Jehovah Drowns People For No Good Reason. Gustave Doré.
Gordon Klingenschmitt is having another rant, this time about Planned Parenthood, what else. If Planned Parenthood is killed off, well then Jehovah will be all happy, and heal all diseases. He uses a passage from Exodus for this reasoning:
15:26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.
I’ve always had a particular loathing for the story of the Egyptians in Exodus, it’s a stark illustration of the psychopathic nature of Jehovah. When I was a child, I never could get past the “hardening of the heart” business. It was clear to me, even at a young age that this was a particularly nasty, sleazy cheat. As Steve Wells points out*:
So Moses rounded up all three million or so Israelites, their flocks, herds, cattle, unleavened bread, and all the silver, gold, and clothes that they could steal from the Egyptians and left town. [See Exodus 12.34-38] And everything would have ended happily ever after, too, if God could have resisted the temptation to harden the Pharaoh’s heart a few more times. You see, the Pharaoh’s heart was just too damned soft to suit God. So he set about hardening it a bit more. (He had to harden it 8 times to pull off his last killing.) (14.4, 14.8, 14.17-18.)
Now, there is a bit more about medical care in the bible, which Gordon has conveniently neglected:
16:12 And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.
16:13 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
See? Don’t go to doctors, ever! Doctors are awful, and you’ll die. You just need to pray, have faith, or touch the right religious leader’s hankie. There’s nothing at all about Planned Parenthood, or idiots who think terminating a pregnancy is the same as infanticide.
Part of Gordon’s little rant here:
“You know what the solution to America’s healthcare crisis is?” Klingenschmitt asked. “Obey the Ten Commandments, stop funding abortion, stop funding child killing and God will heal your diseases, America. The supernatural blessing of healing is available if we stop working with the demonic spirit of murder.”
Klingenschmitt proclaimed that if America were to repent for the sin of abortion, then “we would receive [God’s] healing and wouldn’t need to rely on socialist healthcare.”
The problem there, Gordon, is that I don’t believe in your psychopathic god, and I don’t care one whit about that evil creature, who is the obvious villain in every story. So, even if we were to pretend Jehovah existed, that would make me one of the Egyptians in his eyes, so I wouldn’t come in for that wondrous healing of all diseases. It would be lovely if you fucking idiots could figure out that not everyone in this mess of a country are christian, and that many of us have zero interest in becoming one.
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Via Right Wing Watch.
So it’s only abortion that keeps God™ from re-growing amputated limbs?
I suppose that if one of the diseases teh magic sky faeries heal is “Republican” I might consider the possibility of perhaps consulting with it / her / they / him at some point in the far future…
All that sky fairy stuff was from when people’d get a little nick and die, or would just start coughing and die, or it would start to hurt a lot and they’d die. Die, die, die -- you were old if you made it past 40. Praise god!
It’s weird that communities who do everything Gordie prescribes still get diseases.
Oh, maybe they’re just not doing it right.
Doggone, I did not realize that no diseases existed before 1942 when PP was founded.
Loads did, but the magic sky faeries’s hand / tentacle / nose / pet earwig was keeping the jug they were all in well stoppered-up. But then the pet earwig or whatever was keeping the stopper in was needed to throw yet more thunderbolts or something, the stopper popped out, and the world was not only flooded with family planning but also diseases.
For some reason, the stopper fragments have not become holy relics. There are, however, multiple original holy disease jugs & jars for sale on various sites.
I note that blf’s addition to the mythology makes more sense than the bits Klingenschmitt’s grabbed on to. This is worrying.
I failed utterly to note the lack of diseases in Ireland for lo these many years, or in Ceaușescu’s Romania.
Gustave Doré was awesome.