Pillars of Fire and Smoke, Splitting a Sea in Two, Water from a Rock, and More...
There are so many supposed miracles in the Old Testament that are claimed to have taken place when the Children of Israel were fleeing Egypt. It would be far too much to put it all into one blog and so I have broken it up into several postings as you can probably surmise from previous posts.
The manner in which many preachers twist and turn the stories of the Bible into some kind of morality Dear Abby column is disturbing. And there is always that little hint of, "Hey, don't worry about what God tells you to do. Just do it. Even if other people would not do it, you should still do it because that is what God wants of you. Other people who don't understand cannot understand because they don't believe in the truth as you do."
Nice. That is how the bastards who flew the planes into the World Trade Center approached their life and supposed spiritual calling. The infidels won't understand because they don't have the truth so you just go on and do what I tell you to do.
The preacher here says something along the lines of there are people who will not understand what you do because it is not logical, makes no sense. Remember I am paraphrasing that. However, those with the truth will not let it bother them that they do not know what the hell is going on. They just have faith and follow whatever God says because God knows what he is doing. God will be your pillar of fire and pillar of smoke. Ludicrous.
So, I am wondering whether or not the pillar of fire the Israelites saw was similar to what is in this clip. It is interesting, but not all that impressive. I have seen scarier looking tornadoes on the weather channel. Of course, I am sure if I were standing right there I would say something somewhat different. I mean, geeze, fire kills right?
I would probably be freaked out by a ginormous pillar of fire traipsing around the desert. Yes. That would be scary. But I know for sure I would not follow it with the hope that wherever the pillar of fire was going it knew what it was doing and would get me there safely. The definition of faith does not include making stupid, uninformed decisions.
I liked this video and think this gentleman did a good job of bringing across his opinion and providing a valid line of philosophical reasoning to back up what he was saying. I also like the fact he grew up in a very religious family and had far more than a simple working knowledge of the Bible and what people thought or felt that it meant.
The title of this video is hilarious: Signs of God Announcing His Judgment. It does not matter that anyone knows how fire works and how weather and heat and wind and all that fun stuff affects it...because it is all a sign from God. So stupid. It is nothing more than an out of control fire taking place in an area suffering from drought and high winds. Geeze.
Hello boys and girls. My name is Aunt Fruitcake and I have a story for you. It is called, "Do everything that God says to do and you won't burn in hell forever like everyone else will." Awww, the sweet stories people drowning in religion teach their children.
This is a fucked up video. Seriously. It is quite graphic. I have not posted it out of a desire to be disrespectful but out of a desire to show how the religiously deluded take every terrible and wicked thing possible and use that to try to peddle the supposed power and wares of their terrible God. Does that make them feel better? I do not know.
Maybe they figure they can get far more religious recruits by scaring people half to death and showing them terrible pictures while at the same time implying that if people don't believe in a certain manner something similar or equally terrible will happen to them.
By the way, do you like the opening screen shots that show the clouds? Sure, the clouds are large and beautiful but her attempt to draw a religious parallel fails miserably.
Don't you just love what-if scenarios? This is a hoot. Why, look what we have found...chariot wheels in the Red Sea! Well, that MUST mean the story in the Bible of Moses parting the Red Sea must be true. So retarded. You know how many civilizations utilized the chariot? Especially in that region? Do you think a busted up chariot is going to last that long under the water? Oh, but the water is cold and preserved the chariot wheel. Whatever.
So many interpreters of the Bible can't even agree on where the supposed crossing of the Red Sea took place. Due to that fact many groups and religious individuals do everything they can with whatever information they have to meld a believable story for all those who would follow.
So, this video opens with the words of knowing who the I AM is and whether or not He is trusted. You know, I was thinking. I have trusted people in my life. The people I have deeply trusted I still trust to this day. Never once has any of the people I have trusted so deeply ever led me to think or believe or suspect or worry that something is not quite right or something might go wrong or maybe I am trusting for the wrong reason but I will take the chance, no. Never. There is no question in my mind I can trust these individuals.
Then we have God. It seems like the guy is always saying or doing something that leaves the humbled human being wondering what the hell is going on and whether or not what God is telling them to do is a good idea or a bad idea or a very big mistake. If God is so great and so powerful and so wonderful and so awesome there would not be one being who would ever question or wonder whether or not what they were being asked to do was the right thing.
Well, look what we have here! Another interpretation of the Exodus story and what the Bible REALLY meant in regards to that story. Are you surprised? You shouldn't be. It is business as usual for the hypocrisy of religion.
As you watch and read this clip I want you to pay close attention to the distance traveled by the fleeing Israelites from Egypt and Pharaoh's presence to the Red Sea. Now, are you going to tell me that anywhere from 600,000 to 1.5 million people (men, women, and children) and flocks, HERDS of animals traveled that distance in the time stated by the Bible?
It is a crock of shit plain and simple. Unless, of course, God waived His magic wand and allowed the Israelites not only the power to walk really REALLY fast (the animals and kids and babies, too) but the extra power to NOT get tired from walking so far for so long. They would have to be walking at an enormous rate 24 hours a day for days on end. No stops. No encampments.
So, if God had the power to grant all of these amazing powers and miracles to the Israelites why the hell didn't He just give them the power to leave in the first place instead of dragging them through supposed 400 years of slavery and then a bit more time as God decided exacting some plagues upon pharaoh was a good idea? Why kill all the first-born if God can just take His people out and get it over with? Wait, that's right...that was God's plan.
This God of the Bible is not a good guy. Read what it says in Exodus about what God did to pharaoh. God purposely hardened the pharaoh's heart so that God would have a reason to plague Egypt. Total loser of a God. So wrong and so unethical in so many ways it is no wonder why so many people have had it with religion and its method of murderous stupidity.
More people going out of their way and doing everything possible in an effort to force the stories of the Bible to fit into some kind of absurd explanation that is passed off as logic but really isn't.
This one is pretty fucking funny. I like the quasi-techno music in the beginning that I supposed is intended to spark great joy in the believer who watches this crap. Listen to the explanations of this rock and really look at the landscape they are pointing to as they are trying to describe why a rock isn't really a rock but an altar. And to think we have people who truly believe this delusion under the guise that believing without any question not only shows their deep level of faith, but it also doubles as a validating factor for whatever cracker jack is being believed.
So much for the people in the previous video finding the rock that Moses supposedly bonked with his staff in order to draw water out of it. Every religion stakes its claim and proclaims its truth and decrees that all others are wrong and false. It is all completely devoid of intellect and common sense.
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