---------------- THE INCREDIBLE WEIRDNESS OF RELIGION ---------------- SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE BIBLE - THAT BOOK OF GOD - THE BOOK OF GODLY PERFECTION -------- ITEM# 1A: -------- "THE EARTH WILL ABIDE FOREVER" -------- ITEM# 1B "THE EARTH WILL DIE WHEN IT MELTS WITH FERVENT HEAT AND BURNS UP". -------- # 2A: ------- HAS ANY MAN ACTUALLY SEEN GOD ? ------ I HAVE SEEN GOD FACE TO FACE AND THEREFORE MY LIFE IS PRESERVED ---- --- NO MAN HATH SEEN GOD. -------- JEPHTHAH LED THE ISRAELITES TO WAR AGAINST THE AMMONITES BUT THE WAR WASN'T GOING WELL FOR THE ISRAELITES SO JEPHTHAH MADE A DEAL WITH GOD SAYING THAT IF HE WINS THE WAR HE WILL KILL HIS DAUGHTER AS A SACRIFICE TO GOD AND GOD SO LIKED THE IDEA THAT HE TURNED THE TIDE IN THAT WAR THAT MADE JEPHTHAH WIN ------ SO WHEN HE WENT HOME IN VICTORY HE KILLED HIS DAUGHTER TO THANK GOD FOR HIS VICTORY. -------- -------- WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. THERE IS NOTHING THAT GOD CANNOT DO. -------- EXCEPT THAT WHEN GOD WANTED TO DRIVE OUT THE PEOPLE IN A MOUNTAINOUS REGION HE SUCCEEDED IN DRIVING OUT THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED ON THE MOUNTAIN BUT HE COULD NOT DRIVE OUT THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN THE VALLEY. -------- ---------- WHEN ANYONE HARMS YOU YOU MUST FIGHT BACK -------- LIFE FOR LIFE -------- EYE FOR EYE -------- TOOTH FOR TOOTH --------HAND FOR HAND -------- FOOT FOR FOOT -------- BURNING FOR BURNING -------- WOUND FOR WOUND -------- STRIPE FOR STRIPE -------- -------- -------- EXCEPT THAT YOU MUST RESIST EVIL -------- WHOSOEVER SHALL SMITE THEE ON THE RIGHT CHEEK TURN TO HIM THE OTHER CHEEK. ---------- ----------- EVERY MALE CHILD AMONG YOU MUST BE CIRCUMCIZED --------- EXCEPT THAT BEING CIRCUMCIZED IS A CRIME FOR WHICH YOU WILL BE ABANDONED ---------- ---------- INCEST IS A CRIME. SEX WITH YOUR SISTER, MOTHER, OR DAUGHTER IS FORBIDDEN BY GOD AND IF YOU COMMIT INCEST YOU WILL GO TO HELL AND BURN FOREVER. ---------- EXCEPT THAT WHEN ABRAHAM MARRIED HIS SISTER GOD CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN TO CONGRATULATE THE HAPPY COUPLE AND TO GIVE THEM HIS BLESSINGS. ---------- ------------ AND ON AND ON IT GOES WITH ABANDON MANY OF WHICH ARE DEFENDED BY THE FAITHFUL AS THINGS THAT ARE FORBIDDEN TO US HUMANS BUT NOT TO GOD. -------- THIS IS HOW WEIRD RELIGION GETS AND YET IT HAS SOMEHOW FOUND A HOME IN THE HEART OF THE HUMANS WHOSE ADVANTAGE AMONG THE BEASTS IS SUPPOSED TO BE INTELLIGENCE MARKED WITH RATIONAL THOUGHT AND BEHAVIOR -------- ----