Looks Like "God" Fucked Up Again

[Minimalist]

Pretty sucktastic god who would ask them to do such an abhorrent thing. Maybe it didn't get done because the followers realized their god was wrong to command them to murder others for no good reason?

The whole story was made up in the 7th century.  Still, it says a lot about scumbags who cling to such a murderous vision of god even today.

[Astonished]

It is fucking heartbreaking watching someone try to defend that kind of shit in person, you can almost see their skin changing texture. I got into it with some fuckhead in PM messages who was defending slavery. Un-fucking-believable. Even worse, I saw an African-American defending biblical slavery on youtube (though it's been speculated that person was just an extremely tasteless satirist).

[John V]

Um, guys:

Judges 1
27 However, Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; for the Canaanites were determined to dwell in that land. 28 And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites under tribute, but did not completely drive them out.

So, science has confirmed what the Bible already said.

[Minimalist]

Then you had better consider the discrepancy between that piece of bullshit and this piece of bullshit.

23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.

Joshua 11

How come you assholes can never make up your minds about your fucking holy horseshit?

[vorlon13]

Numbers 21:3 King James Version (KJV)


3 And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.

[Minimalist]

Yeah - their "inerrant" bible fucks them up every time.

2 Sam 5:6 The king and his men marched to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who said to David, “You will not come in here, even the blind and the lame will turn you back”– thinking, “David cannot come in here.” 5:7 Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion, which is now the city of David. 5:8

Except.... Joshua seems to have taken it some time before this "David" clown.

Josh 12:7 The following are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the Israelites defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, that rises toward Seir (and Joshua gave [their land] to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their allotments, 12:8 in the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negeb, the land of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites)… 12:10 the king of Jerusalem one;

Perhaps in the interval between Joshua and David they lost the city and had to re-conquer it?  That would make "god" one shitty general wouldn't it?

[Silver]

When has god ever gotten it right?

[vorlon13]

He forever blotted out all remembrance of Amalek, except for recording that He had done so in His Bible . . .

[John V]

Then you had better consider the discrepancy between that piece of bullshit and this piece of bullshit.

23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.

Joshua 11

That the specific overrules the general is a pretty basic concept of interpretation.

[Minimalist]

That your fucking bible is later propaganda is a far superior explanation.