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[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (11 children)

During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."
-Gen 30:14

Umm... what the hell do I do? What's a mandrake?!

Random Verse Generator, who's next?

ETA: I googled

The alkaloids make the plant, in particular the root and leaves, poisonous, via anticholinergic, hallucinogenic, and hypnotic effects.

Yeah, I'm goin' to jail.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

Acts 16:3

Paul wanted to take him along on the journey, so he circumcised him because of the Jews who lived in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

oof, jail it is.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Exodus 35:3 Passage: "Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day."

Well, not jail at least.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I got Acts 13:10

"You are a child of the devil and an enemy of everything that is right! You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery. Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?"

Wtf am I supposed to do with that information

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Sounds like a free pass to me. God hates you already so just fucking have at.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Leviticus 19:21

Passage: The man, however, must bring a ram to the entrance to the tent of meeting for a guilt offering to the LORD.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Sounds like you will have to apologize for problems at work that you cause with livestock.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Psalms 80:3 Passage: Restore us, O God; make your face shine on us, that we may be saved.

Guess I have good chances of winning

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Isaiah 5:22 Passage: Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

God in a night out: I fucking love you guys and I fucking love the bartender!

Bible writers: Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Woe, is me!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

First one that's am actual command:

Psalms 136:3 Passage: Give thanks to the Lord of lords: His love endures forever.

[–] Ubermeisters 4 points 11 months ago

His love endures forever while your pathetic body crumbles

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
When the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen?      

Ok, I'm fine till winter

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago (4 children)

The Bible is not just a long list of rules. Any random page probably has less than a 5% chance of containing any particular thing to "follow". The chance of landing on a page with an illegal commandment is next to none.

[–] Ubermeisters 33 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (17 children)

Yeah, quite a bit of the Bible would get you landed in jail so let's not act like the idea of Bible charades roulette isn't funny as fuck. If nothing else it's a fresh new way to highlight the hypocrisy of scripture in modern society.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The Bible rarely tells you specifically what to do. Most of it is more of a history of the Jewish people, writing down things that happened inside of a religious context.

After all, the book of Numbers is almost entirely just a genealogical list ( namat begat numat, etc ) so unless you guys want me to give birth to 15 generations of human beings it's practically impossible to follow as an instruction.

I mean yeah sure, if you blindly copy things that people were reputed to have historically done in a modern context then you are likely to get into some kind of trouble for that.

Maybe only a few odd stares from your neighbors as you put lambs blood on your door or burn only extra virgin olive oil at the stone altar made of stones that were never worked by human tools in your back yard.

And there's nothing illegal about lusting over big old penises or preaching in Galilee, but many people would find it at best difficult to tell dead people to rise and walk or to fast for 40 days and nights in the desert.

[–] Honytawk 4 points 11 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

"Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb."

Ew, I'm vegan and I don't have a license nor the money for a lamb, so breaking in, stealing and slaughtering a lamb and doing rituals with its carcass publicly apparently?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Where do you need a license to get a damn goat?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Good news! That's not a commandment, it's just part of a story, so there isn't actually anything to follow.

If we're playing a reenactment game instead of a follow-what-the-Bible-tells-you-to-do game, then in context the alternative is that your first born son dies and all you have to do to prevent it is put a little blood on your door for one night. Seems like a trade anyone would readily take. Also, it's not illegal and it's not a ritual. It's just regular old slaughter of an animal like we do thousands/millions of times a day in society.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Like, anything it says or just commandments? Because the Bible is filled with stories of bad people doing things the Bible considers bad.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It is also filled with stories of bad people doing bad things which the Bible considers great. Arguably even more so.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Amen I say to you, the virtuous eschew stylized meme typeface. The wicked useth Papyrus when modern serif fonts suffice."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

"And lo, the Lord looked upon the world and saw Avatar, and was wroth with James Cameron, not only for the usage of Papyrus, but also for cheating on Linda Hamilton during the filming of Titanic, and lo, the Lord did manifest a malaise of the mind upon James Cameron, and did make him introduce dumb plot holes like a door not being big enough for two people, and that an element called "unobtainium" was reasonable, but alas, the people did not care, and James Cameron became a billionaire, because people are dumb, just as the Lord intended."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Proverbs 26:4-5

Don't answer the foolish arguments of fools, or you will become as foolish as they are.

I ain't religious, but wisdom comes from anywhere wisdom is found. Don't be a fool, fool.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Deuteronomy 7:15 Passage: The LORD will keep you free from every disease. He will not inflict on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but he will inflict them on all who hate you.

So I do nothing and just watch, I guess?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Inb4 a religious person will say "the new testament invalidates what was in the old one".

Yeah, but it's in a book that claims to be the final arbiter of morality and objectivity. Either people should follow them at all to the letter or not.

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