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Daily Bible Study

Here’s the link in case you’re following along at home.

I’m only halfway through, but let me just say - Jesus Fuckin’ Christ. I was reading the Exodus bit and it was all blah blah altar to burn incense on, blah blah composition of the holy oil, blah blah wash your feet blah. Then suddenly it stopped being Jehovah’s blueprints for the priesthood and as they used to say in the Dukes of Hazzard, Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Jesse and the boys were gettin’ in a whole mess of trouble. Or in this case, Aaron and the people of Israel, making a golden calf and worshipping it.

Money quotes:

And Jehovah said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.

And Jehovah repented of the evil which he said he would do unto his people.

And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

Then we go onto Proverbs: Boring Edition.

A faithful witness will not lie; But a false witness uttereth lies.

Go into the presence of a foolish man, And thou shalt not perceive [in him] the lips of knowledge.

No way!

Skipping back to the gospel reading, it was a segment of Matthew I’m decently familiar with: the Christian extensions of the ten Commandments. Don’t just not kill; don’t even call names. Lust = adultery in the heart. Real Jimmy Carter stuff. To take it more seriously, some of the most important principles of my religion. And I do take it seriously — or at least, I work hard at it.

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