lost weekend
Bluelighter
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A futile debate some of the brightest minds in recent memory could never win .Leviticus, 39-46. Anyone wanna try to reconcile this with... sanity, somehow? I ask in good faith but somewhat in jest because this is pretty low hanging fruit and I already understand much of the context, but still, I'd just like to hear from anyone who thinks this really means anything beyond the scribblings of a superstitious, presumably educated, fortunate enough to be able to write, historical figure while enraptured in some kind of nonsensical mania.I'll add a little commentary just to make my confusion clearer.
(If your [male? realistically] friend/relative is desperately poor, don't make them a slave.)
(Neither should you enslave any Israelites, friend or not, and fear the punishment I will inflict on you if you disobey!)
(But if you do have slaves already, that's cool, you can keep 'em. In fact, feel free to get some more, from some godforsaken foreign hell. Feel free to also enslave the children of your current slaves, or any other slaves you might acquire. Your own kids can then inherit your slaves! Slavery is fine, remember, as long as the slaves aren't Israelites. Even if they're poor! If you're tempted to enslave that poor guy you don't like who lost all his flock to wolves last week, don't, because trust me I will do horrible fucking things to you if you do, be afraid, my wrath is a fate worse than death! Never forget how much you need to fear me, no Israelite slaves! Otherwise though keep on slavin' and selling those lil, what else are we gonna do, just NOT enslave people?! What are we, woke libtards or something?pica-ninnies*)
...Haha, OK, thus concludes my commentary. I mean, what the fuck? Someone wanna explain how this book is so revered with mad shit like this throughout? How is it that given the bible is already a heavily edited mishmash of almost too many cooks, how is it that this entire section hasn't been dropped, or perhaps someone else could extrapolate some balancing act to this horrorshow, I dunno, divine revelation that Leviticus was an agent of Satan..? I mean there's a lot of scope for fixing shit like this in a story like the Bible, generally.
Also - *on that "spoiler" tag I used, actually I dunno how much of a slur that is in the context but it felt kinda dirty to write, I'm obviously trying to make a strong point, and also I watched an absolutely horrific dark alternate history film recently where someone said that and it's been stuck in my head. If it's profoundly horrible I'll just delete it, or, mods, feel free if you get to it first. But I am trying to paint a clear allegory here, of course, I know ancient slavery wasn't chattel slavery and transatlantic deathships but, this is the Word Of God, supposedly, and slavery is slavery... just never got over Eve eating that apple eh, we're all such deceitful sinners that it's no big deal to be enslaved. Unless you're an Israelite, then you're just better than those apple-munching twats.
Rip CH
I'd imagine he would take offence at the idea of resting in peace lol
