Permalink
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    Numbers 36: More laws and crap 

    Numbers: Part 36 of 36
    Inheritance of Zelophehad’s Daughters

    1 The family heads of the clan of Gilead son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, who were from the clans of the descendants of Joseph, came and spoke before Moses and the leaders, the heads of the Israelite families.

    2 They said, “When the LORD commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance to the Israelites by lot, he ordered you to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.

    As is only right.

    3 Now suppose they marry men from other Israelite tribes; then their inheritance will be taken from our ancestral inheritance and added to that of the tribe they marry into. And so part of the inheritance allotted to us will be taken away.

    4 When the Year of Jubilee for the Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to that of the tribe into which they marry, and their property will be taken from the tribal inheritance of our ancestors.”

    5 Then at the LORD’s command Moses gave this order to the Israelites: “What the tribe of the descendants of Joseph is saying is right.

    6 This is what the LORD commands for Zelophehad’s daughters: They may marry anyone they please as long as they marry within their father’s tribal clan.

    7 No inheritance in Israel is to pass from one tribe to another, for every Israelite shall keep the tribal inheritance of their ancestors.

    8 Every daughter who inherits land in any Israelite tribe must marry someone in her father’s tribal clan, so that every Israelite will possess the inheritance of their ancestors.

    9 No inheritance may pass from one tribe to another, for each Israelite tribe is to keep the land it inherits.”

    10 So Zelophehad’s daughters did as the LORD commanded Moses.

    11 Zelophehad’s daughters—Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milkah and Noah—married their cousins on their father’s side.

    12 They married within the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in their father’s tribe and clan.

    13 These are the commands and regulations the LORD gave through Moses to the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

    If the daughters got their inheritance in the same manner as the males and everyone gave up this idiotic notion of ‘tribes’, then what difference would any of this make?  The leaders of the tribes and clans are only trying to keep power or gain more due to their tribe or clan having more land or belongings.  These are exactly the reasons why there are conflicts to begin with.

    Give up these idiocies and the world would be a much better place.

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  • DistroMan 20:00 on November 21, 2010 Permalink
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    Numbers 35: More laws and crap 

    Numbers: Part 35 of 36
    Towns for the Levites

    1 On the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, the LORD said to Moses,

    Why does it matter where it was said?  Honestly, take out all the drivel, lies, murder, inhumane sacrifice, rape, genocide, gendercide, threats, plagues and wars and what do you have left?  A cover with the word ‘bible’ written on it.  Lame book.

    2 “Command the Israelites to give the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites will possess. And give them pasturelands around the towns.

    Places that rightly belonged to those you had the Israelites murder.

    3 Then they will have towns to live in and pasturelands for the cattle they own and all their other animals.

    Most of which belonged to those you had murdered.

    4 “The pasturelands around the towns that you give the Levites will extend a thousand cubits from the town wall.

    5 Outside the town, measure two thousand cubits on the east side, two thousand on the south side, two thousand on the west and two thousand on the north, with the town in the center. They will have this area as pastureland for the towns.

    WTF?  In ‘4‘ you said a thousand cubits from the wall and now in ‘5‘ you say two thousand cubits with the town in the centre.  That is a contradiction.  100% difference.  Some god you are.  Fail!!!

    Cities of Refuge

    6 “Six of the towns you give the Levites will be cities of refuge, to which a person who has killed someone may flee. In addition, give them forty-two other towns.

    Shouldn’t you be able to take refuge with the authorities in any town?

    7 In all you must give the Levites forty-eight towns, together with their pasturelands.

    8 The towns you give the Levites from the land the Israelites possess are to be given in proportion to the inheritance of each tribe: Take many towns from a tribe that has many, but few from one that has few.”

    9 Then the LORD said to Moses:

    Bob!  Dude!  Burn me some more of that lamb.  I’m losing my high.  :)

    10 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you cross the Jordan into Canaan,

    11 select some towns to be your cities of refuge, to which a person who has killed someone accidentally may flee.

    Six towns?  That many?  Just how much ‘accidental murder’ does God expect?

    12 They will be places of refuge from the avenger, so that anyone accused of murder may not die before they stand trial before the assembly.

    13 These six towns you give will be your cities of refuge.

    14 Give three on this side of the Jordan and three in Canaan as cities of refuge.

    15 These six towns will be a place of refuge for Israelites and for foreigners residing among them, so that anyone who has killed another accidentally can flee there.

    16 “‘If anyone strikes someone a fatal blow with an iron object, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death.

    17 Or if anyone is holding a stone and strikes someone a fatal blow with it, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death.

    18 Or if anyone is holding a wooden object and strikes someone a fatal blow with it, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death.

    19 The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death; when the avenger comes upon the murderer, the avenger shall put the murderer to death.

    20 If anyone with malice aforethought shoves another or throws something at them intentionally so that they die

    21 or if out of enmity one person hits another with their fist so that the other dies, that person is to be put to death; that person is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when they meet.

    22 “‘But if without enmity someone suddenly pushes another or throws something at them unintentionally

    23 or, without seeing them, drops on them a stone heavy enough to kill them, and they die, then since that other person was not an enemy and no harm was intended,

    24 the assembly must judge between the accused and the avenger of blood according to these regulations.

    25 The assembly must protect the one accused of murder from the avenger of blood and send the accused back to the city of refuge to which they fled. The accused must stay there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

    So, even if you are found innocent, if you fled to a city of refuge, you must stay there instead of going back home?

    26 “‘But if the accused ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which they fled

    27 and the avenger of blood finds them outside the city, the avenger of blood may kill the accused without being guilty of murder.

    28 The accused must stay in the city of refuge until the death of the high priest; only after the death of the high priest may they return to their own property.

    29 “‘This is to have the force of law for you throughout the generations to come, wherever you live.

    Pathetic piece of crap.  If I accidentally kill someone, ‘I’ have to flee to another town and hope I’m found innocent.  Even ‘if’ I’m found innocent I’m not allowed to go back home.  ‘IF’ I leave the confines of the city, the avenger is legally allowed to murder me, an innocent person.  How can it be called fair, to victimise the innocent, but allow someone else to murder that innocent person and go free?

    30 “‘Anyone who kills a person is to be put to death as a murderer only on the testimony of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.

    So a person could walk into another persons house where there are only two of them, murder one in front of the second, laugh in their face and then walk free.

    31 “‘Do not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer, who deserves to die. They are to be put to death.

    32 “‘Do not accept a ransom for anyone who has fled to a city of refuge and so allow them to go back and live on their own land before the death of the high priest.

    What has the death of the High Priest go to do with anything?  Why is that being used as a time limit?

    33 “‘Do not pollute the land where you are. Bloodshed pollutes the land, and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

    Oh my freaking dog!!!  You’ve been shedding blood all the way through the desert, every day and night, for any excuse you could come up with and now you are killing people in every city and town you come across.  You’ve covered the land with the blood of the innocent and NOW you say this?  So how are you going to atone for all the blood shed during the atrocities you’ve commanded the Israelites to commit?  Going by your command, each of the Israelites who killed someone must now die along with yourself.  Good.  F*&^ off and die you sick son of a bitch.

    34 Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell, for I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites.’”

    It is you,God, that defiles the land and the minds of the people who follow you.

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