Bald Prophets are Dangerous

[Cinjin]

Apparently I'm ready for my monthly dose of apologist's greasy sophistry because I'm putting this out there for Drich and his brothers-in-christ to show off their artful gymnastics. (not really)


Don't piss off a guy who's in good with an angry god. Damn Elisha, was this really necessary?!?

2 Kings 2:23-24
(KJV and NIV)

23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.

Not only is god's prophet apparently extremely vain, but god endorsed it. Elisha didn't send the bears ... his god did. Do you think all 42 of those kids were equally guilty? You have to guess that quite a few of them just happened to be there and weren't really conspirators, and even if they ALL were mocking the old dude, did they really deserve that?

Also, can anyone tell me how only two bears can maul 42 people?? Seems unlikely doesn't it? I mean even if a bear could somehow manage to maul three at a time it seems like quite an exaggeration.

My point is that there's no getting outta this one clean. If god did this, he's reprehensible and loathsome. If god didn't do this, than his prophet is loathsome and in turn he still looks horrible. If it's not true than you have to explain why this "one part of the Bible" is not true. If it's an exaggeration of the mauling the bears did than you still have to explain why.


Ruling: The story is false and the guy who wrote it might have been bald and possibly angry at his kids at the time.