RE: Atheists interpret bible verses
October 14, 2015 at 10:27 am
(This post was last modified: October 14, 2015 at 10:29 am by TheRocketSurgeon.)
(October 14, 2015 at 10:14 am)Redbeard The Pink Wrote: There is ancient holy book that talks about Unicorns. It's called the Bible.
Meh, that's just the KJV, since the translators had no idea what mythological creatures the Hebrews were actually referring to, so they substituted "dragons" and "unicorns" for the other terms. It is fun to go to https://www.biblegateway.com/ and do a search for unicorns in the KJV, then switch translations to see how others dealt with the issue.
Numbers 23:22 - Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
22 God brought them out of Egypt;
he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
Numbers 23:22 - New American Standard Bible (NASB)
22 God brings them out of Egypt,
He is for them like the horns of the wild ox.
Numbers 23:22 - Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
22 God is bringing them out from Egypt,
As the swiftness of a Reem is to him;
dictionary.reference.com Wrote:reem
n.
Hebrew name of an animal in the Old Testament (Job xxxix:9, etc.), now identified with the wild ox, but formerly translated in Latin as rhinoceros and in English as unicorn.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/reem
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I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.