cw sexual assault

So the town of Sodom hears that there are two angels at Lot's house, so they go over and say "hey, we want to rape your guests". Then Lot goes "no, rape my daughters instead", to which they respond "no, we want to rape the guests". Then God goes "you know what? I'm barbecuing the city and the one next door, Lot, you and your family leave, but don't look back". Then Lot's wife does look back, so she gets turned into a seasoning.

like... the fuck?

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    3 years ago

    There’s also Job, who was extremely loyal to god. He lived a simple life and loved his family and prayed everyday. Then one day God and the devil met and the devil was like “lol I bet you a hundred bucks that this guy will denounce you if he faces hardship” and god was like “bet” and so he killed his entire family and burned his crops

    The story of Job isn't literal. Its intended as a parable to address the question "Why should we worship a God when bad things continue to happen?" The story of Job is intended to decouple the material conditions of one's life from one's spiritual beliefs.

    If you're richer than Job, you should still worship God because worship is not supposed to be a consequence of your good fortune, it is supposed to be an independent spiritual duty. If you're poorer than Job, you should still worship God, because worship is not something you do to win material rewards or mitigate folly, its something you do because you genuinely love and admire your deity.

    And Job's story is such a riches-to-rags-to-riches tale that its supposed to trounce any conceivable real-life occurrence. You will never have had it better than Job to or worse than Job by the end. Therefore, your material condition is not an excuse for your lack of piety.

    God also instructed the Israelites to commit war crimes in Jericho by killing everybody living there lol

    There's an SMBC joke about how the Bible is an argument for polytheism, as a critical reading strongly suggests a pantheon of bickering deities issuing contradictory messages across thousands of years.

    You don't even have to go to Jacob. Just consider the story of Abraham and Isaac, in which God demands human sacrifice and then says "Lolz, jk! Go kill that lamb instead."

    Attempting to draw a straight line moral standard from the Bible is marginally less rational than trying to get a historical account of events from a crowd of drunk toddlers.