I think @anon61221983 needs an update of her Bugs Bunny Florida gif. Doesnāt cut quite high enough up.
Of courseā¦
[quote=āfrauenfelder, post:1, topic:79513ā]Hereās more from the passage (New Living Translation):[/quote]Well, gee, thereās scarcely any Bible passage that wonāt start to sound a bit strange if you put it in sufficiently wide context (though this one would definitely seem to be a particularly straightforward case).
Addressing God with a prayer for harm to another person instead of for his salvation is de facto performing a Black Mass.
However, we should add the media to our prayer list because they are pushing a narrative to create controversy and that is exactly what the American people are tired of.ā
That is some quality smarm. I have to admit.
This fine fellow aside; the question of āimprecatory prayerā is kind of an entertaining read. Itās a matter of some controversy among various branches of Team Jesus, ranging from those who gleefully hope that the magic will actually work to those who suspect that asking the all loving prince of peace to kill people for them might not be entirely well thought out.
New Living Translation
The /what/ translation?
*looks up story of āmodernizationā effort * ā¦ eww.
Itās important to keep all those old-timey words in the bible so people are reminded how out-of-touch it is.
Only if you shred a wicked bass riff while doing so. \__/
In a more general sense, I have a hard time with the whole concept of this kind of prayer. No, not the āGod, harm my enemies oneā, that, yes, I do. I mean, in general, all prayers that sound like a long list of DEMANDS you make of God, like he is your servant.
Oh Lord, do this, do that, take this, write down the other, scratch that other part, ensure this and that happens, and ā¦
I just imagine the sky opens and some ray of light descend on them and a booming voice says:
āAnd fuck you, Iām God, you twat. Who do you think you are? Iāll do what I please, and is starting to please me to give you a very hard case of genital herpes. You want all that stuff, you do it yourself, because Iām not your fucking rented thug and I dont care about your petty stupid fightsā
A Biblical line about removing the mote from oneās own eye comes to mind.
(Specifically Matthew 7:3.)
Hey, weāre Americans, donāt try to tell us what we are and arenāt tired of. We can be tired of a lot of things. Being tired of things is kinda what we do.
Why go to the trouble of trying to locate some teeny little mote when you could just Matthew 5:29 the problem and eliminate all current and future motes?
Yup. āConcubineā tends to be replaced in newer translations with āhandmaiden.ā Implying a housekeeper, when the more accurate translation is āsex slave.ā
Also, from Wikipedia article about NLT:
The method combined an attempt to translate the original texts simply
and literally with a dynamic equivalence synergy approach used to convey
the thoughts behind the text where a literal translation may have been
difficult to understand or even misleading to modern readers.
Because people interpreting the āthoughts behind the textā has certainly never lead to misunderstandingā¦ and ādifficult to understand?ā yeahā¦itās the āword of god.ā Your brain is the size of two fists. Get over it.
If you have ever read THE HANDMAIDāS TALE, you can see where they are going with this.
Now that I want to see!
As far as Iām concerned he can pray for God to strike me dead all he wants.
That line always makes me think of the novel āCarrieā (which was much more horrific than the original movie); thereās a flashback to an instance of the abuse that Carrie suffered at the hands of her insanely zealous mother:
At five years old Carrieās mother catches her looking at their teenaged neighbor, who is sunbathing in the backyard next door. The girlās top accidentally slips and exposes her bare breasts and Mrs White flips the fuck out; to the point that sheās actually about to try to gouge out her own daughterās eyesā¦
And thatās when Carrieās powers actually manifest for the first time, whence she wills an immense hail of sleet to come crashing down on the White household.
Yāknow someone recently asked me what Iām so worried about with this particular election and whatās at stake.
The Handmaids Tale is a prime example of what really worries me; a dismal future with no agency or hope for anyone, let alone women.
