I love when the 'God of love' decides a great test is to tell a dad to sacrifice his only son to show he loves God! Such a great kids book.
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a Catholic teacher of mine tried to explain that away as a metaphor for abandoning "cruel" pagan religions for monotheism.
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Yeah, my mum tried to explain it as teaching us to not be attached to this world. But somehow, I wasn't sold on child murder as an ok test
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and if killing your own son was verboten, killing all of the Hittites or the Caananites or whatever was perfectly OK.
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Or all the first born kids in Egypt. Oh and if you're wife is infertile, the solution is to impregnate your servant - that adultery is fine.
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no mention at all of eggplants
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It's in the Book of Apocrypha. "And Jesus spaketh, 'Verily, he that taketh of the eggplant shall be shunned, yea and unto the end of time.'"
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Aramaic translation dispute, bowlderised for King James, no "of" thus "taketh the eggplant (i.e. as his wife) Shelton shunned..." OK to eat.
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And don’t forget all the smything. Lots of smything in those days.
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hip and thigh, man, hip and thigh!
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i like the bit where supposedly god hates gays but is totally cool with offering your daughters up for gang rape
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and stoning your neighbour! everyone needs a hobby
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You sound like the kind of person who would carelessly mix fibres, Bernard, bringing upon the world great tidings of wailing and gnashing
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The bits about not mixing your fabrics are also good and guarantee you always look FABULOUS.
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Bloody shellfish.
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Maybe I should rethink my decision to put it down after the 500 year old man built the animal carrier
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