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Cursing fig trees for not having fruit when it wasn't
the season

Mark 11:12-14. "12. And on the morrow, when they were
come from Bethany, he was hungry: 13. And seeing a fig
tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find
any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing
but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. 14. And Jesus
answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter
for ever. And his disciples heard it."

Imagine this! The Lord of Lords and creator of heaven and
earth expected to find fruit on a tree when it was not that
time of year!


God is turned away by dung

Deut. 23:12-14. "12. Thou shalt have a place also without
the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad: 13. And thou
shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when
thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and
shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee: 14.
For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to
deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee;
therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean
thing in thee, and turn away from thee."

Christians will readily and quickly refer to these verses to try
and demonstrate the cleanliness principles of the Jews vs.
many other nations of the world that allegedly didn't bury
their dung. All nonsense aside, these texts have nothing to
do with cleanliness, but holiness (Vs. 14) - god didn't want to
see human dung (never mind the fact that God is omniscient
and omnipresent and therefore, actually a part of the dung).
For some reason, just like humans, the god of the bible has
a thing against dung even though God is a spirit and it
shouldn't affect him at all.


Needlessly cut off the head of a cow

Deuteronomy 21:1-4. "1. If one be found slain in the land
which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the
field, and it be not known who hath slain him: 2. Then thy
elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall
measure unto the cities which are round about him that is
slain: 3. And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the
slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer,
which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn
in the yoke; 4. And the elders of that city shall bring down
the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor
sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the
valley."

What kind of ridiculous ritual is this? A perfectly good cow
gets beheaded, for what? How does beheading a cow affect
the fact that a man is dead?


Bizarre cruelty

Exodus 21:2-6. "2. If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years
he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for
nothing... 5. And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my
master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: 6.
Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall
also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his
master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall
serve him for ever."

Isn't this a little bit drastic?


Wife grabbing balls

Deuteronomy 25:11-12. "11. When men strive together one
with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to
deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him,
and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:
12.Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity
her."

Evidently this sort of thing was a problem in Old Testament
times!

(JH)