Still Angry about Abraham and Isaac

[Rev. Rye]

Absolutely. I wonder what the story would be like if we had a defiant and challenging follower of god? Like, he still gets rewarded because the answer was, "That's right. Good job Abraham. If I, yer Lord, ever ask of ye any sick and twisted shite, the correct answer ist NEIN."


It doesn't. And it's not like I'm expecting better of ancient goat herders who had limited understanding of the world let alone a philosophy that wasn't "might makes right". But I am critical of the religious and believers of today who don't have the simple critical thinking necessary to look at one story condemning the barbarian child sacrifice hungry gods of the pagan neighboring nations and then look at this story and realize their god also is very much pro child sacrifice and hungry for innocent blood.

Actually, since Jehovah stopped Abraham, that kinda makes him anti child sacrifice - he substituted a ram for Isaac.

The point of the fable seems to be that the Hebrews were better than the neighbouring pagans because their god doesn’t sacrifice children.

Boru

Well, outside of the whole Jephthah killing his only daughter thing.





This video does do a good once-over of the legend, although it would have been nice if he pointed out the #1 problem with the “Jephthah just let his daughter die a virgin and didn’t kill her” is that this sort of sworn virginity thing was not actually a thing in Judaism. Maybe with the Essenes, but they were A: centuries after Jephthah’s time, and B: all-male.