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#17193
Papabear
Why would anyone worship a god who had 42 kids mauled to death by bears simply for taunting someone about his baldness. God, the omnipotent, omniscient, good and loving deity, the God who is said to be love itself, should be at least a wee bit above youthful mocking.
I assert that anyone stupid and cruel enough to defend such an action is a social primitive and a dangerously sociopathic person.
2/24/2006 12:43:17 AM
#48068
Redhunter
Do we know that the kids knew he was a profit, er prophet? How is the repeating of a phrase and the mocking of male-pattern baldness worthy of death for one, much less 42? Did every single kid make a comment? Is the inflated ego of god so fragile that he dooms 42 kids to be mauled to death by bears? Harsh, maybe? A little over the top?
First of all, I don't see how 2 bears could capture and kill all 42 boys. Doesn't seem likely that the bears would have the firepower to take down that many. But it is the supposed moral that is the sticking point with a lot of folk.
\"you're bald,\" is countered with, ripped limb from limb by an enraged bear. It doesn't really surprise me that god nailed his kid to a tree.
6/30/2006 11:16:13 AM
#48125
David D.G.
Papabear, obviously this was intended to be a case of \"tough love.\" You've got to bear down when trouble is bruin among the kids.
~David D.G.
6/30/2006 2:07:42 PM
#49536
Redhunter
David.....you should apologize for the bad puns. ;)
shame shame.
7/5/2006 11:14:37 AM
#49599
David D.G.
Au contraire, Redhunter; your groans and admonitions are my applause, which acknowledge by taking a bow!
~David D.G.
7/5/2006 4:21:21 PM
#49688
Julian
But everyone knows male pattern baldness is God's punishment for having too much testosterone, so the children were right to mock him!
7/6/2006 4:13:51 AM
#933996
Tormentor of Religion
Ok. Since you're apparently a prophet, I'll call YOU bald. There. Now where's my 2 bears?
4/4/2009 7:14:33 AM
#934002
Clown
Now, the real question is: what was added during translations: number 2 or number 4?
Question number two: were children that stupid as not a single one ran for help? If so, then I call that natural selection, not god.
4/4/2009 7:21:09 AM
#1215717
Lizuka
God's awfully petty if he kills 40 people over daring to call a friend of his bald.
10/7/2010 3:27:50 AM
#1215890
If your god thought being bald was such an embarrassment then he shouldn't have taken that fucker's hair. But I guess throwing 42 lives away to wild animals was easier than reversing hair loss. And then these christ fuckers complain about Romans throwing them to the lions.
10/7/2010 8:16:24 AM
#1215923
GigaGuess
Yeah, that'll show them not to fuck with a God of Love and Mercy.
10/7/2010 9:25:36 AM
#1215970
Swede
What about the Commandment "Thou shalt not kill"?
10/7/2010 11:50:53 AM
#1219724
ColorAndSound
Because of course, a single insult is worthy of mass child murder. *rolls eyes* Stupidity at its best.
10/19/2010 4:47:32 PM
#1219805
But why kill them? A stern talking to, a bit of flogging or going without dinner would also be a judgement and a punisment, but one they could actually learn something from.
10/20/2010 2:34:33 AM
#1219823
Masker
I've heard that there are translations issues with that parrticular story. I may be wrong , but it seems that the original meaning was that those "kids" were actually youths (teenagers) and that mocking Elisha was a threat before attacking him. In that case, sending bears to defend him seems more reasonable. 42 teenagers are perfectly able to kill an adult man, especially if he is old enough to start going bald.
Received's argument, however, makes no sense. There is no reason to believe that those youths were aware of who Elisha was and killing them for calling someone bald it is too much of an overkill in this context. Again, the Old Testament God is very different from the God Jesus talked about, so standards have changed a lot since then.
10/20/2010 6:11:56 AM
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