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What is a popular book that everyone buys but nobody reads? (midwest.social)
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[โ€“] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

When I was in elementary school I actually tried to just read the bible. I didn't get very far through Genesis before I gave up.

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You didn't even make it to the part where a man of god uses nature magic to summon bears to kill 42 children, or where a guy is mad that a father gives him the wrong daughter as property that he combines genocide with animal abuse!

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  • [โ€“] -3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    That first bit is part of the Apocrypha. It's not in the official bible.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's from Second Kings 2:23-25, which is part of the Torah and the official 66 books of the bible. Though some (most) translations say that the curse is in the name of the lord/god.

    From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. โ€œGet out of here, baldy!โ€ they said. โ€œGet out of here, baldy!โ€ He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys. And he went on to Mount Carmel and from there returned to Samaria.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 2 years ago

    some boys

    two bears

    mauled forty-two of them

    Just how many boys in totality are we talking about here? And did the bears have to stop and take a break?

    And he went on to Mount Carmel and...

    "And then he went about his day, completely disregarding the two exhausted bears and the 42 mauled boys that were part of a sizable mob that he casually called a curse down upon'

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