Jehovah Wants Bears to Maul You
I found this fun little verse (2 Kings 2: 23-25) whilst reading a book today:
Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up the road, some youths came from the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”
So he turned around and looked at them, and pronounced a curse on them in the name of the Lord. And two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.
Then he went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.
This comes from a 6th-century (BC) story involving the prophet Elisha. By the casual nature of the passage, you would think she-bears mauling young men was an every day occurrence back then. Bloody hell!
No offense god, but this seems a little harsh, don’t you think? Hitler and his minions killed off a couple million Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, and black people, plus Germany and Japan were directly responsible for the loss of another 20 or so million civilians and soldiers during WW2. Where were the she-bears then? They could have at least mauled a couple of German soldiers, eh? Talk about disproportionate!
I hope nothing like this ever happens to me. So long as I don’t set up a political and religious website that mocks contemporary society and all the global religions, including Christianity and Judaism, I should probably be ok. Whew…glad I don’t have that to worry about.
