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One of the most interesting things I've ever read by a professing pagan. Did Murningham ever notice that pagans get the least and worst sex in the Bible? Maybe it ain't only celestial...?
--WC
06/11 |
The Bible Inherently has Sex whithin it as any anthology of history. Of course there was incest rampant among the verses and stories because there were a limited amount of People(families) around(line of Adam plus some oddly scattered people in the world[Genesis]). Oddly enough, the initial rule was to be fruitful and multiply. And if anyone can tell me how homopsexuality can bring about children(no adoption, no artificial insemenation, no cloning) let me know.
--E.P.
11/27 |
fuck off
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11/02 |
Did the one lover say she shitted her pants at the sight of her lover??????????
--T.M.
07/05 |
It's an interesting article but hardly deep enough for one who claims to be a medievalist - I think the writer does not understand how to work at the level of multiple interpretations - the bible is both a "readerly" text and a "writerly" text ... so it can be handled in many ways and the way he has chosen to do it is kind of juvenile for those who have "been there done that" in terms of seeing the sex and incest stuff - however the last line has "the ring of truth" (i am sure the writer hasnt read that book by j.b. phillips - highly recommended) when he says that it is more interesting than tv - congrats anyway you should get a lot of response to this piece ...
--av
02/20 |
As a christian and religion major who found may way to this web site, I was pretty impressed. I was actaully surprised it didn't mention Hoseah being married to a prostitute. I have enjoyed the rich literature in the Bible for years and am glad to see other people discovering all the great stuff in there.
--AW
01/02 |
Sometimes I am surprised that those who think the Bible is....the Holy Book, and condemn others based on the Scripture for "fornication" etc. don't pause and wonder at the irony...
--acq
11/15 |
Oh, how wonderfully satisfying an article.
Yeah, I too read the entire Bible at a fairly young age and wondered if I had the right book. This couldn't be the same as the one they talked about in my Episcopalian confirmation class. Maybe they thought the language of the King James version would hide everything from us. But some of us had already struggled through Shakespeare. Nothing was hidden.
And nothing I've read since could even compare.
--erq
10/19 |
I told you the Holy Bible is worth reading.
--Ella
09/11 |
Jack zu saugen:
'Now the inhabitants of Sodom were not called Sodomites for nothing, so when they see the two male angels certified hotties going into Lot's house, they want a piece of the action. "Both old and young, all the people from every quarter" circle around Lot's house, banging on his
door, calling, "Where are the men which came in to thee this night? Bring them to us that we may know them." Among the fabulous euphemisms for sex in the King James translation, "to know" is one of my favorites. I envision a mob of sex fiends hemmed in around Antonio Sabato Jr., screaming, "We want to know you, we just want to know you." You get the
point. '
this is distressing. i do get the point, and the point is to get a couple of cheap yucks out of nerve's readership. rejoice in the euphemism alway: and again i say rejoice. but you're talking about a 400-year-old ENGLISH euphemism, and thereby misleading your readers.
many biblical scholars (notably, john boswell) quibble about the translation "know," pointing out that the original verb "yada" is NOT the one that's generally used in the OT to translate into carnal knowledge. of 943 usages of "yada" all but 10 are in the context of becoming acquainted. the *other* word that often got king-jamesed into "know" was "shakab" -- this one's unambiguously sexual. anyhow, it is *not* cut-and-dry that the bastards at the door were libidinous; they may have just wanted to fuck *with* somebody.
yada yada yada.
furthermore, against the common perception that homosexual behavior was THE abominable sin for which the LORD destroyed sodom, note that the prophet ezekiel, channeling yahweh, spake otherwise: "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance
of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good." (Eze. 16:49, 50). the "abomination" referred to here, BTW, is in fact "tow'ebah", which translates literally to "idol worship". in ezekiel and elsewhere, sodom is consistently refered to as the "sister" of jerusalem, and the authors often (e.g., Isaiah 3:8-9; Jeremiah 23:14, and Ezekiel 16:51) rank jerusalem as significantly more slatternly.
Now, mind you, this was a very entertaining ramble. verily did i chuckle with many chuckles till the sides of my sides did ache. i just start to itch when i see that commonest of oversimplifications (if not downright obfuscations) being perpetuated by the Certifiably Bright.
--ggg
08/11 |
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