I love it when people claim that the Bible doesn't condone blood magic. That's all this chapter is about; using blood as a magical catalyst to anoint people. Once again, the more you read the Bible, the more God appears as the villain of the story.
Soo. Smearing animal blood over oneself is cool, but women are unclean and should be removed from the camp during menstruation and can't even be touched on the arm?
"Roving packs of crayons will squeeze oranges for tax purposes because light beams amplify continuum pattern recognition protocols in mugs of root beer. Tweezers in temporal flux pose no problem because the obedient always see themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly. Yoga exercise mats make it easy for ageing gracefully with tachyon admirals handing out persimmon-flavored wallpaper samples. There is much to learn from the flight of marking pens time traveling through cattle ranches." ---Albert Einstein
Don't you know it really is a holy quadrinity - god the father, god the son, the god the holy ghost, and god the Beelzebub? (Bible sure reads that way.)
Would be funny if someone made a series or UA-cam channel or social media accounts across all social media, and centers it around performing a specific ritual per episode. Then in tiny texts at the end, it references the Bible passage they are following accurately....
@@osaomoragbon7852 I was thinking of something similar. Right after I saw the description I imagined what would happen is someone turned it into a movie
Some read the bible without imagination the deeds..I had that the same it's like your brain doesn't think deeply In church they read more in the Ntestament or some stories from the OTestament the encouragement ones
I’m a Christian and it makes perfect sense to me. You have to understand the purpose of the Old Testament, the Mosaic Law, the sacrificial system, etc. but once you gain an understanding of why it was necessary, I think it’s pretty reasonable.
I laughed out loud at the idea of Aaron and the priests waving pieces of bread around 🤣 The Bible is so much more bizarre than I remember. Great series, Hemant!
I've learned more about the Bible watching these videos in the last month, then I did growing up in a Evangelical - Fundamentalist home. I like Sundays now - thank you for doing this series!
Nobody ever reads this stuff. Guarantee you most Christians have never read the Bible. They only time they read is when the preacher says open your bibles.
@@electriccane3320 The vast majority of American Christians only know of the parts of the Bible which were cherry picked for them by their pastors, priests and religious teachers.
Ikea is just drawings and no words. Can you imagine if the bible was just drawings? :) with arrows showing motion. At least it would be funny and entertaining. :)
Yahweh could be the most bloodthirsty god in existence. The whole point of the universe was to get high off burning flesh and he needed slaves to light the match. Real nice god you got there.
Sometimes I get terrifying chills thinking that there might actually be some truth to it, that there might be a genocidal, narcissistic megalomaniac with seemingly supernatural powers, perhaps a lifeform from a type III or IV Kardishev-scale civilization, who decided to torture us for sick fun. Or the simulator of our universe decided to wreak havoc out of bordum. Of the 4000+ religions and believed deities on this planet, I wonder which is the most horrifc? Yahweh has to be in the top 10, or at least honorable mention.
@@thefalloutkid13 I'm curious which sections of the bible you perceive to be true? So far, in Hement's readings of Genesis and Exodus, I haven't heard anything that to my knowledge has been corroborated by archeology, biology, or astrophysics. All that I know is that some of the place names given are real places.
@@PBAmygdala2021 *god is an incompetent god. it is incapable of creating a creation it doesn't have to destroy. it created life, looked upon it, saw that it was bad, was remorseful and so destroyed it. it created life a second time knowing full well it would need to be destroyed again but this time by more severe means, fire. this demonstrates mental retardation and an inexcusable guilt.*
@@PBAmygdala2021 the commandments, animal sacrifices stuff like this, the actual isrealites were expected to actual perform these kind of rituals and laws.
I'd really like to see someone do a 2hr movie depicting the absolute gore and horror this would present. The slaughter of the animals, blood dripping down the altar, blood all over the "priests," thick black smoke billowing from the tent. A scene of abject evil, all overseen by a divine "all good" god in pristine white robes inhaling the smoke and looking down in ecstasy just for a jarring juxtaposition.
Or how about a movie based closely on the text but changing the names so christians might be able to see it from outside the mindset. To now only show off the barbarity but also to show how unbelievable it all is.
Seth Andrews, the Thinking Atheist, has done some short cartoon features doing just this for things like the flood and other events. Worth checking out and sharing.
Was driving when I got the live notification. Just got home. Its nice to hear people go through the bible and really break it down. Its a lot more palatable when I don't have to read the words and have all the sarcasm and humour that I don't have think up on my own. Lol
Studying the bible this closely (particularly in your post about the number of people god killed or had killed) really finished off any lingering faith - the god of the bible is SO evil (and petty and weak) that it doesn't matter if the tiny shreds of evidence for christianity actually amount to anything whatsoever. And this weekly posting of chapter by chapter (like the Abbott & Costello bit "slowly I turned, step by step . . . ") really make my week.
Faith... the belief that Goodness is the way things are to be done because Goodness is what keeps things the most functional. Faith is indeed a virtue because without Goodness, you don't have anything at all.
@@satanofficial3902 If you have Faith, you can believe anything, absolutely anything, and thus is useless in trying to find out what is right and wrong. I used to believe in the god of the bible, who was supposed to be perfect goodness. But actually reading the bible shows that the god it pretends to discuss is a 100% thug.
Clarification on a few definitions: - Faith = strong belief in the absence of evidence - Goodness = moral or virtuous - Virtue = behavior showing high moral standards Reminders: - Faith flew planes into buildings on Sept 11, 2001 - Faith burned pilgrim women alive for the supposed crime of being "witches" - Faith led the Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades - Faith motivated the Mayans, Aztecs, and Incas to perform human sacrifices and rip the hearts out of children - Faith massacred over 1 Million Armenian men, women and children in the First World War - Faith caused the KKK to mass murder - Faith chops off the heads of reporters - Faith motivated the genocide, enslavement, and cultural destruction of America's Indigenous peoples in the name of Christ - Faith is why we keep finding mass graves of hundreds of First Nations children stolen from their families and "re-educated" in Christian schools - Faith completely endorses owning human beings as property, and beating them to near-death - Faith keeps woman enslaved, subjugated, and brutally mistreated today - Faith is why Shia and Sunni Muslims have been killing one another for more than 1,500 years - Faith hid over 10,000 cases of child rape and protected over 4,000 Catholic priests Faith gives people warm and fuzzy feelings, and a sense of superiority. The price is entirely too high. Faith is a crutch, and completely unnecessary. People should be good to one another because it is the right thing to do. Period.
Erm... I'm sorry. The slaughter ritual described here sounds like an offering to the Chaos Gods. It sounds like a scene you'd run into in Diablo or Silent Hill. What?
I cannot tell you how useful this walk through the bible has been...these videos have been the single best source ive found to combat the cancer that is religion...You, matt dillahunty, and Aron Ra are amazing men...there are several more atheist i look to for inspiration, but you three are my heros...i fully support you guys and what you are doing...
My mother would have made a great priestess, because she was quite good at burning food. Although, burnt potatoes may not be good enough for god as he needs blood, lots of blood. And burnt fat. Yuk.
The almighty (Imaginary) Hebrew War God accepts no priestesses! Priests ONLY! Those Unclean Women need not apply and would probably be horribly killed for mentioning the possibility! Sound a bit like Calvin & Hobbes Get Rid Of Slimy girlS (GROSS)
@@harveywabbit9541 Nope Harvey, Barnabus is Greeko aramaic and means Son of consolation/ encouragement, bar means son not father in aramaic. He was originaly named Joseph or Joses before conversion. The intended sacrifice in Acts 14 is there to show how the locals were impressed by the apostles and of course they pick the priests to of one of the most important cults to be impressed, it is coblers of course it is just intended to big up the new cults supposed founders. Yes, in those days just about everybody and his dog sacrificed just about anything that moved, bulls were big in a lot of the near eastern and Mediterranean religions and always had been. The Prometheus story, well the later Greeks were not afraid of taking the mick out of their gods and they are portrayed as very human but the actual ritual probably has the same folk origins as the OT one.
@@harveywabbit9541 No you cannot, you are ignoring the fact Barnabus does not mean what you say it does and moving the goal posts. This is nothing at all to do with astrology, it is all to do with a hard sell, do you not understand what is actually being said in Acts 14? Bar abbas means the son of man it is a literary device, he does not appear in all the gospels so how does that work? Just as a matter of interest just when do you think the OT and NT were actually collated.
@@harveywabbit9541 Sorry missed a bit, so both Barnabus and Bar abbas are Zues/Jupiter right. But you said Barnabus was a son of Mercury. You need to get your trolling sorted Harvey try and remember what you just got wrong.
@@harveywabbit9541 So, he has nothing to do with Barnabus who wait for it is NT! Acts is NT Harvey not OT, Babylon was long gone, get your time lines sorted.
As a child I was raised Christian. Stuff like this makes all the Bibles I got as gifts ect super weird considering what was written inside. Christian's did some smart (but still weird) marketing by saying that Jesus was the offering to God that stopped the need for other offerings, I imagine even in ancient times that this whole process was probably pretty disturbing and a huge waste of live stock.
This is extremely sad,very sad indeed to see so many people in America that will die & have no after life.All of you are going to fo to hell & it is a real place.You all are welcome into tje Kingdom.
honestly cant understand y people insist this to be a divinely inspired book, in todays life, the people who wrote this stuff clearly didnt know were we come from or what diseases or seizures are or even that the earth is round
This “pleasing aroma to the lord” sounds like something that comes down from humans first using fire to cook food. The aroma of cooking meat rises to the nostrils of the god in the sky.
@@harveywabbit9541 I think that is what we call an excuse.. Please note.. personal interpretation is not allowed. “All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness…” (2 Timothy 3:16 NAB) “Know this first of all, that there is no prophecy of scripture that is a matter of personal interpretation, for no prophecy ever came through human will; but rather human beings moved by the holy Spirit spoke under the influence of God.” (2 Peter 20-21 NAB)
Dont forget that the process of cooking meat should kill most bacteria and therefore make it edible , fresh presumably better , and you have avoided fly strike in your ovine flocks, hopefully,
@@Goldenhawk583 Thank you, thank you. How convenient for the fundies to pretend it is supposed to be allegorical when they start to squirm but you and I have to take it literally when some holier-than-thou is trying to force their own agenda on us.
And get his clean white dress sprawled with blood. They didn’t have washing machines or modern detergents yet. How the f*ck did they get everything clean again?
Listening to this I can just picture a giant nose poking out of the clouds sniffing large breaths of this 'pleasing aroma' 🤣🤣 and going 'Awwwww yeah, that's the stuff!'
I will always remember the aroma of a large pile of cows being burnt following an out break of Foot and mouth disease, pleasant it was not. I guess god has a defective nose.
I’m so sad that I’m finally caught up, Hemant. Please keep these going! I feel like this is a great way to read the audiobook of the Bible: accompanied by snarky, but mostly legit commentary.
I understand why it was forbidden for ordinary people to read the Bible for centuries. The Christian faith had lost the majority of the poor members due to food waste. To imagine such a ridiculous faith still has followers.
This chapter is a good example of how Yahweh is not Omnibenevolent. If He is as truly all-loving, he wouldn’t had demanded animal sacrifice in order to become priests like Aaron and his sons. Exodus 29:1-3 Does anyone here feel bad for all those bulls and rams that were slaughtered in the name of Yahweh? Also, what’s with the obsession with having loaves with no yeast? What is “God” going to do with the loaves of wheat bread? Put them in the altar? Exodus 29:4-9 Is this a list of instructions for future priests? If the second half of Exodus is spent on building up to priesthood, why couldn’t Yahweh just get all his talking points across? If he would’ve gotten all his talking points across, then what was the point in Leviticus and Deuteronomy? They would be pointless if Exodus is the book to set up all these laws and shit. Exodus 29:10-14 Very specific on how to slaughter an innocent bull that has done nothing to anyone. The bull wasn’t even a threat to anyone. Does the Bull symbolize Sin Offerings? Exodus 29:15-18 You’d think the ram would have witnessed what Aaron and his sons did to the bull. That Ram would’ve protected itself with its horns. Even as a meat eater, I would’ve been “WTF? Isn’t God Omnibenevolent? Why is He asking for animals to be killed?” For the sake of priesthood.. If this is what makes a priest that involves killing baby animals, then fuck it. I want no part in such a scheme. What was so holy about Burnt offerings? Exodus 29:19-21 What the fuck!? Aaron and his sons slaughtering the other ram, smearing blood on some parts of themselves (right ears, thumbs of their right hands), smear some blood on the altar and their garments? Exodus 29:22-26 What is the wave offering? Does also involve sacrificing animals just like all the others? What makes it so different than the typical offerings? Exodus 29:27-28 Fellowship offerings? Is that another offering that involves animal sacrifice? Does God have a blood fetish or something with all the slaughtering that happened throughout the Bible thus far? Wtf is wrong with Yahweh? Exodus 29:29-30 Spoiler Alert! This didn’t happen. You will see why in the Book of Leviticus and Numbers. Exodus 29:31-34 So no leftovers aloud? Ah nice.. So Yahweh exclusively allows Aaron and his sons to eat the meat of the rams and the unleavened bread, but everyone else isn’t allowed just because they’re sacred? Way to stick it to the poor and needy! I’m sure Yahweh’s love is “unconditional”. It’s a “Ha ha fuck you because I’m God” moment. Such a dick. Exodus 29:35-37 How does Yahweh expect people to have a bull at their disposal to sacrifice as a sin offering to make atonement? What if they don’t have however many bulls required to survive these ridiculous laws? To please a fucked up celestial tyrant? Fuck that! The altar being a holy version of the Midas touch... At least King Midas is interesting. Exodus 29:38-41 Is anyone tearing up at the horror here? God is asking his men to kill baby lambs. I want to find a lamb and give it a hug. I’m just going to let a certain friend stop by. (m.ua-cam.com/video/IcYHdaUx3hA/v-deo.html m.ua-cam.com/video/2hY-W5BI6KI/v-deo.html) (11:27) If this is what it takes to be a priest with all the vile crap, then it’s not worth it to me. Being all fancy and flashy doesn’t mean a damn thing to me. It may as well explain the repulsive nature of Leviticus (That book is about priesthood if I recall correctly).
I suspect the wave offering was to let god smell the bread, just like the meat was burned to let god get a whiff of that. God must be some kind of breatharian.
As a non fundamentalists Christian. I just love Hemat for reading the Bible in Atheist point of view. Mad respect as you read a book that you don't agree. Something that most of my religious peers hate me for reading other religious and secular views on God.
Props to you in being secure in your faith. Hopefully more people follow your example,have open discussions, then strengthen or reevaluate their position.
@Mr Bignaids yet you care to reply in my comment? And no I don't pity myself. But I pity you for being hateful and bigot to people who have different "opinion." If you don't want me to comment because I have different views in the existence of a God. Then you sir are as bigot and intolerant as those members of Westboro Baptist,White evangelicals, JTC comic writers and KKK.
@Mr Bignaids Wow, guess you're still in the "angry at everyone" stage. I may not share Joseph's opinions on this hogwash of a book or religion, but at least he seems not to be among the hateful crowd - missguided perhaps but not harmful.
I was with a relative, and I was explaining that I'm vegan and don't eat meat or dairy. I usually leave it at that, but she pushed to know why. After giving my piece, all she said was, "well, why did God put animals on the earth?" I swear, religion is such an excuse to not think.
I remember reading through this the first time. I thought it was seriously effed up. I also thought how is this different from any of the other so-called primitive belief systems which practiced animal sacrifice? And I also thought it sounded like a sweet deal for the priestly class. As long as people sinned and then made sin offerings, the priests would have food to eat. I wonder how many Bible loving Christians who assert its inerrancy are aware of passages like these. Sure, some of talk of how Jesus' sacrifice eliminated the need for any further animal sacrifice. But have they really considered the implications of blood sacrifice? Do they not see their hypocrisy in calling indigenous cultures primitive and superstitious? Can they not see that their God's demand for a human blood sacrifice isn't really much different than the cartoon trope of tossing people into volcanoes to appease the volcano gods? No doubt, some Christians will point out that the "volcano sacrifices" are just ridiculous attempts to exert some influence over elements completely beyond human control. A vain exercise since volcano gods aren't real and eruptions are natural occurrences, not some punishment from an angry deity. But what is the practice of Christianity, if not an attempt to have some measure of control over the fate of a person after death, something which is truly beyond any human control? The need for actual blood sacrifice may have been eliminated, yet are not Christians implored to sacrifice their earthly desires in order to gain eternal reward later? Is this not, in a way, the sacrifice of a fully human existence in the present moment here on earth for a possible blissful "life" in the afterworld? And do not some Christians still claim natural disasters, disease and suffering as punishments for the sinful behavior of others? Despite all the scientific advances made by humans over the centuries, here in the twenty-first century ignorance and superstition are still very much with us.
Jehova is a volcano god: On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled. Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. ... Then Moses spoke and the voice of God answered him. (exodus 19)
I sure am glad modern day Christians follow all the rules in the Bible exactly and don’t cherry pick what rules they want to and completely disregard huge sections they don’t like this. Yep, God’s perfect word.
@@massey904 The covenant made with a guy who says more than once that all the old rules still apply? "Every jot and tittle", he says. Anyway, that "new covenant" talk is just deflection. Christians everywhere constantly insist that all this old crap is still relevant, especially when they want to justify persecuting gay people.
It's a good thing that torturing animals isn't a sign of sociopathy, or that modern science hasn't shown that severely desensitizing oneself to sociopathic acts through trauma and/or long-term exposure and forced participation can cause the portions of the brain that regulate empathy and sympathy to atrophy in much the same way as those of natural born sociopaths and psychopaths. Imagine the long term effects on global society if that wasn't the case, right?
@@riffhammeron You are incorrect in your understanding of the word sociopath. Go to Wikipedia and study Cluster B personality disorders. Sociopathy is there right there next to Psychopathy under anti-social personality disorder.
.....sociopathic/psychopathic ancient people writing stories about other sociopathic/psychopathic people carrying out the instructions of a sociopathic/psychopathic god named yahweh.
@@jeanine219 Frim psychology today: "Sociopathy refers to a pattern of antisocial behaviors and attitudes, including manipulation, deceit, aggression, and a lack of empathy for others." I don't see how that fits this situation. These actions were done to conform with society.
@@riffhammeron My point was that this is a codified manual on how to make sociopaths out of non-sociopaths by making things like publicly torturing animals to death an accepted and brutally enforced part of society, which would result in a reduction of the ability to feel empathy and sympathy for others, which is the Ur-factor in the definition of what a sociopath/psychopath is.
2000 years ago farmers: Hey Jebedebab? Yeah, Steve. How's the livestock? Burnt. All my sons are priests tho. I'm lucky. I have mostly daughters. Any chance you'd let me, er, my sons marry any of them? If you were prosperous I would. You are running out of livestock. I've been thinking of starting a vegan cult. What is a vegan? What is a cult?
Please continue doing this series. I think you are doing something really powerful here. It think it is lots of things, but for an atheist in America like me, it is a perfect way to study the bible. I don't know a single Christian aware of what these 2 books actually say.
For a country that is very loud about its christianity, to the point where it allows the Bible to be a basis for laws, contrary to its own Constitution, that is rather damning but I believe you. I've seen too much evidence of lack of knowledge of Christianty by Christian people in the US to doubt you.
@@visaman Raised as an Episcopalian, the old testament for me was mostly ignored as barbaric musings of bronze-age sheep herders who might have tried to fathom the first stirrings of divine wisdom (but mostly getting it wrong). It is only recently with hearing from the Ken Ham and the AIG crowd that claims you can't understand the meaning of the resurrection without blindly believing the purloined apple and other nonsense, that I saw how closely the old and new testaments were tied together. So I rejected both. (Thanks, Ken.)
@@johnnehrich9601 I never got my head around how people can have this "OT bad, we new covenant with cheezus" excuse. It repeatetly says in the NT, the old laws still apply. It's just a sorry attempt to justify made by people who never bothered to read beyond the title.
These are so much fun, especially since i come from a jehovah's witness background and we actually studied this crap to learn how God would expect us to apply it both today and after armageddon
If God's recipe and serving directions on the bread had been something more like, "...now shalt thou add thy garlic spread to only the topmost portion of the very best crunchy French roll you can find...and burnish the upward-facing parts under a hot fire until it becomes nicely toasted..." I would be a Christian so damn fast!
This is Judaism, not Christianity. All of the animal sacrifice requirements were removed from the Christian faith in the second century. I don't know when it was removed from the Jewish faith.
@@bludfyre So this whole thing was some kind of manufacturer's recall? Or was the scripture like a George Lucas movie, where things were constantly added or removed over time? I think, if I may, you missed everyone's point.
I would respect god way more if he said to slaughter the animals to feed the poor. Or, you know, not to slaughter them at all. Really, the burning part just feels like it is done to destroy it and so to keep others from eating it.
@@vadinhopsc I am waiting for Harvey to find some astrological symbolism of yeast in a bread mix / not in a bread mix. It is interesting as most cultures it is the women that do the bread making (from linseed / flax as well as wheat or barley ) and there is not a lot of referencing to them - but see say biscuit etc factories where its often the men doing the bulk food manufacture.
I could imagine being one of Aaron's sons trying to help his father gobble up all these meats and breads... "Father, we must hide in our super secret sacred tent and eat the food and drink the wine so our minions don't grow strong enough to overthrow us... And then we will tell them god came down and enjoyed the food while they were sleeping/working. Yes, yes, father. We shall be fat, happy, and holier than all who came before us with the multitudes of blessings and rituals we just invented."
Sounds a bit like that's what was going on. Seeings only Moses was allowed to go up the mountain and God apparently said if anyone goes near that mountain whilst Moses is up there they'll die and being a superstitious lot, they listened. At times it even says Moses wasn't allowed to see God whilst he did all that talking. All very convenient whilst he's telling Moses to pass on how richly all his stuff had to be made and decorated and also named a couple of blokes who would make it all for him too.
@@harveywabbit9541 Well there is definatly some bullocks around somewhere. Please answer the earlier questions when were the OT and NT collated, given you now appear to be saying the whole of the NT is based on astrology as well? Even if your "interpretation" and I use the word loosly of acts 14 is complete Taurus's. I know you do not think much of modern scholarship simply because it does not fit with your extreme fringe agenda but and it is a big but the archeological evidence is there that actually supports the development of Yahweh from part of a Cannanite pantheon to super god which is what actually happens in the OT. By the way how does Noah fit into the astrology argument?
@@harveywabbit9541 I know that Harvey, but you miss my point. If as you keep trying to insist it is all based on Astrology, the fact that Noah is obviously lifted and repurpose from a previous mythos undermines your astrological theory does it not? It proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that not everything in the OT is astrology, as do the other fictional patriarchs you cannot have it both ways. Remember your Gurus had no idea about Gilgamish, I have a translation, they also did not have access to the street play scripts of the original Summerian story that became Noah I have a translation of the tablets on my book shelf. We now have access to information they could not dream of, that is not their fault they worked with what they had but we are a hundred and fifty years on and I am sorry mishmashing various mythos does not cut it and now you have dragged the NT into this well. So when were the OT and NT (astrology versions) collated and why has neither the Jewish community or the Christian Church (or us atheists) noticed that the whole thing is based on a very very dodgy interpretation of ancient myths and none universal astrology.
Not just hypocrisy but all manner of cruelty, wanton slaughter, gross inconsistency and insanity and besides all of that and much more, it makes no sense whatever!
Okaaay.... Where to begin? So they fled from Egypt, from enslaved bondage so bad it justified wiping out almost an entire nation and it's army, right? Then they went for a 40 year hiking expidition in the desert. Desert, I'm telling you. Carrying what little they owned (plus what goods they extorted from the surviving egyptians just before skipping town). And now, Moses tells them to make houses of gold with matching interior design, curtains made of the most expensive fabric, in the most expensive colours, and structures of specific wood. On top of this, he needs frocks, because, hey, who doesn't want to do Priscilla Queen of the desert in Sinai, am I right? And these frocks can not just be any old hand-me-downs. Oh no, they are to be lavish as F**k. And what would La Moses be without his back-up dancers? So let's get them dressed up in all sparkly outfits as well. But what would a gala be, if it has no delicious (and pleasing) offerings? Nothing, I tell you. Nothing! Let's get this disco rolling with excessive butchery. At least one big beast of burden a day. And also looad of loafs of bread. But hold back on the yeast. So, where are we at here? The suffering israeltites or a wealthy band of thieves just wasting their excess spoils of war? It is very unclear at this point, wether to feel sorry for them or not. I mean, where did they find all these expensive luxury items, and food, and livestock? Is this why they had to eat manna later? In that case, yeah, you kinda did that to yourself. You know, when you burnt every oxen and goat and what not.... Pillocks!
When I was a believer, I would try to come up with "naturalized miracles" such as all the Exodus plagues and the god leading Moses as a cloud during the day, fire at night, was the result of the volcano on Thera (now called Santorini) around 1600 BCE. As the final stage, it collapsed and one could image the waters of the Mediterranean filling in, exposing dry land at the Reed Sea, than a tidal wave coming back to drown the Egyptians. (So one could claim that maybe this was the work of god or maybe this was seen as the work of god.) This theory was dashed to smithereens when I found out the Hebrews were never enslaved in Egypt, certainly not 600,000 men.
Was I the only one reacting on that God say that the turban shall be put on before they pour oil on the head? It is a bit backward for being demands from a perfect god.
Where did they get the olive oil from living in the desert…also gold, beautiful garments and semiprecious stones. Also all the animals…one bull a day two lambs a day…forty years in the desert …thousands of animals slaughtered…
@@jared2244 Exactly - no one could write something so bizarre and self-contradicting page after page and imagine there would be enough gullible people to fall for this claptrap. Count me jealous.
@@johnnehrich9601 I said can not produce any thing close to Christianity. Christianity had produced universities of great significance that even atheist cherish.. Christians have run schools so distinguished that all atheists and secularist can do is only stand in awe. They can not even match let alone exceed. Christians have run, and continue to run charities, hospitals, shelters, social systems that not one of them can reproduce. Atheism is a self limiting dead end which produces people who are idealistic but unpractical. "....writing bizarre and self-contradicting" You who do not write bizarre and contradicting pages what have you produced? The world does not care about mere writing; the world looks at tract record. Writing does'nt care for the homeless, nor minister to the sick and rejects of society. You cant even outproduce these gullible people..
I can just imagine the priests that wrote this gibberish getting together in private doubled over in laughter and saying things like: "Those SUCKERS will believe ANYTHING! Guess what I told them today?" "Oh yeah? Well I'm gonna say...."
Is this stuff actually in the "bible"? How bizarre! People really believe it? Why? To what end? Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
@@KeriRautenkranz Even worse they'll probably say jesus was the ultimate human sacrifice so animal sacrifices aren't needed anymore. Which will be an even worse answer while still avoiding addressing the fact that animal or human sacrifices were required in the first place
Its pretty clear the motive of the Bible writer(s) with the spiffy tabernacle, cool threads to wear and specific food, they wanted people to cater to the "priests", I assume the same ones writing this nonsense, and what better way than to say god commands it?
Okay, the bull offering was VERY common throughout the Near East in the Babylonian age and before. Even in India, where cattle came to be sacred, they would sacrifice bulls before it became taboo. Go read Homer's Odyssey, though: bulls are common offerings for both Zeus and Poseidon.
@@ActiveAdvocate1 Ha ha, good to hear, it's hard to tell sometimes. So often I hear believers using, "it happened all the time" as a reason why their God commanded weird stuff.
@@harveywabbit9541 From what I noticed of some African Herdsman, the letting of Blood from livestock - but they lived , was some kind of actual food source (presumably iron in a generally deficient desertish area), I wonder if that is where the idea of sacrifice came from.
@@harveywabbit9541 The ultimate mindless experiences seem to be in the dance dervish (possible from David ?) lost in the sprit (cooked brain neurons). or meditation. I would hope actually that Christians are enquiries after truth, and that in terms of interactions with the world, and other people, are rational and welecoming. I fear thats a minority view and action though.
I was told by religious ppl that the reason they dont sacrifice animals anymore is cuz Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice and now theres no need to sacrifice animals anymore. The ancient humans had a real odd way of thinking
How about ..."the ancient humans had a real odd way of believing anything some FRAUD in a fancy hat spattered in blood said"? Oh, wait, modern ones too!
It's known that people once in the history choose which books (and of course which part of them) will compose the bible. Why the hell did they chose a book like this to try to prove that this messed up god exists?!?!?! Why??? We are just in the second one and it's impossible to believe in this shit and think at the same time!!!
I assume that once you splash blood all over the alter, it never gets washed off. So that elaborate gold alter stays covered with dried blood forever. Kind of ruins the look.
Yup, the creatures with the optimal genetic profiles would be savagely killed and sacrificed by these barbaric primitive mad men, before they even had half a chance to reproduce and contribute to the evolutionary natural selection process.
I love it when people claim that the Bible doesn't condone blood magic. That's all this chapter is about; using blood as a magical catalyst to anoint people. Once again, the more you read the Bible, the more God appears as the villain of the story.
Soo. Smearing animal blood over oneself is cool, but women are unclean and should be removed from the camp during menstruation and can't even be touched on the arm?
Man are never unclean in the bible except there eyes looking for other women 😂
Thats what i was thinking
I think even the Devil would be sickened by this Gods gratuitous lust for Blood, Mutilation and Sacrifice.
"Roving packs of crayons will squeeze oranges for tax purposes because light beams amplify continuum pattern recognition protocols in mugs of root beer. Tweezers in temporal flux pose no problem because the obedient always see themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly. Yoga exercise mats make it easy for ageing gracefully with tachyon admirals handing out persimmon-flavored wallpaper samples. There is much to learn from the flight of marking pens time traveling through cattle ranches."
---Albert Einstein
Don't you know it really is a holy quadrinity - god the father, god the son, the god the holy ghost, and god the Beelzebub? (Bible sure reads that way.)
The devil punishes the people so isn’t he the good guy ?
Beelzebub is literally a rosy cheeked choir boy, compared to the barbaric killing Christian god Yahweh.
@@jeanine219 thats because yhwh is Baal says it in exodus
If a Christian saw this ritual they would say that it's barbaric and sick, without realising that it's literally from the bible
Would be funny if someone made a series or UA-cam channel or social media accounts across all social media, and centers it around performing a specific ritual per episode.
Then in tiny texts at the end, it references the Bible passage they are following accurately....
@@osaomoragbon7852 I was thinking of something similar. Right after I saw the description I imagined what would happen is someone turned it into a movie
Some read the bible without imagination the deeds..I had that the same it's like your brain doesn't think deeply
In church they read more in the Ntestament or some stories from the OTestament the encouragement ones
I’m a Christian and it makes perfect sense to me. You have to understand the purpose of the Old Testament, the Mosaic Law, the sacrificial system, etc. but once you gain an understanding of why it was necessary, I think it’s pretty reasonable.
@@shan3671 Some (if not all) of God's "omni"s will have to be forgone for it to make "perfect sense."
I laughed out loud at the idea of Aaron and the priests waving pieces of bread around 🤣 The Bible is so much more bizarre than I remember. Great series, Hemant!
I've learned more about the Bible watching these videos in the last month, then I did growing up in a Evangelical - Fundamentalist home. I like Sundays now - thank you for doing this series!
Nobody ever reads this stuff. Guarantee you most Christians have never read the Bible. They only time they read is when the preacher says open your bibles.
@@electriccane3320 The vast majority of American Christians only know of the parts of the Bible which were cherry picked for them by their pastors, priests and religious teachers.
I like to spend my Sundays listing to Hemart to read the Bible from an Atheist Point of view.
I like to spend them listening
Are you an atheist?
I look forward to it as well.
@@Anonymous42316 ,
No, but I am Muslim Deist Guy.
@@somdavarya8078 How can you be a Muslim and a deist? Those two belief systems contradict each other.
look at the bright side: we at least passed the IKEA section of the bible.
Ikea is just drawings and no words. Can you imagine if the bible was just drawings? :) with arrows showing motion. At least it would be funny and entertaining. :)
@@realandar and then at least there wouldnt be the "you cant read hebrew so you are wrong...wrongly translated in english, bla"
Are we?
@@realandar someone needs to make this for real. A dedicated artist could actually make it a piece and attach meaning to it.
Atheist Sunday School with Hemant. Awesome!
Yahweh could be the most bloodthirsty god in existence.
The whole point of the universe was to get high off burning flesh and he needed slaves to light the match.
Real nice god you got there.
Sometimes I get terrifying chills thinking that there might actually be some truth to it, that there might be a genocidal, narcissistic megalomaniac with seemingly supernatural powers, perhaps a lifeform from a type III or IV Kardishev-scale civilization, who decided to torture us for sick fun.
Or the simulator of our universe decided to wreak havoc out of bordum.
Of the 4000+ religions and believed deities on this planet, I wonder which is the most horrifc? Yahweh has to be in the top 10, or at least honorable mention.
@@PBAmygdala2021 they are truths to the bible but no yahweh god
@@thefalloutkid13
I'm curious which sections of the bible you perceive to be true?
So far, in Hement's readings of Genesis and Exodus, I haven't heard anything that to my knowledge has been corroborated by archeology, biology, or astrophysics.
All that I know is that some of the place names given are real places.
@@PBAmygdala2021 *god is an incompetent god. it is incapable of creating a creation it doesn't have to destroy. it created life, looked upon it, saw that it was bad, was remorseful and so destroyed it. it created life a second time knowing full well it would need to be destroyed again but this time by more severe means, fire. this demonstrates mental retardation and an inexcusable guilt.*
@@PBAmygdala2021 the commandments, animal sacrifices stuff like this, the actual isrealites were expected to actual perform these kind of rituals and laws.
I am not a vegan, and I have killed animals with my own hands for food. The idea of dragging out an animals death and wasting it like that sickens me.
I'd really like to see someone do a 2hr movie depicting the absolute gore and horror this would present. The slaughter of the animals, blood dripping down the altar, blood all over the "priests," thick black smoke billowing from the tent. A scene of abject evil, all overseen by a divine "all good" god in pristine white robes inhaling the smoke and looking down in ecstasy just for a jarring juxtaposition.
Maybe Darkmatter could animate it?
Yes. The closest think Ivé found is a History Channel Documentary on dvd called ¨Bible Battles¨.
I always think of the overwhelming stench that those temples (and priests) must have had.
Or how about a movie based closely on the text but changing the names so christians might be able to see it from outside the mindset. To now only show off the barbarity but also to show how unbelievable it all is.
Seth Andrews, the Thinking Atheist, has done some short cartoon features doing just this for things like the flood and other events. Worth checking out and sharing.
God should consult with Martha Stewart on developing better recipes.
Never overcook your meat
But.. but.. I'm really GOOD at burnt offerings. Don't spoil my chances of becoming the 'deities pet'. 😦
Perhaps Martha Stewart should get some tips from god on how to throw a really good blood festival.
@MrWesdotcom #martha_stuart
Was driving when I got the live notification. Just got home.
Its nice to hear people go through the bible and really break it down. Its a lot more palatable when I don't have to read the words and have all the sarcasm and humour that I don't have think up on my own. Lol
Studying the bible this closely (particularly in your post about the number of people god killed or had killed) really finished off any lingering faith - the god of the bible is SO evil (and petty and weak) that it doesn't matter if the tiny shreds of evidence for christianity actually amount to anything whatsoever. And this weekly posting of chapter by chapter (like the Abbott & Costello bit "slowly I turned, step by step . . . ") really make my week.
Faith... the belief that Goodness is the way things are to be done because Goodness is what keeps things the most functional.
Faith is indeed a virtue because without Goodness, you don't have anything at all.
And... that this universe is a sim is irrelevant. Goodness applies anywhere and everywhere.
@@satanofficial3902 If you have Faith, you can believe anything, absolutely anything, and thus is useless in trying to find out what is right and wrong. I used to believe in the god of the bible, who was supposed to be perfect goodness. But actually reading the bible shows that the god it pretends to discuss is a 100% thug.
... any lingering faith 🤣... Gold!
Clarification on a few definitions:
- Faith = strong belief in the absence of evidence
- Goodness = moral or virtuous
- Virtue = behavior showing high moral standards
Reminders:
- Faith flew planes into buildings on Sept 11, 2001
- Faith burned pilgrim women alive for the supposed crime of being "witches"
- Faith led the Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades
- Faith motivated the Mayans, Aztecs, and Incas to perform human sacrifices and rip the hearts out of children
- Faith massacred over 1 Million Armenian men, women and children in the First World War
- Faith caused the KKK to mass murder
- Faith chops off the heads of reporters
- Faith motivated the genocide, enslavement, and cultural destruction of America's Indigenous peoples in the name of Christ
- Faith is why we keep finding mass graves of hundreds of First Nations children stolen from their families and "re-educated" in Christian schools
- Faith completely endorses owning human beings as property, and beating them to near-death
- Faith keeps woman enslaved, subjugated, and brutally mistreated today
- Faith is why Shia and Sunni Muslims have been killing one another for more than 1,500 years
- Faith hid over 10,000 cases of child rape and protected over 4,000 Catholic priests
Faith gives people warm and fuzzy feelings, and a sense of superiority. The price is entirely too high.
Faith is a crutch, and completely unnecessary.
People should be good to one another because it is the right thing to do. Period.
Thank you Hemant for bringing these biblical chapters out from under the camouflage christians hide them with, and actually reading them.
Erm... I'm sorry. The slaughter ritual described here sounds like an offering to the Chaos Gods. It sounds like a scene you'd run into in Diablo or Silent Hill. What?
Or the Great Old Ones/Outer Gods from the Chthulu Mythos😂
The pile of foreskins traded for a wife, inspirational?
I feel the Warp overtaking me...it is a goooood pain
I cannot tell you how useful this walk through the bible has been...these videos have been the single best source ive found to combat the cancer that is religion...You, matt dillahunty, and Aron Ra are amazing men...there are several more atheist i look to for inspiration, but you three are my heros...i fully support you guys and what you are doing...
I would add 'Paulogia' and 'Viced Rhino' to that list. Both on YT
@@sulas548 they are on that list of "several more atheist"...brillant minds in my opinion...
Theists: "god is all good"
This video: "yeah right"
My mother would have made a great priestess, because she was quite good at burning food. Although, burnt potatoes may not be good enough for god as he needs blood, lots of blood. And burnt fat. Yuk.
The almighty (Imaginary) Hebrew War God accepts no priestesses! Priests ONLY! Those Unclean Women need not apply and would probably be horribly killed for mentioning the possibility! Sound a bit like Calvin & Hobbes Get Rid Of Slimy girlS (GROSS)
Sounds like an excuse for certain people to get mandatory food from everyone
Yes, that's why John The Baptist called them a brood of vipers.
If the whole animal sacrifice took place today people would call it a death cult. Oh wait that's what it is😒
@@harveywabbit9541 Nope Harvey, Barnabus is Greeko aramaic and means Son of consolation/ encouragement, bar means son not father in aramaic. He was originaly named Joseph or Joses before conversion.
The intended sacrifice in Acts 14 is there to show how the locals were impressed by the apostles and of course they pick the priests to of one of the most important cults to be impressed, it is coblers of course it is just intended to big up the new cults supposed founders.
Yes, in those days just about everybody and his dog sacrificed just about anything that moved, bulls were big in a lot of the near eastern and Mediterranean religions and always had been.
The Prometheus story, well the later Greeks were not afraid of taking the mick out of their gods and they are portrayed as very human but the actual ritual probably has the same folk origins as the OT one.
@@harveywabbit9541 No you cannot, you are ignoring the fact Barnabus does not mean what you say it does and moving the goal posts.
This is nothing at all to do with astrology, it is all to do with a hard sell, do you not understand what is actually being said in Acts 14?
Bar abbas means the son of man it is a literary device, he does not appear in all the gospels so how does that work?
Just as a matter of interest just when do you think the OT and NT were actually collated.
@@harveywabbit9541 Sorry missed a bit, so both Barnabus and Bar abbas are Zues/Jupiter right.
But you said Barnabus was a son of Mercury. You need to get your trolling sorted Harvey try and remember what you just got wrong.
@@harveywabbit9541 So, he has nothing to do with Barnabus who wait for it is NT!
Acts is NT Harvey not OT, Babylon was long gone, get your time lines sorted.
As a child I was raised Christian. Stuff like this makes all the Bibles I got as gifts ect super weird considering what was written inside. Christian's did some smart (but still weird) marketing by saying that Jesus was the offering to God that stopped the need for other offerings, I imagine even in ancient times that this whole process was probably pretty disturbing and a huge waste of live stock.
This is also why the Jewish Priesthood was abolished. Even John The Baptist, said that they were a "Brood of vipers."
The only parts of animals that are actually sacrificed are the parts people don't eat, so they aren't really wasting anything.
This is extremely sad,very sad indeed to see so many people in America that will die & have no after life.All of you are going to fo to hell & it is a real place.You all are welcome into tje Kingdom.
@@harveywabbit9541
You have it ALL.wrong.
You should have stayed Christian.We win in the end.
honestly cant understand y people insist this to be a divinely inspired book, in todays life, the people who wrote this stuff clearly didnt know were we come from or what diseases or seizures are or even that the earth is round
they insist it is, because it says so in the book.. I mean.. what more proof is needed ? o.0
But can't deny mark of the beast. Covid 19 passports
The Bible actually says the earth is round.
i cannot get enough of these!! more often pleeeease!!
This “pleasing aroma to the lord” sounds like something that comes down from humans first using fire to cook food. The aroma of cooking meat rises to the nostrils of the god in the sky.
@@harveywabbit9541 I think that is what we call an excuse.. Please note.. personal interpretation is not allowed.
“All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness…” (2 Timothy 3:16 NAB)
“Know this first of all, that there is no prophecy of scripture that is a matter of personal interpretation, for no prophecy ever came through human will; but rather human beings moved by the holy Spirit spoke under the influence of God.” (2 Peter 20-21 NAB)
Dont forget that the process of cooking meat should kill most bacteria and therefore make it edible , fresh presumably better , and you have avoided fly strike in your ovine flocks, hopefully,
@@Goldenhawk583 Thank you, thank you. How convenient for the fundies to pretend it is supposed to be allegorical when they start to squirm but you and I have to take it literally when some holier-than-thou is trying to force their own agenda on us.
@@johnnehrich9601 You are welcome, the bible contains plenty of verses that will debunk most claims of goodness and kindness by over religious people.
That makes sense.
Wait...Aaron gets oil poured on his head AFTER he's wearing the turban? Who in their right mind wants to wear an oily turban around?
Hmmm, this completely logical question sounds like heresy... ;)
And get his clean white dress sprawled with blood. They didn’t have washing machines or modern detergents yet. How the f*ck did they get everything clean again?
We're talking about CLERGY, not people in their right minds....
Maybe the turban had a sunroof.
@@kellydalstok8900 Yeah, it sounds like it would like like a crime scene out of Se7en by the time they finished with all of the sacrifices.
Listening to this I can just picture a giant nose poking out of the clouds sniffing large breaths of this 'pleasing aroma' 🤣🤣 and going 'Awwwww yeah, that's the stuff!'
I will always remember the aroma of a large pile of cows being burnt following an out break of Foot and mouth disease, pleasant it was not. I guess god has a defective nose.
This visual made me guffaw, chuckle, and chortle!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’m so sad that I’m finally caught up, Hemant. Please keep these going! I feel like this is a great way to read the audiobook of the Bible: accompanied by snarky, but mostly legit commentary.
Make sure to tune in to episode 3967, where god has his son whipped and tortured, stuck on a pole... and says nothing 😳👍
I understand why it was forbidden for ordinary people to read the Bible for centuries. The Christian faith had lost the majority of the poor members due to food waste. To imagine such a ridiculous faith still has followers.
To be absolutely fair, that, and the priests made up a whole bunch of stuff that supposedly was in the book to control their sheep.
This chapter is a good example of how Yahweh is not Omnibenevolent. If He is as truly all-loving, he wouldn’t had demanded animal sacrifice in order to become priests like Aaron and his sons.
Exodus 29:1-3
Does anyone here feel bad for all those bulls and rams that were slaughtered in the name of Yahweh? Also, what’s with the obsession with having loaves with no yeast? What is “God” going to do with the loaves of wheat bread? Put them in the altar?
Exodus 29:4-9
Is this a list of instructions for future priests? If the second half of Exodus is spent on building up to priesthood, why couldn’t Yahweh just get all his talking points across? If he would’ve gotten all his talking points across, then what was the point in Leviticus and Deuteronomy? They would be pointless if Exodus is the book to set up all these laws and shit.
Exodus 29:10-14
Very specific on how to slaughter an innocent bull that has done nothing to anyone. The bull wasn’t even a threat to anyone. Does the Bull symbolize Sin Offerings?
Exodus 29:15-18
You’d think the ram would have witnessed what Aaron and his sons did to the bull. That Ram would’ve protected itself with its horns. Even as a meat eater, I would’ve been “WTF? Isn’t God Omnibenevolent? Why is He asking for animals to be killed?” For the sake of priesthood.. If this is what makes a priest that involves killing baby animals, then fuck it. I want no part in such a scheme. What was so holy about Burnt offerings?
Exodus 29:19-21
What the fuck!? Aaron and his sons slaughtering the other ram, smearing blood on some parts of themselves (right ears, thumbs of their right hands), smear some blood on the altar and their garments?
Exodus 29:22-26
What is the wave offering? Does also involve sacrificing animals just like all the others? What makes it so different than the typical offerings?
Exodus 29:27-28
Fellowship offerings? Is that another offering that involves animal sacrifice? Does God have a blood fetish or something with all the slaughtering that happened throughout the Bible thus far? Wtf is wrong with Yahweh?
Exodus 29:29-30
Spoiler Alert! This didn’t happen. You will see why in the Book of Leviticus and Numbers.
Exodus 29:31-34
So no leftovers aloud? Ah nice.. So Yahweh exclusively allows Aaron and his sons to eat the meat of the rams and the unleavened bread, but everyone else isn’t allowed just because they’re sacred? Way to stick it to the poor and needy! I’m sure Yahweh’s love is “unconditional”. It’s a “Ha ha fuck you because I’m God” moment. Such a dick.
Exodus 29:35-37
How does Yahweh expect people to have a bull at their disposal to sacrifice as a sin offering to make atonement? What if they don’t have however many bulls required to survive these ridiculous laws? To please a fucked up celestial tyrant? Fuck that! The altar being a holy version of the Midas touch... At least King Midas is interesting.
Exodus 29:38-41
Is anyone tearing up at the horror here? God is asking his men to kill baby lambs. I want to find a lamb and give it a hug. I’m just going to let a certain friend stop by. (m.ua-cam.com/video/IcYHdaUx3hA/v-deo.html m.ua-cam.com/video/2hY-W5BI6KI/v-deo.html)
(11:27) If this is what it takes to be a priest with all the vile crap, then it’s not worth it to me. Being all fancy and flashy doesn’t mean a damn thing to me. It may as well explain the repulsive nature of Leviticus (That book is about priesthood if I recall correctly).
I suspect the wave offering was to let god smell the bread, just like the meat was burned to let god get a whiff of that. God must be some kind of breatharian.
Yikes.
Another great Sunday Service (to reason)!
'Okay... who gets to check the bull's ballocks? Rock, paper, scissors?'
As a non fundamentalists Christian. I just love Hemat for reading the Bible in Atheist point of view. Mad respect as you read a book that you don't agree. Something that most of my religious peers hate me for reading other religious and secular views on God.
Props to you in being secure in your faith. Hopefully more people follow your example,have open discussions, then strengthen or reevaluate their position.
@Mr Bignaids yet you care to reply in my comment? And no I don't pity myself. But I pity you for being hateful and bigot to people who have different "opinion." If you don't want me to comment because I have different views in the existence of a God. Then you sir are as bigot and intolerant as those members of Westboro Baptist,White evangelicals, JTC comic writers and KKK.
@Mr Bignaids Wow, guess you're still in the "angry at everyone" stage.
I may not share Joseph's opinions on this hogwash of a book or religion, but at least he seems not to be among the hateful crowd - missguided perhaps but not harmful.
It is refreshing to read a non judgemental comment from a christian. Well done.
I was with a relative, and I was explaining that I'm vegan and don't eat meat or dairy. I usually leave it at that, but she pushed to know why. After giving my piece, all she said was, "well, why did God put animals on the earth?" I swear, religion is such an excuse to not think.
Finally an ancient prequel to Silence Of The Lambs.
and their silence is explained now. All the lambs are scared sh!tless
I remember reading through this the first time. I thought it was seriously effed up. I also thought how is this different from any of the other so-called primitive belief systems which practiced animal sacrifice? And I also thought it sounded like a sweet deal for the priestly class. As long as people sinned and then made sin offerings, the priests would have food to eat.
I wonder how many Bible loving Christians who assert its inerrancy are aware of passages like these. Sure, some of talk of how Jesus' sacrifice eliminated the need for any further animal sacrifice. But have they really considered the implications of blood sacrifice? Do they not see their hypocrisy in calling indigenous cultures primitive and superstitious? Can they not see that their God's demand for a human blood sacrifice isn't really much different than the cartoon trope of tossing people into volcanoes to appease the volcano gods?
No doubt, some Christians will point out that the "volcano sacrifices" are just ridiculous attempts to exert some influence over elements completely beyond human control. A vain exercise since volcano gods aren't real and eruptions are natural occurrences, not some punishment from an angry deity. But what is the practice of Christianity, if not an attempt to have some measure of control over the fate of a person after death, something which is truly beyond any human control? The need for actual blood sacrifice may have been eliminated, yet are not Christians implored to sacrifice their earthly desires in order to gain eternal reward later? Is this not, in a way, the sacrifice of a fully human existence in the present moment here on earth for a possible blissful "life" in the afterworld? And do not some Christians still claim natural disasters, disease and suffering as punishments for the sinful behavior of others? Despite all the scientific advances made by humans over the centuries, here in the twenty-first century ignorance and superstition are still very much with us.
Jehova is a volcano god: On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled. Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. ... Then Moses spoke and the voice of God answered him. (exodus 19)
Well, if you want to see how credulous people are, look at Q-anon.
Time for my Sunday Sermon
thank you, Hemant. ❣
A few days ago the movie exodus: gods and kings, was on tv. Having also watched Hemant's videos, that movie looked even more rediculous 😁
Try Gods of Egypt - not a particular good movie, but has a few funny spots.
Had the movie title wrong, sorry.
I sure am glad modern day Christians follow all the rules in the Bible exactly and don’t cherry pick what rules they want to and completely disregard huge sections they don’t like this. Yep, God’s perfect word.
Christians came into existence when the new covenant began.
@@massey904 The covenant made with a guy who says more than once that all the old rules still apply? "Every jot and tittle", he says.
Anyway, that "new covenant" talk is just deflection. Christians everywhere constantly insist that all this old crap is still relevant, especially when they want to justify persecuting gay people.
Or anyone who doesn't buy into their bloodthirsty monster of a God who they have no evidence for😂
It's a good thing that torturing animals isn't a sign of sociopathy, or that modern science hasn't shown that severely desensitizing oneself to sociopathic acts through trauma and/or long-term exposure and forced participation can cause the portions of the brain that regulate empathy and sympathy to atrophy in much the same way as those of natural born sociopaths and psychopaths.
Imagine the long term effects on global society if that wasn't the case, right?
In fairness, this isn't sociopathic since it was following the social norms. Fucked up, but not sociopathic.
@@riffhammeron You are incorrect in your understanding of the word sociopath. Go to Wikipedia and study Cluster B personality disorders. Sociopathy is there right there next to Psychopathy under anti-social personality disorder.
.....sociopathic/psychopathic ancient people writing stories about other sociopathic/psychopathic people carrying out the instructions of a sociopathic/psychopathic god named yahweh.
@@jeanine219 Frim psychology today: "Sociopathy refers to a pattern of antisocial behaviors and attitudes, including manipulation, deceit, aggression, and a lack of empathy for others." I don't see how that fits this situation. These actions were done to conform with society.
@@riffhammeron My point was that this is a codified manual on how to make sociopaths out of non-sociopaths by making things like publicly torturing animals to death an accepted and brutally enforced part of society, which would result in a reduction of the ability to feel empathy and sympathy for others, which is the Ur-factor in the definition of what a sociopath/psychopath is.
Him saying "slaughter it" needs to be my text alert
God must be allergic to yeast.
Does the lack of yeast makes gluten free bread? Hmmm, I have to ask some baker.
Good stuffs! Thanks for the great content!
2000 years ago farmers: Hey Jebedebab?
Yeah, Steve.
How's the livestock?
Burnt. All my sons are priests tho.
I'm lucky. I have mostly daughters.
Any chance you'd let me, er, my sons marry any of them?
If you were prosperous I would. You are running out of livestock.
I've been thinking of starting a vegan cult.
What is a vegan? What is a cult?
Well ... Kain tried gawd to get vegan but he wouldn't have it ... you know the rest.
Please continue doing this series. I think you are doing something really powerful here. It think it is lots of things, but for an atheist in America like me, it is a perfect way to study the bible. I don't know a single Christian aware of what these 2 books actually say.
For a country that is very loud about its christianity, to the point where it allows the Bible to be a basis for laws, contrary to its own Constitution, that is rather damning but I believe you. I've seen too much evidence of lack of knowledge of Christianty by Christian people in the US to doubt you.
'What does God need with a barbeque?'
I’m pretty confident that Joel Osteen would do anything to grow his mega church to keep the money rolling in so he can afford that massive mansion.
If that is the good book that people worship, I don't want to know of the bad book. Gross
The New Testament is The Good Book. The OT is the Bad Book.
Edit: unless you are an Orthodox Jew
@@visaman Raised as an Episcopalian, the old testament for me was mostly ignored as barbaric musings of bronze-age sheep herders who might have tried to fathom the first stirrings of divine wisdom (but mostly getting it wrong). It is only recently with hearing from the Ken Ham and the AIG crowd that claims you can't understand the meaning of the resurrection without blindly believing the purloined apple and other nonsense, that I saw how closely the old and new testaments were tied together. So I rejected both. (Thanks, Ken.)
@@johnnehrich9601 I never got my head around how people can have this "OT bad, we new covenant with cheezus" excuse. It repeatetly says in the NT, the old laws still apply. It's just a sorry attempt to justify made by people who never bothered to read beyond the title.
@@bladerunner3314 In retrospect, I agree. When I believed, this was just one more thing on which I was fooled.
These are so much fun, especially since i come from a jehovah's witness background and we actually studied this crap to learn how God would expect us to apply it both today and after armageddon
If God's recipe and serving directions on the bread had been something more like, "...now shalt thou add thy garlic spread to only the topmost portion of the very best crunchy French roll you can find...and burnish the upward-facing parts under a hot fire until it becomes nicely toasted..." I would be a Christian so damn fast!
This is Judaism, not Christianity. All of the animal sacrifice requirements were removed from the Christian faith in the second century. I don't know when it was removed from the Jewish faith.
@@bludfyre So this whole thing was some kind of manufacturer's recall? Or was the scripture like a George Lucas movie, where things were constantly added or removed over time? I think, if I may, you missed everyone's point.
@@widescreennavel sorry, I was being pedantic.
but are you putting Bovril on it too ?
@@bludfyre I missed your point!! Sorry!
I'm going to guess the Priestly source wrote this chapter.
A lot of animal cruelty in the Bible, isn't there?
Cruelty to everything it's possible to be cruel to. And they call it the good book...
Well even sadistic gods must get their entertainment somehow !
reminder set..
I would respect god way more if he said to slaughter the animals to feed the poor. Or, you know, not to slaughter them at all.
Really, the burning part just feels like it is done to destroy it and so to keep others from eating it.
Did i miss the part where God explains what his problem with yeast is? xD
Time I would think. lazy bread making .
No. You're right. But the obsession of those psychopaths against yeast is a pain in the ass. "Sacred ridiculous book".
@@vadinhopsc I am waiting for Harvey to find some astrological symbolism of yeast in a bread mix / not in a bread mix. It is interesting as most cultures it is the women that do the bread making (from linseed / flax as well as wheat or barley ) and there is not a lot of referencing to them - but see say biscuit etc factories where its often the men doing the bulk food manufacture.
I could imagine being one of Aaron's sons trying to help his father gobble up all these meats and breads...
"Father, we must hide in our super secret sacred tent and eat the food and drink the wine so our minions don't grow strong enough to overthrow us... And then we will tell them god came down and enjoyed the food while they were sleeping/working. Yes, yes, father. We shall be fat, happy, and holier than all who came before us with the multitudes of blessings and rituals we just invented."
Sounds a bit like that's what was going on. Seeings only Moses was allowed to go up the mountain and God apparently said if anyone goes near that mountain whilst Moses is up there they'll die and being a superstitious lot, they listened. At times it even says Moses wasn't allowed to see God whilst he did all that talking. All very convenient whilst he's telling Moses to pass on how richly all his stuff had to be made and decorated and also named a couple of blokes who would make it all for him too.
looking forward to this❣
I’m rrready! Exodus 29 involves killing a bullock and how the offerings work. Are you ready to stomach this Hemanta?
@@harveywabbit9541 Hi Harvey, see my reply to your next comment.
@@harveywabbit9541 Well there is definatly some bullocks around somewhere.
Please answer the earlier questions when were the OT and NT collated, given you now appear to be saying the whole of the NT is based on astrology as well?
Even if your "interpretation" and I use the word loosly of acts 14 is complete Taurus's.
I know you do not think much of modern scholarship simply because it does not fit with your extreme fringe agenda but and it is a big but the archeological evidence is there
that actually supports the development of Yahweh from part of a Cannanite pantheon to super god which is what actually happens in the OT.
By the way how does Noah fit into the astrology argument?
@@harveywabbit9541 I know that Harvey, but you miss my point.
If as you keep trying to insist it is all based on Astrology, the fact that Noah is obviously lifted and repurpose from a previous mythos undermines your astrological theory does it not?
It proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that not everything in the OT is astrology, as do the other fictional patriarchs you cannot have it both ways.
Remember your Gurus had no idea about Gilgamish, I have a translation, they also did not have access to the street play scripts of the original Summerian story that became Noah I have a translation of the tablets on my book shelf.
We now have access to information they could not dream of, that is not their fault they worked with what they had but we are a hundred and fifty years on and I am sorry mishmashing various mythos does not cut it and now you have dragged the NT into this well.
So when were the OT and NT (astrology versions) collated and why has neither the Jewish community or the Christian Church (or us atheists) noticed that the whole thing is based on a very very dodgy interpretation of ancient myths and none universal astrology.
This is the last time I try to eat while watching your videos!
The scent is pleasing to god, which says a lot about him.
@@harveywabbit9541 I am fairly certain you are wrong.
Moral of the story: for some reason, the creator of the universe needs drinks and food.
Well sir, I'm not a vegetarian and it's still incredibly tucked up. 😏
it really concerning people dont see the hypocrisy in this book
Not just hypocrisy but all manner of cruelty, wanton slaughter, gross inconsistency and insanity and besides all of that and much more, it makes no sense whatever!
I would bet good money that this chapter was written by Aaron and Sons, whoever they were. Just a hunch.
They wanted to have a bbq after cosplaying Stephen King’s Carrie.
Blood for the blood god.
Okaaay.... Where to begin?
So they fled from Egypt, from enslaved bondage so bad it justified wiping out almost an entire nation and it's army, right?
Then they went for a 40 year hiking expidition in the desert. Desert, I'm telling you. Carrying what little they owned (plus what goods they extorted from the surviving egyptians just before skipping town).
And now, Moses tells them to make houses of gold with matching interior design, curtains made of the most expensive fabric, in the most expensive colours, and structures of specific wood.
On top of this, he needs frocks, because, hey, who doesn't want to do Priscilla Queen of the desert in Sinai, am I right? And these frocks can not just be any old hand-me-downs. Oh no, they are to be lavish as F**k.
And what would La Moses be without his back-up dancers? So let's get them dressed up in all sparkly outfits as well.
But what would a gala be, if it has no delicious (and pleasing) offerings? Nothing, I tell you. Nothing!
Let's get this disco rolling with excessive butchery. At least one big beast of burden a day. And also looad of loafs of bread. But hold back on the yeast.
So, where are we at here?
The suffering israeltites or a wealthy band of thieves just wasting their excess spoils of war?
It is very unclear at this point, wether to feel sorry for them or not.
I mean, where did they find all these expensive luxury items, and food, and livestock?
Is this why they had to eat manna later? In that case, yeah, you kinda did that to yourself. You know, when you burnt every oxen and goat and what not....
Pillocks!
Puppy Ash , Yup. That's pretty much it. An excellent summation.
When I was a believer, I would try to come up with "naturalized miracles" such as all the Exodus plagues and the god leading Moses as a cloud during the day, fire at night, was the result of the volcano on Thera (now called Santorini) around 1600 BCE. As the final stage, it collapsed and one could image the waters of the Mediterranean filling in, exposing dry land at the Reed Sea, than a tidal wave coming back to drown the Egyptians. (So one could claim that maybe this was the work of god or maybe this was seen as the work of god.) This theory was dashed to smithereens when I found out the Hebrews were never enslaved in Egypt, certainly not 600,000 men.
Oh great God explains how to sacrifice an animal to please him.😒
And to think that very large numbers of people profess belief in this book!
Anyone else catch the “long love of the river” phrase? I had to listen twice to see if I actually heard it right. Good laugh. Needed that.
I believe it is "long lobe of the liver".
Loaves & livestock for the priest’s blessing ? YHWY wants
a Sambwitch !!
Levi, Maketh Me a Reuben...
These people were slaves that escaped Egypt. How the hell did they have all this stuff?
Tank God (oh wait um err) that yeast was not banned from beer. Though banned from bread didn't seem to last either.
Oh, I'm sure you can find justification for both banning yeast and encouraging use of at the same time if you look...
Pouring oil on turbans ... in the desert ... what a mess!
Was I the only one reacting on that God say that the turban shall be put on before they pour oil on the head? It is a bit backward for being demands from a perfect god.
Where did they get the olive oil from living in the desert…also gold, beautiful garments and semiprecious stones. Also all the animals…one bull a day two lambs a day…forty years in the desert …thousands of animals slaughtered…
It really is the worst written story ever told.
The bottom line is atheism in their most advance stage can not produce anything close to Christianity.. So jealously play a big role in your criticism
@@jared2244 Exactly - no one could write something so bizarre and self-contradicting page after page and imagine there would be enough gullible people to fall for this claptrap. Count me jealous.
@@jared2244 How did you get that from my comment? Projection much?
@@johnnehrich9601 I said can not produce any thing close to Christianity.
Christianity had produced universities of great significance that even atheist cherish.. Christians have run schools so distinguished that all atheists and secularist can do is only stand in awe. They can not even match let alone exceed. Christians have run, and continue to run charities, hospitals, shelters, social systems that not one of them can reproduce.
Atheism is a self limiting dead end which produces people who are idealistic but unpractical. "....writing bizarre and self-contradicting"
You who do not write bizarre and contradicting pages what have you produced? The world does not care about mere writing; the world looks at tract record.
Writing does'nt care for the homeless, nor minister to the sick and rejects of society.
You cant even outproduce these gullible people..
@@brianmorris9117 "...did you get that from my comment?" What did i say about your comment?
I can just imagine the priests writing this and haggling with themselves over how much free food they want per day.
I can just imagine the priests that wrote this gibberish getting together in private doubled over in laughter and saying things like: "Those SUCKERS will believe ANYTHING! Guess what I told them today?" "Oh yeah? Well I'm gonna say...."
And where did they get all these materials to make all this? Or was the desert full of this back then?
Who knows
Glad I watched this while eating my breakfast. I imagine that if they still did this for modern priests, there'd be a lot more PTSD.
This chapter reads like some Death Metal lyrics. Who knew Christian music could be so brutal?
Listen to Toby Mac.His bramd of music you might.get.All you need is common sense.Oh never mind...
When assembling the bible thousands if years ago a cookbook and a GQ accidentally got mixed in.
Is this stuff actually in the "bible"? How bizarre! People really believe it? Why? To what end?
Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
I think PETA will not be too happy with this chapter...
I will now ask priests of god how old the animals sacrificed in their name were, for them to become priests.
ROFL! They will probably mumble something about symbolism or that the New Testament obviates undesired parts of the Old...
@@KeriRautenkranz Even worse they'll probably say jesus was the ultimate human sacrifice so animal sacrifices aren't needed anymore. Which will be an even worse answer while still avoiding addressing the fact that animal or human sacrifices were required in the first place
This god sounds very human to me. Eating meat and drinking wine, wanting to live among the people 🤔. Need I go on.
If you want a book that contains all of ungodly acts and a lot more besides the bible is for you .
Actually, these ARE "Godly" acts! Who is commanding them? Ya'weh, the Hebrew War God!
Its pretty clear the motive of the Bible writer(s) with the spiffy tabernacle, cool threads to wear and specific food, they wanted people to cater to the "priests", I assume the same ones writing this nonsense, and what better way than to say god commands it?
Okay, the bull offering was VERY common throughout the Near East in the Babylonian age and before. Even in India, where cattle came to be sacred, they would sacrifice bulls before it became taboo. Go read Homer's Odyssey, though: bulls are common offerings for both Zeus and Poseidon.
Common? Yes. Inspired by an all powerful all loving god? No
@@dustin9317, no kidding.
@@ActiveAdvocate1 Ha ha, good to hear, it's hard to tell sometimes. So often I hear believers using, "it happened all the time" as a reason why their God commanded weird stuff.
@@harveywabbit9541 From what I noticed of some African Herdsman, the letting of Blood from livestock - but they lived , was some kind of actual food source (presumably iron in a generally deficient desertish area), I wonder if that is where the idea of sacrifice came from.
@@harveywabbit9541 The ultimate mindless experiences seem to be in the dance dervish (possible from David ?) lost in the sprit (cooked brain neurons). or meditation. I would hope actually that Christians are enquiries after truth, and that in terms of interactions with the world, and other people, are rational and welecoming. I fear thats a minority view and action though.
Christians really need to hear this
The alter smells most foul, should we clean it? What are you wearing it smells as well? Must be a get close to the priest dissuader.
I was told by religious ppl that the reason they dont sacrifice animals anymore is cuz Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice and now theres no need to sacrifice animals anymore. The ancient humans had a real odd way of thinking
How about ..."the ancient humans had a real odd way of believing anything some FRAUD in a fancy hat spattered in blood said"? Oh, wait, modern ones too!
@@KeriRautenkranz Exactly right!!
It's known that people once in the history choose which books (and of course which part of them) will compose the bible. Why the hell did they chose a book like this to try to prove that this messed up god exists?!?!?! Why??? We are just in the second one and it's impossible to believe in this shit and think at the same time!!!
EXACTLY! Go figure. Must have been evil ignorant bishops etc in those councils.
Because they knew once people are brainwashed enough they'll spin any overt, inhumane, unjust story in their head to something good
I assume that once you splash blood all over the alter, it never gets washed off. So that elaborate gold alter stays covered with dried blood forever. Kind of ruins the look.
And covered with fly's too
Maybe "God" (the priest's imaginary friend) likes it that way?
Ladies and gents, the God of Blood:
😬
The god of Blood, Dismemberment, Torture and FIRE! Oh, and War, too.
I know sacrifices were a big deal back in the day but is one of the most excessive laundry list for blood I’ve seen
Wow. It would of sucked to be a bull or a lamb (with no defects) during that period.
Sounds like over time, evolution would cause defective bulls and lambs to dominate...
@@harveywabbit9541 Are you sure? It seems to specifically say what to do with the entrails, fur and blood.....
Yup, the creatures with the optimal genetic profiles would be savagely killed and sacrificed by these barbaric primitive mad men, before they even had half a chance to reproduce and contribute to the evolutionary natural selection process.
"If you don't find a bull or a ram to murder you can't deliver sermons." Just killed me..