Jehu
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The story of Jehu is told in the Bible in the second book of Kings. Jehu was told by a prophet that God had anointed him to be king of Israel. So Jehu murdered the current king and all the members of the royal family (the "house of Ahab"), and Jehu became king.
Not content with this bloodbath, Jehu invited all the worshippers of a god called Baal into the temple of Baal, and when they were all gathered in the temple, Jehu ordered his guards to slaughter them all. Then Jehu had the temple demolished, and "people have used it as a latrine to this day" (2 Kings 10 27). The King James version of the Bible has slightly different wording, saying they made the temple ruins into a draught house, which is an obsolete term for an outhouse.
Above is a painting by Edward Knippers of a man pissing on the ruins of the temple of Baal. Knippers has done many naked paintings of religious subjects.
Another kinky Bible story? Yes, but here's the thing: this story is presented in the Bible as an accomplishment of Jehu, not an outrage or a sin. Not only was using the temple of another religion as a latrine a good thing, but slaughtering innocent people just because they practiced another religion was a good thing. Note that the people who worshipped Baal were not at war with Israel. Their only "crime" was that they worshipped a different god. Today we would call this genocide.
Keep that in mind the next time someone tells you that you should practice "Biblical morality."
6 comments:
Oh, biblical morality is being pushed and pushed and pushed. And it seems the goal of Orange Ogre and his minions is to do what Jahu did: slaughter everyone (in one way or another).
This was common then, and it is still going on!
Well according to the magas and their ethos the Bible should be banned for its explicitness. Of course they deem what’s explicit, so the Bible is exempt like all books that only they like and approve.
Excellent point/post.
Let's piss on magas!
Oh yeah!!!
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