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Judges 3:16-23
They say that history repeats itself, and this verse illustrates that clearly. Our hero Ehud came up with the idea of concealing a weapon by strapping it to his body several thousand years before John McClane did in Die Hard.
Instead of strapping it to his back, Ehud chose to tie it to his thigh. One wonders why the royal guards didn't comment when they frisked Elud and felt 18 inches of rigid steel in his pants. Maybe, they just assumed he was Egyptian.
Really, the only way to improve on this would be by shoehorning an awful pun into it, such as "You should really cut down on your fat intake!" or "Looks like being king takes guts!" As he leaves, Ehud shows he hasn't forgotten his good manners by considerately shutting the door behind him. It doesn't say if he went flying across rooftops Assassin's Creed-style, so we're forced to assume he did. As bad as the delivery of that particular message from God went for Eglon, he got off lucky. As you'll see, God sometimes delivers the message himself. #5.
Numbers 16:23, 31-33
The above happened years after Moses killed the Egyptian guy and led a country's worth of Hebrews into the desert where they wandered aimlessly for several decades (as seen in The Ten Commandments). At some point, a troublemaker named Korah and 250 supporters banded together and aired a series of complaints about the fact that they were wandering aimlessly in the desert. God listened carefully to their complaints, weighed their points, then made the earth eat them alive. The text does not make it clear whether or not the earth made that "OM NOM NOM" sound, so scholars are forced to speculate. This really puts things in perspective for the anti-religion critics. They can complain all they want about religious "intolerance" and pushy evangelicals trying to censor TV and annoy people into conversion. But, that's a hell of an improvement over the situation during the Exodus, when God would feed nonbelievers to the mighty Sarlacc.
Two verses later, God sends down a ball of fire and incinerates the other 250 rebels. You have to imagine there was a moment of tentative relief when the 250 rebels saw that they had not been swallowed up along with Korah. "Yeah," they probably said. "Thank you! We were just about to bury that asshole ourselves! Fortunately, we all have learned the error of our rebellious ways and--hey, what's that ... AAARRRGGGHHH! FIRE!!" #4.
Deuteronomy 25:11-12
This is a man's law, right here. When Conan became king at the end of Conan the Destroyer, you can bet he made sure there was a rule just like this his first day in office. "Ladies, we respect your right to resolve disputes in whatever manner you feel necessary for the situation. But, DO NOT GRAB THE JUNK." The words in the Bible are actually those of God, speaking to the Hebrews and taking time to add the junk-grab rule into the supplemental commandments that didn't make it into the original 10. This had to be right after God realized his plan for a male-dominated society had a fatal flaw, which is that the women could prevail in any conflict simply by grabbing the men's junk. Now, you nervous, liberal types are complaining that this is barbaric and misogynistic. Perhaps, a little context helps. Just a couple of pages earlier, in Deuteronomy 23:1, we get this:
"Emasculated by crushing?" Gah! Everything in the Bible has to be understood in context of the times these people were living in. And, apparently, these people lived in a time when "crushing" the nuts was so common that the crushed-nuts victims were an entire demographic that had to be accounted for in the law. Call these commandments savage if you want, but if you were God, how many nuts would you have to see "crushed" before you overreacted? We're thinking the answer is two. Of course, if you're not a believer and don't think this "grab the nuts, lose a hand" commandment is from the almighty at all, then it becomes obvious what happened: The rule was handed down by some angry clergyman within the first minute or so of having his junk crushed. All perspective tends to go out the window at that moment. |
wow, it's s**t like this that's makes me think that doorstop might be worth a read
Wow. The Bible just gets better and better on every transalation!
Great work!
I am a christian, and i liked it too. It wasnt full of blasphemy as such things normally is.
Another thing i want to say, is that the NT also is full of such things. For example the story of Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5:1-11.
In that story, Ananias and his wife Sapphira sold their property to give the money to the church, but they didnt want to give all of the money to the church, so they hid some of their money, but they couldnt hide them from God, so he killed them.
Said with other words, if you hid grain from the authorities in the USSR, you would be send to the GULAG camps, but if you hid money from God (actually Gods church, as he doesnt need the money himself), you get killed.
But that is nothing compared to the Revalation. There you have (and i will only speak of those, who clearly are on Gods side):
1. The angels with the trumpets in chapter 8.
2. The two witnesses in chapter 11.
3. The angels with the seven bowls of wrath in chapter 16.
4. The great battle against Satan, the Beast (666/616), and the False Prophet (the propaganda minister of the Beast) before the millenium in 19:11-21.
5. The great battle against Satan, after the millenium in 20:7-10.
The irreverent but accurate observations of biblical pwnage made this article awesome. Old Testament brutality proves in comparison to God, humans are more stupid and less significant than we like to pretend.
what happened to deuteronomy 32:41?
In reference to #7, the (translated) text reads:
"...whose genitals were like those of donkeys..."
If I may speak transculturally for a moment, I have noted an anthropological study of an African tribe in which larger penis size was actually undesirable, to the point of being a common insult. "Your penis is huge" was actually a common reason for rejecting a partner. Of course, this was in the context of a far more matriarchal society than ours, where each women was expected to take multiple lovers in addition to their husband.
I say this both to illustrate a possible alternative subtext, as well as to further procrastinate my own studies.
Cheers,
Sean.
They say Oscar Wilde visited America once, and when he got heckled by his moralistic audience he called them all Philistines. Then some nameless American joe called out, "Yeah, and you're slaying us with the jaw of an ass!" All I can say is: damn, yo. Damn. This was back in the days before onlookers learned to go, "Ohhhhh snap, son!" but I think that even now, generations later, that deserves a snap. You don't f**k with Americans. Incidentally, Oscar Wilde converted to Catholicism on his death bed. I'm just saying.
We nicknamed our Abrams the Pale Horse after Revelations 6:8 "And I looked and behold, a pale horse. And his name that sat upon him was Death, and Hell followed with him." When you see the pale horse you know death has come for you. We are death, and we bring Hell with us.
David was indeed kick-ass. It's just too bad he worked so hard for Micah and didn't stay with her. Anyone remember a wee little scene with a certain Bathsheba (sp.) bathing on the roof and David deciding he had to have her? Which is too bad.
But still, very good article.
Hats off to the writers on such a hilarious article and it's written very well. Great material. I'm laughing hysterically in my little office at work and I know people must think I'm nuts, but hey, it feels great! I came from a crazy fundamentalist christian background and I have to say, this stuff is great!!! Please, give us more!!!
Dude, you guys totally forgot to mention Ehud was left-handed. He's like the ONLY left-handed man named in the Bible and he kicks ass! That's also how he got away with the sword. People expected weapons to be strapped to the OTHER leg, because left-handers were so rare.
Ehud was able to hide that big sword on his leg because he was lame, and apparently he had a splint or something on it. No kidding.
This article could as easily be titled "9 Reasons to convert to Judaism (or Christianity)"
You guys rock! Great Article! I will be watching for others written by David Wong and Owen Ball. Moses as Sam Fisher! Too funny! Great Writing!
It's worth noting that the law of the Old Testament applies to the modern day as well, when it suits people to say it does.
It is important to note that the Law of the Old Testament is only fully applicable to the Israelites of the day.
Soup-on-a-stick, have you ever been grounded by your parents? Same general sort of thing. God loves you, but he isn't shy about setting and enforcing rules.
The change in God's temperament and MO from the Old Testament tot he New Testament has always mystified me. All throughout the OT God is personally kicking ass or having one of His prophets do it for Him. Then quite suddenly, in the NT, here comes Jesus talking about how God is a God of love, a forgiving and loving Father. No wonder the Pharisees and Sadducees listened to him and thought he was wacked. Yet God did not smite Jesus, nor did He he smite the Romans or the Pharisees or Sadducees when they had Jesus crucified. In fact He was just sort of non-committal on the whole affair except for a thunderstorm and opening up a bunch of graves.
Maokun, that's Elijah who slaughtered the f**k out of the Baal prophets, with fires from the sky and everything.
ELIJAH, not ELISHA.
Obi-Wan, not Luke.
And I'm a big boobed woman, once, in my Freudian dream.
Lobster rights? Good one!
Pot makes you a bloodthirsty homosexual pervert.
Take that, James Blunt!
They died like they lived: idiots.
Apparently, science likes sex as much as Cracked.
We know because people tried.
There's such a thing as wanting it too badly.
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