Who needs intelligence when you got a plan , now where’s that damn plan goddammit Jesus have you been moving my shit again , that’s it new plan , Jesus pack your stuff your going to earth 🥳
I had forgotten that the bar for that "test" was merely that the man felt jealous. That is a horrific standard. Especially coming from a God that describes himself as a jealous God.
This cruel ritual with the bitter water is hardly what anyone would call pro-choice. The choice is the husband's and chance of her becoming very sick (maybe dying?) from the poison.
@@katherineheufel6953 It wasn't her plan in any case. It was her husband's suspicion of infidelity. If he had proof of it, her and her lover would have been stoned to death. Still, a miscarriage by poison and sepsis, and the text even says that it was enormously painful, would be someone's last choice.
cant help realizing the god of the bible is more concerned with the personal belongings of the priests and with the "purity" and loyalty of a woman and wife to her husband, than he is with the sick, afflicted, and the downtrodden.
He was behind many of those sicknesses, plagues,famines,etc. He'd put those curses on his own people(chosen people)just for not loving him enough and for not liking his cruel,brutal,and asshole personality.
What makes all these bullshit laws even dumber is the fact that plenty of women in that time had a miscarriage anyways. So let´s say a woman had not cheated but has a miscarriage anyways, everybody will think she cheated. This is all just very dumb.
There doesn't even have to be any evidence that she's done anything. And this simply kills kids, including the husband's, indiscriminately. It's disgusting, but not surprising, that she is given absolutely no say in any of this process. I think the reason they're so hot to ban abortions is because the women are making the choice, not the husband.
" Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God(Yahweh).Their infants will be dashed to pieces and their pregnant women "ripped" open -------another way God aborts.Cruel,vicious,and brutal.Like some god-damned barbarrion!
In theory it's a trial by ordeal. The idea behind such trials, whether they're like this or based on combat, or some other means is that they're an appeal to an all knowing god to reveal whether the person is guilty or innocent. Having high standards for evidence is a comparatively modern methodology--in a trial by ordeal no evidence is necessary since the deity knows the person's guilt or innocence. In practice, though, this appears to be a drug induced abortion. The actual drugs aren't mentioned, but most likely there's some toxic herb involved (which would have a bitter taste). A culture that depended on livestock would know which plants in the area in which they lived would cause abortion in livestock, so it would be fairly simple (if unsafe!) to apply that knowledge to people.
@@bobbun9630 Since God is all-knowing and knows what's in a person's heart-what's with trials? He already knew what was in Abraham's heart (as did Abe) so that there was no need for a trial.I'm sure Abe would've had enough troubles in his ordinary life that would express what was in his heart,that everyone could see.So you can have troubles in your everyday life and also God throwing trials your way whenever he got the notion.It's a no win deal.And the trial can be as bad as Job's or Daniel or Jesus asking Peter if he loved him three times.Go figure.
Biblical marriage? Men, like “Father Abraham “, are allowed to copulate with as many women as they can afford, in the guise of producing heirs. But, even after an heir is born, and after the original wife bears one as well, the man is free to screw any/all , at any time, while a woman, in the same circumstances, is to be punished?
I think it's all based on a notion of male heirs being the purpose of life. The reward Yahwah tends to promise people is a lot of offspring ruling large areas, while these marriage laws are clearly based on trying to ensure children are fathered by the husband. Multiple wives = more simultaneous pregnancies = more sons. Women having a say in things though might lead to them *gasp* breeding with someone other than the tribe’s warlord.
@@cfltheman In my case it was my religion teacher at high school. This was in the 1960ies. He was supposed to teach about all religions, but he was very Christian. I did give him some hard questions, but if I had been able to quote some of the episodes in this series……. Perhaps this teacher made me a non- believer, not really an atheist then, but about 10 years later I became an atheist.
I really hope you're going to keep this going for the entire Bible this is way more entertaining than actually reading it myself. Thanks for doing this by the way.
I got into it with my aunt over this chapter, because she did EXACTLY what someone with cognitive dissonance does, she kept changing her story. First she said the verse couldn't be talking about abortion because HER bible says "abdomen" and "swell" instead of the original "womb" and "miscarry". Then when I pointed to the original verse, she said the potion couldn't cause abortions because it's just dirt and water. When I pointed out that the INTENTION is still to abort a baby, she said if god makes you miscarry, then it's not an abortion 👀 Even though the definition of an abortion is the "deliberate termination of a pregnancy" so it's still an abortion when gawd does it
Still to dangerous to have the bible any wear near impressionable minds and the potential harm and indoctrination outweighs any good as a snake oil salesman can make even bad stuff look good and come in spinners another generation carrying an unwanted and undeserved guilt complex for something never done.
I think it would be great to make cathedrals into musea and just have some dude in a dress read a chapter or two, wave around a toilet brush and explain what catholics used to believe and show all the silly crap and why it's there and why it's completely ass backwards, not only in light of actual reality, but even in light of their own book. This, in addition to teaching comparative religion and indeed actually reading the books the horseshit supposedly came from, just to show how wrong all believers are by default, not just christians. Well... fundamentalists may be an example of people who do read and follow the words of their books as best they can, and even they fuck up most of the time. I would also ask that the origins of different practices be explained. For instance, what passover means and where it comes from and never happened. Or why christians put up a christmas tree that is a modern day representation of the yule log and get together and eat and give presents and that familiar heathen practices were implemented to more successfully push out older practices and celebrations of something completely natural like celebrating that after the winter solstice there will be more light and to break up the long cold months we warm up the place with fire, food, and good company. Real things with real effects on real people that those real people dealt with in a healthy and sustainable way, and that christianity successfully ruined for centuries for entire societies, like it does with everything.
Funny thing is, lesbian relations technically weren't banned in Victorian England. All of Parliament had no concept on how 2 women would go at each other. In the Nordic countries, homosexual relations were only banned for adults, as gay relations between children was thought to be great romantic practice for adult straight relations. (Fun fact, the Danish children's book author Hans Christian Andersen had gay relations, and people accepted it since he was childish anyways)
With someone reading the Bible, something I never bothered to do. I can see my instincts were always correct. Religion is all about horrible gods invented by horrible people living in a horrible universe in a far backward time.
One consistent theme stands out to me. The priest gets paid. No matter what the issue, it always seems to profit the priest in one way or another. Any offering to God in one way or another profits the priest. If you sin, pay the priest. If you love God, pay the priest. If you offer a burned offering to God, there always seems to be a little barbeque left for the priest. If some good befalls you, pay the priest. If some bad befalls you, pay the priest. If you want something good, pay the priest. If you want to keep the bad away, you guessed it, pay the priest. No wonder there are so many super rich evangelical preachers. Even small town churches provide tax free residence for the preacher. No wonder the Catholic church is super wealthy. All religion seems to be run like the mob. No matter what the situation, it always seems to end with the representatives of GOD the FATHER getting paid.
It kinda makes sense though, the priests would be so busy preparing all the rituals and ordinances that they would have no time to hunt game or buy meals for themselves. Their only source of food would be from the sacrifices, otherwise they'd starve
“If you think your wife is cheating, you need to see a marriage counselor” Oh Hemant… you act like anyone in that section cared about what the woman thought or felt
We're on chapter 5 of the forth book and i finally realized you've been wearing the same shirt the whole time. I bet that you never thought that was going to be your "Sunday shirt".
I've always thought he gets up in Saturday or something and grabs his bible, does all the prep work (put words on the slides, writes the script, etc) then grabs his shirt, sits down and records. The publish date is always timed to the Sunday of the next week, making this week's vid a last week's recording. Or he does it in chunks and releases a chapter once a week. Recording a full book would take forever, so maybe half or quarter a book at a time would work, depending on chapter length or what's all going on in life.
I like how god thinks periods are so disgusting (even though he's god and therefore nothing can harm him so why does he need to feel disgust in the first place?) that he needs to send them outside. I don't know god have you thought coming up with a better way for women to menstruate? I mean you were the one who came up with it right?
You can almost see these holy men, sitting around the tent. Jehosafat thinks Ruth's cheating on him so they say, "You guys want some free food? I think the Lord's about to say some shit." They all laugh and write a verse or two.
Of course they do. Often in reading comments on Hemant's Bible videos I see the comment, "the surest way to become an atheist is to read the Bible." That's actually not true. I engage with Christians on other channels, asking them about the various events in the Bible that we atheists see as atrocities or nonsense.....and they have invariably been totally fine with it. Read their Bible cover to cover, believe it all is "God breathed," and usually end up with, "God's ways are not our ways...." to explain away everything.
@@natsusatsujinki8342 Well, if you'd like to help me make sense of the Bible let's start at the beginning, okay? God creates Adam and Eve, and does not intrinsically give them the knowledge of good and evil. He makes this extrinsic knowledge, to be found in the fruit of a tree. Since at this beginning stage of their lives they have no knowledge of good and evil, how are they supposed to know that disobeying God is wrong? "Evil." Further, when God warns them not to eat of the fruit, he threatens them, "Thou shalt surely die." He says NOTHING about including their children and indeed, all their descendants in any threats. Says nothing about corrupting his entire creation all because Adam and Eve make a dumb mistake that could have been easily rectified by an all powerful, all merciful being without all the drama. Instead we get nothing but drama. Why? Where is the logic in any of God's actions at this point?
@@natsusatsujinki8342 Well...that's another topic for discussion. Isn't there somewhere in the New Testament that says that no one can come to Jesus UNLESS God calls them? So if God doesn't call, they are incapable of coming to Jesus, yet God is going to punish them for not coming to Jesus, even though he specifically did not call them. Explain the logic behind that, please.
@@natsusatsujinki8342 I'd love to discuss the BIble with you, but can we do it in order please, from the beginning? So please answer my question first - why did God make knowledge of good and evil extrinsic rather than intrinsic, and why did he create evil - the Devil - to test his creations when they had no tools with which to pass the test.
Meanwhile in Canada !!!! Marriage and Marijuana In Canada, the government, in its eternal wisdom, recently passed two laws. They are: 1. Legalized gay marriage 2. Legalized marijuana Legalizing gay marriage and marijuana at the same time now makes perfect Biblical sense. Leviticus 20:13 says: "If a man lies with another man they should be stoned.” Apparently we just hadn't interpreted it correctly before!
Nice how the priest who wrote this, subtly and inconspicuously, adds in his shopping list and things he would like to be gifted with. This book is pure grift.
Wikipedia has a good account, "Ordeal of the bitter water." The practice ended when the Temple was destroyed in the first century CE. The Temple was a chamber of horrors.
So the wise man, when he gets tired of his wife because she's lost her looks and he wants a newer model, can just accuse her of being unfaithful and be done with her. Keeps the divorce rate down, I suppose.
Oh, boy, more goodies and riches for the priests! Moses was really on to something! I like that bit about taking your wife to the priest. Oooooh, yeah. We know where this is going. "I shall examine your wife. Leave her here and come back same time tomorrow."
The part about that section of the bible that seems to make the most sense is the beginning section because that could also apply to an earlier concept of quarantine concocted by observation, but even then, with all the medical knowledge that humanity has accumulated since as well as the vagueness of the text, it's severely out of date at best and lethal/damaging to the whole society at worst. X(
So, the bible prescribes abortion in some cases. Given the hard-line anti-abortion stance of some Christians, you would have to conclude that they skipped over this part of the Bible.
Since adulterous women could be stoned to death, I suspect that this is just to let men who are over their marriage kill their wives and go find someone new.
It is said that, outside of scripture, there is no historical record of a character named Moses. It wouldn't prove very much if there had been, because there wouldn't be any way of confirming that his claimed words, or deeds, were accurately recorded.
A big problem is: what if a man got his wife pregnant, & then for some reason gets tired of her, & doesn't want the child. What's to stop him from alleging he suspects her of infidelity, not because he really does, but as a means of aborting his child, & giving him justification to leave his wife? The whole thing is super messed up & fraught with abuse potential.
There is an INTERESTING (almost certain) error in the translation in 5:17: the *"dust" should be translated as "ORE"¹,* and with Numbers being a 5th century BCE writing, this means mostly *copper sulfate.* That is, the "bitter water" is an mixture of an unknown concentration of a *toxic metal salt.* This compound was *known to cause abortion* at least as far back as Greek times, so would have been known to the author and the priests. It's also highly dangerous for the woman, which makes inflicting it on her, ever more messed up! But why is there "ore" on the floor of the tabernacle? Because at this time, the Yahwistic religion, originating from copper rich areas to the South, held that "metallurgy" was a DIVINE PRACTICE. That is, the smelting of "bronze" (mostly copper), gold and silver (but not iron) was done in tabernacles. ¹This translation as "ore" is found in Job 28:2&3, and indirectly in 6.
Yanno, I’m actually okay with punishing cheaters. As someone who’s been cheated on in back tk back relationships and now suffers from anxiety and insecurity about if anyone even likes me as a friend and can no longer trust a significant other, cheaters should be punished
Funny that God refers to womb miscarriage and withering thigh stuff but not as a living baby. Maybe God waits until the breath of Life enters the body to call it a living being. If Christians ever read their own book.... What is the recipe anyways? I'd like to keep it on hand f
You REALLY don't want to abort/miscarry from getting sepsis from some poison combined with the e-coli and other pathogens from the temple floor where animals are slaughtered.
So... god didn't want people with ailments near him? Was he afraid of catching something? Yes... it would make sense to isolate people with contagious diseases... but not all discharges or blemishes are contagious.
Can't just god then heal those people with ailments? He already showed them his miracles in Egypt back then saving them from death and even providing food. Or maybe those diseases are way more powerful for him to deal with?🤣
Numbers 1-4: Redherring "boring" repetition so people will give up (especially barely literate people, historically) and then just give up before the real stuff happens. It's like Solaris where Tarkovsky put in the 5 minute uncut shot of a car driving down a city freeway with nothing special happening in black and white -- - he (allegedly) said it was so the phillistines will walk out and the real movie buffs will be left.
It's funny that this chapter of the Bible is the closest thing to modern justice we've had so far. Restitution for wrongs* and abortion rights** *Restrictions apply, only for certain people **Only if the man says so
I've read a couple different versions of the 5:11 passage onward and I havent found one that specifically says the woman in question is even pregnant, let alone that there is a miscarriage from the potion. How do we know that's what the verse really meant?
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My interpretation of this is that since (male) bloodline was seen as extremely important, this was meant to kill a child the husband thought might not be his. While this ritual to enchant the poison tried to make it less harmful if a pregnancy's father was the husband. Because all that seems to matter in the author's values is the power and number of a man's (male) descendants this ritual would presumably only be invoked if he thought someone had "stolen" the use of a wife's womb, since that might lead to accidentally raising a child of a different man. This mindset explains all the horrible antiquated laws about sex in that region of the bible.
But what if it’s the opposite? What if a woman suspects her husband of cheating? It all goes back to this god supposedly being all knowing, which clearly he’s not. 😂
Women had no rights at all. Remember, in this book, the only way a group of sisters could inherit when their father died sonless, and none of the women being married, is that they argued with the priests.
If play with fire do not complain if get burnt.His wife may of been pregnant with his child and lost it because of the wicked potion and who knows what long term damage it caused.He may never get another baby out of his breeding wife because of his actions and hopefully curses god for the rest of his life for condoning such evil.
And people put their hand on this book and swear to uphold laws, testify truthfully, and maintain morality. THIS BOOK? I've seen ax murderers with better morals.
Here's my question: the dusty floor water could never actually cause a miscarriage, so didn't that mean every husband looked like he was wrong? It would work out to be a placebo for jealous husbands.
Besides all the blood, imagine the contents of the guts as well. I doubt there was a single woman who came out of this ordeal without severe gastric illness.
10:33 Bible has the right idea here, it would be amazing if there was some drug that would benefit or hurt you depending whether or not you are guilty, then again the bible must have been watching Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
I want full restitution for an absentee father. That was never brought to Justice for non-payment of child support. I want one trillion dollars in child support from my father
Not surprising that the religious right on the Supreme Court don't try to use the bible to try and overturn Roe v Wade. Instead they had to try and find an ancient law to jokingly try and justify their opinion.
I guess Amber Heard should have been drinking a whole lot of dirt water instead of expensive wine! Johnny Depp was constantly accusing her of cheating... for good reason, apparently!
I wronged you.... gave it to the priesthood, go short out your part from them... oh while you are there take a ram and some flour they want dumplings after the abortion ceremony
This lord dude doesn't seem to possess any intelligence whatsoever.
Who needs intelligence when you got a plan , now where’s that damn plan goddammit Jesus have you been moving my shit again , that’s it new plan , Jesus pack your stuff your going to earth 🥳
I had forgotten that the bar for that "test" was merely that the man felt jealous.
That is a horrific standard. Especially coming from a God that describes himself as a jealous God.
The majority of jealous men are narcissists themselves; they’re the stalkers, abusers, and wife murderers.
@@kellydalstok8900 That also fits the Christian God to a T.
@@stevewebber707 Well, those narcissistic primitives invented him/it.
It's projection. These men made their gods in their own image, complete with all their flaws.
With what is going on with Roe vs Wade, it is kind of appropriate that this chapter came up.
Evangelicals see what they want to see when they read the BIble--and disregard the rest.
This cruel ritual with the bitter water is hardly what anyone would call pro-choice. The choice is the husband's and chance of her becoming very sick (maybe dying?) from the poison.
@@rudra62 maybe it was their version of a morning after pill or a plan B incase the woman was pregnant from her supposed impurity.
@@katherineheufel6953 It wasn't her plan in any case. It was her husband's suspicion of infidelity. If he had proof of it, her and her lover would have been stoned to death.
Still, a miscarriage by poison and sepsis, and the text even says that it was enormously painful, would be someone's last choice.
🚬 Aye. Numbers 5: The Abortion Chapter 🥃
"The greatest crime for which the gods never forgive us is being born women."
--C. S. Lewis
cant help realizing the god of the bible is more concerned with the personal belongings of the priests and with the "purity" and loyalty of a woman and wife to her husband, than he is with the sick, afflicted, and the downtrodden.
no wonder the book was shined up in the second act...because everyone knows you can catch more flies with sugar than with vinegar. 😃
He was behind many of those sicknesses, plagues,famines,etc. He'd put those curses on his own people(chosen people)just for not loving him enough and for not liking his cruel,brutal,and asshole personality.
He's worried about the sick, he wants to keep them out of his sight
Guess thats what jesus is for.
Yes it's about the invisible sky wizard saying I'm okay with abortion if the man thinks his wife has been stepping out on him.
What makes all these bullshit laws even dumber is the fact that plenty of women in that time had a miscarriage anyways. So let´s say a woman had not cheated but has a miscarriage anyways, everybody will think she cheated. This is all just very dumb.
There doesn't even have to be any evidence that she's done anything. And this simply kills kids, including the husband's, indiscriminately. It's disgusting, but not surprising, that she is given absolutely no say in any of this process. I think the reason they're so hot to ban abortions is because the women are making the choice, not the husband.
" Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God(Yahweh).Their infants will be dashed to pieces and their pregnant women "ripped" open -------another way God aborts.Cruel,vicious,and brutal.Like some god-damned barbarrion!
In theory it's a trial by ordeal. The idea behind such trials, whether they're like this or based on combat, or some other means is that they're an appeal to an all knowing god to reveal whether the person is guilty or innocent. Having high standards for evidence is a comparatively modern methodology--in a trial by ordeal no evidence is necessary since the deity knows the person's guilt or innocence. In practice, though, this appears to be a drug induced abortion. The actual drugs aren't mentioned, but most likely there's some toxic herb involved (which would have a bitter taste). A culture that depended on livestock would know which plants in the area in which they lived would cause abortion in livestock, so it would be fairly simple (if unsafe!) to apply that knowledge to people.
@@bobbun9630 Since God is all-knowing and knows what's in a person's heart-what's with trials? He already knew what was in Abraham's heart (as did Abe) so that there was no need for a trial.I'm sure Abe would've had enough troubles in his ordinary life that would express what was in his heart,that everyone could see.So you can have troubles in your everyday life and also God throwing trials your way whenever he got the notion.It's a no win deal.And the trial can be as bad as Job's or Daniel or Jesus asking Peter if he loved him three times.Go figure.
@@shriggs55 He never implied it was a logical belief by modern standards, only pointed out a broader type of thinking it fits into.
@@Isaac-hm6ih Okay.I can dig it.
Biblical marriage? Men, like “Father Abraham “, are allowed to copulate with as many women as they can afford, in the guise of producing heirs. But, even after an heir is born, and after the original wife bears one as well, the man is free to screw any/all , at any time, while a woman, in the same circumstances, is to be punished?
You got it!
Like the whole bible a book full of injustice,war and mistreatment of woman.
I think it's all based on a notion of male heirs being the purpose of life. The reward Yahwah tends to promise people is a lot of offspring ruling large areas, while these marriage laws are clearly based on trying to ensure children are fathered by the husband.
Multiple wives = more simultaneous pregnancies = more sons. Women having a say in things though might lead to them *gasp* breeding with someone other than the tribe’s warlord.
It's good to be the priest!
Oldest racket in the world
I cannot wait for this one! Well timed 😁
Oh, and these episodes have become my "church!"
If only there was someone like him when I had to go to church as a kid.
Amen!
@@cfltheman In my case it was my religion teacher at high school. This was in the 1960ies. He was supposed to teach about all religions, but he was very Christian. I did give him some hard questions, but if I had been able to quote some of the episodes in this series……. Perhaps this teacher made me a non- believer, not really an atheist then, but about 10 years later I became an atheist.
I really hope you're going to keep this going for the entire Bible this is way more entertaining than actually reading it myself. Thanks for doing this by the way.
This guy's better than church ! For Reals .
I got into it with my aunt over this chapter, because she did EXACTLY what someone with cognitive dissonance does, she kept changing her story. First she said the verse couldn't be talking about abortion because HER bible says "abdomen" and "swell" instead of the original "womb" and "miscarry". Then when I pointed to the original verse, she said the potion couldn't cause abortions because it's just dirt and water. When I pointed out that the INTENTION is still to abort a baby, she said if god makes you miscarry, then it's not an abortion 👀 Even though the definition of an abortion is the "deliberate termination of a pregnancy" so it's still an abortion when gawd does it
Hemant, my favorite friendly atheist. ⚛️ I can't wait. ☺️👍
Chilling a nice tall glass of bitter water, waiting for further instructions.
This is exactly why the bible should be taught in school. You could show young kids what is really up with God.
Still to dangerous to have the bible any wear near impressionable minds and the potential harm and indoctrination outweighs any good as a snake oil salesman can make even bad stuff look good and come in spinners another generation carrying an unwanted and undeserved guilt complex for something never done.
I think it would be great to make cathedrals into musea and just have some dude in a dress read a chapter or two, wave around a toilet brush and explain what catholics used to believe and show all the silly crap and why it's there and why it's completely ass backwards, not only in light of actual reality, but even in light of their own book.
This, in addition to teaching comparative religion and indeed actually reading the books the horseshit supposedly came from, just to show how wrong all believers are by default, not just christians. Well... fundamentalists may be an example of people who do read and follow the words of their books as best they can, and even they fuck up most of the time.
I would also ask that the origins of different practices be explained. For instance, what passover means and where it comes from and never happened. Or why christians put up a christmas tree that is a modern day representation of the yule log and get together and eat and give presents and that familiar heathen practices were implemented to more successfully push out older practices and celebrations of something completely natural like celebrating that after the winter solstice there will be more light and to break up the long cold months we warm up the place with fire, food, and good company. Real things with real effects on real people that those real people dealt with in a healthy and sustainable way, and that christianity successfully ruined for centuries for entire societies, like it does with everything.
LMAO. "Because lesbians scare god. It's their superpower." might be my new favorite quote.
Funny thing is, lesbian relations technically weren't banned in Victorian England. All of Parliament had no concept on how 2 women would go at each other. In the Nordic countries, homosexual relations were only banned for adults, as gay relations between children was thought to be great romantic practice for adult straight relations. (Fun fact, the Danish children's book author Hans Christian Andersen had gay relations, and people accepted it since he was childish anyways)
Been waiting for this one!!
With someone reading the Bible, something I never bothered to do. I can see my instincts were always correct. Religion is all about horrible gods invented by horrible people living in a horrible universe in a far backward time.
This is precisely WHY I've read the Bible.
Our society and time right now feels pretty backward as much as what OT times were
Hemant you are too funny. You make me laugh so much at all this ridiculous stuff in what people call the "holy book"!
Humor really makes it go down easier,doesn't it?
One consistent theme stands out to me. The priest gets paid. No matter what the issue, it always seems to profit the priest in one way or another. Any offering to God in one way or another profits the priest. If you sin, pay the priest. If you love God, pay the priest. If you offer a burned offering to God, there always seems to be a little barbeque left for the priest. If some good befalls you, pay the priest. If some bad befalls you, pay the priest. If you want something good, pay the priest. If you want to keep the bad away, you guessed it, pay the priest. No wonder there are so many super rich evangelical preachers. Even small town churches provide tax free residence for the preacher. No wonder the Catholic church is super wealthy. All religion seems to be run like the mob. No matter what the situation, it always seems to end with the representatives of GOD the FATHER getting paid.
Yep. You got it.
It kinda makes sense though, the priests would be so busy preparing all the rituals and ordinances that they would have no time to hunt game or buy meals for themselves. Their only source of food would be from the sacrifices, otherwise they'd starve
Instead of miraculously healing those with skin defects, god resorts to having them kicked out? Damn that's just a jerk move god. For shame.
“If you think your wife is cheating, you need to see a marriage counselor”
Oh Hemant… you act like anyone in that section cared about what the woman thought or felt
We're on chapter 5 of the forth book and i finally realized you've been wearing the same shirt the whole time.
I bet that you never thought that was going to be your "Sunday shirt".
I wonder if he just recorded them all so far in one sitting or if he just wears the same shirt on purpose 🤔
I've always thought he gets up in Saturday or something and grabs his bible, does all the prep work (put words on the slides, writes the script, etc) then grabs his shirt, sits down and records.
The publish date is always timed to the Sunday of the next week, making this week's vid a last week's recording.
Or he does it in chunks and releases a chapter once a week.
Recording a full book would take forever, so maybe half or quarter a book at a time would work, depending on chapter length or what's all going on in life.
I like how god thinks periods are so disgusting (even though he's god and therefore nothing can harm him so why does he need to feel disgust in the first place?) that he needs to send them outside. I don't know god have you thought coming up with a better way for women to menstruate? I mean you were the one who came up with it right?
You can almost see these holy men, sitting around the tent. Jehosafat thinks Ruth's cheating on him so they say, "You guys want some free food? I think the Lord's about to say some shit." They all laugh and write a verse or two.
Do Christians even know this joke of a book exists?
Of course they do. Often in reading comments on Hemant's Bible videos I see the comment, "the surest way to become an atheist is to read the Bible." That's actually not true. I engage with Christians on other channels, asking them about the various events in the Bible that we atheists see as atrocities or nonsense.....and they have invariably been totally fine with it. Read their Bible cover to cover, believe it all is "God breathed," and usually end up with, "God's ways are not our ways...." to explain away everything.
@@natsusatsujinki8342 Well, if you'd like to help me make sense of the Bible let's start at the beginning, okay?
God creates Adam and Eve, and does not intrinsically give them the knowledge of good and evil. He makes this extrinsic knowledge, to be found in the fruit of a tree.
Since at this beginning stage of their lives they have no knowledge of good and evil, how are they supposed to know that disobeying God is wrong? "Evil."
Further, when God warns them not to eat of the fruit, he threatens them, "Thou shalt surely die."
He says NOTHING about including their children and indeed, all their descendants in any threats. Says nothing about corrupting his entire creation all because Adam and Eve make a dumb mistake that could have been easily rectified by an all powerful, all merciful being without all the drama.
Instead we get nothing but drama.
Why? Where is the logic in any of God's actions at this point?
@@natsusatsujinki8342 I already see a problem. When you have to make something make sense, somebody didn't do a good job in the first place.
@@natsusatsujinki8342 Well...that's another topic for discussion. Isn't there somewhere in the New Testament that says that no one can come to Jesus UNLESS God calls them? So if God doesn't call, they are incapable of coming to Jesus, yet God is going to punish them for not coming to Jesus, even though he specifically did not call them.
Explain the logic behind that, please.
@@natsusatsujinki8342 I'd love to discuss the BIble with you, but can we do it in order please, from the beginning? So please answer my question first - why did God make knowledge of good and evil extrinsic rather than intrinsic, and why did he create evil - the Devil - to test his creations when they had no tools with which to pass the test.
Imagine if Joseph had decided to accuse Mary of adultery and had her drink the bitter water while pregnant of Jesus
DarkMatter2525 made a video about that.
@Wolf-dog Cat-dog ua-cam.com/video/KN4654qFxzk/v-deo.html at 13:13 god meets Joseph and Mary at the temple.
Meanwhile in Canada !!!! Marriage and Marijuana
In Canada, the government, in its eternal wisdom, recently passed two laws.
They are:
1. Legalized gay marriage
2. Legalized marijuana
Legalizing gay marriage and marijuana at the same time now makes perfect Biblical sense.
Leviticus 20:13 says: "If a man lies with another man they should be stoned.” Apparently we just hadn't interpreted it correctly before!
Brilliant 😂
Friendly Atheist, Hemant, I sure hope someone carries a sign about this at the next 'abortion rally!' 👍💙❤🥰✌😘
Nice how the priest who wrote this, subtly and inconspicuously, adds in his shopping list and things he would like to be gifted with. This book is pure grift.
Wikipedia has a good account, "Ordeal of the bitter water." The practice ended when the Temple was destroyed in the first century CE. The Temple was a chamber of horrors.
It's interesting how god didn't tell his people for thousands of years that he doesn't live in temples made by men. The God of meaninglessness.
So the wise man, when he gets tired of his wife because she's lost her looks and he wants a newer model, can just accuse her of being unfaithful and be done with her. Keeps the divorce rate down, I suppose.
Like Randy Rainbow sang about Trump’s favourite things: you love that new wife smell right after you buy one.
@@kellydalstok8900 Exactly! I think Melania is past her expiration date with him. Probably time to call ole Putin.
To be fair, there does have to be sufficient witnesses.
Or some Rabbis tell me.
“Johnny Five! That’s cool”
"Lesbians scare God, it's their superpower"
I need this on a shirt 🤣
Oh, boy, more goodies and riches for the priests! Moses was really on to something! I like that bit about taking your wife to the priest. Oooooh, yeah. We know where this is going. "I shall examine your wife. Leave her here and come back same time tomorrow."
😂😂😂😂
Ah, the forced abortion chapter.
the thigh is a euphemism for fetus.
The part about that section of the bible that seems to make the most sense is the beginning section because that could also apply to an earlier concept of quarantine concocted by observation, but even then, with all the medical knowledge that humanity has accumulated since as well as the vagueness of the text, it's severely out of date at best and lethal/damaging to the whole society at worst. X(
One, two, three, four, five atrocities! ha ha ha ha ha! Numbers are fun!
The Count should be reading the book.
The good Ole bitter water poisoning treatment...
So, the bible prescribes abortion in some cases. Given the hard-line anti-abortion stance of some Christians, you would have to conclude that they skipped over this part of the Bible.
And how many fetuses did god destroy by drowning in the flood, and in the rest of his copious mass murdering rampages!
Since adulterous women could be stoned to death, I suspect that this is just to let men who are over their marriage kill their wives and go find someone new.
It is said that, outside of scripture, there is no historical record of a character named Moses. It wouldn't prove very much if there had been, because there wouldn't be any way of confirming that his claimed words, or deeds, were accurately recorded.
There was a Moses! Also a Curly and a Larry. Not to mention Shemp.
@@garryferrington811 Holy Moses 🤣
A big problem is: what if a man got his wife pregnant, & then for some reason gets tired of her, & doesn't want the child. What's to stop him from alleging he suspects her of infidelity, not because he really does, but as a means of aborting his child, & giving him justification to leave his wife? The whole thing is super messed up & fraught with abuse potential.
The best revenge against a man whom your wife cheats on you with is to let him keep her.
There is an INTERESTING (almost certain) error in the translation in 5:17: the *"dust" should be translated as "ORE"¹,* and with Numbers being a 5th century BCE writing, this means mostly *copper sulfate.* That is, the "bitter water" is an mixture of an unknown concentration of a *toxic metal salt.* This compound was *known to cause abortion* at least as far back as Greek times, so would have been known to the author and the priests. It's also highly dangerous for the woman, which makes inflicting it on her, ever more messed up!
But why is there "ore" on the floor of the tabernacle? Because at this time, the Yahwistic religion, originating from copper rich areas to the South, held that "metallurgy" was a DIVINE PRACTICE. That is, the smelting of "bronze" (mostly copper), gold and silver (but not iron) was done in tabernacles.
¹This translation as "ore" is found in Job 28:2&3, and indirectly in 6.
I guess the L-class scares the invisible sky wizard like iron chariots.
Very funny to get a christian dating ad at the end of this video.
This was great.
Yanno, I’m actually okay with punishing cheaters. As someone who’s been cheated on in back tk back relationships and now suffers from anxiety and insecurity about if anyone even likes me as a friend and can no longer trust a significant other, cheaters should be punished
What! No discharge? I wouldn't have lasted long...
God or "YHWH" just sounds like a the eldest patriarch of the tribe dictating what happens.
Kinda like Moses, aka HIS mouthpiece, is just giving out these rules.
You gotta read The Apocalypse Of Adam!
So, God doesn’t want unclean people around him in camp. What happened to him being omnipresent?
He could've always have worn a Hazmat suit,and commanded his people to do the same.
He wasn’t yet omnipresent. Moses had to meet god on top of a mountain.
@@kellydalstok8900 Yep!
Moses and his male relatives ran a pretty successful racket in ancient times. In today's terms this would be classed as a cult.
The difference between religion and a cult is if it is tax exempt or not.
Nice.
Funny that God refers to womb miscarriage and withering thigh stuff but not as a living baby. Maybe God waits until the breath of Life enters the body to call it a living being. If Christians ever read their own book....
What is the recipe anyways? I'd like to keep it on hand f
You REALLY don't want to abort/miscarry from getting sepsis from some poison combined with the e-coli and other pathogens from the temple floor where animals are slaughtered.
So... god didn't want people with ailments near him? Was he afraid of catching something?
Yes... it would make sense to isolate people with contagious diseases... but not all discharges or blemishes are contagious.
Can't just god then heal those people with ailments? He already showed them his miracles in Egypt back then saving them from death and even providing food. Or maybe those diseases are way more powerful for him to deal with?🤣
@Wolf-dog Cat-dog Perhaps... but isolation would be more humane than exile. And women having periods was likely one of the discharges mentioned.
Always better than church
Numbers 1-4: Redherring "boring" repetition so people will give up (especially barely literate people, historically) and then just give up before the real stuff happens.
It's like Solaris where Tarkovsky put in the 5 minute uncut shot of a car driving down a city freeway with nothing special happening in black and white -- - he (allegedly) said it was so the phillistines will walk out and the real movie buffs will be left.
On the plus side, the ad before this was for chocolate, and the ad after was a new movie on a streamer, so Hemant is getting mainstream ads!
Sounds like Witchcraft
Most of the bible looks exactly like that. Except that witchcraft has rules.
Except, in this case, the "witchcraft" it would actually work. The "bitter water" contains copper sulfate, TOXIC to people, and especially to fetuses.
Check out the movie “The Stoning of “Soraya M”. Old testament law applied in the 21st century, hallelujah!
Seriously, some of these stories should be made into horror movies.
Lesbian scaried god of abrahamic god..
I laugh so hard 🤣
Yahweh intolerance be his name.
Why do we women have to get away from the camp just because we are on our period?
This is a very good question to the people who wrote the bible.
It's funny that this chapter of the Bible is the closest thing to modern justice we've had so far. Restitution for wrongs* and abortion rights**
*Restrictions apply, only for certain people
**Only if the man says so
Yeah, I also miss the banal counting and IKEA instructions. This chapter is nauseating.
Where do I click to donate an 'atonement ram'?
Came here for the abortion instructions. Stayed for the humor.
I've read a couple different versions of the 5:11 passage onward and I havent found one that specifically says the woman in question is even pregnant, let alone that there is a miscarriage from the potion. How do we know that's what the verse really meant?
How's it going today my friends I am an atheist as well
Greetings fellow heathen....
Hola & l’chiem Vato- Mr Mehta is a great person to watch, read & hear. I’m blessed 😇- I was raised in unbelief/none belief/disbelief.
Enjoy the clear view of the Universe that Atheism affords.
My interpretation of this is that since (male) bloodline was seen as extremely important, this was meant to kill a child the husband thought might not be his. While this ritual to enchant the poison tried to make it less harmful if a pregnancy's father was the husband.
Because all that seems to matter in the author's values is the power and number of a man's (male) descendants this ritual would presumably only be invoked if he thought someone had "stolen" the use of a wife's womb, since that might lead to accidentally raising a child of a different man. This mindset explains all the horrible antiquated laws about sex in that region of the bible.
One detail, the woman, even if inocent has to drink water with dust and ink, and two of those are not really good for someone's health.
But what if it’s the opposite? What if a woman suspects her husband of cheating? It all goes back to this god supposedly being all knowing, which clearly he’s not. 😂
Women had no rights at all. Remember, in this book, the only way a group of sisters could inherit when their father died sonless, and none of the women being married, is that they argued with the priests.
I will sacrifice a jello goat for you.
I have an idea, why not worship the water instead of God?
If play with fire do not complain if get burnt.His wife may of been pregnant with his child and lost it because of the wicked potion and who knows what long term damage it caused.He may never get another baby out of his breeding wife because of his actions and hopefully curses god for the rest of his life for condoning such evil.
And people put their hand on this book and swear to uphold laws, testify truthfully, and maintain morality. THIS BOOK? I've seen ax murderers with better morals.
The curse from bitter water went from swell your abdomen or miscarry to swell and miscarry. Continuity failure?
Oh so this how the priesthood got rich.
Here's my question: the dusty floor water could never actually cause a miscarriage, so didn't that mean every husband looked like he was wrong? It would work out to be a placebo for jealous husbands.
They splattered around a lot of blood in the temple and didn’t know about germs
Besides all the blood, imagine the contents of the guts as well. I doubt there was a single woman who came out of this ordeal without severe gastric illness.
I think the "bitter water" is implied to be a poisonous mix which sometimes inducesan abortion. Probably some specific local plants.
10:33 Bible has the right idea here, it would be amazing if there was some drug that would benefit or hurt you depending whether or not you are guilty, then again the bible must have been watching Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
5:40 Why assume she cheated with another man? Oh, that's right! We haven't left the polygyny part of the bible yet.
What if she's not married to her husband...
I want full restitution for an absentee father. That was never brought to Justice for non-payment of child support. I want one trillion dollars in child support from my father
The only type of abortions I oppose are forced abortions, like the ones in the Bible.
Not surprising that the religious right on the Supreme Court don't try to use the bible to try and overturn Roe v Wade. Instead they had to try and find an ancient law to jokingly try and justify their opinion.
🔥NUM🤘BERS 5🔥
Bible study yay
I have no animals.
Wow, the priest makes out.
03:52 then... Lesbian love and/or fun for the win!
Wait but they still have joseph's corpse so.all of them are unclean then
So if she didn’t cheat and was actually pregnant with her husbands child, they’ve just killed their own baby? Lmao
Wow, priests make out big time.
5:00 The Bible not acknowledging polyamorous relationships, as usual
I guess Amber Heard should have been drinking a whole lot of dirt water instead of expensive wine! Johnny Depp was constantly accusing her of cheating... for good reason, apparently!
I wronged you.... gave it to the priesthood, go short out your part from them... oh while you are there take a ram and some flour they want dumplings after the abortion ceremony