For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall.--2 Kings 9:8Ah. And so entertaining as well. It really is good advice to stay home and read your Bible. And you could read your Mark Twain as well, who had this to say on they that pisseth against walls:
"A person could piss against a tree, he could piss on his mother, he could piss on his own breeches, and get off, but he must not piss against the wall -- that would be going quite too far. The origin of the divine prejudice against this humble crime is not stated; but we know that the prejudice was very strong -- so strong that nothing but a wholesale massacre of the people inhabiting the region where the wall was defiled could satisfy the Deity." -- Mark Twain, Letters from the EarthGod, as they say, moves in mysterious ways.
LINKS: Skeptics' Annotated Bible
RELATED: Religion, Nonsense
A cynic might say "The Lord" (him upstairs) has an unhealthy interest in these type of things - and a particularly unhealthy interest in foreskins in general - (which is odd as it must have been a design fault)... but really, I couldn't possibly comment.
ReplyDeleteI find it useful when someone quotes a verse from the Bible to support a particular point of view, to read the verses preceding and following the quoted verse. It puts everything into context.
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ReplyDeleteYeah SAB is just someone's idea of a bit of a laugh. I've never heard of a biblical or literary scholar taking any of their work seriously.
- fvyec
The way of saying male in Hebrew is "someone who pisses against the wall." It's just a literal translation.
ReplyDeleteHow do you piss pc? I still piss against the wall, still quite common in NZ.
Don't forget immoral ways PC! Or at least he would if he existed. But since he doesn't exist he doesn't move in any way. Non-existant beings tend to be bad at moving.
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