Atrocities in the Bible

[The Grand Nudger]

No, l've read them several times and studied to find the answer.

uh-huh.....

Okay then how can this be a bitter herb drink as everyone was saying when it contained only the dirt from the floor and holy water.

Your bible tells us that this is bitter water, that enters the womans body, and causes her to miscarry.  Whether the abortifacient is made of dirt or herbs is irrelevant to whats got your panties in a twist.  It's an issue of your own credulity, as I already commented upon.

Magic book says:

He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering will enter her. 

If this is an abortion drink then many babies would be aborted from the mother drinking muddy water in third world countries.

Indeed, which...to a half sane reader, would imply that the recipe was a trade secret and not honestly communicated in the bible (uh-oh.....).  Again, your bible tells us that this is what happens.  Pontificate all you want as to how ridiculous that sounds....but you're arguing with the word of god, not us.  

Magic book says:

If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse.

So what happened to the grain offering, two things. Read carefully.

Payment for services rendered.  I'm not as gullible as you are.  

GC, it doesn't matter what the abortifacient is made of, or what the shaman does with the grain brought to him, or how stupid this all sounds to you.  Maybe you should really spend some time considering the last bit though.  The word of god describes a non-consenting abortive  and sterilizing procedure as a means of testing your wife's fidelity.  A more definitive and terrible endorsement of abortion is difficult to imagine.  Why do this?  Because you can't feed the child?  No.  Because she doesn't want to have the child?  No.  Because hubby is suspicious.  The atrocity, in this case...as much as you fail to see it due to your commitment to pretending that an abortion is not occurring despite every jot and tittle of the narrative explicitly describing one...is the reason and circumstance -of- the abortion and subsequent sterilization.  A woman is taken to a "holy" man, a servant of god....she is forced to undergo this procedure...and however it turns out, her feckless husband is made free of any blame for the misery his jealousy has wrought.  If it worked....and magic book assures us that it does, he has killed a child.  His child, some other schmucks child, no matter.  It;s his bitch of a wifes fault either way.  If it works, and magic book assures us that it does, he has sterilized his wife.  No matter.....OT, he can always buy another.  All of this can be purchased for a few handfuls of grain.  How precious and valuable a wife must have felt.

Wheedle around it all you like, it won't change what's in the good book, now will it?