Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Ezekiel & Daniel

Ezekiel 36:1-15
According to these verses, the mountains of Israel possess life, life with consciousness and understanding which is humanlike (eastern Buddhism, anyone?). This is an astounding concept, with far-reaching implications. What sets human life apart from other life, such that humans allegedly so special to the Lord? Consciousness? Understanding? If the mountains are humanlike in these qualities, then it must be considered that mountains are just as divine as humans. If so, then the numerous times throughout the Bible that the Lord orders land to be allotted and distributed must be viewed in the same light as divinely-ordained human slavery.
Ezekiel 37:7-10
What happened to these beings after the lord put breath into them? Did they live out normal human lives, or did they return to their lifeless state, once the Lord's analogy/demonstration had been made? If they did live, were they the same people they were before their original deaths? It does not seem just that these people should be allotted a second earthly life.
Ezekiel 39:1-6
Oh, these poor saps from the "north"...first, they're summoned by the Lord (Jeremiah 10:22) through no will of their own, to carry destruction upon It's "chosen" people. Now they're "sent for", again through no will of their own, to once more attack them Israelites. This time, our unlucky travelers get the holy shit (pardon the expression) kicked out of them. The destruction of the people of the north (as well as the earlier, albeit nicer, kidnapping) is, if not ridiculous, at least ridiculously unjust...
Daniel 3:29
Suitable epitaph for Nebuchadnezzar, tyrant of considerable bluster: "Mama didn't raise no fool".

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