The 'gentle' story this morning of how the loving God killed 50,700 Israelites, as told by the chaps at the Brick Testament. Yet another story you won't hear in Sunday School...NB: How many does the Bible say God killed altogether (presumably because he "so loved the world")? Answer here, at Dwindling at Unbelief.
Good old A.J. Chesswas says they all deserved it (the bastards), and the rest of us bastards are just lucky the loving God doesn't deign to knock us all off as well...
LINKS: 50,700 Israelites killed by God - Brick Testament
1 Samuel - The Skeptic's Annotated Bible
How many has God killed? (Complete list and estimated total) - Dwindling in Unbelief
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6 comments:
real nice post
You should check out the Brick Testement's section on the Teaching of Jesus!
Damn that's funny.
“Christians have an obligation, a mandate, a commission, a holy responsibility to reclaim the land for Jesus Christ — to have dominion in civil structures, just as in every other aspect of life and godliness.
But it is dominion we are after. Not just a voice.
It is dominion we are after. Not just influence.
It is dominion we are after. Not just equal time.
It is dominion we are after.
World conquest. That’s what Christ has commissioned us to accomplish.”
-George Grant, former executive director of D. James Kennedy’s Coral Ridge Ministries
Have no doubt: These people see this as a war, and they don’t hesitate to use militaristic language when encouraging their followers to “obey” and “fight” for Christ (and against the New World Order). Fringe? Some of them, sure. But not folks like Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Janice Crowse, and scores of other radically religious, anti-choice, anti-gay theocrats — they’re all quite chummy with our president and the Republican party. And they have a whole lot of power.
Just something to consider.
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/01/08/american-fascists/
Of course those who disagree with Peikoff only read National Review and watch Fox. I don't think that's you - I'm just saying in case they should be reading this post.
R.W. - I'm not sure we'll ever know the historical truth of Jesus but I like the idea of an individual like him standing up against the establishment and think he wasn't a bad bloke (in a secular way) if he existed.
Anyone read or seen the "Left Behind" stories by Jenkins and Le Haye? Nasty and violent as blood and entrails gush to the desert floor when the Lord takes his vengeance on the sinners after the Christians have been raptured to heaven.
Mind you, we have been given fair warning I guess. The Lord is just and righteous.
leelion said...
[R.W. - I'm not sure we'll ever know the historical truth of Jesus...]
IMO that Jesus, was the first ever liberatarians, or seemed to be. He was sort of against the authorities in his time for forcing people to pay tax . I think that Ayn Rand completely missed the history of Jesus's mission then, which was to campaign to have less government and no tax, but at the end , his mates (disciples) dobbed him in to the authorities for his anti-government activities, therefore they crucified poor Jesus.
"Loving God"? "The Good Book"? Seem like a load of bullshit to me. They should cover it on an episode of Penn and Teller's Bullshit. Oh, wait, that's right they did. And at the end Penn said, "Nothing will make you an atheist like reading the Bible."
And people wonder why I have always I hated the Bible. Even as young as ten (as early as i can remember back to on a remotely consistent basis) I hated the Bible.
The Lord is just and righteous.
So just and righteous he smote all of the innocent first born sons in Egypt because the pharaoh angered him. It is, after all, just and righteous to kill innocents to punish the guilty.Oh, no wait it isn't. It is evil and immoral.
God is evil and immoral (or would be if he wasn't non-existent). The Bible contains all the proof of that you need and then some.
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