Deuteronomy 32:42
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
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I suggested this one to Goldy, so I guess I should explain why it tickles me.
The drunk arrows thing is a brilliant (if gruesome) metaphor. If it was a more modern weapon than arrows, you could see it employed today.
But of course for the subset of Christians that Bible Study is making fun of, we’re told we have to “take the Bible literally.” So those arrows were literally drunk. They must have internal organs that react to blood the way ours react to alcohol.
“Mine arrows” obviously come from a special arrow mine, the whereabouts of which is no longer known (like Atlantis).
Flesh-devouring swords, though, I got nothin’. Maybe they coated them with acid. From the acid mine, conveniently located next to the arrow mine.
If this was supposed to deter warfare, it didn’t work.
We’ve bred homicidal mania into our DNA as surely as we’ve bred baby back ribs.
A lot of gods at the time claimed similar attributes always promising victory over their enemies.
A 4 Perhaps we already have homicidal mania in our DNA from a long time walking about the Earth. Just go check out your local roller derby, race track, or cage fight.
And in the years mantra of making America great again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-dQYKTdoks
Though this has been around for almost a decade so America must be pretty great…watch for the nuns.
Maybe god likes limericks. Here are a few rather dirty ones, but the first is very appropriate for this group.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei68YJe-nA0
The reading seems to support the idea that Muhammed was a plagiarist when he dreamed up the Koran.
@8 Still the foundations of Islam are in the Bible and the shared history. Not to mention the neighbors tended to be Christians or Jewish.
From 600 BCE to this day, God remains a dick.