steve howard's translation of the Torah
to Rah: THE PAGAN'S PROTEST

TORAH

leviticus

 

chapter 22

Moses. Moses. Moses.

Vs. 33: I who brought you out of Egypt to be your God, I the Lord. EQ.

What the fuck was wrong with you. Why fear and loathing in all that you do.

The eating of blood offerings is spelled out once again.

Here is where the perceptive reader of the original Torah. The Holy Scriptures. The new JPS Translation. According to the Traditional Hebrew Text, might wonder.

Is the story some kind of computer generated, early computer, horror story. With but one parameter. Change the names and surroundings from book to book and the reader might believe it's a real story. Wait till we get to Numbers. Which could also be called, Names.

It's not real. No matter how many names and laws and how bloody tedious.

It's simply mind fuck. Something to piss off people like your narrator.

We will carry on. However.

The same rules about imperfection applies to animals as to priests.

Which means they don't crush the balls of their animals.

A concept that could be wondered about.


chapter 23

There is the odd interesting idea in the bible. My intention was to encourage people to read the bloody book. If you read carefully, you can picture the brutal reality behind the story. Also see it is not holy. Just another story from another time. Not so very long ago.

It was a hard world. War was how they lived. Now more people die in cars than war. If you don’t count starvation which could be classified as a state of war.

Vs. 29: Indeed, any person who does not practice self-denial throughout that day shall be cult off from his kin; EQ.

So, if you masturbate on the Sabbath you are dead meat. From severed head to bloody feet.

Moses gives out a few religious holidays. Like happy murder every first born Egyptian day. Still celebrated more than 2000 years after Christ, the fellow who told us that the laws of Moses were revoked. Said a few clever things, that Jesus Christ.

Lord Moses passed on a few more tax laws. Made them forever. But he thought forever was 3 or 4 thousand years. Back then they thought the world was a couple thousand years old. A little event just for us. We are wiser now.

We will no longer celebrate the murder of others. We will stop glamorizing hate and fear. We will stop blaming the other guy because the whole fuckin' bunch of us have been ignorant servants.

And again. If you don't do what Lord fuckin' asshole says.

Off with your fuckin' head.

All citizens of Israel shall live in booths. Seven days a year. Booth is like tabernacle. In the sense of tent.

For ever.

Under penalty of a swinging sword in your head.


chapter 24

We must let go of our personal obsessions with all religions and cults before we embark on space. It is one thing to have a desire for connection and belonging but our belief systems are too mentally restrictive. And the notion that without religion we are alone in a cold and brutal universe is also not yet proven. We are still evolving and don’t know what our expanded consciousness will give us. Instead of belonging to a belief system, we can work toward being the gods. Break down the walls that have convinced us we are individuals and learn to be a social creature as our nature, our evolution has made us. It can be done without creeds, rituals and laws. Laws that matter are laws of physics and laws of survival. We belong to the rest of life. We belong to the rest of the physical universe and there is much more to it than the combination of all our creeds. We need to grow up just a little. Not so much that we are no longer children but we do need to get off the tit of belief. Stop holding onto our fairy tales like security blankets. Read them, learn from them but do not believe in them.

Blasphemy was a bloody death wish.

Someone past blasphemy over on Shelomith. Who’s she. Anyone. Doesn’t matter. Maybe he, the someone, called her a silly cunt. Or said she sucked the dirty dick of Moses. Fucked a priest before the alter.

The people who hear someone blaspheme must, under penalty of death, take the fucker outside of camp and beat the shit out of him.

Then stone him.

The whole community shall stone him.

Vs. 14: Take the blasphemer outside the camp; and let all who were within hearing lay their hands upon his head, and let the whole community stone him. EQ.

That was a holy law. From Lord Moses. Forever.

So the Israelites obeyed Moses and when they didn't like someone for any reason, beat the shit out of him and stone him to death.

It is, after all, the only real civilized thing to do.

If you are an insane, enslaved, idiot primate.

Vs. 20: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. EQ.

But when it comes to blasphemy. Kill the fucker.



chapters 25 - 27