Amos Chapter 2: Bible Study by Atheists

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[00:00:07] If you can justify everything that the God of the Bible has done, then you can justify any of your behavior.

[00:00:14] A lot of this mentality is trickling into what is now mainstream right-wing Christianity.

[00:00:21] I am capable of empathy greater than this God of the Bible.

[00:00:26] This is a Bible that they tell kids. This is the good Lord. This is the good book.

[00:00:32] He is fantasizing about murder, mass murder.

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[00:00:48] Wife!

[00:00:49] Do you remember what happened yesterday?

[00:00:52] Well, we read the first chapter of Amos.

[00:00:55] We did.

[00:00:56] Yeah, and in that chapter, God was a murderous dickhead.

[00:01:01] That tracks?

[00:01:02] Yeah.

[00:01:03] Sounds about right.

[00:01:04] And he was mad at a lot of people like the Philistines and lots of people.

[00:01:09] Whatever.

[00:01:10] Tires.

[00:01:10] Tires.

[00:01:12] Ammonites.

[00:01:13] Tires.

[00:01:13] Yeah, and it was mostly for doing shit that God's done in the past in the Bible.

[00:01:18] Yeah.

[00:01:18] So I found it quite hypocritical.

[00:01:22] As usual.

[00:01:23] And overly mean.

[00:01:25] Yes.

[00:01:26] That was my takeaway.

[00:01:27] Well, I mean, it said in the intro, when I was telling you what this book is about,

[00:01:32] that this is one of the more violent and vitriolic, heated books of the Bible.

[00:01:38] Yeah, and it lived up to its end of the bargain there.

[00:01:42] It's only nine chapters.

[00:01:43] Right?

[00:01:44] Yeah.

[00:01:45] I mean, well, Joel is only three chapters.

[00:01:47] Right.

[00:01:47] So, you know.

[00:01:48] Yeah.

[00:01:48] But this one's like, he's a mean son of a bitch.

[00:01:51] Right.

[00:01:52] Don't like.

[00:01:52] No, I don't either.

[00:01:54] So that was Amos chapter one.

[00:01:56] Sure as fuck was.

[00:01:57] Which means that today we're getting into...

[00:02:00] Amos chapter two.

[00:02:01] Let's do this.

[00:02:02] Okie dokie.

[00:02:09] Alrighty doodle.

[00:02:10] We are going to hop into this second chapter of Amos.

[00:02:13] Alright.

[00:02:15] This is what the Sovereign Lord says.

[00:02:17] Is it now?

[00:02:18] Mm-hmm.

[00:02:19] For three sins of Moab, even for four, I'll not relent.

[00:02:24] Even for four.

[00:02:25] Even for four.

[00:02:26] Not even for that fourth one.

[00:02:27] Yeah.

[00:02:28] And five is right out.

[00:02:29] Okay.

[00:02:30] Yeah.

[00:02:31] Because he burned to ashes the bones of Edom's king, I will send fire on Moab.

[00:02:38] Fuck those guys that will consume the fortresses of Kerioth.

[00:02:42] Huh.

[00:02:43] Moab will go down in great tumult amid war cries and the blast of the trumpet.

[00:02:50] Oh, okay.

[00:02:51] So there's going to be a war.

[00:02:54] Mm-hmm.

[00:02:54] There's going to be a war.

[00:02:55] I'm going to get you.

[00:02:56] Yeah.

[00:02:56] Mm-hmm.

[00:02:57] I will destroy her ruler and kill all her officials with him, says the Lord.

[00:03:03] Yeah.

[00:03:04] This God.

[00:03:05] Mm-hmm.

[00:03:05] The God.

[00:03:06] That's, you know, the God.

[00:03:07] Yeah.

[00:03:08] Yeah.

[00:03:10] This is what the Lord says.

[00:03:12] Yeah.

[00:03:13] For three sins of Judah.

[00:03:15] Even for four.

[00:03:16] Even for four.

[00:03:17] Yeah.

[00:03:18] Yeah.

[00:03:18] I will not relent.

[00:03:19] Because they have rejected the law of the Lord and not kept his, you know, my decrees.

[00:03:26] Yeah.

[00:03:26] Because they have been led astray by false gods, those fuckers.

[00:03:31] The gods their ancestors followed.

[00:03:34] I will send fire on Judah that will consume the fortresses of Jerusalem.

[00:03:40] Wait, weren't we just destroying Moab and some, like, enemies and now we're destroying Judah?

[00:03:46] Yeah.

[00:03:47] Each chapter, do you remember in the intro?

[00:03:49] Yeah.

[00:03:49] Each chapter is getting closer to home.

[00:03:51] I got it.

[00:03:52] I got it.

[00:03:52] Yeah.

[00:03:52] Okay.

[00:03:53] Yeah.

[00:03:53] So, here we come.

[00:03:54] It's about to get on Israel now.

[00:03:56] Okay.

[00:03:58] This is what the Sovereign Lord says.

[00:04:00] Yeah.

[00:04:01] For three sins of Israel.

[00:04:03] Even for.

[00:04:04] Even for four.

[00:04:05] Yeah.

[00:04:05] I will not relent.

[00:04:07] He's not going to relent.

[00:04:09] He won't.

[00:04:09] This guy is not going to stop.

[00:04:10] He's going to keep going.

[00:04:11] This guy is relentless.

[00:04:12] He is going to kill these people really, really hardcore.

[00:04:15] Yeah.

[00:04:16] Because that's what God does.

[00:04:18] One time my sister and I went to see this movie and the train would not stop.

[00:04:24] It was like the train.

[00:04:26] It was one of those, like, speed.

[00:04:29] Like, remember the movie Speed?

[00:04:32] The one that was on a train though?

[00:04:33] Yeah.

[00:04:34] It was that one.

[00:04:35] That train didn't stop.

[00:04:36] No.

[00:04:37] And they kept talking about the train.

[00:04:39] And so finally, like, I think she and I and like maybe two other people were the only ones in the theater.

[00:04:45] And I go, the train, the train, the motherfucking train.

[00:04:50] The train won't stop.

[00:04:54] Because that that fucking train would not stop.

[00:04:56] It was relentless.

[00:04:58] Yeah.

[00:04:58] Just like this fucker.

[00:04:59] Yeah.

[00:05:00] It wouldn't have mattered if there was like three, even four roadblocks in its way.

[00:05:05] No.

[00:05:05] No.

[00:05:06] It would have just kept going.

[00:05:07] Yeah.

[00:05:08] Uh huh.

[00:05:09] They sell the innocent for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals.

[00:05:15] Damn.

[00:05:16] Those fuckers.

[00:05:17] They're like, um, would you take this kid?

[00:05:21] I gotta get some more shoes.

[00:05:22] I mean, I need some fucking sandals.

[00:05:25] If I throw in a change of clothes for the kid, could I get my nails did too?

[00:05:31] Right.

[00:05:32] Yeah.

[00:05:33] They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the ground and denied justice to the oppressed.

[00:05:40] Father and son use the same girl.

[00:05:44] Ew.

[00:05:44] And so profane my holy name.

[00:05:48] They use the same girl.

[00:05:50] I got it.

[00:05:51] But there was a lot of that though in the Bible where they were, you know.

[00:05:54] But the way they phrase it, like, you know, I took some milk out of the fridge and poured myself.

[00:06:01] Like I used a glass for the milk.

[00:06:04] I used a girl for the fucking.

[00:06:05] I used a cow for the getting the milk.

[00:06:09] Right.

[00:06:09] I used the stove for the cooking.

[00:06:12] And then I used the girl again for the fucking.

[00:06:14] It was rather callous and shallow.

[00:06:17] Right.

[00:06:17] You know, they use the same girl, you know, the way you do.

[00:06:20] Right.

[00:06:21] Yeah.

[00:06:21] You would think if you were railing against this as a God because it was wrong, you would phrase that differently.

[00:06:27] Right.

[00:06:27] In a different manner.

[00:06:29] Okay.

[00:06:29] So look.

[00:06:30] Okay.

[00:06:30] We're going to play act here.

[00:06:32] I'm God for a minute.

[00:06:33] Okay.

[00:06:33] Ready?

[00:06:34] Ready?

[00:06:34] So I'm God.

[00:06:36] And I'm not really mad that they use the same girl.

[00:06:40] I'm just mad that they did it in a different God's name.

[00:06:44] I mean, my people use the same girl all the time, but they know it's about the Yahweh.

[00:06:53] Right.

[00:06:53] You know, and they don't do the Asherah poles except for in the next chapter when I yell at them for doing the Asherah poles.

[00:07:01] Right.

[00:07:01] Okay.

[00:07:02] Yeah.

[00:07:03] I don't know if I was supposed to contribute or you just were monologuing as God there.

[00:07:07] Um, did you have anything to offer?

[00:07:09] I didn't really have anything to offer.

[00:07:10] Because honestly, like, that's what he sounds like to me.

[00:07:12] Sure.

[00:07:13] Yeah.

[00:07:13] Like, honestly.

[00:07:15] No, it's really bad.

[00:07:17] Like the things that we are, the problem is that we are talking about things that happen under his watch and that he condones oftentimes depending on the situation.

[00:07:27] Right.

[00:07:28] Right.

[00:07:28] Or at least overlooks.

[00:07:30] Yeah.

[00:07:31] And it just really depends on what is happening and what needs to happen according to this God and whatever.

[00:07:36] So, like, if you were writing a book, um, these things that only happen to move the plot forward, like, they would never fly.

[00:07:47] An editor would never let that pass.

[00:07:49] Right.

[00:07:49] Unless you were writing Fifty Shades of Grey or something drivel like that, which I shouldn't say that because, I mean, the author completed the novel and published it.

[00:08:01] Well, this is the Bible, right?

[00:08:03] It's been around for thousands of years and it's got so many followers, right?

[00:08:06] Like, there's so many people that follow this thing.

[00:08:08] But, like, you take a Star Trek fan and they're going to care way more about, like, correctness.

[00:08:15] Yeah.

[00:08:16] And holding to the same themes.

[00:08:18] Yes.

[00:08:19] Than what the Bible.

[00:08:20] Like, we're Star Trek fans and we're like, that's out of character.

[00:08:24] Why Sisko acting like that?

[00:08:26] Like, because we're watching Deep Space Nine right now, like, working our way through it.

[00:08:29] And we're like, why, why they write him like that this episode?

[00:08:33] That's not how that goes.

[00:08:35] Right.

[00:08:35] Or like, oh, Dex is dead?

[00:08:38] What the fuck?

[00:08:39] I didn't know that was coming because, you know, we never watched.

[00:08:41] Sure.

[00:08:42] Yeah.

[00:08:43] But I'm talking about more like, so like there's that, again, I'm going to, this is a deep cut on Star Trek, but like there's the, they covered this a while back where they're only allowed to go like four or five or something like that because it's going to destroy the fabric of the universe or something.

[00:08:58] Yeah, that was in Next Generation.

[00:09:00] Sure.

[00:09:00] And they brought it up.

[00:09:01] It was like a big deal.

[00:09:03] Right.

[00:09:03] But they don't hold to that.

[00:09:05] It never comes up again.

[00:09:06] Right.

[00:09:07] Not ever.

[00:09:08] Yeah.

[00:09:08] And I'm like, wait, wait, you guys can't do that.

[00:09:12] You can't go that fast because that's going to, you're going to ruin the universe.

[00:09:16] You have to only save that for emergencies.

[00:09:19] Right.

[00:09:19] If you do it at all.

[00:09:20] Yeah.

[00:09:21] It should be like the lead in the pipes, you know, illegal.

[00:09:25] Right.

[00:09:25] Yeah.

[00:09:26] Like, have you been hearing the reports that they're like, we should really make it illegal and make people replace the pipes in their houses?

[00:09:35] Right.

[00:09:36] And then the rest of America is like, wait, wait, wait.

[00:09:40] I thought we already made that law.

[00:09:43] And they're like, they're like, oh, I mean, we did it for like buildings, but not like houses, like Michigan.

[00:09:51] Right.

[00:09:52] Right.

[00:09:52] And then we're like, what?

[00:09:53] Wait.

[00:09:55] So we're just living with all this.

[00:09:57] Like, there's literally no safe amount of lead.

[00:10:00] Right.

[00:10:01] Like, not even.

[00:10:02] It's not like, well, if you just have a little bit, if you only go to work for it should be OK.

[00:10:09] No, no lead.

[00:10:10] No warp.

[00:10:12] Right.

[00:10:12] Right.

[00:10:12] Yeah.

[00:10:13] Anyways.

[00:10:14] So I'm just saying, though, that Star Trek, you know, fans are much more.

[00:10:18] They hold their the storyline.

[00:10:21] Yeah.

[00:10:22] To its word.

[00:10:23] Yeah.

[00:10:23] Like they get mad when things don't, you know, hold to what they say.

[00:10:27] Right.

[00:10:27] As do any fandom.

[00:10:30] Right.

[00:10:30] Any fandom holds its characters and plot lines accountable and says, writers, you failed us.

[00:10:37] Right.

[00:10:37] Or or they might say, oh, that happened during the writer's strike.

[00:10:43] So that tracks that that was a bad.

[00:10:46] And sometimes things happen in a series where they're like, no, we're going to disregard that because it doesn't fit with the rest of the overarching story.

[00:10:53] Right.

[00:10:53] So some things that happen fall outside of canon.

[00:10:57] Sure.

[00:10:57] But it's still known that they fall outside of canon.

[00:11:00] Right.

[00:11:00] You know, whereas in the Bible, canon is 2000 years worth of the same fucking literature.

[00:11:06] Yeah.

[00:11:06] And and it doesn't.

[00:11:08] They don't care.

[00:11:09] And the fans don't care.

[00:11:10] The fans don't care.

[00:11:10] And I'm like, why, why, why do I care more about your fandom than you do?

[00:11:16] Right.

[00:11:16] That makes no fucking sense.

[00:11:19] It's problematic.

[00:11:19] Y'all are the passionate ones.

[00:11:21] Right.

[00:11:22] The passion, you know, of the of the Christ.

[00:11:25] Right.

[00:11:25] Like, like y'all are the ones that are trying to convince me how awesome this is.

[00:11:30] Well, I'm I'm just reading it and I'm like, OK, tell me tell me when we get to the good bit where it all comes together.

[00:11:39] And then, you know, we're getting to the end of the Old Testament and it is not coming together.

[00:11:44] No, it's falling even further apart.

[00:11:46] I think it's the holes in the plot, you know, like the things that don't mesh up for me.

[00:11:52] And it's consistently all the way through because we've had we every episode, every every chapter.

[00:11:57] We've had something to say.

[00:11:59] Yeah.

[00:11:59] It's consistently inconsistent.

[00:12:02] Yeah.

[00:12:02] And it's consistently hypocritical.

[00:12:05] Right.

[00:12:05] And it's consistently grotesque.

[00:12:09] Yes.

[00:12:09] And that is not any religion I want to be part of.

[00:12:14] Right.

[00:12:14] So.

[00:12:15] All right.

[00:12:15] I'm so sorry.

[00:12:16] Let's continue with chapter two.

[00:12:18] Yeah.

[00:12:18] So those fucks use the same girl.

[00:12:21] And so profane my holy name.

[00:12:24] Got it.

[00:12:25] They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge.

[00:12:30] Oh, so when somebody is like bringing in like a sacrifice.

[00:12:35] Right.

[00:12:35] Yeah.

[00:12:35] They're like, oh, this is this is nice red.

[00:12:40] So let's lay down and fuck on it.

[00:12:42] Is that what they that's what they do?

[00:12:43] Yeah.

[00:12:44] That's I mean, they lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge.

[00:12:48] Got it.

[00:12:49] Yeah.

[00:12:49] Okay.

[00:12:50] In the house of their God, they drink wine taken as fines.

[00:12:54] See that.

[00:12:55] That's what I'm saying.

[00:12:56] Like all this stuff that is coming in for a reason.

[00:13:00] They're like, and that is mine.

[00:13:02] And that is mine.

[00:13:03] Which is exactly what we were saying was happening from the get go.

[00:13:05] Because why that that's what was happening.

[00:13:08] Like, oh, are you mad that the grifty fucks are grifting?

[00:13:11] You're telling.

[00:13:12] I can't accept the fact that these people would take things from people as a sacrifice, quote unquote.

[00:13:19] And then just let it rot.

[00:13:21] Yeah.

[00:13:21] You know, like, no.

[00:13:22] No.

[00:13:22] Okay.

[00:13:23] So the first time that.

[00:13:25] Um.

[00:13:27] Okay.

[00:13:27] So my sister and my mom and I like briefly attended this.

[00:13:32] I want to say it was like a Methodist church.

[00:13:34] Yeah.

[00:13:35] San Antonio.

[00:13:36] And like they did communion.

[00:13:37] I didn't cause I have never like been into that.

[00:13:41] Like.

[00:13:42] Sure.

[00:13:42] Just creepy and weird to me.

[00:13:43] Yeah.

[00:13:44] Like I couldn't.

[00:13:44] Why would you want to eat the blood and, you know.

[00:13:47] And.

[00:13:47] And I'm like.

[00:13:48] Or drink the blood and eat the body of a dead person.

[00:13:51] I didn't want to pretend I was.

[00:13:52] Right.

[00:13:53] Yeah.

[00:13:53] It's just weird.

[00:13:54] Like I just, I couldn't grasp what it was.

[00:13:58] Sure.

[00:13:58] And I was in high school.

[00:13:58] So I wasn't like just, you know, this little kid that's like, I don't get it.

[00:14:02] Right.

[00:14:02] No.

[00:14:02] You're like, what are we doing?

[00:14:04] Yeah.

[00:14:04] No, I'm good, man.

[00:14:06] Yeah.

[00:14:06] So like, I don't know what this is, but it seems real cultish.

[00:14:09] Yeah.

[00:14:09] I just watched from afar.

[00:14:11] Right.

[00:14:11] And so, but my mom was friends with the pastor who was a lady, which was a big deal because

[00:14:19] not all religion, not all Christianity allows women to be leaders.

[00:14:24] Sure.

[00:14:25] So this is a big deal.

[00:14:26] So after the service is done, she's got like these leftover loaves of bread.

[00:14:34] And it was so like disconcerting, like a half hour ago, it was the body of Christ.

[00:14:41] But now it's just like, Hey, do you want to take this home?

[00:14:44] Otherwise I got to throw it away.

[00:14:46] You know what I mean?

[00:14:47] Like, but it was the body of Christ, but now is just Panera at the end of the night.

[00:14:55] Right.

[00:14:55] You know what I'm saying?

[00:14:56] Like what?

[00:14:58] That is a little, that's funny.

[00:15:01] Yeah.

[00:15:02] I couldn't.

[00:15:03] I was like, what are we going to do with this leftover Christ?

[00:15:06] Jesus.

[00:15:07] I hate it when we have all this Jesus laying around.

[00:15:11] We always have too much Christ.

[00:15:12] What the fuck?

[00:15:14] I'm like, buy less.

[00:15:17] Like better that you run out of body.

[00:15:19] Yeah.

[00:15:20] Right.

[00:15:20] I guess not.

[00:15:21] You got to have too much body.

[00:15:23] I just, I can't do communion.

[00:15:26] That's a whole different ball of weird.

[00:15:29] Right.

[00:15:29] Yeah.

[00:15:29] All right.

[00:15:30] So anyways, he's like grifty grifters are grifting and that pisses me off cause I'm God

[00:15:36] and only my people get to grift, but not really, but only sometimes on some Thursdays.

[00:15:42] Yeah.

[00:15:43] Yet I destroyed the Amorites before them though.

[00:15:47] They were tall as fuck.

[00:15:49] They were tall as the cedars and strong as the Oaks.

[00:15:52] Them giants.

[00:15:54] Remember the Amorites?

[00:15:55] Was that what they were?

[00:15:56] Yeah.

[00:15:56] Yeah.

[00:15:56] The Amorites and the Amalekites.

[00:15:59] I can't remember exactly which ones were the giants, but the Amorites sounds right.

[00:16:03] Yeah.

[00:16:03] But there was another one that started with a two and I want to say it was the Amalekites.

[00:16:07] I don't remember at this point.

[00:16:09] I could have it totally confused.

[00:16:10] Sure.

[00:16:11] I'm known to do that.

[00:16:12] It started with an A.

[00:16:14] Okay.

[00:16:15] Yeah.

[00:16:15] So these fucks were tall and I just, I God destroyed them, but y'all still grifting and I'm pissed.

[00:16:22] Hmm.

[00:16:23] I destroyed their fruit above and their roots below.

[00:16:27] I burned up that plant.

[00:16:29] I brought you up out of fucking Egypt and led you 40 years in the wilderness to give you the land of the Amorites.

[00:16:38] He just did not let that lie.

[00:16:38] I know.

[00:16:39] He like strings attached forever.

[00:16:42] Right?

[00:16:42] Like, we can never forget about Egypt.

[00:16:45] Dude, it's been centuries at this point.

[00:16:47] Right.

[00:16:48] Like hundreds of fucking years and you're still bringing that up.

[00:16:51] Oh my God.

[00:16:52] And moreover, we discovered it never fucking happened, man.

[00:16:54] I know.

[00:16:55] I mean, most likely it never happened.

[00:16:57] Based on all of archeological evidence, it never fucking happened.

[00:17:01] Okay.

[00:17:01] But like, let's say you're like living in the, what is this?

[00:17:06] Like the negative 700s, right?

[00:17:09] Like the 700 and some odd BCEs.

[00:17:12] Yeah.

[00:17:12] Right.

[00:17:12] So, um, I know it's not negative, but like, like I'm seeing it on a timeline.

[00:17:19] And so the BCEs are the negative numbers.

[00:17:22] Right.

[00:17:22] So, okay.

[00:17:23] You're walking around and fucking negative 700 and some BCE.

[00:17:28] Right.

[00:17:28] Sure.

[00:17:28] And you're like talking to God.

[00:17:32] Right.

[00:17:32] And God's like, I brought you guys out of Egypt.

[00:17:35] And, and he's like, that was so long.

[00:17:38] Like we're negative 700, but that was like negative 5,000.

[00:17:43] Like, or whatever.

[00:17:45] Yeah.

[00:17:45] You know, like God.

[00:17:47] That would be like, that would be like if Thomas Jefferson were our God.

[00:17:50] And he was like, I brought you out of Appalachia.

[00:17:52] Like what?

[00:17:53] And I'm like, what?

[00:17:54] Thanks for the Louisiana purchase, man.

[00:17:56] But fuck off.

[00:17:57] Right?

[00:17:58] I mean, like Lewis and Clark, right?

[00:18:02] Like what even?

[00:18:03] Yeah.

[00:18:04] Weren't Lewis and Clark the guys?

[00:18:06] They were the ones that they stored.

[00:18:06] They were the surveyors, right?

[00:18:08] Yes.

[00:18:08] Okay.

[00:18:09] I was just making sure.

[00:18:10] I think it was Sacagawea.

[00:18:11] Yeah.

[00:18:12] And, and, and they raped her a lot.

[00:18:15] That was my understanding.

[00:18:16] Yes.

[00:18:17] Not good.

[00:18:18] No, but she's got a coin now.

[00:18:20] So, I mean, I guess.

[00:18:20] I guess that evened up.

[00:18:22] Yeah.

[00:18:22] Right.

[00:18:23] Yeah.

[00:18:23] Okay.

[00:18:24] Um, yeah.

[00:18:25] So it would be like if those surveyors were like, we surveyed the land, we led you across

[00:18:31] the rest of the United States of the Americas.

[00:18:35] Right.

[00:18:35] And like you said.

[00:18:37] Right.

[00:18:39] Yeah.

[00:18:39] I know.

[00:18:40] I just, I really wanted to like tie it together.

[00:18:42] Like, wait, that was those guys, right?

[00:18:44] Yes.

[00:18:45] Okay.

[00:18:45] So yeah.

[00:18:46] And we would be like, yes.

[00:18:49] And thank you for that centuries ago, sir.

[00:18:52] Mm-hmm.

[00:18:52] Um, you raped people though.

[00:18:55] So.

[00:18:55] But it's not even fucking relevant 200 and 300 years later.

[00:18:59] Right.

[00:18:59] Much less, much less hundreds and thousands of years later.

[00:19:02] Right.

[00:19:02] Like.

[00:19:03] Yeah.

[00:19:03] Get over yourself, my guy.

[00:19:05] Right.

[00:19:05] You know what?

[00:19:07] God needs to go fuck in a share a poll.

[00:19:09] That's what.

[00:19:10] Yeah.

[00:19:10] Yeah.

[00:19:11] He is just salty cause his wife done left him.

[00:19:16] They wrote her out of the picture.

[00:19:18] Right.

[00:19:18] Right.

[00:19:19] I also raised up the prophets from among your children and Nazarites from among your youths.

[00:19:25] Is this not true people of Israel?

[00:19:28] Well, to be fair, when he was reading this, the Nazarites, they were a thing that was early

[00:19:33] on in the Bible.

[00:19:34] We never heard about them after that ever again.

[00:19:35] Right.

[00:19:36] So it's funny that he says that because it's like, yeah, I guess according to the early

[00:19:42] Bible, that's true, but it kind of got left to the side.

[00:19:46] But then we start hearing about the Nazarites again because.

[00:19:48] Because of the prophets though.

[00:19:50] No.

[00:19:50] Yeah.

[00:19:50] But what I'm saying is in the new Testament, we're going to hear about the Nazarites because

[00:19:54] Jesus is of Nazareth, you know, Jesus of Nazareth.

[00:19:57] Oh, okay.

[00:19:58] Okay.

[00:19:59] So we'll hear about them.

[00:20:00] Okay.

[00:20:00] So it's still something they probably talked about back then, but it lost favor for a while

[00:20:05] or something.

[00:20:05] I guess.

[00:20:06] I don't know.

[00:20:06] I mean, who knows?

[00:20:08] We didn't talk about the Nazarites for a long time in the Bible.

[00:20:12] Yeah.

[00:20:13] And they were kind of important at one point.

[00:20:15] I thought.

[00:20:16] I mean, not as important as the Levites, I guess, but still.

[00:20:19] But even they kind of disappeared into oblivion for a bit.

[00:20:23] And it's like, it was a birthright and then it was just a club.

[00:20:27] Right.

[00:20:27] Yeah.

[00:20:28] Well.

[00:20:29] That's what I'm saying.

[00:20:30] There's no consistency.

[00:20:31] None.

[00:20:31] None.

[00:20:32] But you, continues the God he's declaring all this shit.

[00:20:36] But you made the Nazarites drink wine.

[00:20:39] Oh, remember that?

[00:20:40] And commanded the prophets not to prophecy.

[00:20:43] Hmm.

[00:20:44] But that was God tempting them.

[00:20:48] Remember?

[00:20:49] No, they didn't.

[00:20:49] That was another group.

[00:20:51] That was not the Nazarites.

[00:20:51] Not the Nazarites?

[00:20:53] Oh.

[00:20:53] That was some tribe that lived out in the.

[00:20:55] They were non-drinkers.

[00:20:55] I can't remember the name of the tribe, but it was not the Nazarites.

[00:20:58] No?

[00:20:58] Okay.

[00:20:59] Well, I really wanted it to be them because they were the non-drinkers.

[00:21:02] Yeah.

[00:21:02] And besides, it wasn't God tempting them.

[00:21:04] It was, I think that was Isaiah.

[00:21:06] Oh, yeah.

[00:21:07] That was bringing them in.

[00:21:08] And having them.

[00:21:09] He's like, watch, watch.

[00:21:09] Yeah.

[00:21:10] For the other people to show how well they held their.

[00:21:13] He's like, watch.

[00:21:14] They're not even going to fucking drink.

[00:21:15] Watch.

[00:21:16] Right.

[00:21:16] Yeah.

[00:21:16] Hey, want a beer?

[00:21:18] Right.

[00:21:18] Hey, hey, I got some good wine over here.

[00:21:22] No?

[00:21:23] Are you sure?

[00:21:23] I won't tell.

[00:21:24] But no, that was not the Nazarites.

[00:21:26] All right.

[00:21:26] Well, it could have been though.

[00:21:28] It couldn't have been because it wasn't.

[00:21:30] No.

[00:21:31] No, I mean, it might as well have been though.

[00:21:34] For all I care.

[00:21:34] Oh.

[00:21:35] Okay.

[00:21:35] Is what I mean.

[00:21:36] I see.

[00:21:36] Yeah.

[00:21:37] Now then, continues God.

[00:21:40] Yeah.

[00:21:40] I will crush you as a fucking cart crushes when loaded with grain.

[00:21:46] Hmm.

[00:21:46] You know, when you put too much shit in your car and it weighs down and the axle falls off

[00:21:51] the back.

[00:21:52] That's what I'm going to do to you, said God.

[00:21:54] Okay.

[00:21:55] Really?

[00:21:56] Well, that's, that's oddly specific.

[00:21:58] It really is.

[00:21:59] It's very strange and weird.

[00:22:01] Yeah.

[00:22:02] Like, can I?

[00:22:04] I, I, I, I, I'm, so you just, you're like what load rocks up on me or what's, what's

[00:22:09] happening?

[00:22:09] What's in the trunk?

[00:22:11] I don't, I don't understand exactly what he's planning on doing here.

[00:22:14] Bull on you because I'm riding on a moped.

[00:22:17] Boom.

[00:22:19] The swift will not escape.

[00:22:21] The strong will not muster their strength and the warrior will not save his life.

[00:22:27] Okay.

[00:22:28] Except for if he's Worf, Worf is a warrior, but he is not a merry man, but he will always

[00:22:36] be a warrior and save somebody's life.

[00:22:40] Yes.

[00:22:41] I, okay.

[00:22:42] I'm looking at wife very questioningly right now.

[00:22:45] Yeah.

[00:22:45] Mark your bingo board.

[00:22:47] If you just heard him roll his eyes at me.

[00:22:49] Because, okay, look, it says the warrior will not save his life.

[00:22:52] And all I could imagine is like Worf going the hell you say.

[00:22:56] Okay.

[00:22:56] You know?

[00:22:57] Yeah.

[00:22:57] Well, no, I just, I guess I was kind of, we talk about Star Trek sometimes.

[00:23:01] I know.

[00:23:02] And we did already in this episode.

[00:23:03] Yeah.

[00:23:04] But that was like to, to assume that everybody knows the, how to relate Worf to the Bible.

[00:23:10] Okay.

[00:23:11] I know that we're separate.

[00:23:12] I know that we're almost done.

[00:23:13] There's like two sentences.

[00:23:14] Yeah.

[00:23:14] Sure.

[00:23:14] I got to say something Star Trek related, actually totally off topic.

[00:23:19] Oh, okay.

[00:23:19] Okay.

[00:23:19] So we are on the last episode or I'm sorry, the last season of Deep Space Nine.

[00:23:27] I believe.

[00:23:27] Yeah.

[00:23:27] Yeah.

[00:23:28] So we did not know that Jadzia dies.

[00:23:33] No, we did not.

[00:23:34] And so we've.

[00:23:35] Spoiler, post spoiler alert.

[00:23:37] I mean, honestly, like a show that old, can it be spoiled?

[00:23:42] I mean, it could.

[00:23:43] Maybe there's people like, you know, watching it right now and they've never, much like us,

[00:23:47] never saw the end of Deep Space Nine.

[00:23:49] Well.

[00:23:49] You never know.

[00:23:51] So.

[00:23:52] We just spoiled it for somebody.

[00:23:53] Okay.

[00:23:54] Bruce Willis was a ghost the whole time.

[00:23:57] Jeez.

[00:23:57] So anyway, I just, I like, we didn't pause it and like talk about it.

[00:24:04] Right.

[00:24:05] But it was, it was very shocking because we just assumed, oh, this is Star Trek, they'll

[00:24:09] bring her back, whatever.

[00:24:10] Yeah.

[00:24:10] They kind of did, but not really.

[00:24:12] They, oh yeah.

[00:24:13] Right, right, right, right.

[00:24:13] Like they brought the Dax.

[00:24:15] Yeah.

[00:24:15] Yeah.

[00:24:15] Symbion back in a different individual, but Jadzia is gone.

[00:24:21] Yes.

[00:24:21] And that was just like, what?

[00:24:23] Right.

[00:24:24] How dare.

[00:24:25] Like, I want to read the trivia and find out why, like what happened.

[00:24:29] Right.

[00:24:30] Did she like get a deal somewhere else?

[00:24:32] Did she just be like, I'm out.

[00:24:34] Was there sexual harassment involved?

[00:24:36] Were they like, bitch, we don't like you anymore.

[00:24:40] You're a diva and write her off.

[00:24:41] Like, I have no idea what happened.

[00:24:43] Nor do I.

[00:24:44] Huh.

[00:24:45] All right.

[00:24:45] Let's wrap this chapter up.

[00:24:47] Okay.

[00:24:47] Two sentences.

[00:24:48] Ready?

[00:24:48] Yeah.

[00:24:48] The archer, remember I just said the warrior won't be strong and the fasty guy won't be

[00:24:55] fast.

[00:24:55] Yeah.

[00:24:56] The archer will not stand his ground.

[00:24:58] The fleet footed soldier will not get away.

[00:25:01] And the horseman will not save his life.

[00:25:05] I see.

[00:25:06] Even the bravest warriors will flee naked on that day he declares the Lord the end.

[00:25:13] That was shocking.

[00:25:15] That was shocking.

[00:25:15] Why are they going to be naked?

[00:25:16] Because they're, they don't even have time.

[00:25:19] They're like, okay, so like you're supposed to have a bug out bag.

[00:25:22] Right.

[00:25:23] Okay.

[00:25:23] So like you grab it on the go.

[00:25:26] If there's an emergency, right?

[00:25:28] You have all your documents and, you know, change of underwear and toothbrush and you grab

[00:25:33] it and you go, right?

[00:25:34] Sure.

[00:25:34] Your bug out bag, right?

[00:25:35] Like these guys didn't even have a chance to like put on their undies.

[00:25:40] But what does it matter whether they were fleeing or not?

[00:25:42] Cause he's going to kill them all anyway.

[00:25:43] Like he, they said the Swift won't survive.

[00:25:45] Okay.

[00:25:46] Because won't survive.

[00:25:47] Let me ask you this.

[00:25:48] Even though we don't believe in an afterlife, right?

[00:25:51] Okay.

[00:25:51] But let me ask you this, your legacy.

[00:25:54] Okay.

[00:25:55] Would you rat you're about to be murdered?

[00:25:57] Uh huh.

[00:25:58] Okay.

[00:25:58] Would you rather be murdered while you're wearing clothes or while you're naked while

[00:26:04] I'm wearing clothes?

[00:26:05] Right.

[00:26:06] So that's, so this is just a humiliation.

[00:26:09] Yeah.

[00:26:09] Yeah.

[00:26:10] He's like, I'm going to murder you, but first I'm going to watch you run around naked

[00:26:14] got it in front of each other.

[00:26:16] Yeah.

[00:26:16] And, and I'm going to laugh at all your flopping willies.

[00:26:19] Literally like the kid that was frying ants.

[00:26:22] Yeah.

[00:26:22] You know?

[00:26:23] Yeah.

[00:26:23] He's just like, I'm going to torture and kill you all.

[00:26:25] Mm hmm.

[00:26:26] And, and I'm going to point and laugh.

[00:26:28] Right.

[00:26:28] Cause I'm God.

[00:26:29] Hear me roar.

[00:26:30] Yeah.

[00:26:31] Unless you beg for mercy and say you love me a lot.

[00:26:34] And I might not hear you.

[00:26:35] It just depends on my fucking mood and which way I'm looking.

[00:26:39] And if there's a, a tall tower on a different part of the planet, whatever.

[00:26:44] Right.

[00:26:45] Fuck that guy.

[00:26:46] Well, you got anything else for today?

[00:26:48] Today?

[00:26:48] No.

[00:26:49] Fuck this chapter.

[00:26:50] Fuck this book.

[00:26:51] Fuck this Bible.

[00:26:51] That was Amos chapter two.

[00:26:53] Sure as fuck was.

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