Sleepy

[pasithea]

I stayed up until about 3AM reading the bible with the same fascination one generally reserves for gawking at a serious car wreck on the side of the highway. It's really terrible but you can't help but stare, and the whole while be just shaking your head going, "Wow... And some people think this is 100% true and what they should base their morality on?" Worst book ever.

The only thing I've learned so far is that God is possibly a ninja, or at least he occassionally flips out and kills people for no reason. I actually sent that off to the AskANinja.com guy. I imagine he gets thousands of internet fan-mails so it'll probably never get read, but who knows. Maybe he'll like it and use it.

Shamefully though, I admit I'm looking forward to reading more this evening. It tickles that same sort of stupid mirthful place as Beavis and Butthead. Heck, God actually calls himself El Shaddai or something like that in one place and it's got a sound that's way similar to The Great Cornholio.

I am El Shaddai! I need foreskin for my bunghole! Ehehehehehehe!

God and all the patriachs also seem to have this serious thing for 'savory meats' and God snubs Cain (and later Jacob) for bringing him a veggie platter. He also has Noah make him something that sounds like Turduken. What's up with that?

Comments

[paka.livejournal.com]

"What's up with that" is that there are two traditions operating here, an urbanized, agrarian tradition and a nomadic herding tradition. Like the difference in Cain and Abel's gifts is a metaphor for this stuff - the nomads win out. Theoretically. You notice all of this is written by a batch of priests sitting in cities. Remember, people used to eat what they sacrificed, so maybe this was an attempt to get more meat out of the deal?