Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…what? Apparently this is from a kiddy bible.
You’d think he was offering them cheeseburgers.
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Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…what? Apparently this is from a kiddy bible.
You’d think he was offering them cheeseburgers.
[…] here’s a treat. That bible item isn’t from a kiddy bible at all, it’s from a grown up mockery of the bible. The author is Horus Gilgamesh (see what he did […]
The kiddies have no clue what it means and they get primed to think it’s all okay. Actually, I taught my daughter comparative religion in her primary years. For the Bible I used something dated about 1930. It was so good! Not only did it explain real geographical and historical background, but it tried to explain away God’s graver moral transgressions so transparently and with such obvious discomfort that dd understood him as the villain without me saying anything.
>Apparently this is from a kiddy bible.
This picture was making the rounds on Reddit, and I believe I saw someone say that while this is titled as a kid’s bible, it’s actually a mockery that intentionally picks the more horrible stories to illustrate why it’s a horrible book to teach to kids (or anyone, for that matter).
As a kid I did kind of wonder why the angels needed to eat and sleep.
Madtapper…
This might indeed be a parody of a kiddie bible, but one time I was in a church (I’m a classical music recording engineer — I spend a lot of time in churches), and in the RE room there was a sincere one, illustrated very much the same as this example. Among the inspiring tales, it recounted the one about Jephte and his unfortunate daughter, pretty much telling it straight! It gave me an idea for a video series — telling bible stories for children. I would just go into a tiny bit more detail about the throat-cutting, head-bashing, mass-drowning, and father-raping.
It’s a page from Awkward Moments (Not Found In Your Average) Children’s Bible. It’s not for children! I have a copy. It’s very good.
Ohhhhhhhh – so the revoltingness is intentional. Excellent. I saw it via Dawkins on Twitter, who saw it via Richard Wiseman on Twitter. Wiseman thought it was a kiddy book.
WHY DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS BEFORE?
Oh and that’s what madtapper said @ 2, as well. Anyway it is indeed very good.
@4 – and let’s not forget about the whole cutting pregnant women’s bellies open so that their innards spill out, leaving them to die a slow, painful, gruesome death! Because God!! See Hosea 13:16 and 2 Kings 15:16.
Don’t forget that lovely Psalm about dashing babies heads on rocks.
137:9
What’s weird to me, is that’s not even the only time in the bible that the townsmen surround a guy’s house and demands his guest be brought out so they may “know him”, but 2 women are offered up instead. Why was that a thing?
Having been forced to go through a bar mitzvah, I can hardly forget that the portion I had to read before the congregation that week included this story. The teacher preparing me was clearly rather embarrassed at having to explain just what was going on and I don’t think I quite got it myself at the time.