Wednesday Bible Study: Holy Matrimony

If there is one sure lesson to be taken from the Book of Judges, it is that Bible thumpers who claim that the Good Book is their guide to a righteous and moral life have not actually read it. Judges is a relentless torrent of mass murder, torture and rape presided over by a sadistic psychopath God, who incidentally has forgotten the very laws he propounded in the Torah. This, the final chapter, is a fitting coda. True believers who proclaim the sanctity of human life and marriage between one man and one woman, and pretending there is some sort of Biblical authority for these principles, need only read it. But of course they haven ' t, and they won ' t.  21 The men of Israel had taken an oath at Mizpah: “Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite.”2 The people went to Bethel,[a] where they sat before God until evening, raising their voices and weeping bitterly.3 “Lord, God of Israel, ” they cried, “why has this happened to Israel? Why should one tribe be missing from Israel today?”That ' s a very stupid question. God told them to murder all the Benjamite women and children, so they obeyed.4 Early the next day the people built an altar and presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings.WTF. They built an altar and made sacrifices? Didn ' t we just learn that the actual tabernacle is nearby? This is utterly blasphemous. Sacrifices have to be made by the Kohanim, on the single altar in the holy tabernacle. But Yah...
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