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[โ€“] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You didn't even make it to the part where a man of god uses nature magic to summon bears to kill 42 children, or where a guy is mad that a father gives him the wrong daughter as property that he combines genocide with animal abuse!

For me, nothing tops the guy whose neighbors want to rape the angel that came to visit him, so he offers the crowd his daughters to rape instead.

[โ€“] spittingimage@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That first bit is part of the Apocrypha. It's not in the official bible.

[โ€“] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's from Second Kings 2:23-25, which is part of the Torah and the official 66 books of the bible. Though some (most) translations say that the curse is in the name of the lord/god.

From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. โ€œGet out of here, baldy!โ€ they said. โ€œGet out of here, baldy!โ€ He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys. And he went on to Mount Carmel and from there returned to Samaria.

[โ€“] dgriffith@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

some boys

two bears

mauled forty-two of them

Just how many boys in totality are we talking about here? And did the bears have to stop and take a break?

And he went on to Mount Carmel and...

"And then he went about his day, completely disregarding the two exhausted bears and the 42 mauled boys that were part of a sizable mob that he casually called a curse down upon'

[โ€“] spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the specifics.