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corbert31

Ezekial 4:9 bread

My brother just shared a picture of “Ezekiel 4:9 Bread” with the comment “I wonder if people actually read the verse?”

For myself I am happy if they stop at verse 9 - I would not ever want to eat 4:12 bread...

Posted Sep 14, 2020, 5:27 PM UTC

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[deleted]•

I've always wondered if people that claim to be Christians ever actually read the bible at all.

They like to call it the "good book" but it reads more like the story of a lunatic. Passages instructing followers to murder their 1st born son, to smear blood above your front door and so on. It always read more like a book about a sociopath to me. Imagine if someone in real life suggested you do those things today?

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corbert31OP•

Have you heard “The good book” by Tim Minchin? “I think his song is the best explanation you will ever get...

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ganymede_boyAtheist•

At least it wasn't Ezekiel 23:20 bread.

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FlyingSquid•

Don't knock it 'till you've tried it.

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sdhopunk•

Wow, 30+ different translations !

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And one more kinky than the next.

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MisanthropicScottGnostic Atheist•

Even if they stop at verse 9, it sounds like a recipe for bread and massive bed sores!

Ezekiel 4:9: And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them into one vessel, and make bread for yourself. During the number of days that you lie on your side, three hundred ninety days, you shall eat it.

Yeesh!! You really do not want to lie on one side for 390 days!!!

I can smell the rotting flesh from here! Yecch!!!

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Machaeon•

Can't say I've tried it, but I'm skeptical of how well you can use human excrement as fuel in a primitive oven or just an open fire...

Doesn't quite strike me that there's enough in there that'd be easily flammable. At least with cow/bison/camel dung that has precedent for fuel use, they eat a lot of plant matter that... sticks around... afterwards, and is flammable. I don't think we eat enough fiber for that, let alone on a diet solely of grains.

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corbert31OP•

Nobody said god was smart...

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corbert31OP•

For those lacking in google-fu “12 Eat the food as you would a loaf of barley bread; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement(D) for fuel.”

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88redking88Strong Atheist•

"But these are holy books"

That's a load of crap. Now take it and burn it like excrement.

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Talk about an OCD god.

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