At uni a friend of mine wrote a book review of the bible that began, "Not since Naked Lunch has such a dull book been saved by the constant barrage of sadomasochistic homosexual pornography."
141I might be interested in reading the rest of that review if it's available to read online. That's a great opener lol
49Alas it was pasted onto a sheet of paper and photocopied over 20 years ago now and I doubt it was saved. I don't remember anything else about the article, but I presume it was very undergraduate. That line was a killer though.
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sadomasochistic homosexual pornography
You had my interest, but now you have my attention
45Saul when David rolls up with a bag of 200 foreskins: 😍
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In a similar vein, famed cartoonist R Crumb did a faithful adaptation of the book of Genesis, including all the sex and violence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Genesis_(comics)
50Lol
The book has been controversial, particularly for the explicit illustrations of sexual intercourse described in the text itself. In critical circles, it has drawn fire over whether and how literal the illustration job is, or should be.
It’s fine as a holy book that we should all treat as the literal word of god, but don’t you dare draw those raunchy sex scenes from my holy book
40had no idea about this, thanks
13Gyat damn she is thick af.
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Makes me think of my favorite verse to quote in arguments: Pslam 137:9 - Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks (NIV).
41Omfg
7Context is important. It's a song of imagined - and not executed - revenge. The writer is wishing that what happened to their kids also happened to the invaders kids. The Babylonians dashed Jewish kids against rocks, and the Jews didn't respond in kind - couldn't in fact, because the Law forbade it.
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what is NIV
2New international version I wanted to be clear on the translation I was quoting, because it can make a difference in wording and sometimes meaning.
3New International Version.
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Cool that there is more murder than misogyny
33How very progressive
22Most of the misogyny is in the stuff written by Paul. Dude HATED women.
16Well, one of the dudes pretending to be Paul. Initial probably-actually-Paul is like "Why wouldn't we have women in church leadership? They were leaders when we were being hunted by the Romans."
Honestly though, I feel like there's just not enough green tabs as a whole. Plenty of OG misogyny in the religious law sections.
11That's a very generous view of the old testament
2A true leftist of his time.
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Nothing pisses off "Christians" like quoting biblical scripture that contracts their bullshit to them.
28I was dealing with racist far right people on FaceBook and, I forget the exact context but, some lady quoted the Bible at me to support her claim of racist superiority and I just shut her down with the classic Timothy 2:12
I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.
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Given that original sin is attributed to women, shouldn't the whole book be written on green paper?
27That was just Eve. Also, all of humanity was punished for it.
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I used orange for inconsistencies between parallel accounts (like 4000 vs 40000 stalls in 2 Chr. 9 vs 1 Kings 4). I used a lot of orange flags.
19The term you're looking for is univocality According to the consensus of biblical scholars, the bible does not have this property. Accoring to most of the ~40,000 ministries, the bible is assumed by fiat to have this feature.
9How is the actual number relevant? 4000 and 40000 are both a grant bunch of stalls.
1But they're not the same, so at least one of them cannot be accurate. At the very least, it's a copy error by a scribe, but that still means current biblical canon cannot be considered infallible, which is a big deal if you come from a tradition that demands you accept infallibility as a core doctrine.
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Theyve been quite clear what counts as good is what god commands. Which means those are all actually good. That also makes god's goodness very meaningful.
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16Angsty Teenagers: The Bible is made up of feel-good fairy tales
The bible: Demonstrates stories that detail some human history, reflecting on our evil nature and the evil we commit against our creator and others, and how God often interacts with man in spite of that evil.
Angsty Teenagers: shocked Pikachu face but why is there bad stuff in there?!
Watch your head OP, the entire point is flying over it.
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29You mean like that time this god went about and killed the whole planet, including babies and animals, except for this one dudes family?
Your god is more evil and tyrannical than her creation.
26God does not interact with man in spite of evil, according to the bible, he encourages and rewards it. Because the bible is made up by evildoers to justify their ways and solidify their power
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Many details can be found here: http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com
11Yeah sorry I just never read any version of the Bible or anything related to the Bible
10There are some fun bits in there if you like mythology.
8Cool I probably check it out
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