Deuteronomy

Deut 1

The Command to Leave Horeb

¹ These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel in the desert east of the Jordan-that is, in the Arabah-opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab. ² (It takes eleven days to go from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by the Mount Seir road.)
³ In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the Lord had commanded him concerning them. ⁴ This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, and at Edrei had defeated Og king of Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth.
⁵ East of the Jordan in the territory of Moab, Moses began to expound this law, saying:

⁶ The Lord our God said to us at Horeb, "You have stayed long enough at this mountain. ⁷ Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the Euphrates. ⁸ See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession of the land that the Lord swore he would give to your fathers-to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob-and to their descendants after them."

This doesn’t even sound like the same writer. The voice is different. The meter is different. The feeling is different.

The Appointment of Leaders
⁹ At that time I said to you, "You are too heavy a burden for me to carry alone. ¹⁰ The Lord your God has increased your numbers so that today you are as many as the stars in the sky. ¹¹ May the Lord , the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times and bless you as he has promised! ¹² But how can I bear your problems and your burdens and your disputes all by myself? ¹³ Choose some wise, understanding and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will set them over you."

¹⁴ You answered me, "What you propose to do is good."
¹⁵ So I took the leading men of your tribes, wise and respected men, and appointed them to have authority over you-as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens and as tribal officials. ¹⁶ And I charged your judges at that time: Hear the disputes between your brothers and judge fairly, whether the case is between brother Israelites or between one of them and an alien. ¹⁷ Do not show partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be afraid of any man, for judgment belongs to God. Bring me any case too hard for you, and I will hear it. ¹⁸ And at that time I told you everything you were to do.

Moses the Murderer is now talking in the first person, where in the last four books he did no such thing. It is not un common for a writer to change his style, but to change the whole feel of his work, is very un common, and only helps substantiate the possibility that it was not written by one source.

Spies Sent Out
¹⁹ Then, as the Lord our God commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites through all that vast and dreadful desert that you have seen, and so we reached Kadesh Barnea. ²⁰ Then I said to you, "You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us. ²¹ See, the Lord your God has given you the land. Go up and take possession of it as the Lord , the God of your fathers, told you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged."
²² Then all of you came to me and said, "Let us send men ahead to spy out the land for us and bring back a report about the route we are to take and the towns we will come to."
²³ The idea seemed good to me; so I selected twelve of you, one man from each tribe. ²⁴ They left and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and explored it. ²⁵ Taking with them some of the fruit of the land, they brought it down to us and reported, "It is a good land that the Lord our God is giving us."

This whole chapter seems to be, yet another, re-telling of earlier books.

³⁴ When the Lord heard what you said, he was angry and solemnly swore: ³⁵ "Not a man of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your forefathers, ³⁶ except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land he set his feet on, because he followed the Lord wholeheartedly."

The Israelites, as we remember, we’re frightened to take the land, so god punished them to 40 years or 600,000 dead. But the next line is the interesting one:

³⁷ Because of you the Lord became angry with me also and said, "You shall not enter it, either.

He shifts blame! As we remember, Moses is condemned from entering the chosen land because he performs a miracle and proclaims that it was his doing, without offering the respect to god. Now he’s saying, “Because of you”. It’s now their fault. Either Moses wasn’t as Humble as he claims to have been in the earlier book, or this is someone else’s attempt at explaining why Moses the Murderer was not allowed entry into the chosen land. This person must not have had the knowledge of the miracle that condemned Moses. Remember as well, that every other time god tells Moses something that he disagrees with Moses argues and changes god’s mind. But in this case, Moses said nothing, and allowed god to just punish him… in this verse, Moses makes it sound like it is the fault of the Israelites and if that was the case, then why didn’t Moses argue with god, for surely god was in the wrong? Probably because the writers of the bible were not familiar with all the other lies and mythology being spread by other writers. It’s hard to keep track of all those different stories. Especially if they are being told by different people.

Deut 2

Wanderings in the Desert
¹ Then we turned back and set out toward the desert along the route to the Red Sea, as the Lord had directed me. For a long time we made our way around the hill country of Seir.
² Then the Lord said to me, ³ "You have made your way around this hill country long enough; now turn north. ⁴ Give the people these orders: 'You are about to pass through the territory of your brothers the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, but be very careful. ⁵ Do not provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, not even enough to put your foot on. I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his own. ⁶ You are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.' "
⁷ The Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast desert. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you, and you have not lacked anything.
⁸ So we went on past our brothers the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned from the Arabah road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion Geber, and traveled along the desert road of Moab.
⁹ Then the Lord said to me, "Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any part of their land. I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession."
¹⁰ (The Emites used to live there-a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites. ¹¹ Like the Anakites, they too were considered Rephaites, but the Moabites called them Emites. ¹² Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land the Lord gave them as their possession.)
¹³ And the Lord said, "Now get up and cross the Zered Valley." So we crossed the valley.
¹⁴ Thirty-eight years passed from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them. ¹⁵ The Lord 's hand was against them until he had completely eliminated them from the camp.
¹⁶ Now when the last of these fighting men among the people had died, ¹⁷ the Lord said to me, ¹⁸ "Today you are to pass by the region of Moab at Ar. ¹⁹ When you come to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them to war, for I will not give you possession of any land belonging to the Ammonites. I have given it as a possession to the descendants of Lot."
²⁰ (That too was considered a land of the Rephaites, who used to live there; but the Ammonites called them Zamzummites. ²¹ They were a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites. The Lord destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place. ²² The Lord had done the same for the descendants of Esau, who lived in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day. ²³ And as for the Avvites who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorites coming out from Caphtor ^[2] destroyed them and settled in their place.)


Defeat of Sihon King of Heshbon
²⁴ "Set out now and cross the Arnon Gorge. See, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his country. Begin to take possession of it and engage him in battle. ²⁵ This very day I will begin to put the terror and fear of you on all the nations under heaven. They will hear reports of you and will tremble and be in anguish because of you."
²⁶ From the desert of Kedemoth I sent messengers to Sihon king of Heshbon offering peace and saying, ²⁷ "Let us pass through your country. We will stay on the main road; we will not turn aside to the right or to the left. ²⁸ Sell us food to eat and water to drink for their price in silver. Only let us pass through on foot- ²⁹ as the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, did for us-until we cross the Jordan into the land the Lord our God is giving us." ³⁰ But Sihon king of Heshbon refused to let us pass through. For the Lord your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to give him into your hands, as he has now done.

Here is more of that “The lord god MADE” him do something crap. I once read a short story about a little boy who’s older brother wouldn’t let him play football with him. So this younger brother climbed a tree and every time the older brother did something, the younger brother said, “I made you do that!” Eventually this upsets the older brother so much that he climbs the tree and throws his younger brother out of the tree. The younger brother breaks his arm. Everyone was frightened that he was very hurt, and the younger brother says, “Made you do that!”

Let’s get something clear, either we have free will, or we don’t. Free will would be the ability to act on one’s conscious. It is true that a sociologist might argue that our individual idea of self is shaped by the society that we are brought up in. Free will would still reign, because an act would still be guided by the individual’s thoughts and feelings and not influenced at a subconscious level by some outside source (i.e. god) When the bible makes this claim that some one was made stubborn or had their heart hardened, this implies that the person in question is not capable of changing their position. If that is the case, then there is no such thing as free will and the idea that we chose our way in life is a falsehood.

I have in my range of ability to write this book. It is a complete re-interpretation of the bible. I therefore have the freedom to go against god. I have the freedom to decide where my heart lies. I have the freedom to choose what words I use, what language I write, and what stories I choose to argue against, or for. I, therefore have free will. Everywhere around me I see free will at work. From the guy who fills the coffee machine with powered coffee, to the guy driving the Fed-x truck. Everyone makes their own way in this world. It, therefore, proves that we have free will. If we have free will then god does not make hearts stubborn, nor does he harden hearts. Which therefore, makes this story, and the story of Pharaoh and Egypt a lie.

³¹ The Lord said to me, "See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his country over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land."
³² When Sihon and all his army came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz, ³³ the Lord our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, together with his sons and his whole army. ³⁴ At that time we took all his towns and completely destroyed them-men, women and children. We left no survivors.

We left no survivors. Funny Hitler tried to do that as well and he was considered evil. As well, don’t you find it awful convenient that by destroying this people their existence ends. Therefore there requires zero historical proof of the event.

³⁵ But the livestock and the plunder from the towns we had captured we carried off for ourselves. ³⁶ From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the gorge, even as far as Gilead, not one town was too strong for us. The Lord our God gave us all of them. ³⁷ But in accordance with the command of the Lord our God, you did not encroach on any of the land of the Ammonites, neither the land along the course of the Jabbok nor that around the towns in the hills.

Deut 3

Defeat of Og King of Bashan

¹ Next we turned and went up along the road toward Bashan, and Og king of Bashan with his whole army marched out to meet us in battle at Edrei. ² The Lord said to me, "Do not be afraid of him, for I have handed him over to you with his whole army and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon."
³ So the Lord our God also gave into our hands Og king of Bashan and all his army. We struck them down, leaving no survivors. ⁴ At that time we took all his cities. There was not one of the sixty cities that we did not take from them-the whole region of Argob, Og's kingdom in Bashan. ⁵ All these cities were fortified with high walls and with gates and bars, and there were also a great many unwalled villages. ⁶ We completely destroyed them, as we had done with Sihon king of Heshbon, destroying every city-men, women and children. ⁷ But all the livestock and the plunder from their cities we carried off for ourselves.

Again, re-telling of the wars. Remember that anyone that was not a young virgin girl was put to the sword. And since it was not uncommon to wed teenage girls off, then we’re talking about 10 year old children. In this country such keepers of children are put into prisons.

Moses Forbidden to Cross the Jordan
21 At that time I commanded Joshua: "You have seen with your own eyes all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings. The Lord will do the same to all the kingdoms over there where you are going. 22 Do not be afraid of them; the Lord your God himself will fight for you."
23 At that time I pleaded with the Lord : 24 "O Sovereign Lord , you have begun to show to your servant your greatness and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do the deeds and mighty works you do? 25 Let me go over and see the good land beyond the Jordan-that fine hill country and Lebanon."
26 But because of you the Lord was angry with me and would not listen to me. "That is enough," the Lord said. "Do not speak to me anymore about this matter. 27 Go up to the top of Pisgah and look west and north and south and east. Look at the land with your own eyes, since you are not going to cross this Jordan. 28 But commission Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he will lead this people across and will cause them to inherit the land that you will see." 29 So we stayed in the valley near Beth Peor.

He again shifts blame. Of course, he has too, because without his ‘troubled’ people, how else can he set Joshua up as the leader he will be? A good story requires that each of the characters arrive when they are needed.

Deut 4

Then like a great leader at the end of act II, when the hero must strike out on his own, without the guidance of the wise elder, Moses lays down the law (yet again):

Obedience Commanded

¹ Hear now, O Israel, the decrees and laws I am about to teach you. Follow them so that you may live and may go in and take possession of the land that the Lord , the God of your fathers, is giving you. ² Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you.
³ You saw with your own eyes what the Lord did at Baal Peor. The Lord your God destroyed from among you everyone who followed the Baal of Peor, ⁴ but all of you who held fast to the Lord your God are still alive today.
⁵ See, I have taught you decrees and laws as the Lord my God commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land you are entering to take possession of it. ⁶ Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding to the nations, who will hear about all these decrees and say, "Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people." ⁷ What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the Lord our God is near us whenever we pray to him? ⁸ And what other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and laws as this body of laws I am setting before you today?
⁹ Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them. ¹⁰ Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, when he said to me, "Assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children." ¹¹ You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain while it blazed with fire to the very heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness. ¹² Then the Lord spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of words but saw no form; there was only a voice. ¹³ He declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments, which he commanded you to follow and then wrote them on two stone tablets. ¹⁴ And the Lord directed me at that time to teach you the decrees and laws you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

Idolatry Forbidden
15 You saw no form of any kind the day the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire.

Idol’s used so far:

· The Ark – It’s the seat of god on Earth.

· The Tabernacle as a whole. – His house on Earth.

· The Golden Snake. – A magical healer of wounds

Things that could be considered Idols:

· Pillars of Cloud and Fire. - A guide that leads

· The Ten Commandments. – Rules by which live by

Christian Idols:

· The fish – Stolen Pagan Symbol for Fertility.

· The Cross – Stolen Roman Symbol of Law

· The Bible as a whole – I already explained how the bible is a symbol.

· Any building Built as a place to congregate and worship – In the west Church’s are sacred places and symbolized as such.

The fact is that religion can not exist without idol worship. The idea of worship toward god is idol worship. God is the idol that is worshiped. Read the rules carefully:

16 so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman, 17 or like any animal on earth or any bird that flies in the air, 18 or like any creature that moves along the ground or any fish in the waters below. 19 And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars-all the heavenly array-do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the Lord your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.

If you don’t remember:

²⁴ For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Then to confuse issues:

³¹ For the Lord your God is a merciful God;

So, if you screw up, he’ll punish you’re children’s children, but he’s still nice? It’s just plain idiocy that something as powerful as god can’t rise above his humanity.

The Lord Is God
³² Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created man on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?

And of course, some 9 year old said, “Moses, how did god create the earth?” And Moses had to go back to his tent and invent the creation story that we see in genesis one. (I use MOSES here as a name only, it’s obvious that Moses did not write the first five books as attributed to him).

³⁷ Because he loved your forefathers and chose their descendants after them, he brought you out of Egypt by his Presence and his great strength, ³⁸ to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you into their land to give it to you for your inheritance, as it is today.

If god was so keen on the idea of driving out great nations, why did they leave Egypt at all? If god wanted to show how really great he was, why didn’t he just eliminate the Egyptians? Instead the Israelites completely destroy some nations, thus leaving no evidence that they did such a thing. Seems awful convenient doesn’t it? Of course, you’re saying, god promised them some other land, not Egypt…again, that has to be the case, it adds to the story’s convenient ending.

Cities of Refuge
⁴¹ Then Moses set aside three cities east of the Jordan, ⁴² to which anyone who had killed a person could flee if he had unintentionally killed his neighbor without malice aforethought. He could flee into one of these cities and save his life. ⁴³ The cities were these: Bezer in the desert plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.

Notice that it says malice aforethought. Meaning that if you killed someone and didn’t think about killing them to start with. But what if, you’re sitting in one of these murder havens and you think back on the event and say, “you know what? That bastard needed killing!” Is that malice afterthought?

Again, the idea that cities existed where murderers could go and be safe from persecution is a sign that such societies are without law and frankly a danger to their own existence.

Introduction to the Law
⁴⁴ This is the law Moses set before the Israelites. ⁴⁵ These are the stipulations, decrees and laws Moses gave them when they came out of Egypt ⁴⁶ and were in the valley near Beth Peor east of the Jordan, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon and was defeated by Moses and the Israelites as they came out of Egypt. ⁴⁷ They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan. ⁴⁸ This land extended from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge to Mount Siyon (that is, Hermon), ⁴⁹ and included all the Arabah east of the Jordan, as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the slopes of Pisgah.

Funny, we’re back to third person here…I guess Moses found it to difficult to speak in the first person. What utter nonsense that this was written by one person.

Deut 5

This chapter is the Ten Commandments yet again. We’ve already shown that the rules only apply to the masses and not the church higharchy as Moses bends them to fit what ever he needs. For example: You shall not Murder is broken when they kill all the old women and young boys of conquered nations who have done nothing to earn the destruction offered them. Not to mention Moses himself breaks this very commandment.

Also note, that this chapter is back to first person.

Deut 6

This chapter is one of those weird things that only the people of this region can find intelligent. It both tells them to fear and love god, a virtual impossibility. Fear is not related to Love in anyway. It is impossible to be frightened of something (wholly frightened of it) and love it at the same time. It is possible for love to conquer the fear, but by doing so the fear becomes something less then all out fear. People that try and Love something that the fear become damaged emotionally. They have trouble with rationalization and suffer with their own identities. Let’s take a look at human psychology and see what we can learn:

In the late 1970's, Dr. Walker drew upon Seligman's research and incorporated it into her own theory, the battered women's syndrome, in an attempt to explain why battered women remain with their abusers. According to Dr. Walker, battered women's syndrome contains two distinct elements: a cycle of violence and symptoms of learned helplessness. The cycle of violence is composed of three phases: the tension building phase, active battering phase and calm loving respite phase. During the tension building phase, the victim is subjected to verbal abuse and minor battering incidents, such as slaps, pinches and psychological abuse. In this phase, the woman tries to pacify her batterer by using techniques that have worked previously. Typically, the woman showers her abuser with kindness or attempts to avoid him. However, the victim's attempts to pacify her batter are often fruitless and only work to delay the inevitable acute battering incident.

The tension building phase ends and the active battering phase begins when the verbal abuse and minor battering evolve into an acute battering incident. A release of the tensions built during phase one characterizes the active battering phase, which usually last for a period of two to twenty-four hours. The violence during this phase is unpredictable and inevitable, and statistics indicate that the risk of the batterer murdering his victim is at its greatest. The batterer places his victim in a constant state of fear, and she is unable to control her batterer's violence by utilizing techniques that worked in the tension building phase. The victim, realizing her lack of control, attempts to mitigate the violence by becoming passive.

After the active battering phase comes to a close, the cycle of violence enters the calm loving respite phase or "honeymoon phase." During this phase, the batterer apologizes for his abusive behavior and promises that it will never happen again. The behavior exhibited by the batter in the calm loving respite phase closely resembles the behavior he exhibited when the couple first met and fell in love. The calm loving respite phase is the most psychologically victimizing phase because the batterer fools the victim, who is relieved that the abuse has ended, into believing that he has changed. However, inevitably, the batterer begins to verbally abuse his victim and the cycle of abuse begins anew.¹

How about this:

The theory of learned helplessness sought to account for the passive behavior subjects exhibited when placed in an uncontrollable environment. In the late 60's and early 70's, Martin Seligman, a famous researcher in the field of psychology, conducted a series of experiments in which dogs were placed in one of two types of cages. In the former cage, henceforth referred to as the shock cage, a bell would sound and the experimenters would electrify the entire floor seconds later, shocking the dog regardless of location. The latter cage, however, although similar in every other respect to the shock cage, contained a small area where the experimenters could administer no shock. Seligman observed that while the dogs in the latter cage learned to run to the nonelectrified area after a series of shocks, the dogs in the shock cage gave up trying to escape, even when placed in the latter cage and shown that escape was possible. Seligman theorized that the dogs' initial experience in the uncontrollable shock cage led them to believe that they could not control future events and was responsible for the observed disruptions in behavior and learning. Thus, according to the theory of learned helplessness, a subject placed in an uncontrollable environment will become passive and accept painful stimuli, even though escape is possible and apparent.¹

The point is that in this ideal of what religion is, god is the abuser, who screams, yells, threatens and then enacts his revenge on us for our crimes against him. At the end of it, he says that he loves us. Frankly I’m tired of the shocks, it’s time we put this god to bed and get on with being human. Anyway, here’s the chapter:

Love the Lord Your God

¹ These are the commands, decrees and laws the Lord your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, ² so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. ³ Hear, O Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord , the God of your fathers, promised you.
⁴ Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. ^{[1] 5} Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. ⁶ These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. ⁷ Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. ⁸ Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. ⁹ Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
¹⁰ When the Lord your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you-a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, ¹¹ houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant-then when you eat and are satisfied, ¹² be careful that you do not forget the Lord , who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
¹³ Fear the Lord your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name. ¹⁴ Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you; ¹⁵ for the Lord your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land. ¹⁶ Do not test the Lord your God as you did at Massah. ¹⁷ Be sure to keep the commands of the Lord your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you. ¹⁸ Do what is right and good in the Lord 's sight, so that it may go well with you and you may go in and take over the good land that the Lord promised on oath to your forefathers, ¹⁹ thrusting out all your enemies before you, as the Lord said.
²⁰ In the future, when your son asks you, "What is the meaning of the stipulations, decrees and laws the Lord our God has commanded you?" ²¹ tell him: "We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. ²² Before our eyes the Lord sent miraculous signs and wonders-great and terrible-upon Egypt and Pharaoh and his whole household. ²³ But he brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the land that he promised on oath to our forefathers. ²⁴ The Lord commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the Lord our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today. ²⁵ And if we are careful to obey all this law before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness."

Deut 7

Driving Out the Nations

1 When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations-the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you- 2 and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. 3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, 4 for they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods, and the Lord 's anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you.

How can this be? Don’t be merciful? Aren’t these peoples all the children of Noah, whom god instructed to go out and be fruitful? Didn’t god make a covenant with Noah to ensure just such? God the abuser continues on his confused and muddled idea of what life is about. It’s insulting and insane. So he says instead that the Israelites are to do the following to the other children of Adam:

⁵ This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire. ⁶ For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

In other words, “Adam? Noah? Who are they, all I’ve said to them is gone. I have new feelings toward the people of Earth. If you’re not a Jew, you’re the enemy!” Seems I’ve heard this in recent times, I’m looking in the direction of the Middle East.

⁹ Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands.

Right. Just ask Noah about that, as he sends Moses around with his sword killing all of Noah’s offspring. And to further prove this:

¹⁵ The Lord will keep you free from every disease. He will not inflict on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but he will inflict them on all who hate you. ¹⁶ You must destroy all the peoples the Lord your God gives over to you. Do not look on them with pity and do not serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

What of this disease deal? There are thousands of groups of people that hate the Hebrew today, yet you don’t seen any special diseases effecting them, as well as I’m sure disease strikes the Israelites of today:

Report from the Administer of Health - 230,000 people, but there are more and there is a raise in STDs.

1993 - 56 AIDS

1993 - 1020 HIV

1986 129 AIDS

This does not include cancer, or other crippling illness that exists throughout the world. So, the idea that god will protect them from sickness and inflict it on their enemies is most assuredly a lie…and a stupid one at that. Being that most disease is caused by pathogens that are in fact living things attempting to continue to live. If god didn’t want these tiny armies marching through man kind, then why did you make them?

²⁰ Moreover, the Lord your God will send the hornet among them until even the survivors who hide from you have perished.

He’ll send Hornets? And what the hell will they do? Sting victims to death, I assume. Wouldn’t it just be more godly for this supposed god to just strike them down? Anyway, Moses the Mass Murderer continues with his wonderful loving god:

²¹ Do not be terrified by them, for the Lord your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God. ²² The Lord your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little. You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you. ²³ But the Lord your God will deliver them over to you, throwing them into great confusion until they are destroyed. ²⁴ He will give their kings into your hand, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand up against you; you will destroy them. ²⁵ The images of their gods you are to burn in the fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the Lord your God. ²⁶ Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. Utterly abhor and detest it, for it is set apart for destruction.

Deut 8

Don’t forget god. That’s what is said here basically. It’s really not worth repeating, because it just goes on, like the rest of the chapters do, over and over again, about making sure that one listens to god, does what god says, and does not forget all the hard work god has done in order to bring you out of Egypt. And of course, if you do forget:

¹⁹ If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed. ²⁰ Like the nations the Lord destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the Lord your God.

“He’s making a list, checking it twice. Gonna’ find out who’s naughty and nice…”

Deut 9

Not Because of Israel's Righteousness
¹ Hear, O Israel. You are now about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities that have walls up to the sky. ² The people are strong and tall-Anakites! You know about them and have heard it said: "Who can stand up against the Anakites?"

How about this:

About ten thousand years ago, people lived in the northern part of Japan who were ethnically distinct from the rest of the Japan-ese population. These people were named "Ainu," meaning human being or male in their own Ainu language. They were generally assumed to be descendants of an ancient peo-ple referred to as Emishi in the famous Japan-ese chronicles called "Kojiki" and "Nihon-syoki." Today, the term Ainu is used to denote the indigenous people of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island, as a single, integrated population.

Ainu culture was threatened in the 15th century by wajin, which can be loosely trans-lated as Japanese who emigrated to Hokkaido from the southern islands of Japan. During the Edo period (1600-1868), the Bakufu shogun-ate government instituted trade policies that favored the wajin and exploited the Ainu. During the Meiji era (1868-1912), further emigration to Hokkaido was encouraged by offering settlers homesteads. Hokkaido's population increased to over a million people, and the Ainu became a minority. The national government abolished unfair trade, but still prohibited the Ainu from practicing their cus-toms and compelled them to learn and speak Japanese. These oppressive policies resulted in skirmishes between Ainu and wajin.2

The Ainu are taller and larger than the Japanese that dominate the land today. I don’t remember anywhere in Shinto where it says that god promised the shorter Asian’s Japan as their holy land. Therefore just because you’re smaller and win doesn’t mean that god came down and fixed the outcome. It’s a stupid argument, and shows that the writer was ignorant of the Chinese, or for that matter the insect kingdom. Just look at what a hill of ants can do to a bird that lands on it’s nest.

⁴ After the Lord your God has driven them out before you, do not say to yourself, "The Lord has brought me here to take possession of this land because of my righteousness." No, it is on account of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is going to drive them out before you. ⁵ It is not because of your righteousness or your integrity that you are going in to take possession of their land; but on account of the wickedness of these nations, the Lord your God will drive them out before you, to accomplish what he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Well isn’t that convenient. The very land that god promised Abraham turns out to be inhabited by wicked peoples, that are to be driven out so that the Israelites can take possession of it.

Now, we get to another retelling of Moses the Mass Murderer and the Golden Calf (notice How HUMBLE Moses is in this passage)

The Golden Calf
⁷ Remember this and never forget how you provoked the Lord your God to anger in the desert. From the day you left Egypt until you arrived here, you have been rebellious against the Lord . ⁸ At Horeb you aroused the Lord 's wrath so that he was angry enough to destroy you. ⁹ When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.

Oh yeah, when I went up on the mountain it was during a blizzard, both ways!

¹⁰ The Lord gave me two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God. On them were all the commandments the Lord proclaimed to you on the mountain out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.

Of course, they were so valuable that when Moses gets down the mountain what does he do with them?

¹⁷ So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, breaking them to pieces before your eyes.

Again, isn’t it convenient, that the very stones, inscribed by the finger of god are destroyed before anyone can look at them?

Deut 10

Tablets Like the First Ones

1 At that time the Lord said to me, "Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain. Also make a wooden chest. 2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Then you are to put them in the chest."

Now Moses the Mass Murderer makes the ark and stone and god supposedly puts words on these tablets that go into the ark. Here’s a good story regarding this kind of logic:

A thought experiment introduced by Erwin Schrödinger in 1935 to illustrate the paradox in quantum mechanics regarding the probability of finding, say, a subatomic particle at a specific point in space. According to Niels Bohr, the position of such a particle remains indeterminate until it has been observed. Schrödinger postulated a sealed vessel containing a live cat and a device triggered by a quantum event such as the radioactive decay of the nucleus. If the quantum event occurs, cyanide is released and the cat dies; if the event does not occur the cat lives. Schrödinger argued that Bohr's interpretation of events in quantum mechanics means that the cat could only be said to be alive or dead when the vessel has been opened and the situation inside it has been observed. This paradox has been extensively discussed since its introduction with many proposals made to resolve it.3

How do we know that Moses had anything written on those tablets? We don’t, we can’t. Because he seals them into the Ark and suddenly only he and Aaron are allowed to view it. All this is too well set up to be true. When ever the burden of proof is required, these two guys hide it, just like good magicians.

Fear the Lord
¹² And now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, ¹³ and to observe the Lord 's commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?
¹⁴ To the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it. ¹⁵ Yet the Lord set his affection on your forefathers and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations, as it is today. ¹⁶ Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and do not be stiff-necked any longer. ¹⁷ For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. ¹⁸ He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the alien, giving him food and clothing. ¹⁹ And you are to love those who are aliens, for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. ²⁰ Fear the Lord your God and serve him. Hold fast to him and take your oaths in his name. ²¹ He is your praise; he is your God, who performed for you those great and awesome wonders you saw with your own eyes. ²² Your forefathers who went down into Egypt were seventy in all, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Just in case you didn’t understand that you needed to fear god from the last chapter.

Deut 11

Love and Obey the Lord

¹ Love the Lord your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always.

Talk about Abused Wife syndrome! Fear me, for I’ll kill and punish you for thousands of years… oh I’m sorry that I was so mean, do you still love me?

The rest of the chapter goes back to the, love me, listen to me crap that he’s already said a couple of times.

²⁶ See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse- ²⁷ the blessing if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today; ²⁸ the curse if you disobey the commands of the Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.

Even the writer understood the paradox of what he had said. He stood there and spoke this, then probably went home and beat his wife…but it’s okay, he made up for it with his so called love.

Deut 12

The One Place of Worship
¹ These are the decrees and laws you must be careful to follow in the land that the Lord , the God of your fathers, has given you to possess-as long as you live in the land. ² Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains and on the hills and under every spreading tree where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods. ³ Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places.
⁴ You must not worship the Lord your God in their way. ⁵ But you are to seek the place the Lord your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name there for his dwelling. To that place you must go; ⁶ there bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, what you have vowed to give and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks. ⁷ There, in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your families shall eat and shall rejoice in everything you have put your hand to, because the Lord your God has blessed you.

If you remember from Numbers that the church gets to keep all this stuff given to them, you’ll see the obvious reason why you should only worship in one place.

Deut 13

Worshiping Other Gods

¹ If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a miraculous sign or wonder, ² and if the sign or wonder of which he has spoken takes place, and he says, "Let us follow other gods" (gods you have not known) "and let us worship them," ³ you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. The Lord your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Oh! This is huge! According to Christian doctrine, these so called tests are not performed by god, but are in fact attempts by the devil to turn you from the side of god. But here, it says that now, it’s not the devil but god himself testing! Of course the writer of the bible is a complete idiot and doesn’t have the first clue about what powers god needs to have in order to be god. One of these powers being Omniscience (that is All Knowing). How can a god that is All Knowing not already know a person’s loyalty? He need not test anyone, because he already knows their position. This passage proves that the writer of this book was a fool, that’s about all.

⁵ That prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he preached rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery; he has tried to turn you from the way the Lord your God commanded you to follow. You must purge the evil from among you.

Back to the idea that future tellers are bad…but of course, all of the dogma we see today constantly falls back on the prophets…as we’ll see. But since those prophets said good things about god, they were not put to death. There was once a Twilight Episode where a boy had the power to turn people into things. He controlled the weather. He destroyed all the world outside of his little town. He was god…and like the biblical god, he killed those that opposed him, even when it was obvious that the boy was a terror and not a blessing. Just like the biblical god, who’s already destroyed the world once, killed children, and continues to instruct his people to murder.

¹⁴ then you must inquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly. And if it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done among you, ¹⁵ you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. Destroy it completely, ^[1] both its people and its livestock. ¹⁶ Gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It is to remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt.

Deut 14

Clean and Unclean Food

¹ You are the children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead, ² for you are a people holy to the Lord your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the Lord has chosen you to be his treasured possession.
³ Do not eat any detestable thing. ⁴ These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, ⁵ the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep. ⁶ You may eat any animal that has a split hoof divided in two and that chews the cud. ⁷ However, of those that chew the cud or that have a split hoof completely divided you may not eat the camel, the rabbit or the coney. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a split hoof; they are ceremonially unclean for you. ⁸ The pig is also unclean; although it has a split hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses.
⁹ Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales. ¹⁰ But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it is unclean.
¹¹ You may eat any clean bird. ¹² But these you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, ¹³ the red kite, the black kite, any kind of falcon, ¹⁴ any kind of raven, ¹⁵ the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, ¹⁶ the little owl, the great owl, the white owl, ¹⁷ the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant, ¹⁸ the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.
¹⁹ All flying insects that swarm are unclean to you; do not eat them. ²⁰ But any winged creature that is clean you may eat.

Clean, unclean? It’s all so complicated. First, you’d think that god could have created the world without all the unclean animals. That he would have had the foresight to build it that way. But of course he didn’t. Second, he tells them that they can’t eat this that and the other thing, but during their wandering they eat ‘manna’ which was described as looking an awful lot like bird droppings. Lastly, flying insects are okay to eat, but shrimp aren’t. Talk about lost logic.

Tithes
²² Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year. ²³ Eat the tithe of your grain, new wine and oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always. ²⁴ But if that place is too distant and you have been blessed by the Lord your God and cannot carry your tithe (because the place where the Lord will choose to put his Name is so far away), ²⁵ then exchange your tithe for silver, and take the silver with you and go to the place the Lord your God will choose. ²⁶ Use the silver to buy whatever you like: cattle, sheep, wine or other fermented drink, or anything you wish. Then you and your household shall eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice. ²⁷ And do not neglect the Levites living in your towns, for they have no allotment or inheritance of their own.
²⁸ At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year's produce and store it in your towns, ²⁹ so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the aliens, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

…and made rich.

Deut 15

Just re-tells the cancellation of debt, freeing Servants, and Firstborn animals again. Nothing, nothing, nothing new!

Deut 16

More of the same: Passover, Feast of Weeks, Feast of Tabernacles, Judges.

Deut 17

More of the same, but something to comment on:

¹ Do not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep that has any defect or flaw in it, for that would be detestable to him.

First of all, during the book of Genesis one of our hero’s uses the “spotted” defect as a way to steal away all of his father in-laws sheep and goats. So it’s okay to use them to steal and cheat. Secondly, god made these animals in his perfect vision. He made them with their spots and defects, how is it that he sees them as detestable. What a crock of shit! It must be that the sheep have lost there way too! Save the Sheep!

² If a man or woman living among you in one of the towns the Lord gives you is found doing evil in the eyes of the Lord your God in violation of his covenant, ³ and contrary to my command has worshiped other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or the moon or the stars of the sky, ⁴ and this has been brought to your attention, then you must investigate it thoroughly. If it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, ⁵ take the man or woman who has done this evil deed to your city gate and stone that person to death.

That is funny. How come they allow Islam in Israel? If they really practice what they preach how come they don’t take all the Muslim to the city gates and stone them? Maybe it’s because these people have moved on from these barbaric ways. What is interesting to note though, is that god has said nothing about how we should treat each other since. According to his silence, I assume that means he still wants them to follow his covenant, which they don’t seem to be doing. Wonder when they are going to ‘investigate’ and murder all those that don’t think like them?

The King
¹⁴ When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, "Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us," ¹⁵ be sure to appoint over you the king the Lord your God chooses. He must be from among your own brothers. Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not a brother Israelite. ¹⁶ The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses for himself or make the people return to Egypt to get more of them, for the Lord has told you, "You are not to go back that way again." ¹⁷ He must not take many wives, or his heart will be led astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.

Not accumulate large amounts of gold and silver…hum! Is this an attempt at making a pious man of the King, or more probably, an attempt at making sure that he is always a subject of the church, who can afford to destroy him at it’s leisure?

Deut 18

Offerings for Priests and Levites

¹ The priests, who are Levites-indeed the whole tribe of Levi-are to have no allotment or inheritance with Israel. They shall live on the offerings made to the Lord by fire, for that is their inheritance. ² They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the Lord is their inheritance, as he promised them.
³ This is the share due the priests from the people who sacrifice a bull or a sheep: the shoulder, the jowls and the inner parts. ⁴ You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine and oil, and the first wool from the shearing of your sheep, ⁵ for the Lord your God has chosen them and their descendants out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the Lord 's name always.
⁶ If a Levite moves from one of your towns anywhere in Israel where he is living, and comes in all earnestness to the place the Lord will choose, ⁷ he may minister in the name of the Lord his God like all his fellow Levites who serve there in the presence of the Lord . ⁸ He is to share equally in their benefits, even though he has received money from the sale of family possessions.

In other words, “Aaron, you shall never have to work the land. You shall never have to be responsible for your family’s well being. You are to be a king among men.”

The Prophet
¹⁴ The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or divination. But as for you, the Lord your God has not permitted you to do so. ¹⁵ The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him.

This is a complete no brainer. All religion thinks this way. A person who practices magic and is not a jew, is a sorcerer. A person that practices magic and is a jew is a prophet. It’s just a matter of semantics.

²⁰ But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded him to say

How can we know this? Everything that someone says can be taken as defacto verbatim of god. It’s not that difficult to imagine. For instance, god just told me to tell you that the bible is a lie. Do you believe me? Of course not. But if I told you that god wants you to love him, you’d believe that. But I received no message from god, it was my own voice speaking. Of course they try and solve this problem in the next verse:

²¹ You may say to yourselves, "How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord ?" ²² If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken.

In other words, if it comes to pass, then it’s true. If any of you are familiar with Nostradamus then you’ll realize the shear stupidity of trying to prove or disprove someone’s predictions. In fact Cheethan’s book on the Prophecies of Nostradamus shows that most of the predictions by Nostradamus have come to pass. Of course, with a little work any story can be made to fit. Thousands of years of history and eventually, somewhere, the event will ‘fit’ enough to be shown as prophecy.

Deut 19

Is more of the same: Cities of Refuge and Witnesses. So if you kill someone make sure and kill all the witnesses ,but one, as well, then run away to one of these cities. Because it requires two or more witnesses to convict someone.

Deut 20

Little Israel Goes to War

When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the Lord your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you. ² When you are about to go into battle, the priest shall come forward and address the army. ³ He shall say: "Hear, O Israel, today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not be terrified or give way to panic before them. ⁴ For the Lord your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory."
⁵ The officers shall say to the army: "Has anyone built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else may dedicate it. ⁶ Has anyone planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else enjoy it. ⁷ Has anyone become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else marry her." ⁸ Then the officers shall add, "Is any man afraid or fainthearted? Let him go home so that his brothers will not become disheartened too." ⁹ When the officers have finished speaking to the army, they shall appoint commanders over it.
¹⁰ When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. ¹¹ If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you.

So, when the Nazi’s said come, be our forced labor, god must have been on the side of the Germans. All this talk about god’s plan has been destroyed by History. The Jews are no more special than the rest of us. They’ve been at the tailing end of history all of their existence and the only reason that they even matter today is because of oil.

¹² If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. ¹³ When the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. ¹⁴ As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your enemies. ¹⁵ This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

Obviously.

¹⁶ However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. ¹⁷ Completely destroy ^[1] them-the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites-as the Lord your God has commanded you. ¹⁸ Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the Lord your God.

In other words, “You’re too weak to be allowed to be around stronger, better people than you. You are to foolish, and simple minded. You are to worthless as people to be expected to be strong and stand up for yourselves. No, instead of recognizing their better human quality, destroy them, so that you are not tempted to be like them”.

19 When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees of the field people, that you should besiege them? 20 However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls.

Frankly, this seems like good surface advice. But let’s face some military facts: If you don’t have good supply line before you start a siege, you’re bound to have a war of attrition on your hands. Supply lines are important. If you have to rely on the trees of the city your attacking for your food then you’re screwed right off the bat.

Deut 21

Atonement for an Unsolved Murder

¹ If a man is found slain, lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him, ² your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance from the body to the neighboring towns. ³ Then the elders of the town nearest the body shall take a heifer that has never been worked and has never worn a yoke ⁴ and lead her down to a valley that has not been plowed or planted and where there is a flowing stream. There in the valley they are to break the heifer's neck. ⁵ The priests, the sons of Levi, shall step forward, for the Lord your God has chosen them to minister and to pronounce blessings in the name of the Lord and to decide all cases of dispute and assault. ⁶ Then all the elders of the town nearest the body shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley, ⁷ and they shall declare: "Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it done. ⁸ Accept this atonement for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, O Lord , and do not hold your people guilty of the blood of an innocent man." And the bloodshed will be atoned for. ⁹ So you will purge from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the Lord .

Where is god the all-seeing majesty now? He can’t help them solve their crimes? Besides, murder is suppose to be a social problem, if people just start appearing dead in fields, then they might have a social issue on their hands and if that’s the case, who knows how many of the citizenry are corrupt and ungodly.

Marrying a Captive Woman
¹⁰ When you go to war against your enemies and the Lord your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives, ¹¹ if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife. ¹² Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails ¹³ and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife. ¹⁴ If you are not pleased with her, let her go wherever she wishes. You must not sell her or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.

Let me see if I got this right. 1. Some greasy old perverted man is allowed by god to kill this child’s family. 2. Then he is allowed by god to destroy and humiliate the child’s identity (by shaving her head and taking her clothing). 3. Then once this is done he is allowed to legally rape this little girl. Is that about right?

The Right of the Firstborn
¹⁵ If a man has two wives, and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love, ¹⁶ when he wills his property to his sons, he must not give the rights of the firstborn to the son of the wife he loves in preference to his actual firstborn, the son of the wife he does not love. ¹⁷ He must acknowledge the son of his unloved wife as the firstborn by giving him a double share of all he has. That son is the first sign of his father's strength. The right of the firstborn belongs to him.

Notice that this passage comes right after the pedophiliac rape passage of ‘captured wives’. Probably because all the first wives felt threatened by the 10 year old little girls their husbands we’re taking as second, third, and forth wives.

A Rebellious Son
¹⁸ If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, ¹⁹ his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. ²⁰ They shall say to the elders, "This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard." ²¹ Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.

Ha! Yet god allowed Adam to live. God allowed Cain to live. God allowed Abraham to offer his wife for rape. God allows lots of people to be all the things he says they can’t be…yet when he needs to be a prick, he sets father against son.

Various Laws
²² If a man guilty of a capital offense is put to death and his body is hung on a tree, ²³ you must not leave his body on the tree overnight. Be sure to bury him that same day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God's curse. You must not desecrate the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Then what do you do with people hung from trees? The minute you bury them, doesn’t that desecrate the land, after all the dead person is still cursed? This passage makes no sense.

Deut 22

⁵ A woman must not wear men's clothing, nor a man wear women's clothing, for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this.

How do we tell them apart? Looking East of the US some cultures where such things that would be considered ‘skirts’ or ‘dresses’. For instance in Scotland the men wear a kilt, a sort of male skirt. In Japan the men were Hakami, a sort of divided dress. In Middle East they were robes that look an awful lot like the robes that the women wear. How is it told apart? This is further proof that the writers of the bible were foolish idiots, completely unaware of the world about them. To think that god would mandate such a stupid rule, knowing full well that such a distinction is nearly impossible, is ludicrous.

⁸ When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof.

And if they had swimming pools in Ancient Canaan; “Build ye a fence around the swimming hole, so that you do not bring drowning children on your head”.

Marriage Violations
¹³ If a man takes a wife and, after lying with her, dislikes her ¹⁴ and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, "I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity," ¹⁵ then the girl's father and mother shall bring proof that she was a virgin to the town elders at the gate.

As far as I know there is no way, other than through a serious medical exam to prove a person’s virginity. And I find this passage not only full of idiocy but I see so much potential for liars and cheaters to make outrageous claims in order to steal from each other.

¹⁷ Now he has slandered her and said, 'I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.' But here is the proof of my daughter's virginity." Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town,

Will display the cloth? What does this mean? I assume that because woman were required to wear a specific uniform before they were married that this is what was shown. But what does that prove? Nothing. It’s just clothing.

⁹ They shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the girl's father,

That is what the father wins if he can prove her virginity (with his magic virginity stick). Let’s see what happens if the husband is right:

²⁰ If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the girl's virginity can be found, ²¹ she shall be brought to the door of her father's house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father's house. You must purge the evil from among you.

So, if the wife is a slut, that’s worse than a husband bearing false witness? What a fucked up social structure. To add to the stupidity of their law system look at this one:

²⁵ But if out in the country a man happens to meet a girl pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. ²⁶ Do nothing to the girl; she has committed no sin deserving death.

In other words, the out of town person is not even a human, he didn’t do anything against the girl. But it gets worse. Read this next one:

²⁸ If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, ²⁹ he shall pay the girl's father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

In other words raping a person is okay, all you have to do is pay for it and take the woman as your bride…then you can rape her legally.

Deut 23

Exclusion From the Assembly

¹ No one who has been emasculated by crushing or cutting may enter the assembly of the Lord .

If you loose your testicles you can’t worship. Even, as it sounds, if it’s not your fault.

² No one born of a forbidden marriage nor any of his descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord , even down to the tenth generation.

Yesu was known in some texts as Yesu Ben Mary…this would make him an illegitimate child, but he’s suppose to be the savior.

³ No Ammonite or Moabite or any of his descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord , even down to the tenth generation. ⁴ For they did not come to meet you with bread and water on your way when you came out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram Naharaim to pronounce a curse on you. ⁵ However, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you.

That’s not how the story goes. Balaam was talked to by god and god liked him and gave him the blessing. Nothing was turned. That’s a different meaning and a different take on the whole story. If Moses the Mass Murderer was really aware of the story, you’d think he would have gotten it right, both times. Contradiction! 17

Uncleanness in the Camp
⁹ When you are encamped against your enemies, keep away from everything impure. ¹⁰ If one of your men is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp and stay there. ¹¹ But as evening approaches he is to wash himself, and at sunset he may return to the camp.

So if the guy has a wet dream he needs to clean himself before he returns to the camp, right…but what’s the meaning of the rest of the verse:

¹² Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself.

Hum. I assume that this passages meaning is directed at defecation…but it follows right behind the passage about nocturnal emissions…are they really talking about masterbation?

¹⁷ No Israelite man or woman is to become a shrine prostitute. ¹⁸ You must not bring the earnings of a female prostitute or of a male prostitute into the house of the Lord your God to pay any vow, because the Lord your God detests them both.

Now he does, but it was okay for Abraham and Issac to sell their wives for a few sheep. Not to mention Judah slept with a prostitute (Not really it is Tamar in disguise) and got her pregnant.

Deut 24

¹ If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house,

But as we just read in Deut22, a man can’t divorce his wife…which is it? Divorce? No Divorce? It’s confusing. This is a contradiction! 18

The law gets convoluted and confused here:

² and if after she leaves his house she becomes the wife of another man, ³ and her second husband dislikes her and writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, or if he dies, ⁴ then her first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her again after she has been defiled.

Frankly that’s just stupid. The writer never explains why this is detestable to god.

⁵ If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married.

I wonder if that’s still law in Israel? If I remember right, the average Israeli must server 2 years. Am I then to assume that this can be put off until after the first year of marriage? Just another law of god that I’m pretty sure they aren’t following anymore.

⁷ If a man is caught kidnapping one of his brother Israelites and treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from among you.

Yesu Ben Mary effectively was kidnapping Israelites. He was stealing them away from their beliefs. According to this passage, the execution of Yesu was a vital part of their culture.

¹⁴ Do not take advantage of a hired man who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother Israelite or an alien living in one of your towns. ¹⁵ Pay him his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and is counting on it. Otherwise he may cry to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

And the rest of the chapter goes on in this manner about how you treat people with debt.

Deut 25

¹ When men have a dispute, they are to take it to court and the judges will decide the case, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty. ² If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall make him lie down and have him flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime deserves, ³ but he must not give him more than forty lashes. If he is flogged more than that, your brother will be degraded in your eyes.

I thought the idea of public punishment was to offer a degradation to the guilty? If they wanted to ensure that his moral character stayed intact, why not do it in private? But that’s not the interesting part. The interesting part is the very next line:

⁴ Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.

The guy who wrote this must have had a strange way of thinking. Afterall, he correlates muzzling oxen with punishment of the guilty. The truth, is probably more plain than that. In reality, it was probably a bunch of different ideas, all strung together and called this book. From different sources. From different writers. As we see, in the continuation of the chapter:

⁵ If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband's brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her. ⁶ The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
⁷ However, if a man does not want to marry his brother's wife, she shall go to the elders at the town gate and say, "My husband's brother refuses to carry on his brother's name in Israel. He will not fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to me." ⁸ Then the elders of his town shall summon him and talk to him. If he persists in saying, "I do not want to marry her," ⁹ his brother's widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, take off one of his sandals, spit in his face and say, "This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother's family line." ¹⁰ That man's line shall be known in Israel as The Family of the Unsandaled.

Oh this is rich! I imagine that the Israelites would have had one hell of s pledge week for their fraternity.

¹¹ If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, ¹² you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.

Huh? If a wife touches her mans privates she looses her hand? Jesus! What happens when they have sex!? Does she loose her privates? Come on!

¹⁷ Remember what the Amalekites did to you along the way when you came out of Egypt. ¹⁸ When you were weary and worn out, they met you on your journey and cut off all who were lagging behind; they had no fear of God. ¹⁹ When the Lord your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land he is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!

You shall blot out the memory of Amalek…do not forget! That is impossible. They both are told to remember what god has done to the Amalekites, and told that Amalek will be a none person to history…but by remembering what has happened to the Amalekites, we remember Amalek. Logic was obviously lost on these Cro-Magnon men.

Deut 26

Again with the repeating! This time it’s first fruits and Tiths. And a little piece at the end to remind all of us to follow the commandments. Oi!

Deut 27

The Altar on Mount Ebal

1 Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: "Keep all these commands that I give you today. 2 When you have crossed the Jordan into the land the Lord your God is giving you, set up some large stones and coat them with plaster. 3 Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord , the God of your fathers, promised you. 4 And when you have crossed the Jordan, set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I command you today, and coat them with plaster. 5 Build there an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones. Do not use any iron tool upon them. 6 Build the altar of the Lord your God with fieldstones and offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God. 7 Sacrifice fellowship offerings there, eating them and rejoicing in the presence of the Lord your God. 8 And you shall write very clearly all the words of this law on these stones you have set up."

Altar? Well, well, yet one more icon at which to bow down and pray.

Curses From Mount Ebal
⁹ Then Moses and the priests, who are Levites, said to all Israel, "Be silent, O Israel, and listen! You have now become the people of the Lord your God. ¹⁰ Obey the Lord your God and follow his commands and decrees that I give you today."
¹¹ On the same day Moses commanded the people:
¹² When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph and Benjamin. ¹³ And these tribes shall stand on Mount Ebal to pronounce curses: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali.
¹⁴ The Levites shall recite to all the people of Israel in a loud voice:

Get ready, here they come:

¹⁵ "Cursed is the man who carves an image or casts an idol-a thing detestable to the Lord , the work of the craftsman's hands-and sets it up in secret."
Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"

Amen indeed! The loophole in this curse: Detestable to god. So when the make golden serpents, and arks, and altars…those are okay. I wonder if a statue of god riding a uni-cycle and jumping through a ring of fire would have been detestable?

¹⁶ "Cursed is the man who dishonors his father or his mother."
Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"

Wait a minute…isn’t he just reciting the commandments, again.

¹⁷ "Cursed is the man who moves his neighbor's boundary stone."
Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"
¹⁸ "Cursed is the man who leads the blind astray on the road."
Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"
¹⁹ "Cursed is the man who withholds justice from the alien, the fatherless or the widow."
Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"

All crimes of deceit. Wouldn’t if have been easier to say that?

²⁰ "Cursed is the man who sleeps with his father's wife, for he dishonors his father's bed."
Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"
²¹ "Cursed is the man who has sexual relations with any animal."
Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"
²² "Cursed is the man who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother."
Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"
²³ "Cursed is the man who sleeps with his mother-in-law."
Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"

okay…what’s next. Oh yeah. Amen! Sorry.

²⁴ "Cursed is the man who kills his neighbor secretly."
Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"

No. If I kill some one is secret, I can’t be punished for it. Because it requires two witnesses. Blessed by those that kill in secret!

²⁵ "Cursed is the man who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person."
Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"
²⁶ "Cursed is the man who does not uphold the words of this law by carrying them out."
Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"

Yeah!

Deut 28

Blessings for Obedience

¹ If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. ² All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God:

³ You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.
⁴ The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock-the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
⁵ Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.
⁶ You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

⁷ The Lord will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.
⁸ The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.
⁹ The Lord will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the Lord your God and walk in his ways. ¹⁰ Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the Lord , and they will fear you. ¹¹ The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity-in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground-in the land he swore to your forefathers to give you.
¹² The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. ¹³ The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. ¹⁴ Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.

Of course we all realize that what this really means is that if these things don’t happen for you, then you betrayed god somehow. And since, the real world, that’s the world we live in, has these sorts of events happen all the time…then god must have abandoned all of us! Oh NO! Either that or, the bible is a pack of lies and events are dictated by the acts of other humans. Oh but that’s just to logical.

So, assuming that god hates you, here’s what will happen:

Curses for Disobedience
¹⁵ However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

¹⁶ You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
¹⁷ Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.
¹⁸ The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
¹⁹ You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

²⁰ The Lord will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him. ^{[1] 21} The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess. ²² The Lord will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish. ²³ The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron. ²⁴ The Lord will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.
²⁵ The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth. ²⁶ Your carcasses will be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away. ²⁷ The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured. ²⁸ The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind. ²⁹ At midday you will grope about like a blind man in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you.
³⁰ You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and ravish her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit. ³¹ Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them. ³² Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand. ³³ A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days. ³⁴ The sights you see will drive you mad. ³⁵ The Lord will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
³⁶ The Lord will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your fathers. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone. ³⁷ You will become a thing of horror and an object of scorn and ridicule to all the nations where the Lord will drive you.
³⁸ You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it. ³⁹ You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them. ⁴⁰ You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off. ⁴¹ You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity. ⁴² Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.
⁴³ The alien who lives among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower. ⁴⁴ He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, but you will be the tail.
⁴⁵ All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you. ⁴⁶ They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever. ⁴⁷ Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity, ⁴⁸ therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
⁴⁹ The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand, ⁵⁰ a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young. ⁵¹ They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine or oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined. ⁵² They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the Lord your God is giving you.
⁵³ Because of the suffering that your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you. ⁵⁴ Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, ⁵⁵ and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities. ⁵⁶ The most gentle and sensitive woman among you-so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot-will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter ⁵⁷ the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For she intends to eat them secretly during the siege and in the distress that your enemy will inflict on you in your cities.
⁵⁸ If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name-the Lord your God- ⁵⁹ the Lord will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses. ⁶⁰ He will bring upon you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you. ⁶¹ The Lord will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed. ⁶² You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God. ⁶³ Just as it pleased the Lord to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.
⁶⁴ Then the Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods-gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known. ⁶⁵ Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart. ⁶⁶ You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life. ⁶⁷ In the morning you will say, "If only it were evening!" and in the evening, "If only it were morning!"-because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see. ⁶⁸ The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.

First, note that the length of the curse versus the length of the blessing. Fear the rod!

What does this really say? It makes god look like he enjoys the punishment more than the blessing. It seems easier for the writer to drone on and on about what happens to evil people, but he spends only half the time thinking about what becomes of good people. Remember, that I’ve already said, that the flaw with this religion is the character of the people who created it. This passage, which shows that the write was obsessed with punishing what he considered the guilty, but had a passing interest in the righteous, only further illustrates my point.

Deut 29

Renewal of the Covenant

¹ These are the terms of the covenant the Lord commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb.
² Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them:

Your eyes have seen all that the Lord did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials and to all his land. ³ With your own eyes you saw those great trials, those miraculous signs and great wonders. ⁴ But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind that understands or eyes that see or ears that hear. ⁵ During the forty years that I led you through the desert, your clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet. ⁶ You ate no bread and drank no wine or other fermented drink. I did this so that you might know that I am the Lord your God.

Well, I systematically dismantled the idea that Egypt even happened, assuming that the writer of this book was trying to build off of that lie, then everything else he implies about not having bread, or not having to repair their clothing falls well within the vale of the original lie.

⁷ When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out to fight against us, but we defeated them. ⁸ We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

“…and we slaughtered their children, remembering to rape their young girls!”

¹⁶ You yourselves know how we lived in Egypt and how we passed through the countries on the way here.

The writer again tries to remind the reader of the impossibilities of Egypt, which has be rebutted by Rabbi who believe the event never occurred.

¹⁷ You saw among them their detestable images and idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold. ¹⁸ Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.
¹⁹ When such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself and therefore thinks, "I will be safe, even though I persist in going my own way." This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry. ²⁰ The Lord will never be willing to forgive him; his wrath and zeal will burn against that man. All the curses written in this book will fall upon him, and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven. ²¹ The Lord will single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.

Plenty of very religious people have bad things happen to them. If that’s the case then how is this passage explained away?

²² Your children who follow you in later generations and foreigners who come from distant lands will see the calamities that have fallen on the land and the diseases with which the Lord has afflicted it. ²³ The whole land will be a burning waste of salt and sulfur-nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in fierce anger. ²⁴ All the nations will ask: "Why has the Lord done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?"

All nations will ask, “Why has the lord done this to this land?…” Probably not! Hello, not to long ago this god reminded the Israelites that all other nations were following the wrong god! That’s why he chose them! So a more probably response from say, Egypt, is “Ra! Greatest of gods! Thank you for destroying those evil Israelites!” But they’re so egotistical and insane that they can’t grasp the idea that other nations have other ideas:

²⁵ And the answer will be: "It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the Lord , the God of their fathers, the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt. ²⁶ They went off and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had not given them. ²⁷ Therefore the Lord 's anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses written in this book. ²⁸ In furious anger and in great wrath the Lord uprooted them from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is now."

Right, this is the reply that has been offered? I don’t think so. I’ve never heard that said by any nation that conquered that region of the world. What blind lunacy.

Deut 30

Prosperity After Turning to the Lord

¹ When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come upon you and you take them to heart wherever the Lord your God disperses you among the nations, ² and when you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today, ³ then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes ^[1] and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you. ⁴ Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back. ⁵ He will bring you to the land that belonged to your fathers, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers. ⁶ The Lord your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live. ⁷ The Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you. ⁸ You will again obey the Lord and follow all his commands I am giving you today. ⁹ Then the Lord your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The Lord will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your fathers, ¹⁰ if you obey the Lord your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
The Offer of Life or Death
¹¹ Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. ¹² It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, "Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?" ¹³ Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, "Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?" ¹⁴ No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.
¹⁵ See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. ¹⁶ For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
¹⁷ But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, ¹⁸ I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.
¹⁹ This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live ²⁰ and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

God, the abuser, at work again. I can just imagine the new FOX series, COPS (Heaven). CUT TO: patrol car on route to Tabernacle. “Yeah, we’ve got a domestic disturbance call. God’s beating up on his people again. He’s really got to get some help, this cycle of abuse has to end”.

Look it’s really easy to understand. God doesn’t accept us for what we are! Instead of growing up and trying to get along with his creation, he starts on this cycle of abuse, where he tries to get us to do what he wants, can’t get us to do what he wants, kills a few million of us, gets sad for doing it, and then starts all over.

Deut 31

Joshua to Succeed Moses

¹ Then Moses went out and spoke these words to all Israel: ² "I am now a hundred and twenty years old and I am no longer able to lead you. The Lord has said to me, 'You shall not cross the Jordan.' ³ The Lord your God himself will cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you will take possession of their land. Joshua also will cross over ahead of you, as the Lord said. ⁴ And the Lord will do to them what he did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, whom he destroyed along with their land. ⁵ The Lord will deliver them to you, and you must do to them all that I have commanded you. ⁶ Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you."
⁷ Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, "Be strong and courageous, for you must go with this people into the land that the Lord swore to their forefathers to give them, and you must divide it among them as their inheritance. ⁸ The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged."

More propaganda. How in the world did he live so long? Occasionally we see a Chinese citizen fall out of the woods who claims to be 200 years old, but they are anomalies. Notice as well, that this longevity ends before the rest of the civilized world even knows who this Israel is. Seems awful convenient!

“So you live a long time?”, Roman Soldier.

“yep”, Israelite.

“Really? I’m looking around now, and I see some people that might be in their 50’s, but no one older than that surely,” Roman Soldier.

“Oh…well, um, WE don’t live that long…but our ancestories did!”, Israelite.

“Longer than you,” Says the Soldier as he runs the fool through.

Israel's Rebellion Predicted
¹⁴ The Lord said to Moses, "Now the day of your death is near. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the Tent of Meeting, where I will commission him." So Moses and Joshua came and presented themselves at the Tent of Meeting.
¹⁵ Then the Lord appeared at the Tent in a pillar of cloud, and the cloud stood over the entrance to the Tent. ¹⁶ And the Lord said to Moses: "You are going to rest with your fathers, and these people will soon prostitute themselves to the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake me and break the covenant I made with them. ¹⁷ On that day I will become angry with them and forsake them; I will hide my face from them, and they will be destroyed. Many disasters and difficulties will come upon them, and on that day they will ask, 'Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is not with us?' ¹⁸ And I will certainly hide my face on that day because of all their wickedness in turning to other gods.

Two things: 1. This is not prediction. It is written after the fact, that’s called hindsight. Not prediction. 2. God has this divine plan, where he knows the outcome, yet instead of ‘fixing’ the outcome so that it plays the way he wants it, he instead continues on in a manner that implies he really doesn’t know what he is doing. What I mean can be explained by following Moses the Mass Murderer’s killings. First God says, Take my people out Egypt. Then he says that he will give them the land promised the. Then he says not until you’re punished another 40 years. Then he says even though I give them this land they will forsake me. It seems that god could have saved all of us a huge dilemma by not taking the Israelites out of Egypt to start with. Now, I’m human, and I require Hindsight to make this observation. But god is omnipresent. He exists at all points in time at once. He therefore would have been able to see the outcome of the event before he even began the endeavor. This sort of story only adds to the paradox that is the Jewish god. He doesn’t work. He doesn’t fit. He’s stupid, terribly clumsy, and often times does things only to reverse them later.

The chapter ends with Moses singing. Great, dinner and a show!

Deut 32

Is the actual song of Moses. It’s a stupid, long, recounting of what has already been said before. Yawn. At the end of the chapter Moses predicts his own death! Wow:

Moses to Die on Mount Nebo
⁴⁸ On that same day the Lord told Moses, ⁴⁹ "Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo in Moab, across from Jericho, and view Canaan, the land I am giving the Israelites as their own possession. ⁵⁰ There on the mountain that you have climbed you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people. ⁵¹ This is because both of you broke faith with me in the presence of the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the Desert of Zin and because you did not uphold my holiness among the Israelites. ⁵² Therefore, you will see the land only from a distance; you will not enter the land I am giving to the people of Israel."

Deut 33

Then Moses, teary eyed, says, thank you, and I love you to all the people that made him what he was.

Moses Blesses the Tribes

¹ This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced on the Israelites before his death. ² He said:

"The Lord came from Sinai
and dawned over them from Seir;
he shone forth from Mount Paran.
He came with myriads of holy ones
from the south, from his mountain slopes.
³ Surely it is you who love the people;
all the holy ones are in your hand.
At your feet they all bow down,
and from you receive instruction,
⁴ the law that Moses gave us,
the possession of the assembly of Jacob.
⁵ He was king over Jeshurun
when the leaders of the people assembled,
along with the tribes of Israel.

⁶ "Let Reuben live and not die,
nor his men be few."

⁷ And this he said about Judah:

"Hear, O Lord , the cry of Judah;
bring him to his people.
With his own hands he defends his cause.
Oh, be his help against his foes!"

⁸ About Levi he said:

"Your Thummim and Urim belong
to the man you favored.
You tested him at Massah;
you contended with him at the waters of Meribah.
⁹ He said of his father and mother,
'I have no regard for them.'
He did not recognize his brothers
or acknowledge his own children,
but he watched over your word
and guarded your covenant.
¹⁰ He teaches your precepts to Jacob
and your law to Israel.
He offers incense before you
and whole burnt offerings on your altar.
¹¹ Bless all his skills, O Lord ,
and be pleased with the work of his hands.
Smite the loins of those who rise up against him;
strike his foes till they rise no more."

¹² About Benjamin he said:

"Let the beloved of the Lord rest secure in him,
for he shields him all day long,
and the one the Lord loves rests between his shoulders."

¹³ About Joseph he said:

"May the Lord bless his land
with the precious dew from heaven above
and with the deep waters that lie below;
¹⁴ with the best the sun brings forth
and the finest the moon can yield;
¹⁵ with the choicest gifts of the ancient mountains
and the fruitfulness of the everlasting hills;
¹⁶ with the best gifts of the earth and its fullness
and the favor of him who dwelt in the burning bush.
Let all these rest on the head of Joseph,
on the brow of the prince among ^[5] his brothers.
¹⁷ In majesty he is like a firstborn bull;
his horns are the horns of a wild ox.
With them he will gore the nations,
even those at the ends of the earth.
Such are the ten thousands of Ephraim;
such are the thousands of Manasseh."

¹⁸ About Zebulun he said:

"Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out,
and you, Issachar, in your tents.
¹⁹ They will summon peoples to the mountain
and there offer sacrifices of righteousness;
they will feast on the abundance of the seas,
on the treasures hidden in the sand."

²⁰ About Gad he said:

"Blessed is he who enlarges Gad's domain!
Gad lives there like a lion,
tearing at arm or head.
²¹ He chose the best land for himself;
the leader's portion was kept for him.
When the heads of the people assembled,
he carried out the Lord 's righteous will,
and his judgments concerning Israel."

²² About Dan he said:

"Dan is a lion's cub,
springing out of Bashan."

²³ About Naphtali he said:

"Naphtali is abounding with the favor of the Lord
and is full of his blessing;
he will inherit southward to the lake."

²⁴ About Asher he said:

"Most blessed of sons is Asher;
let him be favored by his brothers,
and let him bathe his feet in oil.
²⁵ The bolts of your gates will be iron and bronze,
and your strength will equal your days.

²⁶ "There is no one like the God of Jeshurun,
who rides on the heavens to help you
and on the clouds in his majesty.
²⁷ The eternal God is your refuge,
and underneath are the everlasting arms.
He will drive out your enemy before you,
saying, 'Destroy him!'
²⁸ So Israel will live in safety alone;
Jacob's spring is secure
in a land of grain and new wine,
where the heavens drop dew.
²⁹ Blessed are you, O Israel!
Who is like you,
a people saved by the Lord ?
He is your shield and helper
and your glorious sword.
Your enemies will cower before you,
and you will trample down their high places. "

Deut 34

The Death of Moses

¹ Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. There the Lord showed him the whole land-from Gilead to Dan, ² all of Naphtali, the territory of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea, ³ the Negev and the whole region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar. ⁴ Then the Lord said to him, "This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, 'I will give it to your descendants.' I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it."
⁵ And Moses the servant of the Lord died there in Moab, as the Lord had said. ⁶ He buried him in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his grave is. ⁷ Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone. ⁸ The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning was over.
⁹ Now Joshua son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands on him. So the Israelites listened to him and did what the Lord had commanded Moses.
¹⁰ Since then, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, ¹¹ who did all those miraculous signs and wonders the Lord sent him to do in Egypt-to Pharaoh and to all his officials and to his whole land. ¹² For no one has ever shown the mighty power or performed the awesome deeds that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.

The last chapter of Deuteronomy is also it’s undoing. Remember that the idea of the bible is that it is the word of god. God cannot lie. God cannot tell falsehoods. This book was supposed to have been written by Moses the Mass Murderer himself…how could he have written about his death? Moreover, how could he have written what became of Joshua after he is death.

Notice also in Deut 34:10-11 it reads, “No prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, who did all those miraculous signs…” Talk about tooting your own horn. I thought, In Moses’ own words, he was the most humble of all the Israelites?

Running contradictions: 17

1. http://www.fastpapers911.com/aessays/a45.html

2. http://www.jlgc.org/jlgcnews/025/ainu.htm

3. http://physics.about.com/library/dict/blschrodingerscat.htm?terms=schrodinger+cat