Hindsight is 20/20, and if I was in the crowd whom Moses is talking to in Deuteronomy 11, and knew what I know now, I'd have to call Moses out on his b.s. Of course, I'd probably be stoned for blasphemy, too.
Chapter 11 is basically an appeal to the Israelites, and it can be summed up real quick. Follow these commandments that I give you; and you will be blessed. Don't follow them; your life is going to suck.
Even if I'm trying to be sympathetic to these guys in the Old Testament, I can't. It's just so easy to see through their facade. This is really just politics of fear. "If you're not with us; you're against us."
But that's cool, I have read this in the past, but not as critical. Now, as I read the Bible I am increasingly amazed that people think this is the "greatest book of all time," especially when it is most emphatically NOT. Shakespeare is better than this. Hell, reading Hegel's ramblings on the Zeitgeist is better than this!
But still I trudge on. Next time, Yahweh asks the Israelites to drink blood during their sacrifices.
2 comments:
Ok Dennis, I see where you got it from. This post.
My impression is that there is a political elite who is using this newly established religion to control the Israelites.
They seem to be having a continuous problem with people going off and worshiping other gods. And doing so undermines their attempts to establish this new Israelite society.
A lot of the content in the Pentateuch is written by multiple authors, some of them during the time when Israelites create Israel and Judah.
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