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@thebibleforsmartasses
At least four visitors in the past two weeks (according to statcounter) have come from non-English Google results for "almost female," where my blog holds a surprisingly high ranking, coming behind transsexual porn and "Team Bro Climbing."
Not entirely sure how I feel about this, but anyone and everyone is welcome on my blog, with no judgment concerning from whence they came.
Hey everybody. I apologize for the lack of recent on-topic posts. I promise I will get back to it soon. In the meantime, The Earl of Lemongrab.
Every time I hear that Coldplay song...
Tell me again how gay people are destroying traditional marriage?
Faith...
All of this is false. See: http://imgur.com/a/pBBkt
Professor : You are a Christian, arenât you, son ?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor: So, you believe in GOD ?
Student : Absolutely, sir.
Professor : Is GOD good ?
Student : Sure.
Professor: Is GOD all powerful ?
Student : Yes.
Professor: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didnât. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?
(Student was silent.)
Professor: You canât answer, can you ? Letâs start again, young fella. Is GOD good?
Student : Yes.
Professor: Is satan good ?
Student : No.
Professor: Where does satan come from ?
Student : From ⌠GOD âŚ
Professor: Thatâs right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student : Yes.
Professor: Evil is everywhere, isnât it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?
Student : Yes.
Professor: So who created evil ?
(Student did not answer.)
Professor: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, donât they?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor: So, who created them ?
(Student had no answer.)
Professor: Science says you have 5 Senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son, have you ever seen GOD?
Student : No, sir.
Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?
Student : No , sir.
Professor: Have you ever felt your GOD, tasted your GOD, smelt your GOD? Have you ever had any sensory perception of GOD for that matter?
Student : No, sir. Iâm afraid I havenât.
Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student : Yes.
Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesnât exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student : Nothing. I only have my faith.
Professor: Yes, faith. And that is the problem Science has.
Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Professor: Yes.
Student : And is there such a thing as cold?
Professor: Yes.
Student : No, sir. There isnât.
(The lecture theater became very quiet with this turn of events.)
Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we donât have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we canât go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There was pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)
Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Professor: Yes. What is night if there isnât darkness?
Student : Youâre wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light. But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isnât it? In reality, darkness isnât. If it is, well you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldnât you?
Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man ?
Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Professor: Flawed ? Can you explain how?
Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good GOD and a bad GOD. You are viewing the concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science canât even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.
Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Professor: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.
Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going.)
Student : Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor. Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?
(The class was in uproar.)
Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professorâs brain?
(The class broke out into laughter. )
Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professorâs brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable.)
Professor: I guess youâll have to take them on faith, son.
Student : That is it sir ⌠Exactly ! The link between man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.
P.S. I believe you have enjoyed the conversation. And if so, youâll probably want your friends / colleagues to enjoy the same, wonât you?
Forward this to increase their knowledge ⌠or FAITH.
By the way, that student was EINSTEIN.
This whole story is false and made up. Sorry. I'm not saying its points may not be valid and you are free to believe what you will. www.snopes.com/religion/einstein.asp
Thanks for following me. Be sure to check sources before reblogging! Also, your science in that post is flawed. For instance, you can readily observe evolution? Ever hear of antibiotic-resistant bacteria? Ever wonder why there is a new flu vaccine distributed every year? Evolution, observable and rapid. If you wish me to go into the other scientific mistakes contained therein, I would be more than happy to upon your request.
Cheers!
Rant of the day
I usually stick to stuff straight from the text, but I was reading the news today and got seriously irked. The Pope told a group of Austrian bishops pretty much to stop complaining about the Catholic Church's doctrines against female priests and marriage for priests, and to just shut up and obey doctrine blindly. Here's an analogous situation I came up with:
Imagine you're in a required general chem class and need to get a good grade to graduate. The professor immediately tells all women in the room to leave, because women have completely different gender roles from men, who are supposed to do the brain-intensive stuff. He has never worked in a laboratory or done any chemical experimentation, and the only chemistry he knows he learned from the over 2000-year old works of Aristotle, so he spends every class lecturing on how there are only five elements, and throws anyone who says otherwise out of the class. Congratulations. You've hit the science equivalent of the Catholic Church's attitude toward the priesthood.
Regular posts to resume soon.
Have you read any of the books by CJ Werleman?
I have not, but I have heard of him. Right now I'm just focusing on working with the source material here and seeing exactly what it does say and what it doesn't. After that, I may consult secondary sources to see what others are saying about what it says. Going to religious school for years, I've had just about enough of people telling me what they think the Bible says, with very little emphasis on what it actually says and people's ability to interpret it for themselves.
Another brutal conquest
Num 31: God tells the Israelites to conquer the Midianites. They do, and kill every male, carrying off all the women, flocks, and property.
God is not happy with this, and tells the Israelites 'Now kill every male child, and kill every woman who has had intercourse with a man, but you may spare for yourselves every woman among them who has not had intercourse."
God doesn't seem to care if you're innocent or not if you're a member of a specific race.
First almost female-friendly chapter in the Bible so far!
Num 27: The LORD decides that women can inherit property, as long as they have absolutely no male relatives (fathers, brothers, sons, etc.) or a husband. If any of these men show up, they of course have to give up the property to that man, but hey! Women can actually partially own something if very specific circumstances are fulfilled.
Then in Num 30: Women are allowed to make vows and promises, as long as their father, husband, etc. doesn't disallow them. A woman's male relative (owner) can immediately negate any vow she makes, regardless of what she says.
How to get in God's good books
Num 25: God's favor is restored to the Israelites when the son of the high priest impales a man and his foreign wife together with a spear during their wedding. Before this, 24,000 of the Israelites were killed because they were partying it up with the Moabites or the Midianites, it's a little wishy-washy on who they were.
Mixed signals
Num 22:20-22: âDuring the night, God came to Balaam and said to him, âIf these men have come to summon you, then rise and go with them, but do only what I tell you.â When morning came, Balaam rose, saddled his donkey, and went with the Moabite chiefs. But God was angry because Balaam was going, and as he came riding on his donkey, accompanied by his two servants, an angel of the LORD took his stand in the road to block his passage.â
God says, "Don't do this." He doesn't. God says "go," he goes, and for some reason God is made angry by this? I dare not think about what happens to those who get murkier instructions from on high.
(Side note: this section is in the middle of two passages which tell essentially the same story in two different forms.)
Also in this story: this man's donkey talks to him about how much of an @$$#ole he is.
Yet another genocide perpetrated by the Israelites
Num 21: The Israelites decide to try to walk through Amorite territory, and they are opposed by the Amorite king, who doesn't want them walking through his fields, "So they put him to the sword with his sons and all his people, until there was no survivor left, and they took possession of his land," exactly according to what God had told them to do.
Will they ever stop complaining?
Num 20-21: The Israelites are aimlessly wandering around Arabia, and they naturally get thirsty, so they ask Moses and Aaron why God isnât giving them water.
The first time this happens, God gives them water from the rock that Moses strikes with his staff, at the price that he decides that Aaron should die for it.
The second time this happens, God gets really ticked off and sends venomous snakes among the Israelites âso that many of them died.â Then God tells Moses to break the first commandment that he ever gave Moses and to cast an idol of a bronze serpent to heal the people. Sounds like idolatry? I think so.
The idea behind this passage was probably to justify the existence of such a bronze idol in the Temple in later years in light of the repeated bans on idolatry, because after all, what's the difference between a golden calf and a bronze serpent?
I bet that'll make them think twice before asking for enough water to survive again!
Why bother having your own people if you're just going to kill them?
Num 16: Moses relays the fact that God decided that heâs not taking them straight to the promised land, but rather going to have them wander aimlessly for forty years so none of the people whom he led out of Egypt would actually survive to see Cannan, and this irritates some of the people. First, some of the priests question Aaronâs and Mosesâ leadership; God causes an earthquake and sucks them, their families, and their homes into a chasm.
The next day, some other Israelites were irritated because Moses and Aaron had caused the death of some of Godâs people, so God then struck the people with a vicious plague until Aaron is able to intercede on their behalf by putting himself in between the plagued and the healthy and burning some incense.
Because some of the Israelites were legitimately concerned when God told them that they would die wandering in a vast wasteland, he killed over 14,700 of his people.
Don't question it; just do it!
Let there be meat!
Num 11:18-20: God tells the Israelites to stop whining about not having any meat because heâs going to give them so much meat âfor a whole month you will eat it until it comes out and your nostrils and makes you sick.â Interesting executive decision.
Biblical Maury time!
Num 5:11-31: Hereâs what to do if youâre suspicious that your wife may not be acting as she should (as your property) and might be having an affair but you have absolutely zero evidence and youâre plagued by âa fit of jealousyâ: You bring a small amount of barley meal to the priest, and the priest takes the offering, and tosses some of the dust from the floor into some holy water, than makes your wife drink it after saying to her, âif owing him [your husband] obedience, you have gone astray and let yourself become defiledâŚmay the LORD make an example of youâŚby bringing upon you miscarriage and untimely birth; and let this ordeal-water that tests under pain of curse enter your body.â If your wife is guilty, sheâll have a miscarriage, and if sheâs not guilty, youâll have a healthy child. If you were wrong, no harm, no foul: âNo guilt will attach to the husband, but the woman must bear the penalty of her guilt.â Repeat as desired.
Isnât it great that there was such a foolproof method for determining infidelity that doesnât involve any fancy DNA or polygraph tests, just potentially poisoning your spouse with dirt, and judging her based on whether or not her child survives? Iâm sure we can just ignore the fact that infant mortality was so high that children werenât even counted among the Israelites until they were at least a month old; how else could we tell whether or not our women were doing exactly the same kind of thing that all the men did? Disgusting!
The hard life of a priest
Num 1: A census of all of the Israelites is taken to determine their military ability to conquer the people who already lived in the promised land. Guess who are the only people excluded from the census, and therefore military service! Thatâs right, the Levites, who, instead of having to fight in battle, get to hang out around the Tabernacle and take portions of every mandatory sacrifice to God. Anyone not a Levite who wants to be a priest is put to death (3:10). Can you tell who wrote this passage?
Once again, the priests tell all the people of Israel how the Lord demands special service of them and so they are exempt from what is demanded of the rest of the people, but itâs not all bad news for the priests: âEvery contribution made by way of holy-gift which the Israelites bring to the priest is to be the priestâs. The priest is to have the holy gifts which a man gives; whatever is given him will be his.â (5:9-10)
"I give you the choicest of the oil, the choicest of the new wine and the grain, the firstfruits which are given to the LORD... Everything in Israel which has been devoted to God is to be yours."
They really got the short end of the stick on this arrangement.