Thursday, March 17, 2011

Isaiah & Jeremiah

Isaiah 19:16
This verse's message is that it is woman's nature to be fearful and meek. Listen Isaiah, you twit of a scribe, put any human subgroup through eight millennia of profound subjugation, and of course you're going to observe "fearful and meek" behavior! Let's bludgeon, rape, and dehumanize you for the next decade, and see how your prancing and pontificating fares.
Isaiah 25
Throughout Isaiah, the Lord speaks of the coming "day of the Lord" as an occurrance that will, that inevitably must, happen. Many things will happen on that day: death, sadness, and the end of human free will. It seems very strange, just remarkably peculiar, that the Lord would create humankind, giving us laws to follow and spiritual goals to strive for, if It knew that inevitably we had no option but to fail. The Lord, knowing all, would see at the very moment of creation that It was creating failure, and that the end of humanity would be a godly "wiping clean" of the slate. It's just hard to conceive of God creating failure...but humanity, as understood in these verses, seems entirely pointless.
Jeremiah 30:17
It violates a reasonable standard of justness for the Lord to restore Israel merely because of the taunts of other nations. God is not susceptible to "nyaah naah na nyaaaah nah".
Jeremiah 36:3
An all-knowing being must necessarily have knowledge of past, present, and future. Indeed, the divine prophecies of Isaiah 25 and Jeremiah 25 require that the Lord of the Bible does indeed "know" the future. In this verse, the Lord claims ignorance of the future. There are at least three possible consequences of this claim: either the Lord is telling the truth (and therefore is not omniscient), or the Lord does know all, but is lying (and if this be true, then put your Bibles down and walk hurriedly away), or thirdly, that the Lord is insane. This last possibility, though the subject of much speculation, is something that this author ain't even a little bit interested in exploring.
Jeremiah 44:24
"All the people and all the women"? If women aren't people, what are they?? Some insidious creature which has wormed its way into mankind's confidence, with dark plans for a future day of conquest? If they're not people, then perhaps their millenia of subjugation have been justified. Perhaps, in supporting attempts to "liberate" them, foolish men are unknowingly bringing about their own doom. Once liberated, they'll destroy us all! And get the good parking spots! Perhaps we should be paying homage to those brave men who, at great risk to themselves, first subdued these vile creatures! I beg the reader's pardon for that possibly excessive use of sarcasm, but, and this is the sad part, compared to a religious text in which menstruation is offensive to God, my little fairy tale seems, well, comparably sane. And that's, well, nuts.
Jeremiah 51:48
Verse 35:17 refers to divine retribution as the bringing of evil. According to this verse, the heavens are joyful at the slaying of Babylon. Does that not imply, then, that the heavens are finding joy in evil? And doesn't that seem a bit, um, oisfjfsoeiufficientous? (pardon, a demon took my tongue)

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