Psalm 82:1
When all of the other gods have come together, the Lord God judges them
Discuss.
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“Other Gods”?
Of course, the bronze age tribes also believed the earth was flat and supported by columns which made the earth “tremble” from time to time.
Clearly, the faithful have not read their bible; otherwise they would not be, um, faithful.
So, there is not just one God. God said so and so did Tom Brokaw.
You can’t get more reliable than that!
@1 Obviously this is the Big God judging the little gods, aka martinets, aka Republicans.
Personally, I think it’s a good idea to gather all the Republicans together in one place, then deal with them en masse. It’s more efficient.
re 3: Martinets — good word. Describes the personality type accurately.
So really this means that religion is just a beauty contest between imaginary friends? Most people give that shit up by the time they’re 8 years old.
Of course, most religionists don’t understand the distinction between imaginary friends and real ones. Thats why they’ll beat their kids senseless for having an imaginary friend or throw them out of the house at 12 years old because they got tired of the minister fucking them up the ass every Sunday and decided that church was an unpleasant place. I know a few people that went through exactly that.
Thats why they’ll fawn over and gibber about that wonderful Minister who drives a $100,000 Mercedes Benz and lives in a 20,000 square foot house then turn around and ostracize anyone who questions why they need to plunk a $100 bill in the collection plate at every service.
Religion: The biggest, most successful and longest running scam in all of human history.
All aboard the HAte Train! woot woot!
So, you are all surprised?
If I am what am, does that mean there are no other ams?
Must Shaddai, Ashera, Hermes, Vishnu, and Hamatsa be less than real because I am?
For that matter,how in heaven do you folks imagine daily life in heaven .. with all those saints, Jesus, Mary, ex Popes, and the prophets? Do you think Heaven is a democracy?
Can you imagine the chaos when the prophets ALL arrived in one place?
Vote Me! you have no other choice!
re 7: “All aboard the HAte Train! woot woot!”
Are you the conductor? That seems a role that you could fulfill.
Howard Stern and I will spend eternity as voyeurs on the isle of Lesbos.
The Pearly Gates can take many forms.
You all seem to have one thing in common – created by man, for man.
I would imagine that others’ ‘Holy Book’ contains similar language – “Our GOD is the BEST GOD”
Sort of like Borat singing about Kazakhstani potassium:
“Our God is greatest God,
All other gods are little girls…”
And so it goes….
AWWWW…somebody gets their fee-fees hurt when we discuss their mythology. Perhaps Mr. Scripty will show up and ‘prove’ for us the existence of god…he sort of skeedaddled that other thread…
errrmmm, wrong again mr bubble studying lab tech. My feelings arent hurt on this subject, or any other for that matter, but a bunch of irrelevant dweebs.
I have never said I was or was not Christian anyway, and if I was, you and your socialist losers certainly wouldnt be capable of effecting what I thought.
keep on complaining and being jealous of others, its all you guys got.
HAte is a thing specialized by the left…
Well this is terrifying – in Louisiana (of course) they’re eviscerating the public school budgets to transfer the money to pay for vouchers that the yahoos will use to pay for Christianist schools. Schools that use textbooks from Bob Jones University Press, among other citadels of knowledge.
Among the stuff being taught to those poor children down there, using public money:
God, of course, want them to do this, and I’m sure it’s all supported by SCRIPTURE. Pu-raise JEEEESUSS!
The right, particularly the Dominionist Christianists, would be powerless without fear and hate.
hows the bubble studies going?
the only hate, and jealousy for that matter, I see come mainly from the left.
later losers…I have a boat to go prep…yet another of the rewards for being smart and working hard…
Here’s just a sampling of quotes from your side’s main blimp, Rush:
Fear and hate, fear and hate, from the mouthpiece and leader of the Republican party.
OH EXCELLENT!! I just came across ‘evilbible.com’ which seems to be an invaluable resource for understanding the moral underpinnings of our resident Bible-thumpers like the literalist YECer puddles.
Here’s a good one:
When all the evil fools are dead their goddamned gods will die with them.
Lib Sci ..
You ask “What kind of God approves of murder, rape, and slavery?”
Seems to me that your view of Me is sadly wrong. I do not approve of murder, rape, slavery or even poverty. Those are your ideas.
Even in the text you site, I do not authorize these things. Someone writing rules of engagement does this. Am I also to blame for the US Military Code of Justice?
It seems to me that humans need to “man up,” take responsibility for your own actions rather than always blaming Me!
(Deuteronomy 20:10-14)
As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.
Answer: Master-Blaster, a dwarf and a giant idiot, run Bartertown.
We tell the truth, and you think it’s hate. I reckon that’s what Harry Truman was getting at.
Note to dwarf-giant idiot: boats are in fact holes in the water that consume vast amounts of time and money and you are a fool.
LMFAO @ “vast amounts” – ya, only if you are an idiot who doesnt know what they are doing…sounds like you, eh?
run along and go be jealous now…
Monday is tomorrow and got to get back to work so I can make money and pay my “fair share of taxes…..and YLBigots fair share of taxes….and rujax’s fair share of taxes…and probably yours too…
@9 Was the little asshat troll the conductor on this train? That might explain this mess:
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_n.....ssing?lite
@24 “Monday is tomorrow and got to get back to work …”
I’m so sorry. I’ll say a prayer for you. Maybe someday you’ll grow up to be a capitalist like me. Then Mondays will be like every other day of the week, you can sleep in, won’t have to commute, etc. We capitalists don’t have to work. We get paid for doing nothing.
He was checking to see if they were homos
@27 I had an uncle like you once, but he’s dead now. Got hit by a falling tree that was hit by lightning.
@28 – how so, was your uncle like me?
I couldn’t agree more. Indeed, they shouldn’t refer to you to back up all their crazy-ass bigotry and violence and fear-based hate. In fact, it will be a wonderful day when the last human that needs you dies off, and we enter a phase in our evolution without need for mythologized sky-daddies.
go cut your pony-tail lib sci….
Alas, I cut it off a number of years ago…male pattern baldness was pushing the hairline back, and I didn’t want to end up with a skullet.
As I said last week, we invented religion because we seem to be hard wired to do so. You can’t take it too seriously, or it’ll drive you crazy.
@29 Had homos on his mind all the time.
@33 Given that all of history’s kings derived their legitimacy from Divine Authority, without religion there would have been no government for several thousand years.
@35
Or we’d have developed democracy sooner, rather that having a stable, but feudal, system for all those years.
re 13: “HAte is a thing specialized by the left…”
Remember, O’ questioner of Bartertown Bossman, that when you point your finger at someone else, three of your fingers point back at you and your thumb points kind of mid way — like at the horizon — so it doeasn’t count.
Why not present the entire Psalm rather than 1 verse? The Atheists at HA have some very, very bad habits about taking things out of context and understanding that the Old Testament is both Historical and God’s Law….and the New Testament is about God’s Grace. It needs to be taken in it’s entirety rather than cherry-picking. BUT, God-hating Atheists cannot or will not understand that, will they.
So, for the good of the order..CONTEXT-
Psalm 82
A psalm of Asaph.