Bears, fire, ninjas, and foreskins: The Nine Most Badass Bible Verses

[womzilla]

Finally, a full-out crossover between first-person shooters, Star Wars, and Old Testament scholarship.

From Cracked.com.

It's brilliant in its simplicity, and we're surprised religious debates were ever carried out any other way after that. You can raise all the intellectual challenges you want about faith and the origins of the universe, but at the end of the day, you have to worship the god who can set you on fire. It's common sense.

We like to think Elijah stood in front of the howling column of heavenly fire, straightened his robes, turned to the crowd and said, "Thus, my opponent's argument falls." Then, he finished the debate in the way that all debates should be finished: by having the losers slaughtered.

via supergee, via mckitterick

Comments

[eakawie.livejournal.com]

I liked this article, but I think they made a major omission by not including the tale of Dina, Shechem and her brothers, Genesis 34, 1-30 (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=9&search=genesis+34).

Dina, only daughter of Jacob, goes to hang with the local women. The son of the local chieftain, Shechem, rapes her, then wants to marry her. His dad, Hamor takes the opportunity to try to make an alliance with Jacob. Jacob says, "No dice, unless you guys get circumcised." So Hamor agrees, and has all of the men of his city circumcised.

Three days later, while the men of the city are layng around with the desert equivalent of icepacks on their crotches, two of Dina's brothers, Shimon and Levi, kill all the men of the city and take their stuff.

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

Also Jael and Sisera, of Tent Peg Through the Head fame. The Book of Judges is an amazing gift that keeps on giving.