An Atheist Reads the Bible – 2 – Sticks & Stones
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An Atheist finds God ordering the vicious death of a man who was picking up some sticks. CREDITS: WRITTEN, EDITED & POORLY ANIMATED by 43alley AUDIO: The classic Scourbey audio recording of the Bible (a minimal excerpt from a 70+ hour recording) – all utilized for educational, critical, parody and non-commercial use under the Fair Use Doctrine, Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, 510 US 569 (1994), etc. This narration is available for download on various websites as well all across youtube. MUSIC: Taken from various royalty-free websites across the web. TEXT: The Book of Number, Chapter 15 Verse 32 through Verse 41.
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so should i kill myself? i just was making a fire at my camp, and i was the stick gatherer. :O
@snoopval Actually, apparently jesus was the one who said “turn the other cheek”. It was a more memorable way of saying, let him kick your ass. Unless your into the whole thing of God being himself, Jesus and “The Holy Spirit”. I never got that part
He was “working” on Sabbath which is supposed to be a day of rest. Punishment is death by stoning.
That is why he was killed
Stupid rule.
@snoopval
I’d be interested to know what this god has done that you couldn’t have possibly done yourself, or what couldn’t have happened without his existence.
@snoopval
Well, if you believe in a god, but don’t agree with all of the commandments from the god of the Bible, and think they’re immoral, then why do you seem to believe in the Christian god? If you don’t think his commandments make sense, then why would you follow him specifically when there are thousands of other gods people have claimed to exist? How do you know it’s not Allah or Zeus working in your life?
@GenghisKrahn I suppose you do have a point there. But I do believe in God, and I know just personally what he has done for me, and I find what he has done for me and some of the more coherant chapters in the Bible to be completly incongrous with stuff like this. I guess to me I can not see a fathomable reason why someone would be killed for collecting sticks, especially by someone who says to turn the other cheek and all the other wise stuff God says.
@snoopval
It’s pretty clear. He gathered sticks and God said they should kill him. If you believe God wrote this book, you probably shouldn’t criticize his writing ability.
Rather than trying to make up a fake interpretation of an awfully brutal story, consider looking at it rationally and realize that the Bible is not a good source for morality as a whole, and it’s simply a book of old stories. That makes it all make perfect sense.
“when one reads the Bible and finds a passage that does not seem to make sense they should look at passages that do make sense”
By this I assume you mean, when you find a verse that you don’t agree with, that sounds immoral or ridiculous, just ignore it and keep reading until you find something that sounds nicer, and fits with your pre-conceived ideas.
Romans 7:6
@snoopval,
It is a quote from *God* – one of the few times he speaks directly and is quoted.
So when God says something you find distasteful… you go look for what someone else says? Some priest or someone else not speaking directly for God should be listened to in this case rather than God’s own wordsy?
Gee… why listen to God in the first place? Why not listen to Confusious, Plato, or make up your own ‘laws’ if when the law giver says something you look elsewhere?
@boyinthedrain thanks. I couldn’t remember who it was that thunk that one up. It always struck me as hilarious! lol
I probably answered your question with my other response but I also want to add that old laws sometimes mean different things than they do now.
Well you have a good point, I suppose though that when one reads the Bible and finds a passage that does not seem to make sense they should look at passages that do make sense. Would a Bible that says turn the other cheek really mean that someone should be stoned for collecting sticks.
I also too base my Christian feelings on my own day to day experiances, I can honestly say that God has changed my life for the better and is my best friend, I too am wary of organized religion.
@snoopval
Yeah… there is a lot of nuance to “stoning someone to death for collecting sticks.”
Religion = Frauds taking money and political power from suckers by pretending they know unknowable stuff about invisible things.
@wingsuitfreak
That is Pascal’s Wager… and the only way Pascal’s Wager works is if you follow EVERY Religion… and not just Christianity, Judaism and Islam and Buddism and Hinduism… but every subset of every religion (Orthodox, Reform, Catholic, Baptist, Jehovah’s Witness, Shiite, Sunni) and every single religion of every native population on the planet.
Or you can be honest with yourself and use your brain (always dangerous for Organized religion who rely on people not thinking!)
Yeah, it leaves you with a slightly sick feeling in the pit of your stomach doesn’t it.
Shows how christianity is a political religion then and now.
And what’s so funny is that it’s their best argument. lmfao
I just hate that argument with a passion. Cause it is basically saying the whole point of christianity is to bribe god with faith. If that is the core value you have, to worship in order to get the reward, you are not going to heaven anyways.
I loved it when one person told me that if I were right, no one had anything to lose, but if there were a god, I had eternity to lose. I then said, I guess we should all convert to Hindu then! They never stop to think that maybe, even if there is a god, that it is the christian one. lol
Oh they read their book, they just skim over the parts they don’t like, or choose to interpert them differently.
One guy I know told be about how horrible God is and corrupt, then he turned around and said it was all God’s love and compasion. Maybe I should get him a dictionary and highlight those words for him to look up.
I’ll tell them that.
they don’t even read their own book. Which is really fucking sad since they keep insisting it has all the answers for eternal salvation. lol I prefer a bit of reason myself. Don’t forget to remind them, when they tell you that hell is in your future if you don’t repent that god might be called Baal. lol
Yes, in many cases the bible does conflict with itself. Jesus detested many thing that were promoted in the old testament. But I can’t get any of my religious buddies to see that. People tend to look the other way with things in their religion
In the early 70′s (or possibly the late 60s), they were over=turning the “Blue Laws” in Georgia. The religious nuts were screaming about how this meant the end of days were upon us. Fucking nuts. If those fucking idiot christians ever read their own book, they’d find out christ worked on the sabbath as well.
The god of Islam or the god of Mormonism.or Satan who is called the god of this age? ha ha ha “I said ye are gods but you will die like MEN you unjust judges”..GOD says to Antichrist The Prince of Tyre (The Assyrian)..”WIll you say to the one who slays thee I am god?”…TO us he says…”shall the clay say to the one who formed it ,Why have you made me thus?”
God is a fag.