A plea for help
Mar. 31st, 2004 06:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I take the bus most days, coming home from school (this laptop is heavy! I'll walk to the boat, but not from, not when it's dark) and I often see religious scrawlings on the ads lining the inside of the bus, generally of the theme "Believe in God's love or you'll burn forever in Hell". I really don't understand this, it certainly doesn't bring anybody closer to God... do they believe that He smiles on those who graffiti in His name?
Anyway, in a nice change from the bland, today's scribblings were all about homosexuality. Most of it had been thoughtfully crossed out by some other bored bus rider with a black marker (yay!) but s/he had missed the line at the top which quoted, or attempted to quote, from Leviticus.
I would never demean myself in such a way as writing on public property like that. However, I would like to have some handy notecards with other bible verses, including other, more relevant commandments, such as "judge not" and "don't eat that shrimp". I know they exist, I just don't know where. I will certainly amuse myself later by looking up the relevant passages myself, but because I'm so terribly lazy, I wondered if anybody with any Biblical knowledge could point me towards appropriate Biblical passages...?
Anyway, in a nice change from the bland, today's scribblings were all about homosexuality. Most of it had been thoughtfully crossed out by some other bored bus rider with a black marker (yay!) but s/he had missed the line at the top which quoted, or attempted to quote, from Leviticus.
I would never demean myself in such a way as writing on public property like that. However, I would like to have some handy notecards with other bible verses, including other, more relevant commandments, such as "judge not" and "don't eat that shrimp". I know they exist, I just don't know where. I will certainly amuse myself later by looking up the relevant passages myself, but because I'm so terribly lazy, I wondered if anybody with any Biblical knowledge could point me towards appropriate Biblical passages...?
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Date: 2004-03-31 07:05 pm (UTC)Chapter 3 verse 2: "And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about."
5:7: "And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first, and wring off his head from his neck, but shall not divide it asunder."
But the Skeptics Annotated Bible (http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com) is a great site. the Brick Testament (http://www.thebricktestament.com) is also pretty fantastic, not to mention absolutely hilarious.