Your Favorite Violent Part of the Bible

[Chad32]

Killing the firstborns of Egypt after screwing with the Pharoah so that he couldn't let Moses' people go if he wanted to, and later ordering Moses to kill his followers for breaking a rule against idol worship that none of them were aware of. I realize they were cartoonishly whiny for some reason, but when a polytheist is unhappy with a member of their pantheon, they start worshiping another member of their pantheon. That's how polytheism works.

Pretty much any passage where children are killed or raped.

[vorlon13]

Oh that more christers would start handling deadly serpents and drinking poison !!

[Chad32]

Also giving away everything they own and living lives of seclusion, away from everyone else's business.

[vorlon13]

And slaying folks that aren't good commies, like Ananias and Sapphira.

[SteelCurtain]

God fucks up and backtracks.
God: "Abimelech, you fucked Sarah! Time to die, bitch."
Abimelech: "Nu uh, I didn't touch her, she told me she was his sister!"
God: "Well, give her back is what I meant! She's his property, not yours! Yeah, that's what I meant, you took her and if you don't give her back, dead city! And not just you! All yo peeps too!"

20 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.

4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation

5 Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.

6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.

7 Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

[Nope]

And slaying folks that aren't good commies, like Ananias and Sapphira.

I always felt bad for Ananias and Sapphira. Yes, they lied but people have done far worse and didn't drop dead because of it. Their deaths served no purpose except to convince the early Christians to give up all their property over to the church.

For anyone who thinks that Jesus is meek and mild, his time on earth was just a farce for his true nature. According to Revelation, after a great battle, Jesus will feed his enemies to the birds. Not an exactly peaceful image


Revelation 19

17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, “”Come, gather together for the great supper of God, 18 so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and the mighty, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, great and small.

19 Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse and his army. 20 But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. 21 The rest were killed with the sword coming out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.

Footnotes:

[Crossless2.0]

I'm just waiting for some lout to go ape shit at a football match and kill thousands with the jawbone of an ass. I swear, if that ever happens I will begin to follow soccer.

[Drich]

I like the book of revelation. Why? Because it's something we all get to look forward to. Meaning the harder you all work at being atheist the faster the cup of man's iniquity gets filled triggering the end time events. Who know maybe most of us/you will get to see what it was john was trying to describe. We've Got to remember that revelation was not written as a book of prophesy, but as a historical account of what John saw and his best efforts to describe it.

[vorlon13]

Not exactly violent, but more disgusting, is various transgressors eventual fate being described as they will be vomited from the earth.

Really !!


What would that look like ? How would that occur, exactly ? Could we have a demonstration ?

[Crossless2.0]

I like the book of revelation.

I'm not surprised.

Why? Because it's something we all get to look forward to.

Speak for yourself. I don't usually wallow in violent fantasies of epic proportions. Gallows humor is one thing but . . . fuck, man! I know you believe you'll be singing in some heavenly choir or stroking Jesus' balls or something, but 'looking forward' to what is described in that sick book? Beyond the pale.

Meaning the harder you all work at being atheist the faster the cup of man's iniquity gets filled triggering the end time events.

Um, two things: first, it's not work to not believe nonsense; second, there's nothing iniquitous about not believing nonsense, despite what your instruction manual on thought control says.

Who know maybe most of us/you will get to see what it was john was trying to describe.

I'm going with 'no' -- not you, not me, not anyone. And that's a good thing, at least to those of us who haven't willfully unmoored ourselves from reality or basic compassion. They say that Jesus wept over Jerusalem. You, Drich, gloat over the world because you think you're going to be on the 'winning' side. It's sick and pathetic.

We've Got to remember that revelation was not written as a book of prophesy, but as a historical account of what John saw and his best efforts to describe it.

Blah, blah, blah. If you let me give you a tab of bad acid and select your viewing and musical experience, I may not get you to seeing blood rising to the height of horses' bridles, but I can probably get you close enough to satisfy your strange blood lust for a while. Deal?