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  • DistroMan 20:00 on February 29, 2012 Permalink
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    Distro’s Bible Commentary: An Index 

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    Genesis

    1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 – 12 – 13 – 14 – 15 – 16 – 17 – 18 – 19 – 20

    21 – 22 – 23 – 24 – 25 – 26 – 27 – 28 – 29 – 30 – 31 – 32 – 33 – 34 – 35 – 36 – 37 – 38 – 39 – 40

    41 – 42 – 43 – 44 – 45 – 46 – 47 – 48 – 49 – 50 – My thoughts on Genesis

    Exodus

    1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 – 12 – 13 – 14 – 15 – 16 – 17 – 18 – 19 – 20 – 21 – 22 – 23 – 24 – 25 – 26 – 27 – 28 – 29 – 30 – 31 – 32 – 33 – 34 – 35 – 36 – 37 – 38 – 39 – 40 – My thoughts on Exodus

    Leviticus

    1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 – 12 – 13 – 14 – 15 – 16 – 17 – 18 – 19 – 20 – 21 – 22 – 23 – 24 – 25 – 26 – 27 – My thoughts on Leviticus

    Numbers

    1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 – 12 – 13 – 14 – 15 – 16 – 17 – 18 – 19 – 20 – 21 – 22 – 23 – 24 – 25 – 26 – 27 – 28 – 29 – 30 – 31 – 32 – 33 – 34 – 35 – 36 – My thoughts on Numbers

    Deuteronomy

    1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 – 12 – 13 – 14 – 15 – 16 – 17 – 18 – 19 – 20 – 21 – 22 – 23 – 24 – 25 – 26 – 27 – 28 – 29 – 30 – 31 – 32 – 33 – 34 – My thoughts on Deuteronomy

    Joshua

    1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 – 12 – 13 – 14 – 15 – 16 – 17 – 18 – 19 – 20 – 21 – 22 – 23 – 24 – My thoughts on Joshua

    Judges

    1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 – 12 – 13 – 14 – 15 – 16 – 17 – 18 – 19 – 20 – 21 – My thoughts on Judges

    Ruth

    1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – My thoughts on Ruth

    1-Samuel

    1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 – 12 – 13 – 14 – 15 – 16 – 17 – 18 – 19 – 20 – 21 – 22 – 23 – 24 – 25 – 26 – 27 – 28 – 29 – 30 – 31 – My thoughts on 1-Samuel

    2-Samuel

    1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 – 12 – 13 – 14 – 15 – 16 – 17 – 18 – 19 – 20 – 21 – 22 – 23 – 24 – My thoughts on 2-Samuel

    1-Kings

    1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 – 12 – 13 – 14 – 15 – 16 – 17 – 18 – 19 – 20 – 21 – 22 – My thoughts on 1-Kings

    2-Kings

    1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 – 12 – 13 – 14 – 15 – 16 – 17 – 18 – 19 – 20 – 21 – 22 – 23 – 24 – 25 – My thoughts on 2-Kings

    1-Chronicles

    1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 – 12 – 13 – 14 – 15 – 16 – 17 – 18 – 19 – 20 – 21 – 22 – 23 – 24 – 25 – 26 – 27 – 28 – 29 – My thoughts on 1-Chronicles

    2-Chronicles

    1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 – 12 – 13 – 14 – 15 – 16 – 17 – 18 – 19 – 20 – 21 – 22 – 23 – 24 – 25 – 26 – 27 – 28 – 29 – 30 – 31 – 32 – 33 – 34 – 35 – 36 – My thoughts on 2-Chronicles

    Ezra

    1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – My thoughts on Ezra

    Nehemiah

    1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 – 12 – 13 – My thoughts on Nehemiah

    Esther

    1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – My thoughts on Esther

    Job

    1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 – 12 – 13 – 14 – 15 – 16 – 17 – 18 – 19 – 20 – 21 – 22 – 23 – 24 – 25 – 26 – 27 – 28 – 29 – 30 – 31 – 32 – 33 – 34 – 35 – 36 – 37 – 38 – 39 – 40 – 41 – 42 – My thoughts on Job

    Psalms

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  • DistroMan 20:00 on December 28, 2010 Permalink
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    Deuteronomy: The Post Mortem 

    Deuteronomy: What was it all about?

    Mostly, this book is nothing but hot air.  Lots of descriptions of going here and going there.  More I’ll do that if you do this from God.  The bloodshed has risen as against previous books and how much of that is to come remains to be seen.

    The most noticeable thing though is the lack of substance.  This is touted as a book to base your life upon.  It is a ‘moral compass’ can be heard from every corner of christendom, but they fail to back it up with any proof.  That is to be expected though, because turds floating in toilets don’t make good compasses.  I use that phrase because this book is a load of crap.  Nowhere is there to be found, so far at least, anything that could be rightfully called good advice.  I don’t count the section where you get told not to muzzle your ox while it’s working.  That is not about morals, but is a good example of how close the bible gets to being what it says it is.

    The amount of people killed on their journey is hard for me to calculate because numbers aren’t given.  All we do hear though is that they wipe out every living thing everywhere they go.  That is of course unless they need a few extra virgins in which case they spare them and divide them up like the spoils of war.  Even the priests get a few for their pleasure.

    There are now more instances of God and Moses admitting there are other gods.  Not just idols, but gods.

    The habit of naming everything and telling us where they are going is boring as hell.  If you were to sit down to study a subject and picked up a text book you would expect to get pertinent information.  This book gives you nothing.  Nobody could be expected to learn anything from it that could be termed useful.  Drain it, strain it, wring it out and the only good stuff left might fill a page or two.  If you are thinking that reading it will be time well spent, think again.  Half an hour at a library sifting through children’s books will give you a better grounding in what could be called right and wrong actions.  The lynchpin of the whole deal is the Ten Commandments and they are next to useless.  There isn’t a whole lot of good stuff in them and the ones that are were known before God made his appearance on the world stage.  Scraping up parts of what is already the moral code of the population and spreading it thinly through a book mainly to do with vile and barbaric behaviour is not how you should go about making a book of lessons about moral and ethical behaviour.  There is very little morals in this book and even less ethics.  So many times it contradicts itself.  How do you justify telling people not to kill when you are having them wipe out whole civilisations?  How do you get people to care for their families when you ask them to kill all the children and babies?  How do you get them to treat their animals humanely when you ask them to kill all the animals owned by those humans they slaughter?  How do you promote cleanliness when you promote the spraying of blood all over the place?  How do you promote freedom when you tell them to take slaves?  How do you expect people to live in harmony and peace when you place them at odds with each other?  How do you expect fairness when you play favourites?

    Onto Moses, he is lauded as the best thing that has happened to the Israelites.  God admits that everything will fall apart once Moses is gone, but then goes on to blame Moses for the wrongdoings of the Israelites and then kills him.  There’s gratitude for you.

    The bible is a sickening piece of trash.  It’s not good enough to be called bad literature.

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  • DistroMan 20:00 on December 27, 2010 Permalink
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    Deuteronomy 34: God murders Moses. 

    Deuteronomy: Part 34 of 34
    The Death of Moses

    1 Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. There the LORD showed him the whole land—from Gilead to Dan,

    2 all of Naphtali, the territory of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Mediterranean Sea,

    3 the Negev and the whole region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar.

    4 Then the LORD said to him, “This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it.”

    5 And Moses the servant of the LORD died there in Moab, as the LORD had said.

    Very childish and immature behaviour.  This is the same as showing a kid a nice sugary sweet and then scoffing it before his eyes and saying “Ner Ner, you can’t have it”!

    6 He buried him in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his grave is.

    And to this day there has never been one ounce of proof for God’s existence, let alone Moses’ grave.  Fairy Story.

    7 Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone.

    Nope, there was no reason for him to die except God’s insistence on being a prick.

    8 The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning was over.

    If there is a time set for such things, then you are doing it as a duty and not because you were sad.  Do it while you feel it, not for show.

    9 Now Joshua son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands on him. So the Israelites listened to him and did what the LORD had commanded Moses.

    10 Since then, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,

    11 who did all those signs and wonders the LORD sent him to do in Egypt—to Pharaoh and to all his officials and to his whole land.

    12 For no one has ever shown the mighty power or performed the awesome deeds that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.

    If he was the best, then there was even less reason to kill him.  Now when the people turn away, God has nobody but himself to blame.

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  • DistroMan 20:00 on December 26, 2010 Permalink
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    Deuteronomy 33: God – All words, no substance. 

    Deuteronomy: Part 33 of 34
    Moses Blesses the Tribes

    1 This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced on the Israelites before his death.

    2 He said:“The LORD came from Sinai and dawned over them from Seir; he shone forth from Mount Paran. He came with myriads of holy ones from the south, from his mountain slopes.

    Who are these myriads of holy ones?

    3 Surely it is you who love the people; all the holy ones are in your hand. At your feet they all bow down, and from you receive instruction,

    Again with the holy ones rubbish.

    4 the law that Moses gave us, the possession of the assembly of Jacob.

    Moses is talking about himself in the third person?

    5 He was king over Jeshurun when the leaders of the people assembled, along with the tribes of Israel.

    6 “Let Reuben live and not die, nor his people be few.”

    7 And this he said about Judah: “Hear, LORD, the cry of Judah; bring him to his people. With his own hands he defends his cause. Oh, be his help against his foes!”

    8 About Levi he said: “Your Thummim and Urim belong to your faithful servant. You tested him at Massah; you contended with him at the waters of Meribah.

    9 He said of his father and mother, ‘I have no regard for them.’ He did not recognize his brothers or acknowledge his own children, but he watched over your word and guarded your covenant.

    No regard for his parents?  Isn’t that breaking one of God’s laws?

    10 He teaches your precepts to Jacob and your law to Israel. He offers incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.

    11 Bless all his skills, LORD, and be pleased with the work of his hands.  Strike down those who rise against him, his foes till they rise no more.”

    12 About Benjamin he said: “Let the beloved of the LORD rest secure in him, for he shields him all day long, and the one the LORD loves rests between his shoulders.”

    13 About Joseph he said: “May the LORD bless his land with the precious dew from heaven above and with the deep waters that lie below;

    14 with the best the sun brings forth and the finest the moon can yield;

    15 with the choicest gifts of the ancient mountains and the fruitfulness of the everlasting hills;

    16 with the best gifts of the earth and its fullness and the favor of him who dwelt in the burning bush. Let all these rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince among his brothers.

    Lovely words and all that, but with no substance.

    17 In majesty he is like a firstborn bull; his horns are the horns of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even those at the ends of the earth. Such are the ten thousands of Ephraim; such are the thousands of Manasseh.”

    18 About Zebulun he said: “Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, and you, Issachar, in your tents.

    19 They will summon peoples to the mountain and there offer the sacrifices of the righteous; they will feast on the abundance of the seas, on the treasures hidden in the sand.”

    20 About Gad he said: “Blessed is he who enlarges Gad’s domain! Gad lives there like a lion, tearing at arm or head.

    21 He chose the best land for himself; the leader’s portion was kept for him. When the heads of the people assembled, he carried out the LORD’s righteous will, and his judgments concerning Israel.”

    Greed and avarice.  A fair person would have an equal share for themselves and thereby show that the people mean something to him and not there just to make more for him.

    22 About Dan he said: “Dan is a lion’s cub, springing out of Bashan.”

    23 About Naphtali he said: “Naphtali is abounding with the favor of the LORD and is full of his blessing; he will inherit southward to the lake.”

    24 About Asher he said: “Most blessed of sons is Asher; let him be favored by his brothers, and let him bathe his feet in oil.

    25 The bolts of your gates will be iron and bronze, and your strength will equal your days.

    26 “There is no one like the God of Jeshurun, who rides across the heavens to help you and on the clouds in his majesty.

    27 The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He will drive out your enemies before you, saying, ‘Destroy them!’

    Why did he put them there in the first place if not just to destroy them?  That is an evil act.

    28 So Israel will live in safety; Jacob will dwell secure in a land of grain and new wine, where the heavens drop dew.

    29 Blessed are you, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is your shield and helper and your glorious sword. Your enemies will cower before you, and you will tread on their heights.”

    And if God is to be believed, then he admits that he didn’t do a very good job or the people would not be fleeing from him in droves and worshipping other idols.  Bad god.  Bad deity.  :)

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  • DistroMan 20:00 on December 25, 2010 Permalink
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    Deuteronomy 32: God pisses in your pockets. 

    Deuteronomy: Part 32 of 34

    1 Listen, you heavens, and I will speak; hear, you earth, the words of my mouth.

    2 Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.

    3 I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Oh, praise the greatness of our God!

    4 He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.

    Someone that has caused so much loss of life, even innocent babies, can never claim to do no wrong, be upright and just.

    5 They are corrupt and not his children; to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation.

    I know who is warped alright and it isn’t the people.

    6 Is this the way you repay the LORD, you foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father, your Creator, who made you and formed you?

    If he formed us, then everything that we do wrong is his own fault and he should be held accountable.

    7 Remember the days of old; consider the generations long past. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders, and they will explain to you.

    8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.

    9 For the LORD’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance.

    10 In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye,

    11 like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them aloft.

    And treating everyone else who lives in the same area like prey to be devoured.

    12 The LORD alone led him; no foreign god was with him.

    Admitting there are other gods again.

    13 He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him with the fruit of the fields. He nourished him with honey from the rock, and with oil from the flinty crag,

    14 with curds and milk from herd and flock and with fattened lambs and goats, with choice rams of Bashan and the finest kernels of wheat. You drank the foaming blood of the grape.

    15 Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; filled with food, they became heavy and sleek. They abandoned the God who made them and rejected the Rock their Savior.

    16 They made him jealous with their foreign gods and angered him with their detestable idols.

    He gives you freewill and condemns you for using it.

    17 They sacrificed to false gods, which are not God— gods they had not known, gods that recently appeared, gods your ancestors did not fear.

    You shouldn’t have to fear a god.

    18 You deserted the Rock, who fathered you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.

    They remembered the god who killed babies.

    19 The LORD saw this and rejected them because he was angered by his sons and daughters.

    20 “I will hide my face from them,” he said, “and see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation, children who are unfaithful.

    It has to be less stressful for them.

    21 They made me jealous by what is no god and angered me with their worthless idols. I will make them envious by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.

    22 For a fire will be kindled by my wrath, one that burns down to the realm of the dead below. It will devour the earth and its harvests and set afire the foundations of the mountains.

    23 “I will heap calamities on them and spend my arrows against them.

    Sounds more like you’re playing with yourself.

    24 I will send wasting famine against them, consuming pestilence and deadly plague; I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts, the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.

    25 In the street the sword will make them childless; in their homes terror will reign. The young men and young women will perish, the infants and those with gray hair.

    26 I said I would scatter them and erase their name from human memory,

    Which hasn’t happened.

    27 but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest the adversary misunderstand and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed; the LORD has not done all this.’”

    28 They are a nation without sense, there is no discernment in them.

    Then why didn’t you give them discernment?

    29 If only they were wise and would understand this and discern what their end will be!

    Why didn’t you give them wisdom?

    30 How could one man chase a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?

    31 For their rock is not like our Rock, as even our enemies concede.

    32 Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are filled with poison, and their clusters with bitterness.

    33 Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.

    34 “Have I not kept this in reserve and sealed it in my vaults?

    35 It is mine to avenge; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; their day of disaster is near and their doom rushes upon them.”

    36 The LORD will vindicate his people and relent concerning his servants when he sees their strength is gone and no one is left, slave or free.

    Then how will he have people if they are all gone?

    37 He will say: “Now where are their gods, the rock they took refuge in,

    38 the gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up to help you! Let them give you shelter!

    Those are the things you did to them.  Taking the best of everything they worked hard to get.

    39 “See now that I myself am he! There is no god besides me. I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will heal, and no one can deliver out of my hand.

    Nothing has happened, life has gone on, people are happy, sad, safe and in danger just as they ever were.  You’re not being here hasn’t changed a thing.  You’re being here never changed a thing.  You are a figment of a powerhungry fools imagination and are just as impotent.

    40 I lift my hand to heaven and solemnly swear: As surely as I live forever,

    41 when I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and repay those who hate me.

    Bring it on.

    42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, while my sword devours flesh: the blood of the slain and the captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”

    Just as you’ve always done.  More bloodshed.

    43 Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants; he will take vengeance on his enemies and make atonement for his land and people.

    44 Moses came with Joshua son of Nun and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.

    45 When Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel,

    46 he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to obey carefully all the words of this law.

    It is not a law.  It is a claim of power he doesn’t have, a claim for retribution he’ll never take, a claim of love he doesn’t have and a claim to exist which he never has.

    47 They are not just idle words for you—they are your life. By them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

    Idle words is exactly what they are.

    Moses to Die on Mount Nebo

    48 On that same day the LORD told Moses,

    49 “Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo in Moab, across from Jericho, and view Canaan, the land I am giving the Israelites as their own possession.

    50 There on the mountain that you have climbed you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.

    Only your murderer can tell you where and when you are going to die.

    51 This is because both of you broke faith with me in the presence of the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the Desert of Zin and because you did not uphold my holiness among the Israelites.

    What is your punishment for being an arsehole to your people?

    52 Therefore, you will see the land only from a distance; you will not enter the land I am giving to the people of Israel.”

    Breaking your promise to your people one at a time.

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  • DistroMan 20:00 on December 24, 2010 Permalink
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    Deuteronomy 31: More fear mongering… 

    Deuteronomy: Part 31 of 34
    Joshua to Succeed Moses

    1 Then Moses went out and spoke these words to all Israel:

    2 “I am now a hundred and twenty years old and I am no longer able to lead you. The LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the Jordan.’

    God is supposed to be able to fix you.  He has the power.  If you die, it is at his command.  Of course, he did tell you a while ago he was going to kill you.

    3 The LORD your God himself will cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you will take possession of their land. Joshua also will cross over ahead of you, as the LORD said.

    4 And the LORD will do to them what he did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, whom he destroyed along with their land.

    5 The LORD will deliver them to you, and you must do to them all that I have commanded you.

    Once again, God could just wipe them out in an instant.  There is no need for the two peoples to face off in a battle.  The only reason is if God wants to watch the bloodshed.

    6 Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.”

    7 Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you must go with this people into the land that the LORD swore to their ancestors to give them, and you must divide it among them as their inheritance.

    8 The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”

    Repeat, repeat, repeat.

    Public Reading of the Law

    9 So Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the Levitical priests, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.

    Glorified moving men.

    10 Then Moses commanded them: “At the end of every seven years, in the year for canceling debts, during the Festival of Tabernacles,

    11 when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God at the place he will choose, you shall read this law before them in their hearing.

    12 Assemble the people—men, women and children, and the foreigners residing in your towns—so they can listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and follow carefully all the words of this law.

    13 Their children, who do not know this law, must hear it and learn to fear the LORD your God as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

    It would seem a better proposition to have people living without fear.  Of God or anyone else.

    Israel’s Rebellion Predicted

    14 The LORD said to Moses, “Now the day of your death is near. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the tent of meeting, where I will commission him.” So Moses and Joshua came and presented themselves at the tent of meeting.

    Smack Joshua over the head with a bottle of champagne.

    15 Then the LORD appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the cloud stood over the entrance to the tent.

    16 And the LORD said to Moses: “You are going to rest with your ancestors, and these people will soon prostitute themselves to the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake me and break the covenant I made with them.

    17 And in that day I will become angry with them and forsake them; I will hide my face from them, and they will be destroyed. Many disasters and calamities will come on them, and in that day they will ask, ‘Have not these disasters come on us because our God is not with us?’

    Maybe they do this in the quest for a more loving and just god.  Someone who won’t have them quaking in fear worrying about the next calamity that will befall them.

    18 And I will certainly hide my face in that day because of all their wickedness in turning to other gods.

    You should hide your face in shame at the way you have treated them.

    19 “Now write down this song and teach it to the Israelites and have them sing it, so that it may be a witness for me against them.

    20 When I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, the land I promised on oath to their ancestors, and when they eat their fill and thrive, they will turn to other gods and worship them, rejecting me and breaking my covenant.

    21 And when many disasters and calamities come on them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten by their descendants. I know what they are disposed to do, even before I bring them into the land I promised them on oath.”

    When you have all the power needed to change things and have it go the right way, the fault lies only with you.

    22 So Moses wrote down this song that day and taught it to the Israelites.

    23 The LORD gave this command to Joshua son of Nun: “Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the Israelites into the land I promised them on oath, and I myself will be with you.”

    24 After Moses finished writing in a book the words of this law from beginning to end,

    25 he gave this command to the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD:

    26 “Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God. There it will remain as a witness against you.

    Then why doesn’t God just change things?  Not have them be so difficult.  Show the people some real love.  Stop scaring the crap out of them day after day.

    27 For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you have been rebellious against the LORD while I am still alive and with you, how much more will you rebel after I die!

    28 Assemble before me all the elders of your tribes and all your officials, so that I can speak these words in their hearing and call the heavens and the earth to testify against them.

    29 For I know that after my death you are sure to become utterly corrupt and to turn from the way I have commanded you. In days to come, disaster will fall on you because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD and arouse his anger by what your hands have made.”

    The other question you have to ask is whether God set things up to happen this way.  He does have all the power.  Nothing happens that he doesn’t know about and allow.  So who’s to blame here?

    The Song of Moses

    30 And Moses recited the words of this song from beginning to end in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel:

    He must have had some really gnarly PA System to accomplish that.

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  • DistroMan 20:00 on December 23, 2010 Permalink
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    Deuteronomy 30: Yaaaaawwwwwwnnnnn 

    Deuteronomy: Part 30 of 34
    Prosperity After Turning to the LORD

    1 When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come on you and you take them to heart wherever the LORD your God disperses you among the nations,

    2 and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today,

    3 then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you.

    4 Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the LORD your God will gather you and bring you back.

    5 He will bring you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors.

    6 The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live.

    Again with circumcising the heart.  What is that supposed to mean?

    7 The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you.

    You seem very intent upon punishing everyone all the time.  It would seem logical that a ‘good book’ would focus on good, but the bible is so full of retribution and hatred that it’s hard to find any good in here whatsoever.

    8 You will again obey the LORD and follow all his commands I am giving you today.

    9 Then the LORD your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The LORD will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your ancestors,

    10 if you obey the LORD your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

    The Offer of Life or Death

    11 Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.

    12 It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, “Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”

    13 Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, “Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”

    14 No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.

    15 See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction.

    See, you could have left out the death and destruction.  That would have increased the good to evil ratio, but nooooo, you have to go with the nasty shit all the time.

    16 For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

    17 But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,

    18 I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

    Scare tactics never work.

    19 This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live

    This could have been phrased in a more positive way, but you have to go with witnesses against you, death and curses.

    20 and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

    Tripe.  Utter tripe.

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  • DistroMan 20:00 on December 22, 2010 Permalink
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    Deuteronomy 29: blah blah blah 

    Deuteronomy: Part 29 of 34
    Renewal of the Covenant

    1 These are the terms of the covenant the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb.

    2 Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials and to all his land.

    3 With your own eyes you saw those great trials, those signs and great wonders.

    4 But to this day the LORD has not given you a mind that understands or eyes that see or ears that hear.

    Are you freaking kidding me?  No mind or eyes to understand yet you’ve blamed nearly everything you could think of on them and punished them endlessly.  If you didn’t give them minds or eyes, whose bloody fault it is?  YOURS!!!

    5 Yet the LORD says, “During the forty years that I led you through the wilderness, your clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet.

    6 You ate no bread and drank no wine or other fermented drink. I did this so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.”

    7 When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out to fight against us, but we defeated them.

    8 We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

    9 Carefully follow the terms of this covenant, so that you may prosper in everything you do.

    10 All of you are standing today in the presence of the LORD your God—your leaders and chief men, your elders and officials, and all the other men of Israel,

    11 together with your children and your wives, and the foreigners living in your camps who chop your wood and carry your water.

    12 You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the LORD your God, a covenant the LORD is making with you this day and sealing with an oath,

    13 to confirm you this day as his people, that he may be your God as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

    14 I am making this covenant, with its oath, not only with you

    15 who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God but also with those who are not here today.

    16 You yourselves know how we lived in Egypt and how we passed through the countries on the way here.

    17 You saw among them their detestable images and idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold.

    18 Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.

    19 When such a person hears the words of this oath and they invoke a blessing on themselves, thinking, “I will be safe, even though I persist in going my own way,” they will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

    20 The LORD will never be willing to forgive them; his wrath and zeal will burn against them. All the curses written in this book will fall on them, and the LORD will blot out their names from under heaven.

    Up to 20 and nothing whatsoever but hot air.  Will that change?  Let’s see…

    21 The LORD will single them out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.

    22 Your children who follow you in later generations and foreigners who come from distant lands will see the calamities that have fallen on the land and the diseases with which the LORD has afflicted it.

    23 The whole land will be a burning waste of salt and sulfur—nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, which the LORD overthrew in fierce anger.

    24 All the nations will ask: “Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?”

    25 And the answer will be: “It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt.

    26 They went off and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had not given them.

    27 Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses written in this book.

    28 In furious anger and in great wrath the LORD uprooted them from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is now.”

    29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.

    Lame, lame and um, really lame.  Stories to scare children and morons again.  Where is the ‘moral compass’?  Bubble wrap has more uses.

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  • DistroMan 20:00 on December 21, 2010 Permalink
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    Deuteronomy 28: Proof God is vile and digusting. 

    Deuteronomy: Part 28 of 34
    Blessings for Obedience

    1 If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.

    Which is patently unfair.  Why should they be above anyone, especially other people who have never done anything wrong in their whole lives unlike the Israelites?

    2 All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God:

    3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

    Meaningless drivel

    4 The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

    5 Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.

    6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

    Knee deep in it here.

    7 The LORD will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.

    8 The LORD will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.

    Every farmer on this planet goes through hard times, drought, plagues of locusts etc, so how has he kept his word here?

    9 The LORD will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the LORD your God and walk in obedience to him.

    10 Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will fear you.

    Well that hasn’t happened.

    11 The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.

    12 The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.

    Not much luck here either.  Either they’ve all been naughty little Israelites or God went back on his word.  :)

    13 The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom.

    Nope, not this either.

    14 Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.

    Curses for Disobedience

    15 However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you:

    16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

    17 Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.

    18 The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

    19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

    20 The LORD will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him.

    21 The LORD will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.

    22 The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish.

    23 The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.

    24 The LORD will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.

    25 The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth.

    26 Your carcasses will be food for all the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

    27 The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured.

    28 The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind.

    29 At midday you will grope about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you.

    30 You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit.

    This so called god does get a little pissy about things, but to have a woman raped just to annoy someone is criminal in anyone’s language.

    31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them.

    32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand.

    Children given away as slaves.  They didn’t do anything, but they have to pay the price.

    33 A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days.

    34 The sights you see will drive you mad.

    35 The LORD will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

    36 The LORD will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone.

    37 You will become a thing of horror, a byword and an object of ridicule among all the peoples where the LORD will drive you.

    38 You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it.

    39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

    40 You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off.

    41 You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity.

    42 Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.

    43 The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.

    44 They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail.

    45 All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the LORD your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you.

    46 They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever.

    47 Because you did not serve the LORD your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity,

    48 therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the LORD sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

    49 The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand,

    50 a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young.

    Sounds just like something you’d do.

    51 They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine or olive oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined.

    52 They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the LORD your God is giving you.

    As you did to those who lived there in the first place.

    53 Because of the suffering that your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you.

    You would force them into cannibalism?  Prick!  The children should not have that happen to them just because you are pissed at their parents.

    54 Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children,

    Again, you have others pay the price.

    55 and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities.

    56 The most gentle and sensitive woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter

    57 the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.

    You would make a person not only want to eat, but actually eat their baby?  I’m dumbfounded at how anybody can even make this bullshit up just to try and scare people into doing what they want.  It tells more about the author than the people they are trying to scare.  This is one despicable book.

    58 If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name—the LORD your God—

    Even if you feared that God might do all this atrocious things to you, how could you revere something or someone that treated you in this manner?  Fear? Yes!  Revere, love, trust?  No.

    59 the LORD will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses.

    Again with penalising the innocent.

    60 He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you.

    61 The LORD will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.

    Ok, that’s the one.  Read that again.  There is NOTHING that he will not do to you to punish you for not obeying him.  NOTHING!  Think about that.  How can anyone be scared of Satan and Hell after that?  What can the Devil do that is worse than anything God is prepared to do to you and your innocent offspring?

    62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the LORD your God.

    63 Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

    What god would be pleased by ruining and destroying millions of people?  This isn’t a god.   More of an evil, psychopathic monster.

    64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.

    65 Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart.

    66 You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life.

    67 In the morning you will say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening, “If only it were morning!”—because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see.

    68 The LORD will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.

    Pathetic crap to scare children and morons.  Truthfully, after this section I’m completely disgusted.  This is not metaphor.  I’m not even prepared to entertain the idea that it may be.  The way it is written is straight to the point and they say what they mean.  Screw God and screw his followers.  You sick, demented bunch of delusional arseholes.  I can’t put into words the way I’m really feeling it’s that bad.  It doesn’t matter how many times I read this section, I end up feeling sick in my stomach.  Again, truly disgusting.

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  • DistroMan 20:00 on December 20, 2010 Permalink
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    Deuteronomy 27: Do not be diddling the goats I tell you! 

    Deuteronomy: Part 27 of 34
    The Altar on Mount Ebal

    1 Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: “Keep all these commands that I give you today.

    2 When you have crossed the Jordan into the land the LORD your God is giving you, set up some large stones and coat them with plaster.

    3 Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, promised you.

    Blah, blah, blah.

    4 And when you have crossed the Jordan, set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I command you today, and coat them with plaster.

    You just said that.  Get on with it.

    5 Build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. Do not use any iron tool on them.

    Why no iron tools?

    6 Build the altar of the LORD your God with fieldstones and offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God.

    Take more innocent lives.

    7 Sacrifice fellowship offerings there, eating them and rejoicing in the presence of the LORD your God.

    8 And you shall write very clearly all the words of this law on these stones you have set up.”

    On plaster?  On stones?  Out in the open?

    Curses From Mount Ebal

    9 Then Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, “Be silent, Israel, and listen! You have now become the people of the LORD your God.

    10 Obey the LORD your God and follow his commands and decrees that I give you today.”

    11 On the same day Moses commanded the people:

    12 When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph and Benjamin.

    13 And these tribes shall stand on Mount Ebal to pronounce curses: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali.

    14 The Levites shall recite to all the people of Israel in a loud voice:

    15 “Cursed is anyone who makes an idol—a thing detestable to the LORD, the work of skilled hands—and sets it up in secret.”
    Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

    Every church I’ve ever seen has idols of one kind or another.

    16 “Cursed is anyone who dishonors their father or mother.”
    Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

    Everyone dishonours their parents at one time or another.  Especially as children.  Get over it.

    17 “Cursed is anyone who moves their neighbor’s boundary stone.”
    Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

    What if they move it in their favour?

    18 “Cursed is anyone who leads the blind astray on the road.”
    Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

    I don’t think this is anything people need to be told is wrong.  It also won’t stop this from happening.

    19 “Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.”
    Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

    Old news.

    20 “Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he dishonors his father’s bed.”
    Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

    I ask again, what if a girl sleeps with her mothers husband?  You don’t seem to want to cover that situation.

    21 “Cursed is anyone who has sexual relations with any animal.”
    Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

    Says God to the goatherders!

    22 “Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.”
    Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

    Above you say ‘sexual relations’ and here you say ‘sleeps with’.  Can you not be consistent or is it that they mean different things to you?

    23 “Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his mother-in-law.”
    Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

    Amen!

    24 “Cursed is anyone who kills their neighbor secretly.”
    Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

    No, we’d do it in front of only one witness so we could get away with it.  That way we can’t be found guilty, but it wasn’t done in secret.  Just following your rules dude.   :)

    25 “Cursed is anyone who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person.”
    Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

    Wouldn’t that be exactly what the Israelites did as they swept throughout the land killing everyone and taking their land because you promised it to them?

    26 “Cursed is anyone who does not uphold the words of this law by carrying them out.”
    Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

    Curse me then, because I refuse to follow you and your barbaric books of shit.

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