Random Bible stuff

[alexmegami]

A little over halfway through Deuteronomy.

If anyone kills his neighbor unintentionally without having hated him in the past — as when someone goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies [...]

Does anyone else think someone writing this felt a little guilty about something? *lol*

Edit: Deuteronomy 28 is grisly, man.

Comments

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

The Bible in general is pretty grisly. That's why I love how people who read it to their children get all up in arms about gory or sexually explicit books being available in libraries...

[alexmegami]

Well, but this part is ESPECIALLY so. "If you don't do as I say, I will have your enemies oppress and subjugate you so hard that you will eat your own children and not even share their tender, tender flesh with your brothers or wife."

[kisekileia.livejournal.com]

It's pretty chilling, all right.

[alexmegami]

Maybe that should be my tactic for dealing with Fred Phelps-esque religious nuts. "So if we've gotten so horrible, why hasn't cannibalism gone through the roof?" ;)

[kisekileia.livejournal.com]

Haha!

[mistress-gwen.livejournal.com]

I always just pictured "Moses," or one of his perpetually-harassed minions, sitting around in his tent at night, adding a rule about whatever-the-fuck someone was screaming at him to fix that day.

[mysticjuicer.livejournal.com]

*LOL* Awesome.

[phreeque.livejournal.com]

Om nom nom.