Everything Wrong With Leviticus 21 in the Bible
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- After all those rules calling for the death penalty, it's kind of nice to have a section where we just talk about rules for priests... where murder isn't one of the consequences.
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Reading the bible is the best way to become an atheist.
It actually does the exact opposite of what you're saying, you are already an atheist, you were born an atheist remember?
@@firstcentury1885A person is born an atheist, then they are brought into religion. Then they read the bible and realize it is B.S..
@@grrsss8335 "Then they read the bible and realize it is B.S" - I am not counting on 'First Century' have the cognitive ability to realize anything.
@@grrsss8335 And they remain an atheist right?
@@firstcentury1885 Yes. These Bible readings help me realize why I'm an atheist. Needless to say, I didn't hear any of this in Sunday School.
Religion is the no.1 thing that holds us back from reaching our full potential as a species.
Depends on religion. The Chinese are leapfrogging
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Particularly the Abrahamic religions of Judaism and its 2 offspring religions: Islam being one. Christendom and it's splintered 3,500 disagreeing denominations being the other.
@@Demopans5990 Well in China (like in many Authoritarian regimes), the official "religion" is the state itself (although they don't call it a religion). This causes problems of its own.
@@jeanine219 Yep, just look at places like the Middle East or Ireland to see how off-the-rails that shit can get.
God in Exodus: I make the blind, the deaf and the lame
God in Leviticus: Ugh, icky! Don't let them touch my food!
The commandment not to kill has so many loopholes it looks like a Swiss cheese.
True.
The problem started when the Catholic Church changed God's commandment from do not murder to do not kill.
@@firstcentury1885 The text in the commandments are immoral. 3/10 gets OK, 7/10 gets not OK, absence of slavery and rape makes the set of rules immoral. But hey, with a god there is no morality, only obedience.
@@freddan6fly Morality is based on what God is saying is moral, did you think morality is based on what atheists are saying is moral?
@@firstcentury1885 Christianity is all about obeying an invisible non-interacting bearded guy in some cloud with no moral codex. It is not about moral, lying priest have told you it is about moral, but it simply is not. You have not provided any evidence for that claim and no-one else have either, so it is just obedience.
This is the Chapter that my father in law used to discourage me to become a priest.
I’ve been born and raised as a Greek Orthodox Christian.
I got married 11 years ago and my wife’s father is a priest.
His father was a priest also.
He has 3 brothers - all priests.
He has 3 sons - all of them went to Theology School, but none became a priest.
For a while, 7-8 years ago, I was thinking to become a priest, but he discouraged me, based on this chapter, because I have Charcot Marie Tooth and my hands are slightly deformed...
3-4 years ago I discovered Atheist Experience, then you and others..., and now I’m an atheist, in a big family full of devouted Christians - oh, the irony! 🙂
“Thank God” he discouraged me in becoming a priest - I think it would have been much more dificult to see all the faulty reasoning and become aware of me holding all kinds of unjustified beliefs as a priest...
So, I’m grateful it went that way. 🙂
The universe works in mysterious ways
Thanks for sharing your way to atheist
@Christian: Thank you for sharing your personal experience with us!
Imagine having this as a complete series. Whole Bible with commentary, audio edition 🙆🏼♀️
💙💛
@@tangerinetangerine4400 I would buy it, happily.
@@charleslindsey6789 me too!!
@@charleslindsey6789
20 or so more years, we can only wait
Please make it so!!
@@accretiondisk5552 Love your moniker name. That is how our solar system formed, for one.
How is it that people still pump this sewage as the words of an all knowing creator? This book must be publicly banished to the fiction section once and for all.
The Chinese already do. Look at how far they've advanced now
True Story
My aunt's husband is a priest (yes, it's still something that exists in the Jewish world, that's the meaning of the surname "Cohen")
That is why my cousin is also a priest
My cousin wanted to marry a divorcee
The Chief Rabbinate of Israel (the only body in the State of Israel that approves marriage) did not allow him to marry the divorcee
He was forced to fly to Europe and get married there, and then the State of Israel must recognize his marriage
Funny, the Cohens in my hometown are scrap metal dealers.
Wow. No “damaged testicles” near the sanctuary. And people complain about the TSA being touchy freely.
😜🤣
Didnt know CBT was a thing back then
I'm going to start turning these little bible lessons into a game where I take a shot every time the bible says something sexist and a hit every time Hement (I really hope I'm spelling your name right, super sorry if I'm not!) sooths my brain, lol. I'll have to go one chapter at a time or I will die of alcohol poisoning in like 2 chapters but it's gonna be a fun way to start the day, that's for sure.
Bible study drinking game. LOVE IT!
Nice lol
I think even if you take it slow, you still might die of alcohol poisoning!😆 There's too much sexism in the bible
Mind you, I like being disabled. Wouldn't have met my bestie--we're sisters in everything but name--if I hadn't had shit that society defines as "wrong" with me. Disability's only a bad thing when you read it like this passage does. Don't you just love bigotry?
Friendly Atheist, Hement, lol, I loved the look on you face at the end. You crack me up! And that, makes hearing this, um, crap, again, bearable.👍 🥰💓✌
I gotta say that this series is amazing and is why I became a Patreon supporter. Great content, keep it up :)
An aww, thanks for being on our side, Hemant. Well, obviously, since you have actual integrity, but they're just talking about the obvious physical 'defects", eh. They didn't know about neurodiversity and things like that back then, of course.
My grandparents had that verse about not marrying outside your kind thrown at them both before marriage and for years afterwards (White GI about to return to the States and Japanese woman just out of trade school). They are both very stubborn, so everyone's insults had the opposite effect lol.
I mean, not like the Japanese woman are going to listen. They only recognized the divine authority of the Emperor after all.
Yeah, don't go near the curtain, you might find that the Wizard of Oz is just a normal guy 🙃
at the door to the church "all right lets see your balls" HAHAHA
LOL, next time I’m invited to a church I’ll walk to the door and drop my pants and ask where the ball inspectors are. Then when they ask I’ll recite Leviticus to them.
Sorry but there are so many……too many such obvious lines to this one 😉. I read a book on the Papacy. After the nasty mix up where a woman was elected pope the rules were changed for the election process. When someone obtained the appropriate number of votes, before he was declared Pope the most junior cardinal was required to put his hand up the electees cassock and check for testicles. If he found them he proclaimed joyous news, he has testicles.. the chair the newly elected pope had to sit on when this was done is in the Vatican museum. Practice was stopped around the time of John xxiii. True story. It’s a bit like Rabbi’s kissing a babies penis after circumcision, seriously, no one said hang on a minute…….
@@marklivingstone3710 Yes the rabbis kissing the circumcised baby’s genitals, sucking the blood, and giving the babies herpes in some cases. Google that.
Another amazing reading and critique of the Christian Bible. You are sooooo talented, and I am proud as a non-theist to be represented by you. I thank you Hemant, for expertly expressing my and many other agnostic-atheists' ideals of reason, morals, ethics, empathy and compassion.....in contrast with the violence, blood shed, corruption, and predatory behavior exhibited and commanded in these Bible passages by the myth based Christian God Yahweh. Your unrivaled support and expression of the values and truth that I adhere to and hold in my heart, are why I elected to become a patreon supporter of this channel in particular. I have benefited and learned so much from your expansive body of work on The Atheist Voice channel as well.
Well said, I discovered Hemant when I got Covid last September. All I could do was lay in bed and watch TV. The first video of Hemant’s I saw was his video on god’s body count. I was hooked. I’ve watched all of his shows since. I love his commentary on all the crazy things in the Bible. I greatly appreciate him!
Btw, someone in the thread below credited you with posting a lot of things from the Bible describing how ruthless and psychotic the biblical god is. I wish UA-cam would allow copy and pasting. Instead I took screenshots of all those Bible passages. Thanks!
You're placing Hemant above Jesus aren't you? I wonder if you know you're practicing idolatry?
@@firstcentury1885 absolutely placing him above Jesus. Do you have any example of the moral superiority of Jesus? Have you actually read the Bible?
@@MovieMakingMan Very welcome! You can use any material that I comment if you need it. I borrow from people and their great comments here all the time😊.
I noticed George Aguilar deleted his entire comment thread today after 50+ of our comments were made under it. So in the future will not waste my time posting under his threads.
@First Century: Are you referring to Y’shua, your pro genocide, pro infanticide, pro blood smearing and foreskin amputation commanding Yahweh god?
To answer your question as to whether I respect Hemant over your myth god....Well, I respect good over evil, intelligence over ignorance, and truth over myth. So the answer would be a resounding YES.
"he must not get his hair get unkempt" I guess high priest aren't allowed to sleep then.
Or wear a hat or helmet
But yet earlier the yahweh god was commanding that Israelites with certain skin disorders, were REQUIRED to “wear torn clothes and keep their hair unkept”🥴
Priests must not cut their bodies, but they do have to be circumcised right?
"so much for focusing on the family"
Chefs kiss quote
Well the invisible sky wizard did kill Aaron's two sons because they did the sacrifice wrong or something.
I think they mixed the incense wrong...god must have a very sensitive nose.
@@truthseeker0059 I think god has a sensitive ass, it's always chapped, which I take to mean god is always angry with someone or some nation.
they offered strange fire before the lord
@@Suzuha_Amane ....and you being a yahweh myth god worshipper, would say they deserved to be burned alive I have no doubt.
Smoked Yankee Buffalo Soldiers Where did you find that?
Love You Big-H ~
Great Presentation Per Usual ~
They got their nards crushed by an early dominatrix while they pleaded "mother may I"
Can't believe this guy's actually got 77k followers 😂😂😂 Keep up the good work my man 👍
I remember Leviticus 21:16-24 being used on me to explain why being learning disabled is a curse from God or that I am unworthy of life. I just said, "Then God isn't real!"
I had never noticed before how insecure this God fellow actually is. Why does he have to finish just about every sentence with I am the lord. I’m ex-military. The worst thing you could ever say to lose respect was to pull rank. It was obvious who the boss was, if the only way you could get someone to carry out a direction was to point out you held a higher rank, you had a serious credibility problem.
It’s ridiculous isn’t it? When I was a boss several times I didn’t finish every sentence to my subordinates with, “I am your boss!” I would have been looked at as some kind of freak.
Interestingly, you might notice that the writers of this text often wrote "I am the Lord" at the end of rules that would be difficult to enforce by people. Basically they tried to scare people into following those rules using "God is watching" type language. These rules were heavily about control, nothing divine about them
@@getasimbe The Bible is a gaslighting textbook.
God makes defects in people, then bars them from making offerings. Yeah, smart.
No. Defects are due to the world being in a fallen state. All that the atheist can say is you got screwed by evolution.
@@Justas399 Yep, twist the words to say what you want them to say.
@@rennnnn914 Tell that to Hement
@@Justas399 No, that was because of angelic devolution, of one third of them: and all you can say is that came out of NOWHERE, in heaven. Then we can say the world 'fell' because Adam and Eve didn't know good from evil, or the influence they could have over it, with just one hasty choice.
If they HAD known good from evil, meanwhile, and wider stakes - would what you claimed occurred, have still happened, then?
@@chrissonofpear1384 Ok. How do you explain why the world is so evil?
Ok I've seen enough.. I'm subscribing... keep up the good work
Great content as always!
It seems to suck as a woman no matter what, yet nothing happens to the man. How does some get their balls crushed, aren't they out in the wilderness? Another crazy chapter from the book of fables!
Maybe when men were laying around resting, camels would walk over them stepping on their balls. It must’ve been a huge problem for god to take time to exclude men with damaged balls. And who in hell is going to check those men? Are their ball inspectors near the sanctuary? How much did they get paid? There were 6 million people with Moses. That’s a lot of balls to inspect. Where did all the urologists come from??? What a F’d up book!!! And people believe this insanity!!!!
I guess if you want to be selected to present food to Yahweh, the first thing to do is to show your balls to the priest to make sure that they’re A-Ok.👌
Eunuchs from Egypt. Remember they are still on the run from Pharroh.
@@visaman You just keep forgetting that this is mythology based Albert.
Such a short chapter. Funny how priests have the fewest rules, one of them being "a priest isn't allowed to go to battle" (gee, I wonder why) and none of them are punishable by death if they get broken. Starting to sound more like the priests themselves are writing the book to give themselves special privilege.
Does sound a bit suspicious, doesn't it? All that free meat, too.
They also got to retire at fifty.
If only those priests could know that we're onto them. (A few thousand years late.) I'll bet there were a few among them who suspected they were being duped, but didn't want to die for saying so out loud.
@@dland154 Being a priest has always been cushy. In Britain, the Catholic priests live in houses next to the church. The houses are big, and on the open market would sell for up to a million pounds.
*GASP* NO! that can't be true!!!
This is like Dorothy of the Wizard of Oz,as she stands before the artifice called Oz,being rejected by Oz for having acne.
I notice that defect list doesn't mention Narcissistic Personally Disorder, else it might preclude the author.
....Yes! And let’s add Antisocial Personality Disorder to that as well (sociopaths and psychopaths).
@@jeanine219 Should put a nice net around the clergy then. 😉
Excellent series on another wicked book.
I'm late for bible study. I look forward to this every year.
In all the holy books i love all the verses that start with god telling a human to tell another human what he wants to tell this other human.
I have no idea how so many people are obviously not able to see that all this is bullshit.
Yes, even this alleged Jesus figure never wrote down one single solitary word in the Bible. And all that was written about this carpenter/ teacher/zealot leader of the anti Roman rulership movement, was by people who had never even met him (including the Pauline letters), and were also written many years after Jesus’ alleged “crucifixion”.
@@jeanine219 Yeah and most Christians also do not know that most stories about Jesus are very weak copies from other older myths, like from Horus, Mythras or of course Chrishna. It would be really funny if it wouldn´t be so shocking that still BILLIONS of people buy this nonsense in the 21 century.
@Hit Man Simply put, in the past some being or human proclaimed to be god, and pushing power over humans, so the humans simply learned to find and please the strongest god and conquer other people with less strength.
@@Daniel-cz7kd You missed his entire point. It went straight over your head per usual.
@@hitman5782 Absolutely true.
But imagine if these contrived myth based gods and religions, were suddenly no longer linked to certain of the more extravagant BENEFITS and REWARDS in this life (and particularly extending into an afterlife). Gone were the expected benefits such as being “crafted” in the grand image of the deity, being regularly “blessed” and favored by the deity, being protected by the deity, and being levitated from casket to pleasure paradise for infinity. I swear a majority of them would just as suddenly, no longer be concerned in the least with whether their chosen deity might exist and want their gratitude and admiration. I think that if it weren’t for these delusional, egocentric, and narcissistic rewards and elevated status, expected and demanded by many of the more gullible and greedy of primate Homo sapiens....these die hard religious patrons would toss their religious virtual reality glasses right out.
The Bible continues to be very specific in some really odd areas...
That last line of the video 🤣
So Basically, Priests are god's Waiters then? I suppose it is important for one's Caterers to be clean and respectable. I'm not sure why it matters so much that their Wives didn't have Sex before marriage. Maybe if there was an STI involved, but even so, should god's food become contaminated - Can't god just magic the bad away? Or, Maybe STIs are god's Kryptonite!
Along with Iron Chariots and Wooden Crosses, god seems rather vulnerable.
Hi Tom. Happy Spring! Always enjoy your comments... particularly the satire and irony, as well as the poignancy.😏
@@jeanine219 Thank you Jeanine. And may Ēostre find you Flourishing and Happy. Can I be considered strange, for I seek out your Comments every week? You never fail to impress me. I reckon you must have recruited an Army of Patrons by now. Excellent stuff.
@@tomsenior7405 I would say the exact same to you.😊
Tom Senior Basically, priests have power, influenced and authority over the people derived by the god, the more powerful rules over the other as they wish, so they use their magic in the same way, especially when it comes to getting favours from one authority or another, bad tends to end as a matter of opinion.
@@Daniel-cz7kd Yup, sounds about right. Throughout history, cultures have developed their hierarchies. And somewhere within that, Priests have power and influence. What better way of getting what you want, than to claim that your Deity has commanded it to be so? Surely any god is capable of communicating with every soul on the Planet. I find it suspicious that a Deity has to rely on Priests, Pastors, Reverends, Cardinals and Padres to do all his talking. Very suspicious that god never talks to us all while we are in his house...
Did the ancient Hebrews believe that God actually needed "food", in the form of burned offerings? It may just be a translation issue, but this is what the text seems to indicate by "the food of your god".
Priest ate most offerings.
Kind of like the Star Trek episode with the robot god Vol.
Sounds like God has a big appetite. It seems like he liked lamb and dove the best.
He created ancient B-B-Qs.
It even says that he loved the smell.
its not food in the literal sense, the main part of the offering was the blood
for all that the bible criticizes prostitutes, how about encouraging the men NOT to purchase the services of prostitutes? Like, they wouldn't offer themselves for money if the men weren't paying, but men are always the "better" ones, right?
The Bible criticizes whoremongers, so what the hell you on about?
@@a.ragguette4855 What the hell! Chill out Draco. Your buy bull is evil, corrupt, and “Draco-nian.
The Suicide Act 1961 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It decriminalised the act of suicide in England and Wales so that those who failed in the attempt to kill themselves would no longer be prosecuted. Prior to that year if you attempted to commit suicide and failed in your attempt you would be arrested and put before the court. I can't remember what the punishment was.
Death.
@@visaman I believe that if your suicide attempt was a success they didn't bother to prosecute you.
Why is this Leviticus obsessed with father’s so and so…mother’s….son‘s…daughter’s…grandpa’s….grandma’s….uncle’s…aunt’s…so and so ….
Interesting that priests are allowed to marry in this chapter, considering in Catholicism and orthodox church's they're to remain celibate. I'm assuming this is the passage that protestants use to allow ministers to marry. I wonder which chapter will have that contradicting passage?
@@melvinharmony2427 I mean, you're right. But also the position of priest in the bible seems to be hereditary? Aaron and his sons all through his line? So they need to get married in order to have a child (because having a child out of marriage is a no-no).
@@melvinharmony2427 Do you mean that the priests did not have children with the wives?
I'm pretty sure Orthodox priests are allowed to be married? They just have to marry before they get ordained. Also I *think* there is some weird belief that the church is supposed to be their spouse?
@@myheartismadeofstars oh ok, I didn't realise that! That's interesting.
The married to the church thing is what monk's and nun's do I believe.
And they must only marry virgins. I wonder how they can figure that out? And what if they had oral sex? I guess that’s ok. And they must only marry to their own people. So they are racists too.
Sounds like "God" was quoting the entrance requirements to join the Nazi SS.
The more I hear this the more I know that my concept of God did not inspire this
Love the video, Twenty Thumbs up
No person with "defects" should come into the sanctuary? God is like that awful parent who punishes their dirty toddler for being dirty rather than cleaning them. Where are the magic healing powers?
When Jesus was crucified the curtain of the sanctuary was torn away, so everyone could now enter.
@@visaman That doesn't make cuttimg disabled people off in the past okay
@@visaman Ah yes, more of the God who's 'ways do not change' actually changing. Such... constancy.
Totally not rebranding at all, no sir, no way.
@@visaman meh👎
Seems to me that you have to be "blind" or "lame" to believe the Bible.
2:10 Wait... The priests are supposed to be treated as holy because God makes them holy, and God also makes you holy too. So treat the priests like everyone else because everyone is holy?
The more I learn about the God of the old testament the more I realize Satan was the good guy, I would have also rebelled against that dictator too
Leviticus 21, let’s go see what our good friends YHWH and Moses are up to now. Warning! This chapter contains sexism, conditional love, discrimination and questionable family values, readers discretion is advised.
Leviticus 21:1-4
This one made no sense. Wouldn’t the priest’s job is to help everyone? Why only their close relatives? I thought YHWH knows and loves everyone. What if the priest does help everyone regardless if they’re family or a stranger? Is the priest going to get the “ceremonially unclean” label and get iced as a result? If so, that’s awful. That makes YHWH selective.
Leviticus 21:5-6 (Discrimination: Bald People)
Sorry bald people, can’t be a priest according to the Bible in Leviticus 21. What an absurd rule that shouldn’t be here. I am starting to think YHWH cares so much about appearance that there is no cohesion in how to best live our lives. Also, so Yahovah would only love the individual just because people bring him food offering.
Leviticus 21:7-8 (Misogyny, Questionable Family Values)
So prostitutes get no second chances? This has got to be one of the worst laws in the Bible (Right up there with the “No Gay Marriage” and “No Interracial Marriage” laws). That is what allows room for domestic violence to roam free. This gives me an uneasy feeling of YHWH would rather have people in unstable relationships and punish them for divorcing when a marriage doesn’t work out. Some people grew up with parents who aren’t even meant to be together. Yes, there are relationships that do work and couples grow old together. By forcing couples who don’t get along well to stay in marriage because it’s “holy”, it has horrible consequences. Imagine bringing children or pets into this mess.
Leviticus 21:9 (Misogyny, Conditional Love)
This inspires the worst verse in Judges. Oh wait until we get there, it’s ugly as Hell (no pun intended). I am not sure which disturbs me more; The idea of a priest burning his daughter at stake for being a prostitute, the priest abandoning his daughter the moment she goes against the Bible, or the talk of burning women who don’t fit the Biblical narrative. *Shivers*
Leviticus 21:10-12
Who is the High Priest? What is a High Priest? Why is the High Priest (Or priest) not allowed to visit a graveyard? Is it to protect him from demons or wild animals? Again, what if the parents are abusive towards their kid who becomes a Priest? Why is the High Priest not allowed to love the sanctuary? What are the consequences for that?
Leviticus 21:13-15 (Misogyny, Discrimination against Interracial Marriages)
Who knew YHWH is the original Chris Chan. The woman a man marries must be “a virgin”, Aka, God’s “Boyfriend-free Girl”. Why is anyone not allowed to marry a widow? Genesis 38, after Onen died, his brother married his widowed wife. Again, too little too late. Onen’s brother married a widow and “God” had no problem then. Why now? Also, is the divorced women damned to a life of either sticking with their abusive partners or live in isolation? That is wrong on many levels. It dehumanizes women. What if the virgin isn’t a nice person, let alone a good person? “A virgin from his own people”, what? This verse can be identified as “racist” because YHWH demands people to marry others from their own kind. It is anti-interracial marriage. Purity culture, everyone.
Leviticus 21:16-24 (Discrimination: Ableism)
If “God” can predict the future with precise accuracy, wouldn’t He already know who is the best “virgin” to have kids with and who to avoid? Why punish people who want to marry for who they love? Get ready, YHWH is going to list off who cannot offer him food.
• No Man who has any defect
• No Man who is Blind or Lame
• No Disfigured or Deformed
• No Man with crippled foot or hand
• No Hunchback (Sorry Quasimodo, Frollo’s God does not love him at all)
• No Dwarfs
• No Man with Eye Defects, Festering/running sores, or damaged t**ticles
• No descendant of Aaron the Priest who has any defect
Those are all of the people who aren’t allowed near the offering of food to YHWH. First of all, how does this even work? Do they get treated with extra love and protection? What are holy foods?
(6:08) Damn skippy, Hemant! I also thought that Christianity is supposed to be about saving souls. Heck, it was heavily advertised like “Repent from your sins and you will be saved in Jesus name”, “We’re living in the end times, repent now and be saved”, and other sayings like that. If Biblical love were true, then “God”, Jesus or the Holy Spirit would’ve revealed what was originally said directly from Hebrew to English. It would’ve known about the writing system of ancient Hebrew. But no, they don’t give a shit about keeping fellow Christians informed and allowed certain men to either deliberately mistranslate to misinform billions or it wasn’t a mistranslation and it was written with hate, false love, greed, and lust for purity and power.
It was a contradiction to Leviticus 19. It’s like the author was conflicted about whether or not they should love the imperfections of people or go full blown ableism.
Holy shit! The hate is strong here! First misogyny, then racism, then homophobia and now ableism. I would hate to imagine how would a lot of US states would treat people with defects (Alabama, Texas, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, the Carolinas, Tennessee, etc.). If they were to reenforce everything that happens in this chapter, then they had been on the wrong side of history this whole time. I’m getting the impression that Christianity wants us to think it is all nice, loving and bubbly while hiding it’s ugly, hateful and mean-spirited side. Too many people are misinformed because of people like Greg Locke and Mike Lindell.
To be fair, Christianity's ugly, hateful, mean-spirited side is Judaism, or at least the Judaism that was translated into the Bible. Christianity technically doesn't start until New Testament. Same GOD, different religion.
@@ianbraun271 I say to be fair, the sadistic, blood thirsty, primordial, barbaric Yahweh myth god is the very god that Christians today worship. The Yahweh myth god gave Christians their 10 commandments. And the Yahweh myth god (aka Y'shua) was the first to threaten fiery torment for infinity in the biblical NT, to any who did not worship HIM.
@@ianbraun271 Even a cursory read-through shows Jesus talked about it plenty. In fact, Jesus talked about hell more than any other person in the Bible. In Luke 16, he describes a great chasm over which “none may cross from there to us.” In Matthew 25, Jesus tells of a time when people will be separated into two groups, one entering into his presence, the other banished to “eternal fire.”
Jesus talks about hell more than he talks about heaven, and describes it more vividly. There’s no denying that Jesus knew, believed, and warned against the absolute reality of hell.
Jesus doesn’t only reference hell, he describes it in great detail. He says it is a place of eternal torment (Luke 16:23), of unquenchable fire (Mark 9:43), where the worm does not die (Mark 9:48), where people will gnash their teeth in anguish and regret (Matt. 13:42), and from which there is no return, even to warn loved ones (Luke 16:19-31). He calls hell a place of “outer darkness” (Matt. 25:30), comparing it to “Gehenna” (Matt. 10:28), which was a trash dump outside the walls of Jerusalem where rubbish was burned and maggots abounded. Jesus talks about hell more than he talks about heaven, and describes it more vividly. There’s no denying that Jesus knew, believed, and warned about the absolute reality of hell.
Stellar and COMPREHENSIVE analysis as usual Vegas Emerald🙏
All holy books are a good read in the subject of intellectual dishonesty.
There’s a lot there to unpack…
…but I have questions about beards, as an atheistic, bearded gent myself: am I going to HELL because I get my beard trimmed and I mar the corners? I mean, this is the second time God brings this up so it MUST be important. Leviticus 19: 27 and Leviticus 21: 5 say not to do it. But I’m a heathen atheist so, I guess that’s the reason I’m being punished for all eternity (in the eyes of believers that is).
But what if the faithful evangelical Christian gets his beard trim. Is he going to Hell? You know the type; the self-righteous man, who eats at Golden Corral, (with all the shrimp and bacon you can eat!), wears mixed fabrics (Under Armor shirt with cotton Levi’s) and who does NOT follow Leviticus 20: 9….which Hemant just covered last week.
I’m pretty sure ZZ Top would be executed by the biblical god.
@@tangerinetangerine4400 I wonder if it was also a way for priests to be known and create a social stratification...almost like it’s part of the uniform.
Isn't circumcision a cutting of your body. So according to the letter they can't be priest or does that mean priests were uncircumcised
Every male that nation must be circumcise according to the law.
huh... I wonder how catholics justify priests not being allowed to be married since the bible clearly says they can in this passage...
I queried this a couple of years ago and it seems the answer comes down to money. I asked in relation to Church of England priests and it seems that back when priests could marry there was a problem when the priest died and his family were living in the house provided by the church. They could not be seen to evict them, this would be regarded as unchristian, so they changed the rules so that priests could not marry - that way they could not have any children either and even if they did father a child they would be illegitimate and have no claims over the property.
Probably because they took the place of the Roman Vestal Virgins.
If God is against all that haircut stuff, I guess it goes without saying that he's against manscaping.
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Time to kick ass
Oh i didnt realise we were reading hunchback of notre dame by victor hugo like that was a weird tangent of discrimination.
Amazing
Isn't God responsible for making them defective in the first place? Why make them defective and then ban them from coming near him? By the way isn't God everywhere? Think about the ramifications of this ban along with omnipresence.
maybe defective testicles was an euphemism for homosexuality or something. can't imagine they literally mean what they say 😂
@@tangerinetangerine4400 Well god was bored so created his own horror movie; even sadistic gods must get their entertainment somehow!
@@Pandalka Oh, I can.
Maybe you plan on changing the format or maybe I misunderstand the format but I just realized it will take more than 22 years to get through the bible one chapter a week. Am I missing something or is the Friendly Atheist in it for the long haul?
Hemant needs to have more Patreon members in order to spend more of his time on this each week. He has a family to feed too.😊
We're all kinda holy when you think about things like the mouth, the ears, the nose, the poop pipeline, and so on.
*The Enuma Elish would later be the inspiration for the Hebrew scribes who created the text now known as the biblical Book of Genesis.* Prior to the 19th century CE, the Bible was considered the oldest book in the world and its narratives were thought to be completely original. In the mid-19th century CE, however, European museums, as well as academic and religious institutions, sponsored excavations in Mesopotamia to find physical evidence for historical corroboration of the stories in the Bible. ***These excavations found quite the opposite, however, in that, once cuneiform was translated, it was understood that a number of biblical narratives were Mesopotamian in origin.***
*Famous stories such as the Fall of Man and the Great Flood were originally conceived and written down in Sumer,* translated and modified later in Babylon, and reworked by the Assyrians ***before they were used by the Hebrew scribes for the versions which appear in the Bible.***
***In revising the Mesopotamian creation story for their own ends, the Hebrew scribes tightened the narrative and the focus but retained the concept of the all-powerful deity who brings order from chaos.*** Marduk, in the Enuma Elish, establishes the recognizable order of the world - *just as God does in the Genesis tale* - and human beings are expected to recognize this great gift and honor the deity through service.
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That's very interesting. I like discovering where these myths came from.
I read that quite a lot of the Jesus story came from Mithra. I'd like to know what bits came from Egypt.
Aren't sanskrit texts older?
Wait just half a minute there 3:55 the high priest must marry a virgin, 3:20 says He can't leave the sanctuary though so with women not allowed in the sanctuary I hope he makes use of that fragrant oil for "anointing" that offering
That's why the wives are virgins.
@@visaman huh?
@@jeanine219 the priests can't leave the sanctuary and the women couldn't enter. J/K
@@visaman oh, ok I get it.😂
Just shaved my head yesterday. Damn! I guess I can't be a priest now. . .
Just grow a huge ringlet out on both sides of your head like the orthodox jews (payot)
Funny how virginity is more important for women than men. (but how do you prove a man is a virgin?)
There is no such thing as a male virgin, biologically, at least
I wonder if this was meant for only a small group of people during a specific time ?
I have a religious family member who says “wow, they took so much inspiration from the Bible!” whenever she sees something that looks remotely apocalyptic on TV. Does anyone here know if there are some writings from earlier than the Bible that contain apocalyptic stuff?
I would have to research that question, but alleged supernatural “prophesies of doom” have always been used to control people. It seems also that adults who can believe in the nonsense of religion in the first place, tend to have brains that are gullible and latch onto other wild conspiracy theories, apocalyptic omens and paranormal BS. Think of the trump evangelical cultists and their tendencies toward these things.
Juli There are a couple of writings little older than the Bible, none of which have any prophetic writings that can even compete with the Bible in truth or coming true, much less apocalyptic.
@Daniel: Ignorant and propagandist gibberish as usual. What exactly are these “couple of writings” that you are referring to Daniel. Your statements are always bigoted, staggeringly misinformed, and immutability biased with your yahweh sky dada obsessions and delusions.
@@Daniel-cz7kd how is any of the biblical crap “coming true”?
Kelly Dalstok What biblical crap do you mean?
That is one disgusting old middle east book
Which Bible version you reading from?
question was there not a Televangelist that started in porn? and is now back with the Televangelist
What bible are you using?
Great, but put some emphasis on the Jewish people too. Not just Christians. I wonder what the Talmud says about it?
Exactly, Christians didn't even exist in the old testament.
@@firstcentury1885 This is your Christian god and your judeo-Christian religion from genesis to revelation. Suck it up.
If we were to talk about Judaism, then we could start reading, and critique the Tanakh and Talmud in reference to Judaism. If we were to talk about Islam, we could start reading and critique the Quran and Hadith in reference to Islam.
However, we are currently talking about the Christian religion, and reading the CHRISTIAN Holy Bible in reference to the CHRISTIAN god Yahweh.
@@jeanine219 Is Yahweh the Jewish or Christian God?
@@firstcentury1885 There is ONE god of the Christian Holy Bible according to you Christians. The timeline of your Christian myth god is narrated in your bible from genesis to revelation.... UNLESS you are a polytheist Christian.🤔
Oh never mind the fact that God had sex of sorts with Mary, who, we must never forget, was Bethrothed to Joseph. This means she was Josephs' wife in every sense if not yet by law. (Remember that law about thou shalt not covet another mans woman?). It was 3 months before Mary realised what had happened. There is so much wrong in the Bible that if "God" was to be judged by his own standards, just the Bible alone would have him in the depths of hell.
I actually feel that there might be a misunderstanding by the friendly atheist about "Make yourself unclean." But I'm pulling from outside sources on ancient cleanliness rituals, here. Long story short, saying the priest cannot make themselves unclean in the case of undead outsiders, should, in my opinion, be interpreted as saying that the priest is not allowed to handle the body of someone who is not a family member, which makes sense if burial and so on is carried out by family.
Now that I think about there's a place in the gospels where Jesus is saying let the dead bury (or touch) their dead.
This is vile debauchery that we are reading. FA is critiquing it in a satirical fashion. Wtf does it all actually mean? Barbaric, greedy, horny, narcissistic dictators of the Judaist religion, wrote this corrupt nonsense as a prototype for all of their patrons to read with fear and compliance to the ravaging demands of legions of religious leaders to follow. Get out the DSM 5 and read about NPD, Sociopathy, and Psychopathy. Read about the mindsets of brutal dictators. You will then understand the foundation of all of the OT meanderings.
@@jeanine219 As much as I may agree with the sentiment, let's not lose our heads with excessive hyperbole. Especially as I'm not convinced you actually read the DSM, or the studies behind the DSM.
Accurate attacks are better than blind attacks.
@@warrendriscoll350 Excessive hyperbole is your relative assessment, which I completely disagree with you on. And yes, I have read the DSM, and many of the studies behind it. Have you?
@@warrendriscoll350 Your channel is empty except for some tunes. Educate yourself.
And figure out Warren, outside of what the debaucherous bible promotes as it's "code of morality" (amorality) what BASIC ethics, morals, empathy, conscience and remorse is all about. Learn for yourself what constitutes criminal behavior. That way you won't have to "lose your head" under the misconception that hyperbole is even being used.....unless you are lacking these traits yourself, which is always a possibility.
Why am I going to work on a Sunday?
Oh why is this just going down to my newsfeed?
Summary of this chapter, GOD HATES DISABLED PEOPLE and he can't stand the sight of them. So where is love?
Dwarf discrimination
Yes many parts of the Bible are awful.Inciting abuse terror and over the top retribution. This is why I no longer follow the rc faith
No wonder priests of today are the way they are....
At 4:23 ...I have to correct you...you keep saying these are Xtian beliefs...they are actually Jewish beliefs (that later were adopted by some Xtians)...I'm an atheist, but I'm also a historian that believes in correctly telling the tale...are you afraid of a Jewish backlash??? I'm not....
Bible book of fiction's end of arguments. 🤣🤣🤣
The Bible is the most influential book in history. Atheism is the fiction.
@@Justas399 🤣🤣🤣
@@Justas399 "Atheism is the fiction." - You claim god exists. I don't believe you because you have failed to provide evidence. That is all there is to atheism.
@@Justas399 Yes it is influential in causing horrific historical persecution, torture and bloodshed, both towards other beliefs, and among christians themselves.
@@margaretbarrett6087 This is what sinful fallen human beings do. Modern man is even worse with his evils than those in Biblical times.
Do you consider yourself as an :
Atheist
Or
Agnostic
Or
Agnostic atheist
???????
No such thing as an agnostic atheist. If you admit the possibility of a god but do not believe that one actually exists, you are an agnostic. If you do not accept any possibility of a god existing, you are an atheist. There is no overlap.
@@freedapeeple4049 actually there is overlap... you can believe in no god but not be sure there is none at all.... that makes you an agnostic atheist, just like there are people who believe in god but are not sure of it, they are agnostic theists....
Only someone who doesn't want to answer would be an agnostic.
@@segments2156 No, that's not correct.
I believe that it is significantly more likely that there is not a god than that there is one. I am not absolutely certain, but I think it is significantly more likely. That still makes me an atheist, by definition.
@@EightThreeEight yes but you are an agnostic atheist as long as you are not certain... "gnosticism" is about knowledge, or, because we cannot really know for sure, the feeling of knowledge..
Ask theists, you will see that some of them claim to know there is a god, and some of them just feel like there is a god... that's where gnosticism differentiates them.... it's the same for atheists... you will have atheists who definitively believe they know there is no god, and some who don't..
I don't collect stamps. So I am a Astampcollector.
I don't play soccer so I am an Asoccerplayer.
etc......
Regarding said Bible verses, I believe the surrounding scripture should be considered as well as the meanings of the text. For instance, the burning at the stake didn't mean to burn an individual at the stake.
Maybe not alife, but burned nonetheless
Yes because saying or writing "burning them at the stake" clearly means wagging an index finger and quietly saying "bad human". Just like how when someone says "would you like fries with that" they really mean "mars doesn't exist it is actually a chocolate bar, but not actually chocolate. Instead a soy and ant- lion based extract using dental probes and cumin spice". I mean it is sooooo obvious right....?
@@cecilbrisley5185 You typed this pathetic paragraph when you could have looked up what it "actually" meant.
Jabez MadPlume: YOU typed a pathetic initial statement with NO explanation on your part as to exactly HOW it applied to this Bible reading 🥴
So question for you: What “surrounding scriptures and meaning of the text” is being left out in reading this chapter of continued debauchery in Leviticus 21. Hemant read the whole damned thing. Please give me some specifics.
Stupid question alert: Didn't Jesus resurrect?
What has the old testament to do with jesus
@@rennnnn914 I've never read scripture.
@@theunholinesswithin70 You should, it's eye opening
@@rennnnn914 I'll stick with writing music. I use psychology anyway because christians don't listen.
This god sounds like 45.
The big bang was the worst thing to ever happen to the universe..
Agreed
I agree oof
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
@@harveywabbit9541 I feel my source
"The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"
says it better.
@@harveywabbit9541 Everyone should know by now the earth was assembled by Slaribartfast inside the planet Magrathea.
We live on the second iteration of earth as the first was destroyed by the Vogons to make room for a byperspatial express route.
Is it me. Or is the Bible a bit preachy???
Jesus is indeed Lucifer the Morning Star, which is why Isaiah 14:12 lists Lucifer as the Morning Star and then Jesus calls himself the Morning Star in Rev 22:16. The reason Christards fail to see the obvious is because they are brainwashed by their churches into reading the Bible BACKWARDS and reading the New Testament BEFORE the Old Testament. We read books from FRONT TO BACK for a reason, and that is because you can't possibly understand the end of a book that you don't understand the beginning of. And it is not even possible to fully understand a book from reading the LAST QUARTER of it. With that being said...----> Adam and Eve were NOT first, and the 2 stories of Creation in Genesis are NOT about the same Creation as the Christian church teaches. GOD makes people on the 6th day of Creation in Genesis 1:26. Then in Genesis chapter 2 God rests, God sanctifies the 7th day, and then the LORD God of Israel creates Adam and Eve on the 7th day of Creation. To work on the 7th day that God has blessed and sanctified is BLASPHEMY, which is what makes the LORD God SATAN the LORD of this world. That also makes clear that Adam and Eve were NOT FIRST, they were made second. Doesn't the 6th day of Creation come BEFORE the 7th day of Creation?----> The family lineage that begins with Adam and ends with Jesus is the family lineage made by SATAN the LORD God, not God. That's why Isaiah 14:12 lists Lucifer as the Morning Star, and then Jesus calls himself the Morning Star in Rev 22:16. Jesus was Lucifer in the flesh, not God in the flesh. Jesus is Lucifer the Morning Star! Go to my channel for more details...
That NEW WORLD Order that Alex Jones and other GOP Christards pretend to fight is really the goal of Christianity otherwise known as the NEW EARTH (Isaiah 65:17, Isaiah 66:22, 2 Peter 3:13, Rev 21:1) to be ruled by the New Jerusalem. The New Earth is where the nations are destroyed and massed together for a world government that will be on the shoulders of Jesus. Well, isn't the New World Order a world government as well? And gee, New Earth even sounds exactly like New World, doesn't it? That is not a coincidence, the New Earth is indeed the New World Order. It's all right there in your NEW WORLD Translation Bible if you actually bothered to read it...
I no longer want to be "holy." From what I've heard as early as Genesis, God doesn't seem as holy as he claims to be. If you have to keep saying it, you're probably not as "divine" as you claim to be. And, sure, God sent those plagues, but that's like a deity throwing a teenage tantrum. I just can't take the Bible seriously, but it's still only a tolerable read because of the commentary.
I don't understand why you people even bother. Those laws are made for the Israelites, so stop trying to incorporate yourself into something you have no right getting into!
I'm sorry, @Draco Draza - please tell me EXACTLY how Matthew 5:18 is worded, again? And then how many bishops, theologians and translators perceived that verse, for over 1000 years?
It seemed they were all too ready, to extend those laws, at times. Or should that be 'you people', if we're starting to generalize?
@@chrissonofpear1384 Those.laws and everything in the Bible pertains to the israelites, and their descendants PERIOD!!! don't care what you, the theologians, nor do I care what the early church fathers who never knew the apostles have to say about it.
@@a.ragguette4855 And what was to become of Israelites, then, after they didn't find the Mossiach terms convincingly fulfilled? Were they a loose end, or just a bit of small print?
And why was Leviticus 25, never rendered unambiguously defunct, either.
@@chrissonofpear1384 what do you mean what was to become an Israelite? Israelites are born from the line of Joseph, son of Isaac, son of Abraham. It's stupidity to think that you can be spiritual israel, since being an Israelite is a bloodline, and that bloodline is bond by all the laws within scripture. Regardless of what they are called, if they descend from Joseph, they as Israelite. The Bible was never about multiple races, except for one.
@@a.ragguette4855 I meant, in Christendom. Given what Augustine, Luther and Calvin got away with calling them, time after time.
And clearly it wasn't about other races - the only time other races are much mentioned, is with the Queen of Sheba, plus, possibly, slaves.
The OT purity laws are among the most misunderstood and reinterpreted of the lot. Marriage laws required virgins to ensure a family's estate passed on to the eldest son without any outside claims. If the mother had other partners, one of them could lay claim to the property and goods since no one could take a DNA test to determine true paternity. Wills and probate courts didn't exist.
Priests had to marry a virgin of their people because the sons of a priest basically inherited the priesthood. Again, they needed to ensure that the father was a priest because a priest needed to be of the bloodline of Aaron. They also didn't want the blood of some other, heathen peoples sullying the priesthood.
These were laws for those people under those conditions in those days. They don't apply to the present since they no longer serve an actual purpose. Which explains the reinterpretations. To try and make them fit in the modern world.
If the mother have other partners, that child cannot claim the property of the man that she marry to, since she has no right to his property. Property is passed from man to his direct son, and if it's passed to a daughter, she must marry one of her bloodline, and that man controls it for the following descendant.
You can try to rationalize, legitimize, analyze, but it all amounts to CORRUPTION plain and simple.
@@jeanine219 -- I'm curious how it's corruption, exactly?
There was no rationalizing nor legitimizing in my OP. Simply stating the facts of the matter. Didn't offer an opinion if they were good or bad or whatever. That's just the way it was.
@@Kevin_Williamson You are curious how ALL of these OT chapters we are reading ( including this one) exhibits mass corruption?? Are you kidding me?
@@Kevin_Williamson And if you can’t see that your regular pro OT dissertations are not rationalizing or legitimizing them, then that tells me a lot. “ Simply stating the facts of the matter”? Your “facts” as you see them..... but NOT objective facts.
You know that Moses and Co. were Jews, right? This is instructions for Jews not Xtians. But never mind. It's all ridiculous.
You are reading like you are angry 😠 who are you angry with? The Bible or God?
More angry with hack writers, bullies, blowhards and poor rhetoric, I suppose, @Kadian Webb . As well as how many Christians pretty much deny certain verses are even in this book, until it's read directly to them - sometimes to their very shock, in fact.
@@chrissonofpear1384 .....and anger and frustration when the patrons of Abrahamic religions unconditionally defend and promote gods and behaviors that are myth based, violent, barbaric and devoid of ethics, morals, empathy and conscience. These virtues are human traits which evolved with our brains in evolutionary natural selection. Families, tribes, and societies were more likely to survive, reproduce and thrive if the members work together, felt empathy and compassion, treated each other with respect and cooperation, protected and cared for one another, and followed certain social norms. Many other animals also evolved to exhibit these traits for the same reasons.
I'm angry at man for making it all up!
It's amazing how Christians are being mocked for these chapters when they didn't even write them.
Well, Christians have used these books to justify their immoral acts and policies.
Well, it is in the Christian's Holy BuyBull, so they deserve the mockery. Maybe if they broke the will of Christ and rejected the Old Testament....
If they insist that the old testament is to be followed to the letter, as some do, then they get ridiculed for choosing to follow it.
@@grrsss8335 What I'm saying is you're giving the Jews a pass, they believe the old testament also, as a matter of fact they're claiming to believe and live by the old testament more than Christians do.
@@firstcentury1885 Judaism has around 4-14 million followers while Christianity have 2,300 million followers. The damage from the sheer amount of Christians to the world is 500 times more alarming, and have to be dealt with first. When Judaism is bigger than Christianity we will turn to them.
Do you consider yourself as an :
Atheist
Or
Agnostic
Or
Agnostic atheist
???????
Thin and crispy spam is delicious indeed.
@@TBomb39 As I finished my dinner last night, I turned to my wife and remarked "That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah."
@shldnfr Are there any women here today?
Both, but apatheist is a more accurate lable for me.