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  • DistroMan 20:00 on December 14, 2010 Permalink
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    Deuteronomy 21: Vile and Barbaric Behaviour! 

    Deuteronomy: Part 21 of 34
    Atonement for an Unsolved Murder

    1 If someone is found slain, lying in a field in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who the killer was,

    2 your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance from the body to the neighboring towns.

    3 Then the elders of the town nearest the body shall take a heifer that has never been worked and has never worn a yoke

    4 and lead it down to a valley that has not been plowed or planted and where there is a flowing stream. There in the valley they are to break the heifer’s neck.

    Oh please, how can breaking the neck of an innocent animal do any good?  This is just the type of superstitious claptrap that should have everybody running away from religion as fast as their feet will allow them.  Turn your backs on this barbaric rubbish and begin to lead normal lives with real meaning instead of bowing and scraping to priests that are lying to you just so that you will continue to give and give and give so they don’t have to do a normal days work.  They are bludging off you and you are letting them.  All in the name of a non-existent bloodthirsty being that should be thought of more as a lesson in what NOT to do.

    5 The Levitical priests shall step forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to minister and to pronounce blessings in the name of the LORD and to decide all cases of dispute and assault.

    6 Then all the elders of the town nearest the body shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley,

    More woo.

    7 and they shall declare: “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it done.

    Just what good does this do?  If they didn’t do it in the first place, God knows that.  He doesn’t need to be told.  If they did do it, then he knows that too and so do they.  So why the melodrama?

    8 Accept this atonement for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, LORD, and do not hold your people guilty of the blood of an innocent person.” Then the bloodshed will be atoned for,

    How can innocent people atone for something they didn’t do?  That is up to the guilty.  This is yet another reason the bible is a morally bad book.  It teaches people that they can commit crimes and someone else will fix it for them so they don’t have to be held responsible for their actions.  Reprehensible rubbish.

    9 and you will have purged from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the LORD.

    How is there guilt if you didn’t do it in the first place?

    Marrying a Captive Woman

    10 When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives,

    11 if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife.

    She doesn’t have a say in this I suppose?

    12 Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails

    Why?

    13 and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.

    That is rape and the bible condones it.  Evil book.

    14 If you are not pleased with her, let her go wherever she wishes. You must not sell her or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.

    God has dishonoured her.  The slave owner acting on God’s words has also dishonoured her.

    The Right of the Firstborn

    15 If a man has two wives, and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love,

    16 when he wills his property to his sons, he must not give the rights of the firstborn to the son of the wife he loves in preference to his actual firstborn, the son of the wife he does not love.

    17 He must acknowledge the son of his unloved wife as the firstborn by giving him a double share of all he has. That son is the first sign of his father’s strength. The right of the firstborn belongs to him.

    Just for a minute there I thought I was going to read something I agreed with, but then you stuffed it up.  There should be no double share whatsoever.  One son is as deserving as the other and they should be treated equally in all dealings.  Anything else can set one against the other and no parent should allow that.

    A Rebellious Son

    18 If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him,

    19 his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town.

    If they’ve tried all they can and he still rebels, I’d kick his scrawny arse out of town too.

    20 They shall say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

    What has it got to do with them?

    21 Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.

    Being rebellious is not being evil and is certainly not deserving of being stoned to death.  Is death all that this god has on his mind?  Vile behaviour by one that is supposed to be a loving and merciful father figure.  Except that he is more of a vile, loathsome, evil, hateful, bloodthirsty son-of-a-bitch who isn’t deserving of being a father under any circumstances!

    Various Laws

    22 If someone guilty of a capital offense is put to death and their body is exposed on a pole,

    Why would you do that?  It’s bad enough that you kill people, but now you put them on display like some kind of carnival sideshow.  That kind of gruesome behaviour never has, does not now and never will be a deterrent to others committing the same crimes.  It is just barbaric and shameful.

    23 you must not leave the body hanging on the pole overnight. Be sure to bury it that same day, because anyone who is hung on a pole is under God’s curse. You must not desecrate the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

    You’ve already shamed yourself by doing that to the body.

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  • DistroMan 20:00 on December 13, 2010 Permalink
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    Deuteronomy 20: Make war, not love, then kill ‘em all. 

    Deuteronomy: Part 20 of 34
    Going to War

    1 When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you.

    Something I have left pretty much alone until now is the point that, to me at least, a book that purports to be a good moral guide for people should at least make some small attempt to get people to NOT go to war unless provoked beyond reason.  This book though, does exactly the opposite.  Here, God tells his chosen people to make war against those who aren’t even contemplating war themselves.  Do they have armies?  Yes, they probably do, but who wouldn’t when you live in a part of the world known for conquering one another at the drop of a hat.  But to have your God promote war to the extent that the Bible says he does is downright immoral.  Nobody these days, especially Christians, thinks that going to war against another nation is a good idea, whether the other country is in the wrong or not.  So how come all these peace loving Christians can love this book that so obviously goes against one of their most cherished beliefs?  Is it that it’s alright because God wanted it?  Is it the old ‘it was another time and that is how they did things’ argument?  They are pathetic attempts to justify the unjustifiable and these people should be ashamed of themselves.

    2 When you are about to go into battle, the priest shall come forward and address the army.

    A priest should be preaching peace, love and amity, not war, hate and enmity.

    3 He shall say: “Hear, Israel: Today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not panic or be terrified by them.

    Did they once send a delegation to try and work things out peacefully?

    4 For the LORD your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.”

    Why are they the enemy?

    5 The officers shall say to the army: “Has anyone built a new house and not yet begun to live in it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else may begin to live in it.

    6 Has anyone planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else enjoy it.

    7 Has anyone become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else marry her.”

    8 Then the officers shall add, “Is anyone afraid or fainthearted? Let him go home so that his fellow soldiers will not become disheartened too.”

    9 When the officers have finished speaking to the army, they shall appoint commanders over it.

    Why would anyone go to war if given the chance to opt out?  No officer would do this.

    10 When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace.

    This is a change.  Before it was just put them all to death.  But let’s wait and see what a ‘peace’ offer is first.

    11 If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you.

    Not much of a peace offer.

    12 If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city.

    If you have God fighting with you, why would you need to lay siege to it?  Couldn’t he just make them all march out and leave the country for good?  This is not the LORD fighting for you or with you.  It is you fighting and dying to win something you don’t even deserve and you’re being lied to by the priests.  They are conning you into believing you are invincible when you obviously are not.  If you were, you wouldn’t be being offered to chance to stay with your grapes so you won’t die.

    13 When the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it.

    Why not take them as slaves?

    14 As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the LORD your God gives you from your enemies.

    Rape the women and make slaves of them all.   Such tenderness and warmth for a defeated enemy.

    15 This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

    Cruel and heartless.

    16 However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.

    Yes, be good Christians and kill the children.  After all, it is what your god has been telling you to do isn’t it?

    17 Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you.

    18 Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the LORD your God.

    I’d like to know how a goat is going to teach anyone how to pray to a god.

    19 When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees people, that you should besiege them?

    That just shows how little regard God has for the value of human life.

    20 However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls.

    Why not use more factual language.  How about saying ‘the city you declared war upon’?  Or is it supposed to ease your conscience by saying it in a manner that sounds like it is the other people’s fault you are at war?  That is, IF you have a conscience.

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  • DistroMan 20:00 on November 17, 2010 Permalink
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    Numbers 31: More laws and crap 

    Numbers: Part 31 of 36
    Vengeance on the Midianites

    1 The LORD said to Moses,

    Bob, it’s party time!  Get your dancing shoes on.  We’re about to boogie…

    2 “Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.”

    Moses!  Dude!  Run away, run away!

    3 So Moses said to the people, “Arm some of your men to go to war against the Midianites so that they may carry out the LORD’s vengeance on them.

    Why should they die at the end of a sword, spear or knife, just to satisfy the bloodlust of this supposed god?  I’ve asked many times already, why can’t he just blink them out of existence instead of going through this barbaric act over and over?  Does Barbara Eden have more powers than God?  It seems so.  The best he can do is locusts and sprouting staffs.

    4 Send into battle a thousand men from each of the tribes of Israel.”

    5 So twelve thousand men armed for battle, a thousand from each tribe, were supplied from the clans of Israel.

    6 Moses sent them into battle, a thousand from each tribe, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, who took with him articles from the sanctuary and the trumpets for signaling.

    7 They fought against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses, and killed every man.

    Are you imagining what this must have been like?  Don’t hide from it.  Think about this deeply.  This is what ‘God’ wants.

    8 Among their victims were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba—the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.

    9 The Israelites captured the Midianite women and children and took all the Midianite herds, flocks and goods as plunder.

    10 They burned all the towns where the Midianites had settled, as well as all their camps.

    Destruction for no reason whatsoever.

    11 They took all the plunder and spoils, including the people and animals,

    Theft and slavery.

    12 and brought the captives, spoils and plunder to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the Israelite assembly at their camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho.

    13 Moses, Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp.

    14 Moses was angry with the officers of the army—the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds—who returned from the battle.

    I have not read past this point as yet, but I expect that this will be typical of what we’ve come to expect.

    15 “Have you allowed all the women to live?” he asked them.

    Okay, maybe it will be worse.

    16 “They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the LORD in the Peor incident, so that a plague struck the LORD’s people.

    17 Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man,

    Killing children must make God feel so big and brave.  Every woman who has slept with a man?  All of them?  Why kill the ones who were faithful to their husbands and had not slept with an Israelite?

    18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.

    Yeah, because rape is just fine by God.  You can’t gather wood on the Sabbath, but you can rape girls.

    19 “Anyone who has killed someone or touched someone who was killed must stay outside the camp seven days. On the third and seventh days you must purify yourselves and your captives.

    20 Purify every garment as well as everything made of leather, goat hair or wood.”

    Of course they’d love to purify the captives.  Thousands of virgin girls running around naked and scared must really get God’s juices flowing.

    21 Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone into battle, “This is what is required by the law that the LORD gave Moses:

    22 Gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, lead

    23 and anything else that can withstand fire must be put through the fire, and then it will be clean. But it must also be purified with the water of cleansing. And whatever cannot withstand fire must be put through that water.

    Ah yes, the water of cleansing.  The water that was mixed with the ashes of a dead body.  Very cleansing that is.

    24 On the seventh day wash your clothes and you will be clean. Then you may come into the camp.”

    Dividing the Spoils

    25 The LORD said to Moses,

    Pay close attention here Bob.  I’m going to kill you soon and I want this job done right beforehand.

    26 “You and Eleazar the priest and the family heads of the community are to count all the people and animals that were captured.

    27 Divide the spoils equally between the soldiers who took part in the battle and the rest of the community.

    28 From the soldiers who fought in the battle, set apart as tribute for the LORD one out of every five hundred, whether people, cattle, donkeys or sheep.

    What is God going to do with virgin girls I wonder?

    29 Take this tribute from their half share and give it to Eleazar the priest as the LORD’s part.

    Now it makes sense.  It’s Eleazar who wants the girls.

    30 From the Israelites’ half, select one out of every fifty, whether people, cattle, donkeys, sheep or other animals. Give them to the Levites, who are responsible for the care of the LORD’s tabernacle.”

    31 So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.

    32 The plunder remaining from the spoils that the soldiers took was 675,000 sheep,

    33 72,000 cattle,

    34 61,000 donkeys

    35 and 32,000 women who had never slept with a man.

    36 The half share of those who fought in the battle was: 337,500 sheep,

    37 of which the tribute for the LORD was 675;

    38 36,000 cattle, of which the tribute for the LORD was 72;

    39 30,500 donkeys, of which the tribute for the LORD was 61;

    40 16,000 people, of whom the tribute for the LORD was 32.

    Eleazar gets 32 virgins?

    41 Moses gave the tribute to Eleazar the priest as the LORD’s part, as the LORD commanded Moses.

    42 The half belonging to the Israelites, which Moses set apart from that of the fighting men—

    43 the community’s half—was 337,500 sheep,

    44 36,000 cattle,

    45 30,500 donkeys

    46 and 16,000 people.

    47 From the Israelites’ half, Moses selected one out of every fifty people and animals, as the LORD commanded him, and gave them to the Levites, who were responsible for the care of the LORD’s tabernacle.

    48 Then the officers who were over the units of the army—the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds—went to Moses

    49 and said to him, “Your servants have counted the soldiers under our command, and not one is missing.

    50 So we have brought as an offering to the LORD the gold articles each of us acquired—armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”

    51 Moses and Eleazar the priest accepted from them the gold—all the crafted articles.

    52 All the gold from the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds that Moses and Eleazar presented as a gift to the LORD weighed 16,750 shekels.

    53 Each soldier had taken plunder for himself.

    54 Moses and Eleazar the priest accepted the gold from the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD.

    I’m truly perplexed as to how any female can follow this outrageously misogynistic religion considering what we’ve just read.  How can they bend the knee and silently give consent to their daughters being treated in this manner.  If religion gets the power it is obviously after, this is the kind of thing we would see happening once again.  Also, how can any people whose ancestors were kept as slaves approve of this book and it’s teachings?  Do they wish themselves and their descendants to go through that again?

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  • DistroMan 20:00 on November 6, 2010 Permalink
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    Numbers 20: More laws and crap 

    Numbers: Part 20 of 36
    Water From the Rock

    1 In the first month the whole Israelite community arrived at the Desert of Zin, and they stayed at Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.

    No, not the whole Israelite community, only the Israelite community that God hasn’t killed yet.

    2 Now there was no water for the community, and the people gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron.

    Wow, you’re not saying that God Almighty, the Oh So Powerful One, He hasn’t provided for His people?  Surely you jest.

    3 They quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had died when our brothers fell dead before the LORD!

    God has driven you from your home, made you suffer through the desert, killed your family and friends, taken your belongings and seriously made your life a living hell.  I don’t blame you for questioning his motives.  But considering you’ve been through all that, why would you provoke him now?  I don’t believe you or any sane person would do that knowing he would ‘smite’ you for doing so.  That just shows how silly this book is.  It has no idea about humanity or the realities of life.

    4 Why did you bring the LORD’s community into this wilderness, that we and our livestock should die here?

    Because that is what God wanted and they already knew that.  They would not be asking this now.  If anything, they would be nicely asking Moses and Aaron to intervene with God on their behalf.  Not this rubbish.

    5 Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to this terrible place? It has no grain or figs, grapevines or pomegranates. And there is no water to drink!”

    We’ll get to the ‘God wants you to suffer, because only through suffering can you truly know God’ bullshit later.  :)

    6 Moses and Aaron went from the assembly to the entrance to the tent of meeting and fell facedown, and the glory of the LORD appeared to them.

    This falling down crap is just too funny for words.  A little too Monty Python.

    7 The LORD said to Moses,

    I shall fart in your general direction…

    8 “Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water. You will bring water out of the rock for the community so they and their livestock can drink.”

    9 So Moses took the staff from the LORD’s presence, just as he commanded him.

    You have to remember that Aaron’s staff “had not only sprouted but had budded, blossomed and produced almonds”.  Can you picture him carrying that around?

    10 He and Aaron gathered the assembly together in front of the rock and Moses said to them, “Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?”

    11 Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.

    Why did it have to get to the point of them rebelling before God provided?  Must people suffer before he is willing to move his lazy arse?

    12 But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them.”

    Breaking yet another promise.

    13 These were the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the LORD and where he was proved holy among them.

    What is ‘holy’?  It seems to be a word people use to overly aggrandise something or someone in a way which is anything but true.  ‘Holy’ is a concept only and has no real meaning that can be based in reality.  Oooh, I just described God.  :)

    No, I’m not thinking of the original Old English ‘Halig’ (that must be preserved whole or intact, that cannot be transgressed or violated) either, because that is not the way in which religion uses the word now.

    Edom Denies Israel Passage

    14 Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: “This is what your brother Israel says: You know about all the hardships that have come on us.

    How would they know?

    15 Our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived there many years. The Egyptians mistreated us and our ancestors,

    And your ‘god’ only made matters worse.

    16 but when we cried out to the LORD, he heard our cry and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt. “Now we are here at Kadesh, a town on the edge of your territory.

    With a lot less people than you started out with because God killed them in his usual compassionate manner.

    17 Please let us pass through your country. We will not go through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will travel along the King’s Highway and not turn to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory.”

    18 But Edom answered: “You may not pass through here; if you try, we will march out and attack you with the sword.”

    19 The Israelites replied: “We will go along the main road, and if we or our livestock drink any of your water, we will pay for it. We only want to pass through on foot—nothing else.”

    20 Again they answered: “You may not pass through.” Then Edom came out against them with a large and powerful army.

    21 Since Edom refused to let them go through their territory, Israel turned away from them.

    No explanation as to why this happened.

    The Death of Aaron

    22 The whole Israelite community set out from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor.

    23 At Mount Hor, near the border of Edom, the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

    24 “Aaron will be gathered to his people. He will not enter the land I give the Israelites, because both of you rebelled against my command at the waters of Meribah.

    They didn’t rebel at all.  They did just what God asked them to do.  Not praising God highly enough is not rebellion, at least not to normal people.  Only a dictator with delusions of grandeur would think such a pathetic thing and then kill someone over it.  It is petty and vindictive behaviour.

    25 Get Aaron and his son Eleazar and take them up Mount Hor.

    This is stupid.  God is talking to Aaron and yet he says ‘get Aaron’.

    26 Remove Aaron’s garments and put them on his son Eleazar, for Aaron will be gathered to his people; he will die there.”

    27 Moses did as the LORD commanded: They went up Mount Hor in the sight of the whole community.

    28 Moses removed Aaron’s garments and put them on his son Eleazar. And Aaron died there on top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain,

    29 and when the whole community learned that Aaron had died, all the Israelites mourned for him thirty days.

    Are you honestly asking us to believe that from the moment that God informed Aaron that he was going to die, right through the explanation of how it was going to happen, all the way up to Mount Hor, the removal of his clothes and the placement of those clothes onto his son Eleazar, that he, Aaron, didn’t say a word?   Yeah, right!!

    Facepalm

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  • DistroMan 20:00 on November 2, 2010 Permalink
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    Numbers 16: More laws and crap 

    Numbers: Part 16 of 36
    Korah, Dathan and Abiram

    1 Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and certain Reubenites—Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth—became insolent

    2 and rose up against Moses. With them were 250 Israelite men, well-known community leaders who had been appointed members of the council.

    3 They came as a group to oppose Moses and Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! The whole community is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is with them. Why then do you set yourselves above the LORD’s assembly?”

    Knowing how powerful and evil minded God is, I have a hard time believing that they would risk his wrath by doing this.  I also don’t blame them either.

    4 When Moses heard this, he fell facedown.

    Is he like those goats that fall over when stressed?  He should have stayed on his Meds.  :)

    5 Then he said to Korah and all his followers: “In the morning the LORD will show who belongs to him and who is holy, and he will have that person come near him. The man he chooses he will cause to come near him.

    6 You, Korah, and all your followers are to do this: Take censers

    7 and tomorrow put fire and incense in them before the LORD. The man the LORD chooses will be the one who is holy. You Levites have gone too far!”

    8 Moses also said to Korah, “Now listen, you Levites!

    He says to one, but speaks to them all?  Weird.

    9 Isn’t it enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the rest of the Israelite community and brought you near himself to do the work at the LORD’s tabernacle and to stand before the community and minister to them?

    10 He has brought you and all your fellow Levites near himself, but now you are trying to get the priesthood too.

    11 It is against the LORD that you and all your followers have banded together. Who is Aaron that you should grumble against him?”

    12 Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab. But they said, “We will not come!

    13 Isn’t it enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the desert? And now you also want to lord it over us?

    Good question.  With just a modicum of decency and sharing of information, none of the arguments, death and grief would be happening.  But no, God and Moses want to order everybody around without them knowing why.  THAT is why blind faith never works.  All you ever end up with is sock puppets.  If that is what God wanted, why didn’t he just create them that way in the first place?

    14 Moreover, you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? No, we will not come!”

    15 Then Moses became very angry and said to the LORD, “Do not accept their offering. I have not taken so much as a donkey from them, nor have I wronged any of them.”

    Not giving them anything, taking ‘offerings’ all the time, giving no reason for anything, expecting blind obedience from them and you say you haven’t wronged them?  You certainly are blind.

    16 Moses said to Korah, “You and all your followers are to appear before the LORD tomorrow—you and they and Aaron.

    17 Each man is to take his censer and put incense in it—250 censers in all—and present it before the LORD. You and Aaron are to present your censers also.”

    18 So each man took his censer, put fire and incense in it, and stood with Moses and Aaron at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

    19 When Korah had gathered all his followers in opposition to them at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, the glory of the LORD appeared to the entire assembly.

    Why does God feel the need to hang his glory out in front of everybody?

    20 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

    “Bob, you take the left flank and Aaron, you take the right.  We’ll surround them.”

    21 “Separate yourselves from this assembly so I can put an end to them at once.”

    22 But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and cried out, “O God, God of the spirits of all mankind, will you be angry with the entire assembly when only one man sins?”

    Again, arguing with God.  He kills entire populations for less and yet this pair of morons continue to get away with it.  Where is the fairness?  No wonder the people feel like they are being mistreated.  They are!

    23 Then the LORD said to Moses,

    “I’m going to kill these bastards.  They will not be allowed to diss me you know.”

    24 “Say to the assembly, ‘Move away from the tents of Korah, Dathan and Abiram.’ “

    25 Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him.

    26 He warned the assembly, “Move back from the tents of these wicked men! Do not touch anything belonging to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.”

    ‘All’ their sins?  They just questioned why they are being treated differently.

    27 So they moved away from the tents of Korah, Dathan and Abiram. Dathan and Abiram had come out and were standing with their wives, children and little ones at the entrances to their tents.

    28 Then Moses said, “This is how you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these things and that it was not my idea:

    29 If these men die a natural death and experience only what usually happens to men, then the LORD has not sent me.

    30 But if the LORD brings about something totally new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them, with everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the grave, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”

    Men, women AND children.

    31 As soon as he finished saying all this, the ground under them split apart

    32 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, with their households and all Korah’s men and all their possessions.

    Why won’t you say it all?  Innocent women and children as well.

    33 They went down alive into the grave, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished and were gone from the community.

    34 At their cries, all the Israelites around them fled, shouting, “The earth is going to swallow us too!”

    35 And fire came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.

    Burning them to death.  How kind.

    36 The LORD said to Moses,

    “Did you see that?  Did you see how I burnt them?  Did you like that huh?  Did you?”

    37 “Tell Eleazar son of Aaron, the priest, to take the censers out of the smoldering remains and scatter the coals some distance away, for the censers are holy-

    38 the censers of the men who sinned at the cost of their lives. Hammer the censers into sheets to overlay the altar, for they were presented before the LORD and have become holy. Let them be a sign to the Israelites.”

    Yeah, a sign that if you don’t do as you’re told and keep your bloody mouths shut he’ll burn your arses.

    39 So Eleazar the priest collected the bronze censers brought by those who had been burned up, and he had them hammered out to overlay the altar,

    40 as the LORD directed him through Moses. This was to remind the Israelites that no one except a descendant of Aaron should come to burn incense before the LORD, or he would become like Korah and his followers.

    No one but a descendant of Aaron?  Then why was it in 16 and 17 that Moses told them all to bring censers?

    41 The next day the whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. “You have killed the LORD’s people,” they said.

    And they were right.

    42 But when the assembly gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron and turned toward the Tent of Meeting, suddenly the cloud covered it and the glory of the LORD appeared.

    Can’t help himself.

    43 Then Moses and Aaron went to the front of the Tent of Meeting,

    44 and the LORD said to Moses,

    Geez, just kill everyone and get it over and done with instead of looking for petty reasons to kill them all of slowly.  What a retard.

    45 “Get away from this assembly so I can put an end to them at once.” And they fell facedown.

    46 Then Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer and put incense in it, along with fire from the altar, and hurry to the assembly to make atonement for them. Wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has started.”

    So Moses and Aaron are disobeying God once again.  Anyone want to bet they get away with it again?

    47 So Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly. The plague had already started among the people, but Aaron offered the incense and made atonement for them.

    48 He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague stopped.

    Typical.

    49 But 14,700 people died from the plague, in addition to those who had died because of Korah.

    50 Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, for the plague had stopped.

    Then they probably told everyone of the mercy God showed by not killing everyone.

    Facepalm

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  • DistroMan 20:00 on November 1, 2010 Permalink
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    Numbers 15: More laws and crap 

    Numbers: Part 15 of 36
    Supplementary Offerings

    1 The LORD said to Moses,

    Hey Bob, psssst, dude?  I’ve got a hankerin’ for some of the good stuff.  Wanna help?

    2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘After you enter the land I am giving you as a home

    3 and you present to the LORD offerings made by fire, from the herd or the flock, as an aroma pleasing to the LORD -whether burnt offerings or sacrifices, for special vows or freewill offerings or festival offerings-

    God should get himself into detox immediately.  This huffing business is getting out of control.  :)

    4 then the one who brings his offering shall present to the LORD a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil.

    5 With each lamb for the burnt offering or the sacrifice, prepare a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink offering.

    6 ” ‘With a ram prepare a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil,

    7 and a third of a hin of wine as a drink offering. Offer it as an aroma pleasing to the LORD.

    8 ” ‘When you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice, for a special vow or a fellowship offering to the LORD,

    9 bring with the bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil.

    10 Also bring half a hin of wine as a drink offering. It will be an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.

    11 Each bull or ram, each lamb or young goat, is to be prepared in this manner.

    12 Do this for each one, for as many as you prepare.

    13 ” ‘Everyone who is native-born must do these things in this way when he brings an offering made by fire as an aroma pleasing to the LORD.

    14 For the generations to come, whenever an alien or anyone else living among you presents an offering made by fire as an aroma pleasing to the LORD, he must do exactly as you do.

    15 The community is to have the same rules for you and for the alien living among you; this is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. You and the alien shall be the same before the LORD :

    16 The same laws and regulations will apply both to you and to the alien living among you.’ “

    17 The LORD said to Moses,

    18 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land to which I am taking you

    19 and you eat the food of the land, present a portion as an offering to the LORD.

    20 Present a cake from the first of your ground meal and present it as an offering from the threshing floor.

    21 Throughout the generations to come you are to give this offering to the LORD from the first of your ground meal.

    Take take take.  Where’s the give?

    Offerings for Unintentional Sins

    22 ” ‘Now if you unintentionally fail to keep any of these commands the LORD gave Moses-

    23 any of the LORD’s commands to you through him, from the day the LORD gave them and continuing through the generations to come-

    24 and if this is done unintentionally without the community being aware of it, then the whole community is to offer a young bull for a burnt offering as an aroma pleasing to the LORD, along with its prescribed grain offering and drink offering, and a male goat for a sin offering.

    Done unintentionally and nobody knows about it?  Then how do you know it’s been done so as to make amends?  Idiot book.

    25 The priest is to make atonement for the whole Israelite community, and they will be forgiven, for it was not intentional and they have brought to the LORD for their wrong an offering made by fire and a sin offering.

    26 The whole Israelite community and the aliens living among them will be forgiven, because all the people were involved in the unintentional wrong.

    27 ” ‘But if just one person sins unintentionally, he must bring a year-old female goat for a sin offering.

    28 The priest is to make atonement before the LORD for the one who erred by sinning unintentionally, and when atonement has been made for him, he will be forgiven.

    How does spilling the blood of an innocent goat atone for someones sins?

    29 One and the same law applies to everyone who sins unintentionally, whether he is a native-born Israelite or an alien.

    30 ” ‘But anyone who sins defiantly, whether native-born or alien, blasphemes the LORD, and that person must be cut off from his people.

    31 Because he has despised the LORD’s word and broken his commands, that person must surely be cut off; his guilt remains on him.’ “

    So you are not a forgiving god.  You’ve proved it often enough.

    The Sabbath-Breaker Put to Death

    32 While the Israelites were in the desert, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

    33 Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly,

    34 and they kept him in custody, because it was not clear what should be done to him.

    To keep someone in custody, someone else must be working.

    35 Then the LORD said to Moses, “The man must die. The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp.”

    Death for picking up wood to keep warm and cook your meals?  And stoning?  Why would you want a person killed in such a barbarous manner if not to satisfy some psychopathic need to see people in pain and agony?

    36 So the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD commanded Moses.

    Disgusting behaviour.

    Tassels on Garments

    37 The LORD said to Moses,

    Ok Bob, let’s play dress up.  Where’s my Zombie costume?

    38 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘Throughout the generations to come you are to make tassels on the corners of your garments, with a blue cord on each tassel.

    Ooooh darlings, that will look just, well, thooooooo thexy!!!

    39 You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by going after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes.

    40 Then you will remember to obey all my commands and will be consecrated to your God.

    If this is so, then wouldn’t it have saved all those Israelites you’ve sentenced to death or already killed for not obeying you or complaining about you?  Why not do this sooner and have everyone still alive and happy?

    41 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD your God.’ “

    You are a bloodthirsty serial killer with no remorse for your actions.  This is a shameful book and should not be read by anyone under the age of 18.  Absolutely disgraceful.

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  • DistroMan 20:00 on October 31, 2010 Permalink
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    Numbers 14: More laws and crap 

    Numbers: Part 14 of 36
    The People Rebel

    1 That night all the people of the community raised their voices and wept aloud.

    This is a perfect example of religion expecting people to just follow orders without being told why they are to do so.  Then when people question what they are being told they are persecuted or killed.

    2 All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, “If only we had died in Egypt! Or in this desert!

    How bad must it actually be for a people to wish they were dead instead of following God?  Doesn’t this show just how unknowing and uncaring God must be for the situation to deteriorate to this level?

    3 Why is the LORD bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be taken as plunder. Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt?”

    4 And they said to each other, “We should choose a leader and go back to Egypt.”

    5 Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown in front of the whole Israelite assembly gathered there.

    Drama Queens!!!

    6 Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had explored the land, tore their clothes

    Why tear their clothes?

    7 and said to the entire Israelite assembly, “The land we passed through and explored is exceedingly good.

    8 If the LORD is pleased with us, he will lead us into that land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and will give it to us.

    9 Only do not rebel against the LORD. And do not be afraid of the people of the land, because we will swallow them up. Their protection is gone, but the LORD is with us. Do not be afraid of them.”

    10 But the whole assembly talked about stoning them. Then the glory of the LORD appeared at the Tent of Meeting to all the Israelites.

    11 The LORD said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the miraculous signs I have performed among them?

    It would be miraculous if you stopped being such a freaking egomaniac and deigned to give people some idea of why you wish them to place their lives on the line.

    12 I will strike them down with a plague and destroy them, but I will make you into a nation greater and stronger than they.”

    Why kill people?  Can’t you just get them to live alongside each other in peace and harmony?  Too much for your meagre powers to handle?

    13 Moses said to the LORD, “Then the Egyptians will hear about it! By your power you brought these people up from among them.

    No, he kept them their longer than was necessary and they got out under their own power.

    14 And they will tell the inhabitants of this land about it. They have already heard that you, O LORD, are with these people and that you, O LORD, have been seen face to face, that your cloud stays over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.

    15 If you put these people to death all at one time, the nations who have heard this report about you will say,

    16 ‘The LORD was not able to bring these people into the land he promised them on oath; so he slaughtered them in the desert.’

    It says a lot that God needed to be persuaded in this manner.  What a dork!

    17 “Now may the Lord’s strength be displayed, just as you have declared:

    18 ‘The LORD is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.’

    19 In accordance with your great love, forgive the sin of these people, just as you have pardoned them from the time they left Egypt until now.”

    20 The LORD replied, “I have forgiven them, as you asked.

    How can God be all-knowing and all-wise if he can have his mind changed by a mortal?

    21 Nevertheless, as surely as I live and as surely as the glory of the LORD fills the whole earth,

    22 not one of the men who saw my glory and the miraculous signs I performed in Egypt and in the desert but who disobeyed me and tested me ten times-

    23 not one of them will ever see the land I promised on oath to their forefathers. No one who has treated me with contempt will ever see it.

    24 But because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it.

    25 Since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and set out toward the desert along the route to the Red Sea.”

    Going back on a promise.  Why does that not surprise me?

    26 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron:

    27 “How long will this wicked community grumble against me? I have heard the complaints of these grumbling Israelites.

    28 So tell them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you the very things I heard you say:

    29 In this desert your bodies will fall—every one of you twenty years old or more who was counted in the census and who has grumbled against me.

    30 Not one of you will enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

    31 As for your children that you said would be taken as plunder, I will bring them in to enjoy the land you have rejected.

    32 But you—your bodies will fall in this desert.

    This level of compassion is enough to melt ones heart.  NOT!

    33 Your children will be shepherds here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the desert.

    34 For forty years—one year for each of the forty days you explored the land—you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.’

    35 I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this whole wicked community, which has banded together against me. They will meet their end in this desert; here they will die.”

    36 So the men Moses had sent to explore the land, who returned and made the whole community grumble against him by spreading a bad report about it-

    37 these men responsible for spreading the bad report about the land were struck down and died of a plague before the LORD.

    Murderous sonofabitch!

    38 Of the men who went to explore the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh survived.

    39 When Moses reported this to all the Israelites, they mourned bitterly.

    40 Early the next morning they went up toward the high hill country. “We have sinned,” they said. “We will go up to the place the LORD promised.”

    41 But Moses said, “Why are you disobeying the LORD’s command? This will not succeed!

    42 Do not go up, because the LORD is not with you. You will be defeated by your enemies,

    43 for the Amalekites and Canaanites will face you there. Because you have turned away from the LORD, he will not be with you and you will fall by the sword.”

    44 Nevertheless, in their presumption they went up toward the high hill country, though neither Moses nor the ark of the LORD’s covenant moved from the camp.

    45 Then the Amalekites and Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down and attacked them and beat them down all the way to Hormah.

    So because they were being careful of their safety they are now in the position of dying if they don’t put themselves in danger or dying if they do go to war.  Why would anyone want to follow a god who treated them so badly?  Forcing obedience in the face of death is not a quality I would subscribe to a god. It would be more appropriate to call him a malevolent entity.

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  • DistroMan 20:00 on October 28, 2010 Permalink
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    Numbers 11: More laws and crap 

    Numbers: Part 11 of 36
    Fire From the LORD

    1 Now the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of the LORD, and when he heard them his anger was aroused. Then fire from the LORD burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.

    A little too easily annoyed I must say.  Cranky bugger.

    2 When the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the LORD and the fire died down.

    Why would God change his mind on the wishes of Moses?  Being all-knowing, God would have already have known what Moses was going to ask, so why do it in the first place?  This all-knowing, all-powerful and omnipresent rubbish is being shown to be just that, rubbish.  Think about this.  If all that were true then absolutely nothing could not be known to God.  Absolutely nothing would be a surprise to him.  It would also mean that he had no free will either.  He is playing his own part in this play as we are ours.  God is his own sock puppet.

    3 So that place was called Taberah, because fire from the LORD had burned among them.

    What name would you give it if it the meaning was ‘God is a cranky arsehole’?

    Quail from the LORD

    4 The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, “If only we had meat to eat!

    Meat? You’re joking aren’t you?  All those sacrifices, all those burnt offerings, all those wave offerings etc and they didn’t have meat to eat?  I wonder whose fault that was?  How compassionate is a God that would rather have the meat burnt so that he can sniff the smoke (God is a huffer) while the people starve?  Typical of a drug addicted moron.  Only care about their next hit and not who it affects.

    5 We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost—also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.

    6 But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna!”

    7 The manna was like coriander seed and looked like resin.

    8 The people went around gathering it, and then ground it in a handmill or crushed it in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into cakes. And it tasted like something made with olive oil.

    9 When the dew settled on the camp at night, the manna also came down.

    10 Moses heard the people of every family wailing, each at the entrance to his tent. The LORD became exceedingly angry, and Moses was troubled.

    I don’t blame them.  Here is what is supposed to be an omnipotent being and he can’t ease their suffering?

    11 He asked the LORD, “Why have you brought this trouble on your servant? What have I done to displease you that you put the burden of all these people on me?

    Of course Moses.  It’s all about you now.  Yet another narcissist.

    12 Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth? Why do you tell me to carry them in my arms, as a nurse carries an infant, to the land you promised on oath to their forefathers?

    And didn’t give to their forefathers.  Don’t forget that.

    13 Where can I get meat for all these people? They keep wailing to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’

    Maybe if you stop sacrificing it to your skyfairy, you’d have enough.

    14 I cannot carry all these people by myself; the burden is too heavy for me.

    15 If this is how you are going to treat me, put me to death right now—if I have found favor in your eyes—and do not let me face my own ruin.”

    Assisted Suicide!  Yep, that’s what it would be.  Asking to have your life ended to stop your suffering is euthanasia. The ignorant bastard didn’t even have the decency to answer Moses. Not surprising, he doesn’t answer anyone these days either. :)

    16 The LORD said to Moses: “Bring me seventy of Israel’s elders who are known to you as leaders and officials among the people. Have them come to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.

    Aged meat huh?  Bit stringy, but meat nonetheless.

    17 I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take of the Spirit that is on you and put the Spirit on them. They will help you carry the burden of the people so that you will not have to carry it alone.

    How does that help?

    18 “Tell the people: ‘Consecrate yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, when you will eat meat. The LORD heard you when you wailed, “If only we had meat to eat! We were better off in Egypt!” Now the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat it.

    Waiting till the last moment to give them meat instead of giving it to them early to keep them from suffering in the first place is inhumane.  That is torture for your own enjoyment.

    19 You will not eat it for just one day, or two days, or five, ten or twenty days,

    20 but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and you loathe it—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have wailed before him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?” ‘ “

    Ah, so you are going to turn what should have been an act of compassion into more pain and suffering?

    21 But Moses said, “Here I am among six hundred thousand men on foot, and you say, ‘I will give them meat to eat for a whole month!’

    22 Would they have enough if flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? Would they have enough if all the fish in the sea were caught for them?”

    23 The LORD answered Moses, “Is the LORD’s arm too short? You will now see whether or not what I say will come true for you.”

    24 So Moses went out and told the people what the LORD had said. He brought together seventy of their elders and had them stand around the Tent.

    25 Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and he took of the Spirit that was on him and put the Spirit on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did not do so again.

    26 However, two men, whose names were Eldad and Medad, had remained in the camp. They were listed among the elders, but did not go out to the Tent. Yet the Spirit also rested on them, and they prophesied in the camp.

    27 A young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”

    28 Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses’ aide since youth, spoke up and said, “Moses, my lord, stop them!”

    29 But Moses replied, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!”

    30 Then Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp.

    31 Now a wind went out from the LORD and drove quail in from the sea. It brought them down all around the camp to about three feet above the ground, as far as a day’s walk in any direction.

    More stupidity.  God could have just had them appear.  To bring them in this way just means that he didn’t create them, but drove in existing quail.  Therein lies the idiocy.  There would not have been that many quail in that place.  Make believe from the minds of men.

    32 All that day and night and all the next day the people went out and gathered quail. No one gathered less than ten homers. Then they spread them out all around the camp.

    33 But while the meat was still between their teeth and before it could be consumed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and he struck them with a severe plague.

    Nasty sonofabitch!  Psychopathic Serial Killer!

    34 Therefore the place was named Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.

    That would have been everybody.  So again the lie is shown.

    35 From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth and stayed there.

    I can’t help but quote Shakespeare at this point.  It may not be exactly what Old Bill meant it for, but hey, I like it.

    Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?

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  • DistroMan 20:00 on October 17, 2010 Permalink
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    Leviticus: The Post Mortem 

    Leviticus: What was it all about?

    Well, it’s not so hard to answer this question.  Leviticus is the laws set down by God telling us what we can and can’t do as far as giving to the priests and God, who we can and can’t have sex with, how to manage our land, crops and harvest as well as how to treat those with a disease.

    All in all, it is an attempt to rule our lives.  Although, when you think about it, it’s hard to understand how that can be done in only 27 parts.  Each one of the areas of our lives it attempts to dominate would obviously need much more than that on it’s own.

    At the very least it can be described as rule by fear.  I don’ t believe describing it in that manner is the right thing to do though.  That would be tantamount to describing a child molester as a child lover.  It should more rightly be described using such terms as vile, inhumane, perverted, murderous, sickening, evil and shameful.

    To promote

    • death by stoning
    • taking of innocent lives for sacrifice
    • throwing blood around
    • waving freshly removed parts of animals in the air
    • burning animals to placate a supposed compassionate god
    • taking the best of everything people have worked hard for just to keep power hungry priests happy
    • extortion

    and the

    • debasement and devaluation of females

    is anything but ‘good’.  If I go outside and start promoting this rubbish now, I would be denounced by every religious person around.  Why? It is what is in their book.  It is what they profess is the word of their god.  It is the book that they want the world ruled by.

    Here is an idea for you.  A new reality show.  We can call it ‘The Word of God’.  Twelve pious, bible loving people, all willing to live by the word of God as it is written in the bible.  Not the rules chosen by them, but by all the rules in the bible.  Every child killing, village burning, disease spreading one of them.

    I’d watch that.  :)

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  • DistroMan 20:00 on October 15, 2010 Permalink
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    Leviticus 26: Laws and Rituals of the Covenant 

    Leviticus: Part 26 of 27

    Reward for Obedience

    1 ” ‘Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the LORD your God.

    And yet your people do this every day in every land.

    2 ” ‘Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD.

    And yet your people work seven days a week without regard to your laws.

    3 ” ‘If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands,

    4 I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees of the field their fruit.

    There are many farmers with idols who work on the so called sabbath who get rain and whose crops thrive.

    5 Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want and live in safety in your land.

    Unless of course you change your mind the way you are known to.

    6 ” ‘I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will remove savage beasts from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country.

    And yet the faithful have no peace, no greater harvest.

    7 You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.

    Everyone dies.

    8 Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.

    And you will smile at the loss of blood and life.

    9 ” ‘I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you.

    But you haven’t.

    10 You will still be eating last year’s harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new.

    And those people who have had good harvests have also had bad harvests just as the non believers have.

    11 I will put my dwelling place among you, and I will not abhor you.

    As long as we give, give and keep on giving to your parasitic priests.

    12 I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people.

    And your followers will breed new children whose lives you will make a misery.

    13 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high.

    Only as high as the yoke you replaced it with will allow.

    Punishment for Disobedience

    14 ” ‘But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands,

    Here it comes, threat time.  Rule by fear.

    15 and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant,

    You will do nothing.  Myths can only work on those who believe.  You are a creation of man’s mind and can only hurt the mind of those who believe.  To all else you are impotent.

    16 then I will do this to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and drain away your life. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.

    Which has happened to both believer and non believer.

    17 I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.

    Blowhard!

    18 ” ‘If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over.

    And I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down.  Yeah yeah, sure sure.

    19 I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze.

    And yet the sky is blue and the ground soft and fertile.

    20 Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

    My roses bloom, my grass is green and you are but a …    nothing.  :)

    21 ” ‘If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve.

    And yet I see people pray daily from their wheelchairs while others walk around free from your oppression.

    22 I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted.

    We grow in number by the day while your flock crumbles in fear on bended knee before two pieces of timber.

    23 ” ‘If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction but continue to be hostile toward me,

    Mankind is here to follow it’s own path, not one laid down by ignorant, powerhungry morons who knew no better.

    24 I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over.

    What?  Are you going to give me the stinkeye?

    25 And I will bring the sword upon you to avenge the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be given into enemy hands.

    When there is a war, there will always be a loser to think that you caused it.  That means nothing.

    26 When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.

    The biggest believers in the world are starving to death. Why are you not helping them?

    27 ” ‘If in spite of this you still do not listen to me but continue to be hostile toward me,

    And eye for an eye is your law.  What do you expect?

    28 then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over.

    If you have the guts to come and do it yourself instead of sending some poor delusional human to do your dirty work I say bring it on!!!

    29 You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.

    As you have your believers eating your son every day?  Sick bastard.

    30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you.

    Go ahead, hate me.  I take that as a compliment.

    31 I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings.

    Hold on.  Nope, nothing.  Still not shaking in my boots.  Try again.

    32 I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who live there will be appalled.

    The only enemy I have is you.

    33 I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins.

    Repeat yourself much?

    34 Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

    35 All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it.

    36 ” ‘As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them.

    37 They will stumble over one another as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies.

    38 You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.

    39 Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their fathers’ sins they will waste away.

    40 ” ‘But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their fathers—their treachery against me and their hostility toward me,

    41 which made me hostile toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they pay for their sin,

    Say what?  Uncircumcised hearts?  How does one circumcise a heart?

    42 I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

    43 For the land will be deserted by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected my laws and abhorred my decrees.

    44 Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them. I am the LORD their God.

    45 But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the LORD.’ “

    46 These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the LORD established on Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelites through Moses.

    The Israelites are still being killed by their enemies.  They still die of diseases.  They still suffer drought.  They are still persecuted.  It doesn’t look like you are upholding your end of the bargain.

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