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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The Bible is not just a long list of rules. Any random page probably has less than a 5% chance of containing any particular thing to "follow". The chance of landing on a page with an illegal commandment is next to none.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, quite a bit of the Bible would get you landed in jail so let's not act like the idea of Bible charades roulette isn't funny as fuck. If nothing else it's a fresh new way to highlight the hypocrisy of scripture in modern society.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Bible rarely tells you specifically what to do. Most of it is more of a history of the Jewish people, writing down things that happened inside of a religious context.

After all, the book of Numbers is almost entirely just a genealogical list ( namat begat numat, etc ) so unless you guys want me to give birth to 15 generations of human beings it's practically impossible to follow as an instruction.

I mean yeah sure, if you blindly copy things that people were reputed to have historically done in a modern context then you are likely to get into some kind of trouble for that.

Maybe only a few odd stares from your neighbors as you put lambs blood on your door or burn only extra virgin olive oil at the stone altar made of stones that were never worked by human tools in your back yard.

And there's nothing illegal about lusting over big old penises or preaching in Galilee, but many people would find it at best difficult to tell dead people to rise and walk or to fast for 40 days and nights in the desert.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It may not be explicitly stated as a rule to follow, but on almost every page there are certainly actions that could be emulated. The OP didn't specify rules or commandments; they said "open to a page and do what is written on that page".

Slaughter an entire city of men, women, children and livestock? Yeah, that's on the list, and was in fact an order given by sky daddy himself.

Fuck your daughters? That's in there too.

Sacrifice your child to prove your loyalty? Bingo. Another sky daddy special.