Everything Wrong With Leviticus 26 in the Bible

[@allanlarsen3261]

If this story had been true, at this point, I wonder how many of the Israelites would be longing for the good old days when they were only slaves to a pharaoh, and not slaves to a vindictive god.

[@billklatsch5058]

And you cant even get rid of him no matter what not even when you have been dragged away... talk a bout a clingy toxc relationship

[@allanlarsen3261]

@Ronnie Alexander Really, please show me exactly where they are given a choice. One where the choice of 'no' does not entail eternal damnation

[@Not_really]

@Ronnie Alexander : What...God didn't force the Israelites into a relationship with him? Ok, would "con" be a better word in place of "force" ? Imagine how the Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans survived without the biblical god. Life must have been hellish for them, don't you think ?

[@oscargordon]

@Ronnie Alexander NOT! Thank you very much.

[@grrsss8335]

@Ronnie Alexander A choice between eternal torture or being stuck in a room with a narcistic sociopath who cares nothing for you (How I see the god of the bible), is not really a choice.

[@EmpressMermaid]

"I brought you out of Egypt..." God reminds me of a mother who feels the need to constantly remind you how long she was in labor with you.

[@alanhilder1883]

Your 5 seconds of pleasure does not tie me to a lifetime of pain from you...

[@imjessietr29]

Me: You sent me to Egypt. At the time period this supposedly occurs, Egypt owned Canaan too.

[@oscargordon]

@@imjessietr29 Yep, according to the story, they fled from one part of Egypt to another part of Egypt. The thing is, there is no evidence for the existence of Israelites until around a couple hundred years after the Late Bronze Age collapse ca. 1200 BCE.

[@alguno1010101]

God is an abusive parent/partner

[@oscargordon]

@Slyphie The Forest Elf So Empress Mermaid says this phrase reminded her of something and you call her a liar so you somehow read her mind to know that it didn’t actually remind her of her mother’s comment. Yep, normal theist logic. And BTW my mother constantly reminded me the same and included that I was born at about 4:00 AM..

[@brunozeigerts6379]

Or as Tevye said in Fiddler On the Roof, 'I know... I know... we're your chosen people. But ... once in a while... couldn't you choose someone else?'

[@stephanekjean]

It´s funny how God keeps saying " I am the lord who brought you out of Egypt" like he´s not the one who send them in the first place. He´s always making people suffer just to brag about it.

[@scienceexplains302]

Yes, it says that explicitly in for at least two of his crimes. One example: Exodus 9:12, 15-16, 27, 10:1-2, 16-20,27

[@oscargordon]

@Ronnie Alexander Yes, and ended up with all of the money, crops, and best land, at least according to the stories. The stories time frame would have covered four different Pharaohs during Josephs time in Egypt. Then comes the Second Intermediate period where there were different rulers for upper and lower Egypt but again according to the story the Israelites are still in charge of everything in Egypt for another 200 years including the 100 years of so when the Hyksos invaded Egypt and were in control. According to the Bible timeline, it would have been one of these Hyksos pharaohs that would have decreed the Israelites suddenly all slaves. But then again there isn't any evidence even for the existence of Israelites until a couple of centuries after the Late Bronze Age collapse ca. 1200 BCE.

[@starofjustice1]

@Ronnie Alexander "No archaeological evidence does not prove or disprove anything. God does not drop hints to soothe anxious curiosity." No, that's clearly true. He might want to drop some hints to clear up the couple thousand variations of the faith, though. All of them saying they were guided to their true wisdom by the Lord.

[@oscargordon]

@Ronnie Alexander I can see your problem. The Bible disagrees with what we have learned from archaeology, biology, cosmology, and the list goes on. Your choice is which are you going to believe, the Bible or reality? Of course the option exists that you are worshipping a trickster god that has made a universe appear totally different from the Bible and erased all evidence for Israelites in Egypt and the southern Levant until the slightest hints that start to appear about the 10th century BCE to test you. Are you going to believe an ancient book or evidence or the reality that surrounds you? You believe that your god will then bless you because you chose an unevidenced, no let me make that a contrary to evidence old tales. If there are indeed other realms with magical creatures in them and they behaved like that, they would certainly not be worthy of my worship.

[@carolgibson-wilson4354]

@Ronnie Alexander They went due to Benjamin being held behind when 3 of the brothers went to Egypt for wheat.

[@arttherapy727]

I really look forward for the weekly Bible reading. It's like being back in Hebrew school, but paying a lot more attention now to what is written.

[@tiredofliars]

And Paying a lot less money too! You should donate to Hemant!

[@andreask.2675]

The "7 times punish-thing" is like those guitar amplifiers you can crank up to 11! 🤣

[@brunozeigerts6379]

'I brought you out of Egypt... eventually. After waiting a couple of centuries... then hardening Pharaoh's heart several times before he finally let you go.'

[@imjessietr29]

And sent you to a region Egypt owned at the time.

[@aurorafrost288]

And murdering his firstborn as well as the firstborn of everyone else who did not slaughter a lamb and splatter its blood all over their doorway. Imagine being an Israelite parent on Passover morning having to explain to your little children why their Egyptian friends all had to die last night.

[@Malidictus]

I know this can read as funny, but to me it reads like straight-up abuser talk. "I did all of these things for you. You owe me respect and adoration. What? You're not bowing down to me? Then I'm going to hurt you! Why are you making me hurt you?" The character of God as shown in Leviticus is that of a manipulative, abusive, malicious narcissist. The people of Israel exist to be his playthings - there to entertain Him and make Him look good. They're also entirely expendable - the moment any of them step out of line, they get tortured and killed. If God were a person, that's the sort of love He'd go to jail for. Or at the very least receive an expensive divorce.

[@grapeshot]

Yes the invisible tyrant that lives in outerspace, he does have the pity human emotion called jealousy. But like it's been said God or gods did not create humans in their image, humans created them in their image.

[@scienceexplains302]

In fact, it is his name (Exodus 34:14)

[@billklatsch5058]

The bible reeks of prostate issues... old men. Gunkl - Austrian cabaretist/musican

[@aurorafrost288]

It is starting to sound more like these ancient people were fucked with by some ancient alien race.

[@kewakl8891]

@01:49 ' How the hell do you make that many enemies anyway?' By stealing other's lands, shouting that you KNOW the one true god and bleating out "you will burn in hell for not believing in *my* one true god."

[@aurorafrost288]

Hell wasn't invented until the NT era, I am guessing they ran with the Greek concepts of Tartarus and Hades.

[@kewakl8891]

@@aurorafrost288 Yes, I was intentionally conflating ot hebrews and nt/current era christians!

[@timlenord1]

Had only the shepherding Biblical authors knew how famous it would get, they probably would have done a better job writing it.

[@robsengahay5614]

And a better job with the editing too. The editors did a poor job.

[@tbneogalaxy]

To be fair, collecting stories over hundreds of years, then mixing in stuff you pick up from your neighbors and overlords, and trying to somehow make all of this into one text must have been a nightmare. Especially with the conflicting theologies of the different scribal schools over time.

[@KeriRautenkranz]

@@tbneogalaxy I think you're giving those drunkards too much credit! The "credit" should go the incredibly gullible Israelites and their successors, who by rights should have run Moses, Aaron & Sons and their successors out of town, possibly tarred and feathered.

[@martinnyberg8174]

@@tbneogalaxy AND it had to be done on a deadline to be finished by the second temple inauguration. That’s why it reads like a high school sophomore’s book report. 🤣

[@annaclarafenyo8185]

By the time this was written, the earlier books were already famous.

[@carlwheezer1030]

This series has become my Sunday service

[@jeanine219]

I am going into work today, so will miss the live. I wanted to thank you Hemant, for your willingness to do this series of Bible readings from the Old Testament with eloquence, intelligence, and humor.... reading EVERY verse, chapter and book in chronological order. Christian pastors almost always avoid reading all of this violent nonsensical debauchery about their yahweh myth god. Almost to Numbers!

[@MH-il1lk]

You do know life was different among the nations back then? People were sacrificing their young to the god of Moloch. You don't understand why God had to have strict rules for His people because you don't understand the times. You're trying to interpret what was given 3000 years ago with a 21st century western mind.

[@PaulThomas-qb9cx]

@@MH-il1lk can't tell if you're serious or not.

[@TBomb39]

@@MH-il1lk Why should anyone take a book of fables seriously?

[@hitman5782]

@@MH-il1lk So let me try to understand: Because the neighbors of the Christians killed some of their children, the Christians killed them all to teach them that killing is bad? Oh ok, not all, they did not kill the female virgins but raped them and made them slaves. And Moloch is an evil god because he accepted human sacrifices? Please explain what Jesus's dad did to his son?

[@tiredofliars]

@@MH-il1lk EXACTLY!!! Listen, you can take a child and put it through school, and teach it math, science, history, evolution, etc. all in about thirteen years. YOUR GOD supposedly had FORTY years and couldn't do better than that? You are so funny!

[@xenon8117]

Drinking game: Take a sip every time god says “I am the Lord your God!” Any more than a sip and you’re asking for liver and kidney failure.

[@dorememe8548]

YOU SHALL EAT THE FLESH OF YOUR SONS AND THE FLESH OF YOUR DAUGHTERS 🤣 Literally my favorite bad Bible verse. Been looking forward to this since the first episode. This is the product of morally bankrupt authors.

[@littleredpony6868]

I think I read this story, but I remember the details differently. Where’s the life sized gingerbread house and the candy cane forest?

[@thagreatadante]

@Do Re Meme .what does it mean ?

[@luisbedolla144]

Do you know how Christians try to justify this? Curious

[@littleredpony6868]

@@thagreatadante it means that you will eat the flesh of your daughters and the flesh of your sons

[@Lyoko2516]

"I don't even have one nemesis, and I try really hard to get them." That's because you are so nice, Hemant. :)

[@davidstrange5431]

How many times does he have to say I am the lord your God

[@hitman5782]

I the last chapter he said it 13 times in 7 sentences, this is so unreal dumb that it hurts. Kids in ground school can write better texts.

[@leallison648]

@@hitman5782 …And remember now, this is purported to be the true words of the Almighty God.

[@fidelluz2942]

how many times? yes

[@firstcentury1885]

Enough times for you to believe it.

[@TBomb39]

@@firstcentury1885 Hi there Apostle Paul / Chris Massey/ King Solomon/ First Century / Formerly Rabbi God Jr./KingJustice98/Descendant of Judah/Son of Josiah/Former Rabbi Chris t/Son of King Solomon/Disciple of JC/Judah Maccabee/JW/

[@bobmudge447]

“You will flee when no one is pursuing you.” Sounds like the GOP platform.

[@richardmooney383]

"I will walk among you," saith the Lord our God, "but if anyone catches a glimpse of Me he will surely die."

[@rcblazer]

Slaughtering your "enemies" by the tens of thousands when you are supposed to have peace in your land makes it sound like you're the aggressors. In fact, the Israelites WILL be the aggressors and attack peaceful nations that were already living on the land promised to them by Mr. "Don't forget, I'm your Lord!" in the stories coming up later!

[@BouncingCow]

Hey, no spoilers, maybe some of us still wanted to read that xD

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

rcblazer Have you even read Numbers, Joshua, Judges or 1 Samuel?

[@rcblazer]

@@Daniel-cz7kd Indeed I have. In Numbers and Joshua, the Israelites slaughter the Canaanites in order to take the land that they were promised from the people who were there first. Judges is about more god appointed slaughter for any reason they can come up with, including killing people over a riddle. In Samuel 1, Israel is the aggressor in all of the battles there as well.

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

@@rcblazer Interesting, so when did you skip the parts and times, Israel asked for permission to pass through the land promising peace and respect yet they were rudely denied and then attacked by army after army, I did miss Exodus; also there’s no Samuel 1, if you’d read 1 Samuel 1 you won’t find any aggression, only the history of Samuel to becoming the priest and the last judge of Israel. Besides there is the part where Amalekites are the aggressors against the Philistines no Israelites.

[@rcblazer]

@@Daniel-cz7kd So in Joshua 1:5 when he was made invincible and he told everyone in Joshua 1:11 that they were going to cross the Jordan and kill everyone because their god told them to, that was not them being the aggressors? Really?

[@andidevrede822]

I love the 10 women baking bread in 1 oven line. It's just the apex of bible stupidity and pointlessness.

[@amy_pieterse]

Hold up. That is in there. I seemed to have missed that one. 🏃 On my way to find it

[@scienceexplains302]

@@amy_pieterse Leviticus 26:23-26. I had just paused at that part of the video. (6:50)

[@amy_pieterse]

@@scienceexplains302 Thanks I realised that it was in the video soon after I commented. 😆

[@janel.8921]

10 women in a kitchen can be a problem. I remember The Beverly Hillbillies. Granny used to chase Cousin Pearl out of the kitchen all the time.

[@RickySTT]

Even more stupid than Jesus riding 2 equines at the same time (Matthew 21:1-7)?

[@ShikataGaNai100]

To quote Sir Sic, "God doesn't the real."

[@JamesRichardWiley]

The more you reveal of "God's Word" the more I lose any belief I ever had in this man made character. Keep it up.

[@tomsenior7405]

So, non-believers have a 'god shaped hole in their heart'. And believers have this hole filled by god. Then why do so many believers need to seek out idols? Why doesn't god fit his hole anymore? Did god go on a diet? Has god been ill? Has god had liposuction? Leprosy? Maybe this god thing is just plain silly and people simply like trinkets.

[@littleredpony6868]

Funny that you mention that, I have been scouring the local thrift stores looking for dolphin trinkets

[@tomsenior7405]

@@littleredpony6868 Beautiful.

[@jeanine219]

Hi Tom! Great comment🤣😂 Another possibility is that unbeknownst to god, his outer space mansion has gravitated into the orbit of a massive black hole, which could certainly result in not only some time dilation but directional contraction of his length, according to Einstein. But wait, Albert Einstein was a non theist. Never mind.

[@tomsenior7405]

@@jeanine219 I have been trying to find your comments for my weekly dose of Jeanine Wisdom! Good to hear from you. You are far too kind, I think I fluffed my Comment. Ne'er 'eed. Albert Einstein; you got him down pat! Albert had multiple flaws. Who cares? He made mistakes. So what? At least he didn't come up with E=McGOD!

[@jeanine219]

@@tomsenior7405 🤣 E=mc👻 I think the apologists use a pseudo-equation similar to that.

[@grapeshot]

Well there's idols and graven images all over the Western world. And somebody better not tell the Catholics and the Orthodoxy. They are all about the idols and the graven images.

[@Sonjacrow]

Technically, when the Catholics and Orthodox Christians do it, it’s not called idols but rather Icons. Because it’s different when they do it.

[@MovieMakingMan]

A few miles from my house there’s a 300 foot tall cross. That’s a graven image. The neighborhood around that church protested when they were building the cross because it lowered their property values. Who wants to see a massive cross when they look outside. If I was rich I would build a 500 foot high gas chamber or Guillotine. I think it’s disgusting how Christians wear crosses around their necks. Those are graven images. They are fascinated with torture devices. Christianity is so sick to cause humans to act in harmful ways and to disrespect the well being of others.

[@wilberwhateley7569]

The whole prohibition on “idol worship” had more to do with politics than anything else - you see, for a long time the biblical deity known as Yahweh/El to the Hebrews was just one deity in a pantheon. But over time the Hebrews confederated into a single kingdom known as Judah and the worship of Yahweh/El was dominant: as other tribes were consolidated into this polity, they surrendered worship of their patron deities to assimilate into the culture - which meant getting rid of their idols. This makes sense because, by this time, Yahweh/El had no physical representation as this deity was meant to be an abstraction - something of an idea that all the tribes could unite around, which means no idols of Yahweh/El. So anyone worshiping an idol was, by default, worshiping a rival deity and was to be punished for it.

[@wilberwhateley7569]

The whole prohibition on “idol worship” had more to do with politics than anything else - you see, for a long time the biblical deity known as Yahweh/El to the Hebrews was just one deity in a pantheon. But over time the Hebrews confederated into a single kingdom known as Judah and the worship of Yahweh/El was dominant: as other tribes were consolidated into this polity, they surrendered worship of their patron deities to assimilate into the culture - which meant getting rid of their idols. This makes sense because, by this time, Yahweh/El had no physical representation as this deity was meant to be an abstraction - something of an idea that all the tribes could unite around, which means no idols of Yahweh/El. So anyone worshiping an idol was, by default, worshiping a rival deity and was to be punished for it.

[@janmango4692]

These laws do not apply for non-jewish christians. That is, I believe, an early roman church rule. Otherwise all christian men had to be circumsized too.

[@kelvinlion8839]

When you haven't invented the concept of Hell yet, you have to threaten to hut them while they're still alive.

[@billjohnston882]

I think God just likes torture and hadn’t hit upon the idea of eternal torture yet.

[@jeanine219]

💯 correct.

[@rampantfantasy1181]

God sure does love repeating himself

[@solanceDarkMOW]

11 verses of good-promises followed by 27 verses of increasingly horrific threat-promises. Yep. That about tracks.

[@kristianadeleon6365]

I see that God is threatening people with PTSD. How kind and loving.

[@kristianadeleon6365]

@@guillermoguzman2953 Pretty sure that's what's happening in this life and what Bible god was threatening people with for not giving enough sacrifices. "Do this or I'll give you PTSD" is not love. It's the opposite of love.

[@kristianadeleon6365]

@@guillermoguzman2953 That line of argument will probably win you at least a bronze in mental acrobatics. If there was a god in that story versus people projecting their own fears onto society, then it's definitely a god who thinks "consequences of their actions" is mental torture because of their insecurities with worshipping a different bloodthirsty god (perhaps one who didn't commit genocide). In no way is that love. That's narcissistic abuse.

[@kristianadeleon6365]

@@guillermoguzman2953 Ohhh, I get it now! So Bible God is the one with PTSD and instead of going to therapy he just projects his hurt onto people and distracts himself with design projects for temples. That's why it's hard to break generational trauma... thanks for clarifying!

[@ShikataGaNai100]

Such a God is not worthy of our praise; just our contempt!

[@KeriRautenkranz]

And Ridicule!

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

ShikataGaNai100 And why do you think God is just worthy of contempt?

[@TBomb39]

@@Daniel-cz7kd YOU and YOUR god are both worthy of contempt.

[@ShikataGaNai100]

@@Daniel-cz7kd To quote Sir Sic, "God doesn't the real." And, if He does, he is a genocidal, hateful, violent, psychopathic asshole...any more questions. (BTW, I have an M.Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary, so don't try to play me.)

[@jeanine219]

@@Daniel-cz7kd In this chapter, one reason would be that your yahweh god is threatening to send wild animals after innocent Hebrew children and cause the parents to eat their Hebrew children. But rather than seeing that as contemptible, you consistently condone it all. Who are you? What are you Daniel?

[@shanesmj1]

I was brought up Christian however in college I read the Bible and thought - what the fuck. .. I had a religion course and told the class that it is insane to think a logical God would torture you for eternity for something you did once during your maybe 70 years of life. Also, if (as some religious people say) it is some type of test it's even crazier that some people get minutes, hours, months of life while others get 100 years... Also, anyone that thinks a god cares about abortion when he (as religious people say) made the birth process in a flawed way which results in around 23 million miscarriages each fucking year. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize the logic is flawed....

[@margaretbarrett6087]

Logic and reason are alien concepts among the god squad.

[@lidbass]

And how did the class react?

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

shanesmj1 Where did you get the idea that God would torture you for eternity? Don’t you know god doesn’t care about the millions and billions of kids murdered over the years? One of the reasons for his push on abortion. And besides even if god had any power or ability on the birth process, he can only make flawed as he himself is flawed.

[@hansj5846]

Was always told the Bible was full of bad stuff. I was still not prepared. Especially for the terrible and disjointed writing. How can anyone believe this crap?

[@Demopans5990]

As a Soviet Propaganda director once joked, if he was to plagiarize the Bible for purposes of pro communist propaganda, he'd get laughed out the room for the Bible is quite absurd otherwise

[@KeriRautenkranz]

By having their brains permanently damaged at a young age by well-meaning brain damaged parents and by thoroughly evil Clergy!

[@j3i2i2yl7]

How many people died feeling betrayed after they spent their lives trying to please god only to die by famine or the sword that god promised to protect them from?

[@MovieMakingMan]

I proclaim the Friendly Atheist ‘Nope Hemant the First’! All hail Nope Hemant!

[@MatthewCaunsfield]

Love that Yahweh is getting so wound up talking about his anger that he can't even finish his threatening sentences 😂

[@nosondre]

What if your enemies are also living by gods rules? Then what?

[@P1n_t0]

oh my goodness this question is good

[@AndHence]

God is an evil parent who turns his children against each other.😉

[@solanceDarkMOW]

I mean, it's not like the people of the book have ever been at war with one another. Ever. Not ever. Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeever.

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

Nosondre Norheim Actually the enemies are living by gods rules, all the immoral activities specified in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. They are practicing any immoral rule all the time.

[@jeanine219]

@@Daniel-cz7kd You make absolutely no sense much of the time. Literally have no idea what you just said.

[@vegasemerald9657]

The Carrot and Stick philosophy the author of Leviticus uses. I would sum it up here but there is some that needed to be said. Let’s-a Go Everyone! Leviticus 26:1 Other words, YHWH is a jealous God. Nothing new here. See Exodus for Golden Calf and The Ten Commandments. Leviticus 26:2-5 (Reward #1: Rain in season for ground to produce more crops and fruits) This is the carrot part up until verse 14. This is what YHWH will do if people obeyed his commands and remembered to keep the Sabbath holy; YHWH will send rain in its season so the ground can grow more crops and fruit trees. Basically, being rewarded with fruits. Leviticus 26:6-8 (Reward #2 & 3:Peace in the Land and Enemies Fall Before You) YHWH will grant the Israelites peace in their land with nothing to be afraid of. He will remove wild animals from their land and there would be no swords passing through. They can pursue their enemies and fall by the sword before them by hundreds to ten thousands. Why is the reward about damning your enemies? Wouldn’t a better reward be they would simply leave you alone or become your friends instead? This is NOT love when one brags about damning people instead of making peace with each other. I think just peace itself is good on its own. Leviticus 26:9-13 (Reward #4: YHWH looks with favor, make you fruitful, increase your numbers and maintain his covenant with you) It’s similar to Reward #1 with the fruits and crops. Basically, the Israelite farmers are given the right to eat last year’s harvest when they will rotate it to create room for new fruits/crops. YHWH would dwell among the believer and not abhor them. They would be walked aside God as His people. This ends with just YHWH bragging about his miracle of bringing the Israelites out of Egypt. This is where this chapter turns 180 and gets disturbing fast. Leviticus 26:14-17 (Punishments #1, 2, 3, 4, and 5: Sudden terror, wasting diseases/fever that destroys sight and saps strength, their enemies will eat their seeds, YHWH sets his face against a disobedient Israelite to make sure their enemies will rule over them (Oh, just like Egypt?) and they will fall against them) This is the stick of the Chapter. First of all, this is one of many examples of YHWH as a celestial dictator. Mainly because of the fact you have to listen to his absurd commands and aren’t allowed to hate any of his rules no matter how unenforceable, how much misery it causes, YHWH expects the Israelites to obey and love his insane rules. Second, why threaten people with terror and diseases? How does that solve anything? As for the “those who hate you shall rule over you” penalty, this foreshadows a certain book later on in the Bible. Third, why would the enemy want to eat the seeds? Aren’t some of them poisonous or a choking hazard? How would they eat the seeds? Wouldn’t they simply take the fruits and crops for themselves if they were to supposedly rule over a disobeying person? Fourth, if anyone is fleeing, is YHWH just going to just sit and watch them run or kill them? Or Exile them for disobedience considering He has exiled Adam from the Garden of Eden and He can do it again to anybody. Leviticus 26:18-20 Why would anyone not listen to YHWH after experiencing the worst punishments? Does YHWH secretly harden hearts just so He can carry on more punishments for people? Why does he mean by “…I will punish you for your sins seven times over”? Stubborn pride? Is that how YHWH hardens the Pharaoh’s heart back in Exodus? Does He like punishments or something? How would He make the sky like iron and the ground like bronze? Is it metaphorical for “your crops and trees will not grow”? Leviticus 26:21-22 (Punishment #6,7,8,9,10 and 11: Multiply the afflictions seven times, send wild animals against the disobeying, they would be robbed of their children, destroy their cattle, made few in numbers and deserted roads) Wtf? Instead of trying to address the problems without compromising free will, He would rather just let people get angry and stubborn enough to worsen the series of unfortunate events for them. Why would the wild animals want to rob people’s children? Why even send wild animals against people when YHWH can order fellow villagers to execute the rebel? He’s done it to blasphemous individuals. Why make them suffer through slow and asinining series of torture? Why would any wild animals (or haters) want to take children from people? What a bizarre punishment for disobedience. I get YHWH wants to drive home the point of listening, but does the penalties listed so far is going to make anyone (Israelite or Foreigner) want to tune in? Leviticus 26:23-26 (Punishment #12,13,14 and 15: YHWH will be hostile towards the disobedient, bring the sword to avenge the broken covenant, plagues in cities and cut off supply of bread) Correction? More like abuse. The point of correction is to teach people why what they’re doing is wrong. It’s to help them understand and make better decisions next time. There’s nothing “correction” about any of those punishments, they’re barbaric. Good to know YHWH will stop loving anyone the moment they get unhappy with his unfair rules. How does this whole “your cities will have plagues and be given to enemy hands” even work? How are they cohesive together? How would anyone not be satisfied with the baked breads ten women baked in one oven? How can they even make bread at all if they don’t have access to flour? It doesn’t even go with “You will plant your crops in vain and your enemies will eat your seeds”. Leviticus 26:27-35 (Cannibalism) ( Woah, woah! “You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.” That’s disturbing.. Why would any sane parent eat the flesh of their children? Gross! I don’t see how this punishment would teach anyone anything. This is not a correction, this is abuse right here. High places? What’s a high place? Again, if YHWH were to punish people for worshipping false idols, why not educate them on why it is immoral? No, being jealous isn’t enough. Holy shit, if the disobedient has their cities turned into wasted ruins, then YHWH will reject the BBQ offerings. I guess I was wrong on how priests can do what they want. “I will lay waste the land, so your enemies who live there will be appalled.” That punishment doesn’t go with “Those who hate you will rule over you” at all. “I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you” Damn.. Inconsistent! I thought He will not pursue anyone who is fleeing. Then the rest is just how the land will remember the sabbath and again, doesn’t go with the “Iron sky and bronze ground”. It’s a theme here; penalties that don’t go well together nor do they teach anybody anything. Leviticus 26:36-39 Playing with people’s hearts by instilling fear in the lands of their enemies. A certain book will contradict this through conquest. Leviticus 26:40-46 This is how to avoid the penalty through confession and what YHWH may do when one humbled their hearts. Damn.. I lost count of the amount of punishments YHWH would carry if an Israelite or Foreigner disobeyed his commandments. What a hateful madman! The amount of punishments versus the amount of rewards is so revealing. Yes, towards the end of the chapter, it does end with the consequences when one confesses their own sins and anger towards God, but holy fuck! See what I mean by the punishments are more abusive than corrective? The point of punishment (the stick), is to teach people a lesson. As for the rewards, it still disturbs me that if this book is written by an All-loving God, it even mentioned damning enemies before you. I need to bathe until evening because I feel so unclean with the “flesh of sons and daughters” verse. Wtf..

[@jeanine219]

Wow! So many additional great insights and points you always elaborate. You should consider authoring a book of non-theist commentary on the Bible. I’ll bet it would get published.

[@margaretbarrett6087]

Good idea Jeanine - and I would like a signed copy Vegas.

[@jsparlin1]

if not taken seriously, the bible is a very funny book.. really ignorant and vicious..

[@lewas91]

problem is that some ppl do take it seriously..

[@CyberiusT]

I know I'm kinda taking a shortcut here, but if anyone professing to be a Christian quotes Leviticus or Deuteronomy at me, they just lost the argument.

[@JustAnElderscroll]

I love your videos bro

[@PraiseTheFSMonster]

God really needs to see a psychologist

[@starofjustice1]

Why did he invent them if he's never going to use them?

[@margaretbarrett6087]

And an anger management course would be useful.

[@humanitech]

I can only think that only a few religious god robots ever actually personally read their weird and crazy doctrines and scriptures right through....and even less actually comply to all the many questionable decrees and commands. But it does make sense why many people have left older religions to startup new and more simplified versions LOL

[@KianaWolf]

Reading the bible cover to cover was a significant part of my becoming an atheist. The other being the hypocrisy and cruelty of the congregation. I don't know the statistics of it, but in my experience that has been a common occurrence among atheists and agnostics. The devout read the book and cease being devout after getting the full picture.

[@JamesRichardWiley]

People are frightened children who hug their god toys to themselves and want everyone else to do the same.

[@arthapeterson5239]

I think you're wrong there. Every priest reads the BIble straight through. People who get doctorates in theology do the same. Their explanation is always, "Well, God created us so he can do what he wants with us." I've heard that statement more than once from devout Christians who know the Bible through and through.

[@humanitech]

@@arthapeterson5239 Yep sure some read their scripture but only a percentage and not the majority! And I would hope those doing religion as a professions would read the official instruction book! ...but strangely just like their crazy immoral god delusion, even those that read these books often are personally judgemental, polarised, nasty, tyrannical, corrupt, immoral and deviants too! ...and yet they still believe they have a big daddy get out jail, judgement and justice card...or they will just cry like babies and then blame the other equally absurd supernatural naughty uncle! therefore in conclusion.. with or without religion humans are no different or better than who they actually are ...and morality has always been subjective and purely down to us!

[@chrissonofpear1384]

@@arthapeterson5239 After which, they may at least have to pass some qualification in defining what a father/parent is. As those people usually cannot 'do what they want' with offspring. If they do, they often cease to be parents at all, by many metrics. Then of course, there's the bit about varying translations, including on the census of Israel (in King Saul's day) and other events - that they may not see the original form of.

[@deandemarest4438]

Well, if THAT ain't love, I don't know what IS.

[@ayybeealternative1999]

🎵I wanna knoow what looove iiiiiiiiiiis🎶

[@_Mr.Tuvok_]

If the Judeo-Christian god existed, I believe his personality would closely mirror a Donald Trump/Andrew Cuomo hybrid

[@Tarotlynx]

A pretty good guess.

[@MH-il1lk]

Who does Jesus mirror?

[@Tarotlynx]

@@MH-il1lk He's an admixture of several previous demigods.

[@MH-il1lk]

@@Tarotlynx Nice try...I would say all other gods mimic the ultimate which is Jesus :)

[@Tarotlynx]

@@MH-il1lk Then why were they written about first? Jesus copied them, not the other way around.

[@matt-qx2kv]

How can we eat our children if bears have already done the job for us?

[@KeriRautenkranz]

Leftovers?

[@oscargordon]

As I remember in Exodus Yahweh killed all the livestock more than once.

[@gloriaf6971]

Hemant you are hilarious!!! That's because the Bible is hilarious. I had no idea it was this ridiculous. It makes me wonder why and how do so many seemingly intelligent people think the Bible is a good book or that God is a good example to follow and worship.

[@kewakl8891]

failure to read that whole damned thing

[@brenatevi]

Or even "better": there is a sizable number of people that believe that the Bible is inerrant, or put another way, the absolute truth. Everything in the Bible is absolutely true.

[@joshuaa7266]

Child indoctrination is one reason, another is that they convert people when they're vulnerable. Of course, they were indoctrinated themselves to think they're helping people by converting them, so it's just a perpetual system that needs to go.

[@scienceexplains302]

That was my initial reaction to reading the Bible (more horrified than amused, tho). Before that, from what I had heard from Christians, I thought it was a collection of simplistic pleasantries.

[@fullscorpion5285]

Childhood indoctrination is stronk. When the lies are enforced from birth at home, school, and church etc, the truth looks like nonsense and the reason people don't believe your nonsense is because the devil has deceived them(common christian perspective). Most churches IME also cover so little of the bible in order the keep the questions to a minimum. Thankfully the nonsense in the bible is too overwhelming for some of us and it forces us to see the insanity and nonsense. By the 3rd time through the bible purposefully in my 30s I had very little faith left, until it evaporated into nothing.

[@rebeccabentley7012]

You’ve got all these rocks out there and can’t rig another oven to bake bread? Okayyyyyy

[@lilithhecataniangoddessesm187]

So he’ll torture me for not wanting to follow ONLY him or not follow Him at all because I don’t resonate with him. (Sarcastically) Sure that will make me respect and love him. If he does that to me in the end, he proved my biggest point why I left the religion many years ago. He proved how abusive he is. This is like a god and male VERSION of a YANDERE, (YANDERE SIMULATOR) if you can’t love me/If I can’t have you no one can, added by you can’t live peacefully. Especially if his people tortures me or my pagan and other similar tribes again, the more they proved the ABUSE that they always have JUSTIFICATIONS for. I’ll never forget the Pagans the Christian god’s people killed for not wanting to be converted in Christianity. I’ll never forget everything else Christians destroyed. Including the temples of the gods and goddesses from a lot of countries. I’m loyal to my goddess Hecate that I had and felt a true connection with. So as the other Pagans or Hindus that has followed lords, gods and goddesses like Freya, Shiva, Poseidon, Ganesha, etc. sorry if you’re not the only god around, others had shared their own experiences with whom they believed in. BTW, I RESPECT ATHEISTS WHO DOES NOT BELIEVES IN OUR DEITIES, so you don’t have to worry about me or others I know about forcing you guys into believing in our gods and goddesses, you’re all free to not believe in them. No biggies. I AM NOT EVEN A STRONG BELIEVER OF KARMA, but I AM LOOKING FORWARDS FOR ANY DAY OR NIGHT WHERE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS GETS THE TASTE THEIR OWN POISON. They’ll always have justifications for everything and they will always talk in a way where they are in a way saying we will be Christians, in a way that they’ll always be right in the end. The truth tellers they call themselves, well even if it’s matching up on what’s happening today, there’s no way I’m bowing for a narcissist god. THE CHRISTIAN GOD’S AND HIS CONSERVATIVE FOLLOWERS’ ABUSE IS REAL , follow only him or suffer brutally/die (to me, not forcing this on atheist) Blessed Be.

[@Demopans5990]

Suris?

[@Demopans5990]

On a different note, wonder why Asians aren't predominantly Christians. Probably has to do with their longer tradition of civilization

[@jeanine219]

@@Demopans5990 Yes, these fictional Bible narratives, feature a tiny ignorant, violent, barbaric tribe of nomadic desert wanderers in the Middle East. Their days revolved around ignorant and bloody superstition, genocide, and thievery as their way of life. And they manufactured a yahweh god that would not only defend this, but command and enable the most evil of crimes against nature and humanity.

[@irenebecker4815]

It's Sunday. My neighbors went to church this morning. I came here for my "bible study". So much more entertaining!

[@KeriRautenkranz]

Not just entertaining but actually factual and useful besides!

[@tkat6442]

At 9:12 and following when you said, "there are no more bodies, god, we ate them", I had just taken a mouthfull of coffee. I guess that shirt goes to the laundry now! Thanks for that! Actually, thanks for real, for all you do.

[@fidelluz2942]

this has been the best laugh I had during my entire week

[@tonydarcy1606]

As George Carlin put it: *"...but he loves you !"*

[@kewakl8891]

@02:36 leviticus 26:12 where the hell is he now?

[@patelk464]

This and Leviticus 25 contain testable statements. So theist should be able to provide proof of God by providing evidence of how many times God provided sufficient harvest to last the sabbath year without farming the land. They should also be able to provide evidence, outside of the bible, of God's wrath on israelites for not following his commands, shouldn't they?

[@thegreyman]

Uncircumcised hearts?

[@emmanuellynch4713]

The REAL God who hides himself and allows EVIL because he wants us to choose to love him "Disobey me at anytime you're gonna wish you got caught peeing in Dagon's cereal after abandoning Cthulu's pregnant daughter at the altar instead!"

[@1dionysos606]

Christian god have to be worst memory of the any living or imagined thing in the history of anything. He always remain in the bible that "he is lord your God".

[@arthapeterson5239]

Hemant is reading the Old Testament. It's the Jewish (and Islamic) God - Christians just co-opted it.

[@darrenwilliams4938]

We're going at least as far as Deuteronomy? Yeessss - Hemant you are the man.

[@David_Goza]

The stick was a *whole* lot bigger than the carrot!

[@thescoobymike]

9:45 reminds me of the American public trauma due to mass shootings that causes giant crowds to panic now just from hearing a loud noise

[@littleredpony6868]

Just a reminder if you forgot the first thousand times, I am the lord your god

[@knarf_on_a_bike]

God is infinitely merciful. Sure. . .

[@stef5853]

I don't percieve the number seven to be random. I'm not aware what scholars say about the bible but I take it as a collection of fairy tales and because of that, as we know, the number seven is always quite meaningful - a symbol we could say.

[@lh1673]

Some Christians are starting to say Jesus is not the god of OT, cuz maybe they’re realizing how nonsense OT is,mostly Leviticus. But the problem is why is OT and NT together as a book called sacred!?

[@freedapeeple4049]

That points out the typical hypocrisy of religion in general and abrahamic religions in particular. Don't like what your "holy book" says? Just change it and continue to claim it is the ultimate truth, just like you claimed before you changed it...

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

L H Even though they’re correct that Jesus is not the god, it’s not for that reason. Do you understand what sacred means?

[@lh1673]

@@Daniel-cz7kd oh then holy!

[@TBomb39]

@@Daniel-cz7kd Why oh why must you stink up this atheist site with your presence?

[@Daniel-cz7kd]

@@lh1673 Do you understand what holy means?

[@freedapeeple4049]

I've been getting a kick lately from one or two people all proud and crowing about debunking these videos, with zero comprehension that it is intended as sarcastic humour rather than serious argument. Debunking a joke...

[@starofjustice1]

Well, there are plenty of people who treat Cinema Sins like it's supposed to be actual movie reviews...

[@freedapeeple4049]

@@starofjustice1 That's the trouble with instant world-wide communication. The idiots get as much air time as people with functioning brains.

[@d.o.m.494]

Carrot and the big stick god gets serious!

[@AndHence]

The writers have a god complex.

[@laurajarrell6187]

Friendly Atheist, Hemant, it gets worse! 👍💖🥰✌

[@warrendriscoll350]

Technically, you'd still need to thresh even if God made all the plants grow perfectly. Threshing is the processing step referred to elsewhere in the bible as "separating the wheat from the chaff."

[@UncleFrosty]

You know, before I became a pagan, I told myself I was going to read the Bible. I’m glad I didn’t and even better, we now have someone who will look at it objectively and critically. Thank you!

[@darinhill3773]

Who else takes a shot with every "I am the lord your god"? Just don't binge watch the whole series, I don't need that on my conscious

[@KeriRautenkranz]

And you're still alive?😮

[@elainejohnson6955]

I used to be the designated driver for my friends at college. One time they were taking a drink every time someone said "Excellent" in the movie ,"Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure". Your drinking game might be even worse.

[@carolgibson-wilson4354]

😂🤣

[@darinhill3773]

@@KeriRautenkranz They tell me I am anyway. I do have a fairly high tolerance tho...

[@darinhill3773]

@@elainejohnson6955 You may be right, make sure you have a driver. Thanks for being a DD in college - they're rare...

[@AntifascistAllDay]

Such a loving gawd. Amen.

[@elainejohnson6955]

Hasn't God ever heard the saying that you can attract more bees with honey than vinegar?

[@markbeoluke6454]

Don't give God any ideas! "NO! NO! Not the bees! Arghhh!!"

[@jeanine219]

@@markbeoluke6454 🤣😂

[@stylesrj]

I think the saying was flies and pretty much anything will attract more flies than vinegar. But you know what attracts the most flies? Poop :P That's why most religion is full of crap.

[@QueenB33-s3b]

9:50 Is describing the exaggerated startle response of a traumatized person, such as one with PTSD. This is really sick. Hes bragging about causing such terror a person will have a trauma response. The whole "fleeing though no one pursues you" (paranoia) is another trauma behavior.

[@TheCaniblcat]

if we sin he'll punish us 7 times over... so if my sin is lust, do I get a harem of 7 women?

[@kennymartin5976]

Wait a minute, I'm a filthy, blasphemous Atheist! Wheres my bread baking herem!? Whats the deal, God! Wheres my mediocre bread herem!? 🤣

[@tommyswoodpileadventuresan9552]

is this not the most twisted chapter in the bible? or is there more?

[@margaretbarrett6087]

Oh are you in for a surprise when he gets to Numbers !

[@randyg.7940]

Damn !! Free will has some strings attached

[@annaclarafenyo8185]

"You will flee when no one is pursuing you" is a description of guilt-paranoia, it's like Macbeth.

[@billjohnston882]

Wouldn’t a punishment seven times over kind of negate the perfect justice and mercy claim?

[@yadabub]

Apparently, perfect justice goes way over the top. "What, you ate a cookie? I'll make you eat cookies until you exPLODE!"

[@margaretbarrett6087]

Well not compared with ETERNAL torture in a pit of fire !

[@stylesrj]

@@yadabub You like donuts eh? Well have all the donuts in Hell! Muahahaha!

[@Karaokeando]

Amazing Work! Thank you for your effort

[@typograf62]

I assume that the idea of 10 women and one oven is something like grain and flour will be so scarce that the dough made by ten women will only need one oven, not ten as - in unspecified old times. But I like the thought of 10 women fighting in my kitchen. Perhaps we should make a bakers collective? I love baking bread.

[@jayt9608]

You are more or less correct. Basically, those women will be representing ten entire families, and the bread that emerges from that single oven needs to be split among everyone. This links it to the "eat by measure and not be satisfied" portion of the statement. This is where the eventual resort to cannibalism occurs, because the becomes so severe that people are willing to eat their children. In another place the Scripture describes a judgement of famine so severe that placentas will be sold and that a married woman would eat it in secret to avoid againgbit with her husband.

[@jeanine219]

@@jayt9608 Well, actually your yahweh god is issuing outright threats to send wild beasts after the Israelites children, and HE will cause the Israelite parents to specifically eat their own children. Both of these murmurous and cannibalistic concepts are in other places in the Bible as well. So once again you are trying to smooth it over, but unsuccessfully apologist Jay T.

[@melharris1306]

But he loves you! -George Carlin-

[@Lightman0359]

If it makes you feel better, Ken Hamm misreads from your blog on AIG news

[@AJ_The_One]

I laughed so hard at the women baking bread commentary 😂

[@oliefan3722]

It lost me at the first verse. Cross, Ten Commandments, Jesus in various forms, Virgin Mary. Is that not an idol/image/sacred stone? Do they not bow down before these things on their land?

[@jamesanderson8351]

Not all of us bow down to the images. Some of us bow down to the person of Jesus Christ and to the creator of the universe. Also, not all of those who believe the biblical doctrine bow to Mary and certainly not to a statue. Any kind of cross, whether worn around the neck on a chain, or placed in front of a church, does nothing but remind us of what Christ did. It deserves no bowing to! Before you speak, study the subject.

[@yadabub]

@@jamesanderson8351 That's the point of most idols. You didn't think that the average person believed the idol itself did things on its own, surely? Besides, Christians who eschew the cross just tend to end up worshiping the Bible, anyway. The alternative would be to read it, and that just tends to make atheists.

[@jamesanderson8351]

@@yadabub I don’t think worshiping the Bible is appropriate either. We don’t worship the Bible. We use what is in it to direct our lives. Whether there be kingdoms, they shall crumble. Whether there be prophesies, they shall cease, but the word of God endures forever.

[@TBomb39]

@@jamesanderson8351 So, you choose to follow Lot's example? Prevert (sic).

[@jamesanderson8351]

@@TBomb39 You went over my head on that comment. Since when is following God’s word following Lot’s example. It sounds like some phrase you heard someone say and thought it might fit here. Well, it doesn’t.

[@yadabub]

God's presenting himself as nothing more than a lucky penny, here. Treat the penny with respect, and good luck will follow. Don't replace it with a lucky quarter, though. The penny will be angry and you'll have bad luck. Don't forget that your hard work has nothing to do with your success. Only the lucky penny creates success. If you fail, though- that's on you, because you've angered the lucky penny. At the end, they've hedged their bets in order to avoid making a prediction, so that God penny doesn't end up with egg on his face.

[@alguno1010101]

Not even Catholics are as good at the "everything bad that happens to you is your fault for making God angry" game as whoever wrote this bit

[@letterofthelaw2567]

This is nice and all, but where's the Fedora?

[@jeanine219]

In this Bible reading of Leviticus 26, your yahweh myth god is threatening to send wild animals after innocent Israelite children, as well as threatening to cause Israelite parents to eat their little girl and boy children..... and all that come’s to your religious mind is a Fedora?🥴

[@letterofthelaw2567]

@@jeanine219 yes

[@jeanine219]

@@letterofthelaw2567 The yahweh myth god in a Fedora? I think a Vader Helmet would be more in line with the dark, evil, and destructive villain he represents in these biblical OT books.

[@Trixy2207]

Hi dude, love your channel Dunno if you'll see this but I'd like you to do a video on how Christians think they hear God speak and who is actually speaking to them. Coz a lot of them claim they hear God speak to them. But I don't believe that's true. Thanks 🙏🏽

[@istvansipos9940]

but there is no magic in the bible, right?

[@KeriRautenkranz]

Especially No Blood Magic! None at ALL!😉

[@gide5489]

"Five of you will chase a hundred and a hundred of you will chase a hundred". That is not proportionnal, OK why not but then the information is not complete, how many will be chased if we are ten or twenty? An equation would have been useful. But this "Lord" is not good at maths (either).

[@unkaumanguy1439]

What, no threats? God always threatens us with some horrific punishment... wait for it... And there it is, 14-17.

[@SnarkyRC]

Where does one get their heart circumcised?

[@KeriRautenkranz]

I think the technical term nowadays is "Brainwashing". Your local Conmen Clergy will be happy to perform the service for a fee.

[@jeanine219]

I know of no cardiac surgeons that would be willing to do this Bible mandated (according to Christian killer Saul-Paul at least) procedure. 🤣

[@martinnyberg8174]

Every week is a new Randolph Churchill-moment. 😂🤣😄 “God, isn’t god a SHIT!”

[@martinnyberg8174]

That story, from the end of WWII, is one of my favourites about reading the bible: “In the hope of keeping him quiet for a few hours Freddy and I have bet Randolph 20 pounds that he cannot read the whole Bible in a fortnight. It would have been worth it at the price. Unhappily it has not had the result we hoped. He has never read any of it before and is hideously excited; keeps reading quotations aloud ‘I say, I bet you didn’t know this came in the Bible: “bring down my grey hairs in sorrow to the grave”‘, or merely slapping his side and chortling ‘God, isn’t God a shit!’ ”

[@jeanine219]

@@martinnyberg8174 I had to look that up after you first commented☺️.....out of the mouth of babes (or children). That’s honesty right there, that indoctrinated believers don’t seem to have.

[@rainythorsday2858]

Honestly a lot of this one sound like the claims made by people trying to promote MLMs.

[@annaclarafenyo8185]

This chapter is written really, really well, it's extremely poetic. You can't tell, because all the other chapters sound similar in the traditional translations. It looks like it was written hundreds of years after the other chapters, by a different author, and inserted as the penultimate chapter to disguise it's different authorship. From the language used, it sounds like one of the prophets, although which one, I can't say.

[@emmanuellynch4713]

"I will help you with rain for crops only after backbreaking work because people you didn't know existed because how long ago they died ate forbidden fruit when they were only days old." -Love GOD

[@mostlyguesses8385]

Long ago read Asimovs Guide to Bible, claiming most of Bible is political comments to Kings by prophet worried about foreign invasions or influence. Seems correct, but is Asimov wrong?

[@Marius011]

L. 28 says: "You will eat your children," just 7 lines after saying, "wild animals will rob you of your children." So, the wild animals failed? The animals dragged the children away and kept them in their dens until the parents came to rescue them, just so they could eat them?