Jeremiah Chapter 9: Bible Study for Atheists

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[00:04:25] She defied Hollywood. This also starts, this chapter starts with a continuation of the previous chapter which was a lament. Sure. It ended on a lament. Right, right. So, oh, that my head were waters and my eyes, a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.

[00:05:43] Oh, here's the weeping, weeping Jeremiah.

[00:05:46] The weeping prophet.

[00:05:47] Yeah. And like their bow, they have bent their tongues for lies. They are not valiant for the truth on the earth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the Lord. Yeah, that's generally what people do. They're like, oh, I did one thing, well, I'm gonna go do another thing evil now.

[00:07:01] I'm gonna go.

[00:07:02] And I'm gonna keep doing some evil things,

[00:07:03] because I'm evil.

[00:07:04] I'm gonna go have a couple of abortions.

[00:07:07] Yeah, because they're evil. Right. You probably should get a dog for all the people that are trying to bang down your door all the time. Right. Right. Everyone will deceive his neighbor and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. I'm always lying.

[00:08:22] Yeah. How about you? Always lying. Yeah, totally. They weary themselves to commit mouth, but in his heart he lies in wait. Shall I not punish them for these things? Says the Lord, shall I not avenge myself on such a nation as this? I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains and for the dwelling places of the wilderness, a lamentation,

[00:09:42] because they are burned up so that no one can pass through, nor that bar is great or that bar sucks. Right. I'll be like, this is where all that fucking noise is coming from. Right. JK. Nor can men hear the voice of the cattle, both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled. They're gone. I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a den of jackals.

[00:11:01] I will make the cities of Judah desolate

[00:11:05] without an inhabitant.

[00:11:08] Sounds similar to what they were. you are reading in the Bible because my understanding is that only certain people have the ability to hear God and those are prophets essentially. Yeah. And everybody else is fucked. Right. Yeah. So they're kind of just doing the best they can to get through the day. But God likes to say that he like lately, God likes to say that he tells everybody things.

[00:12:21] And I'm like, but did you though?

[00:12:23] No, he did.

[00:12:24] Because I mean, I feel like if you, if you forcefully said something to a group of people as God, And so then the kids grew up and they're like yeah this is what we've always worshiped is what my dad taught me and it's a tradition and the doctor nation yeah right. So we're gonna worship the balls because that's what you do right yeah. This sound they sound like a startup right yeah they sound like a startup religion trying to like. You know just go people in the joining their religion.

[00:13:41] Hey it's gonna be you're gonna die all that. It's a lot. It is a lot. They are so into idols. Which, you know, whatever. I don't fucking care what you worship. I do care that some of them apparently, you know, murder children as part of their religious

[00:15:00] practices, that's not good.

[00:15:02] But ultimately, they're all shitty gods people with wormwood and give them water of gall to drink. I will scatter them, scattered southern cover. This is the bones again. He's gonna scatter them. Also among the Gentiles. Oh no, he's not just. The rich people, shit. No, it's not just Gentiles, it's the non-believers. No, oh okay. Yeah, the Gentiles are the non-Jewish people.

[00:16:24] The non-Israelites.

[00:16:27] Okay, rotting corpses. Yeah. I'm really sorry. I know people might have just lost somebody that they care about.

[00:17:43] We're not trying to be insensitive.

[00:17:44] But, you know, no, I, I'm, I'm talking in generalities.

[00:18:45] bodies, you know, so that they can like last during the viewing and stuff. That is getting into our water tables.

[00:18:48] Oh, fun. Yeah.

[00:18:49] Good time. So, I mean, and there's a lot of it. So it's like, you

[00:18:54] didn't think that would be a problem, huh? Like, I'm just, again,

[00:18:59] I can never get over this. I'm just a dumb dumb and it occurred to

[00:19:03] me, you know, just like the, the wait, when we go up into space, come and send for the skillful wailing women that they may come. Let me read a note about that actually. Weird wording. It is until you understand what they mean by it. Okay. Wailing women were professionals employed to arouse relatives and others at funerals to give in to outward displays

[00:20:22] of their grief.

[00:20:23] So they were like professional criers.

[00:20:25] Okay.

[00:20:26] That you would hire to close.

[00:20:28] Like let it out.

[00:20:28] Yeah. becomes a speaker for the dead where he shows up at funerals and he tells the story of that person, the good and the bad. Okay. So, like a truth teller, not leaving anything out. And it started because, you know, he was became known as the extinguisher of an entire race.

[00:21:47] Right. of his mouth, teach your daughter's wailing and everyone her neighbor a lamentation. The reason that he was saying that was because not only do you need to go ahead and call the wailing women, but there's going to be so much fucking death that y'all need to start going ahead now and train because you're not going to have enough.

[00:23:02] Got it.

[00:23:03] So that's teach your daughters and teach everyone.

[00:23:06] This is just more of God saying I're talking about lots and lots of people dying. And God saying that that's their just punishment. Like this is what is actually, this is what we're reading right now. And it blows me away because going into the Bible,

[00:24:24] I knew things weren't, Obviously. But I mean that- But they're just like, sure it is. This is a problematic religion. This is a problematic text. This is a problematic idea that some people take very seriously even now. And that is part of why I rail against these ideas so much is because of how they have

[00:25:41] entered and stayed in the modern discussions. finding glory in all the wrong places is what he's saying. Yeah. So you're supposed to only find glory in God. Got it. Some people looking holes. I mean, glory, hoes. I was just thinking about how I think that maybe that line escapes Christians who are on the football field praying

[00:27:01] before a football game and pointing to heaven

[00:27:05] when they make their little touchdown.

[00:27:09] Right. I'd like to start a prayer to start off the board meeting every time we come together with a prayer. And then he graciously volunteered to lead the prayer, obviously. Of course. How did that go? Well, so it actually is pretty great.

[00:28:20] So I'm sure there's more information on their website because he covers a lot of this kind of stuff. freedom from religion foundation chimed in with a letter to them and Apparently they they send you know right back saying we haven't voted on this yet But you know like cuz it shouldn't even be on. And now here we are, and it's like, God damn, I wish I had had the balls. Because if I had spoken up then,

[00:31:00] it would have been already on the docket.

[00:31:06] It wouldn't be me. In the earth. For in these, I delight says. Right. But yeah, he's still being a dick. Well, and the fact that he's was ever concerned about your genitalia, I still find fucking problematic. Yeah, oh yeah. Yeah, for sure. Egypt, Judah, Edom, the people of Amman, Mo. And it basically refers to people that were having their hair cut when they weren't supposed to be having it cut incorrectly. Okay. Like, okay, so I'm speaking totally off the cuff here and I don't know make sense but I mean it's so far as the craziness that God's doing it. I don't know about cutting the corners of my hair. Yep so that was Jeremiah chapter nine. Yes sure as fuck was. Means that tomorrow we'll be back with.

[00:36:21] Jeremiah chapter ten.

[00:36:23] All right we'll see you guys then.

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