Tabernacle of horrors

From Leviticus 1:1 to 7:38 God just tells Moses how to kill things in order to satisfy some silly rules.  As I look at it, god’s tabernacle would have been a place of terrible horrors.  Just try to picture the scene.  Thousands of Hebrews each following god’s rules are bringing animals for slaughter and burning at the house of god.  The stench of burnt flesh, blood.  The sounds of animals dying one after another.  It would have been a river of blood.  A place of death.  Day after day thousands of animals destroyed to fulfill the rules man has broken.  Hundreds would die each day.  What good god would subject his creations to such a life. 

 

If you really want to ruin your next meal read these chapters.  Always read the book to verify what I am writing for yourself.  I want you to understand that this is what the bible says.

 

Christians try to cover for their gods bad behavior by saying he had to have us do these things to atone for sins or some such nonsense.  Remember, god makes the rules.  He is the one saying if you are bad you must wrench a birds neck.  He could easily have either made us better, or make punishments fitting the crime.  Eating fat from an oxen could have been punished by the sinner getting sick so he doesn’t want to do it again.  Not by cutting him off from his people.  Doesn’t that sound better?  Slaughtering cattle because one violates a law does nothing to the lawbreaker. 

 

I have to ask again: Children are encouraged to read this book?  But they discourage the reading of Harry Potter?  

Swearing

Leviticus 5:4 says, “Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.”  So I guess we should NOT swear on the bible?  For any reason.  I sure hope I don’t need to go to court.

Rested?

I just had an odd thought.  Why did god rest on the seventh day?  Isn't he all powerful?  Should he get tired? 

Meat offering? Flour?

Leviticus 2:1 says, “And when any will offer a meat offering unto the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon:

2:2 And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the LORD:”  I think the term from the 1980’s was, “Where’s the beef?”  Shouldn’t a meat offering consist in some part of meat?

More horrible atonement offerings for this god

Leviticus 1:14 says, “And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the LORD be of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons.

1:15 And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar:

1:16 And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes:

1:17 And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the LORD.”  How does he enjoy such horrors.  If I were to bring a Christian into my home and perform these brutal deeds I surely hope my religious guest would be appalled.  Shouldn’t a god be held to higher standards?  

What kind of god is the Christian god?

Leviticus 1:4 says, "And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. 5 And he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 6 And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces. 7 And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire: 8 And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar: 9 But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the LORD." Does this sound like the actions of a good god? Slaughtering animals for no other reason than pleasure. It wasn't like he was going to use the meat. He just wanted it burned. Wasted. Why was it necessary to sprinkle the blood. Wash the legs. For what purpose?


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The last word on the book of Exodus.

This book is full of double standards.  Moses murders and that is Ok because god murders shortly there after.  God then has Aaron do miracles, that every Sunday school lesson attributes to Moses, while systematically torturing the Egyptians whom he later kills anyways so the lessons he taught them, while he was inflicting them with plaques and the like, are meaningless because they die in the red sea. 

Meanwhile God neglects the Hebrews while they wander the desert making them beg for food and water.  He then issues judgments, which modern people take as the Ten Commandments.  He even writes the Ten Commandments down and still modern people get it wrong.  He even calls them the Ten Commandments and we don’t know what they are (you can read about them here in an earlier post.)  During this time the Hebrews and Moses break many of gods judgments.  God even directs them to violate his rules.  Then the chosen people are directed to create a tabernacle for god to live in.  A bloody place of burnt offerings. 

I am still in search of the gentle god who loves us in this book but have only seen a jealous god among many other gods who loves spilled blood and burnt offerings.  Excuse me if I will not bow to this bloodthirsty maniac.