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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

The Old Testament is a founding document for the kingdoms of Israel and Judah that establishes their lineage from the original humans to legendary Kings. Plus a bunch of laws, instructions for worship and whatnot.

People just took it too seriously and now we murder eachother over our imaginary friends.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Come on year of Jubilee! At least do the law against charging interest on loans!

Anyways, ya, the 11 are group the first two or the last two. If you group the first two, you sort of lessen the impact of "I am your god" with stuff about idols - but if you group the last two "don't covet your neighbors property, such as: wife, house, horses, etc..." you basically are saying wives are property.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For those who do not know, in Exodus, Moses gets pissed off, smashes the tablets people today call the Ten Commandments, goes back up the mountain and Yaweh has him carve new ones with different laws on them. Those laws are the only laws called "Ten Commandments" in the Bible.

They include:

Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord, the God of Israel. [Good luck with that]

Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast

“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

As the end of the chapter says:

Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2034&version=NIV

The Bible cannot be more clear on this point, but it's always ignored.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

“The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock. 20 Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem all your firstborn sons.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

How is there 11 When there should clearly be only 2 commandments

[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I read that as commandlets and now I'm worried Powershell has given me brain damage...

  1. if ((Get-God).Count -gt 1){Set-God -Identity "YHWH"}
  2. Get-Idol | Remove-Idol
  3. foreach($godsname in ((Get-God).Name){ if (($speech -like "$godsname") -and ($speech.vain)) {$speech = ""}}
  4. Set-Reminder -Start (Get-Date "06/29/2024") -Reoccurance 7 -Subject "Holy"
  5. Set-Person -Relation "Mother" -Honor $true; Set-Person -Relation "Father" -Honor $true;
  6. $murder = $false
  7. $adultry = $false
  8. $stealing = $false
  9. if ((Get-Truth $speech) -eq $false){$speech = ""}
  10. $NoCovet=(Get-Property -SearchDepth 2) + (Get-Person -Relation "Neighbor")
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

PowerShell is an objectively ugly language to read

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

i'm so sorry.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if the poster they have to put up will show a picture of Jesus. Evangelicals sure do love those graven images.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They're the type to use a picture of Ewan McGregor as Obi Wan

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You joke but if you want to troll Bible nuts at protests, absolutely carry a picture of Obi Wan as Jesus. Aragorn works too.

Or go wild and have Black Jesus.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I go even further. Jesus was a direct decendant of David, and so is this guy, so Middle Eastern Jesus it is.

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