The company you keep: The sons of Jacob

[Kooshmeister3]

Why do they always kill everyone, even people who had nothing to do with the supposed crime? Yikes. I'm starting to become ashamed of being a Christian these days if this is honestly what my fellow believers consider good and righteous behavior.

[guitarfuckist]

You should if you have not already do a video about Lilith.

[DJBerber]

What a bunch of assholes.

[freedom0f5peech]

no words... just O_O

[TheMudbrooker]

A tad alarming, ain't it?

[sonvolt48]

Mudbrooker, for fear of sounding like a fanboy or someone without a life, you need to post more vids. When I see a new post from you I squeal in delight like a 13 year old girl in 1964 seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan.

[TheMudbrooker]

A fanboy? Here I was hoping for some of Dr. Hook's "little teenage blue-eyed groupies who'll do anything I say"! :)

I've been putting in some long hours at work lately, but things have eased up to the point where I have some time to make videos again, so I should be able to get some more posted fairly soon.

[decojuicer]

Another awesome video. I love this series. It's full of lolz. Of course, the whole bible is full of lolz.

[TheMudbrooker]

Thanks Deco. There's enough of this sort of foolishness in the bible to keep me busy for quite a while.

[TheMudbrooker]

Thanks,that means a lot coming from someone who spins a pretty good yarn himself!

[Dwicker64]

The old testament and morality teacher:

Genocide, Incest, Kidnapping, Slavery, Infanticide, Rape, and Circumcision. Steven King couldn't even match these stories.

[TheMudbrooker]

It just baffles me how christians can take horror stories like this and claim they are examples of rightous behavior.

[EvenGodsSuffer]

@TheMudbrooker

For pure bloodlust, you might want to check out the origins of Purim where Queen Esther asks the Persian king for a full day in which to slaughter Persians in retaliation for a frustrated plot against the Jews and then proceeds to ask for a second day of slaughter. And the king agrees on both occasions.

[saxmanchiro]

I love fairytales. Disney does a good job with theirs. I wish they would do some of these bible stories. Problem would be having the script make sense to ANYONE with a functional brainstem.

[TheMudbrooker]

This would make a good Disney movie, wouldn't it? Disney flicks usually have a body count and they could make a great musical number out of the mass circumcision scene!

[atheistcarpenter]

love the video. Good way of put it

[TheMudbrooker]

Thanks

[phenixwryter]

LoL at the sons of Jacob pic.

Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah. (sorry-I couldn't resist that.)

Wow about the guys getting chopped-twice.

Your hypothesis sounds good.

[TheMudbrooker]

Thank you, Phenixwryter!

What struck me about this story is that when viewed from Dinah and Shechem's perspective it seems to be a prototype for all the Romeo and Juliet/star-crossed lovers type of stories which followed.

[skinnyjohnsen]

I loved the carrot!

But seriously, deceit is considered a good thing in OT. The Hebrews had a lot of fun telling how they fooled other tribes. Even the name Jacob is supposed to have ment "holding heel", konnotating that he was a borne cheater.

And by the way; Not killing and not swearing falsly only applies inside the tribe.

[TheMudbrooker]

The patriarchs of the old testament certainly raised deceit to an art form didn't they?

[AuntieDiluvian]

Crazy crazy silly dumb stories. But a great video and very interesting.

[TheMudbrooker]

Thanks Auntie! The bible is actually quite entertaining if you don't take it seriously.