• madcaesar@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    In the Bible payment is made in foreskins… Yes foreskins… So much fucked up shit in that book.

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      10 months ago

      You’re missing a key part to the story, Saul (no, not that Saul/Paul) was buying selling a human woman with those foreskins.
      And who was the person who wanted traded these foreskins in exchange for the human woman? David, as in, David and Goliath.

      Edit: swapped the vendor/purchaser. I left the religion about 20 years ago, so I should probably fact-check myself before posting.

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        10 months ago

        Kinda got it backwards-King Saul required David to do it for his daughter’s hand in marriage. David and his squad killed 200 of Saul’s (Israel’s) sworn enemies. That was the source of the payment.

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          10 months ago

          Thanks for the correction. I left the religion about 20 years ago, so I should probably fact-check myself before posting about it. Memories are not perfect.

    • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Oh isn’t there also a part when the israelites circumsize the whole enemy army after defeat or something like that? I also like the part about Job where god literally bets with the devil how Job will keep his faith and then proceeds to kill his family and destroy his livelihood, bringing him to poverty and edge of death. And because he keeps believing he then gives him a new family and stuff but how fucked up is that for a "benevolent’ god?