steve howard's translation of the torah
NO MORE HOLY SCRIPTURES
THE PAGAN'S PROTEST


TORAH

deuteronomy


"In a few years there will be machines that decode the meanings of our books and customs and they will tell us we are insane."

jose wombat

 

chapter 01

Moses still wasn't dead yet so he still kept on a proclaiming what the Lord of tyrannical terrorism randomly sold as law to the ignorant and tortured masses.

40 years, eleven months and a day had gone by in the wilderness, eating manna, sometimes drinking water. And being brutally murdered if they didn't like it.

By the way, it is impossible to feed 3 or 6 million people and all their livestock on manna. Even if it really was something found left by the morning dew.

Anyhow, Moses retold the often-repeated story about leaving Egypt in devastation and a pool of blood. And over the desert and then the lobby to murder for land.

Then He, the Lord, goes on about how hard things were for Him to rule 3 or 6 million people all on his own so he had to assign rulers for thousands, for hundreds, and tens. So that He would have the necessary control and discipline necessary to become the world's best murderers. For everyone knows no talent is greater than murder. If a genius like Albert Einstein or William Shakespeare meets an Israelite, or a Christian or Moslem soldier on a holy rampage, obviously genius is useless. The better murderer will survive. That's has been our law for far too long. Murder and the profit through it with plundering.

But we will go on. With the hope that we will be social animals soon.

Who knows. Maybe in the future murder will no longer be sacred. Maybe we will hold in high esteem some other trait.

Like intelligence or creative genius or something. Should any of it pop up.

Okay, Moses got to the part of retelling his retelling of how, except when a bunch had gone off to fight without official Lord blessing, their murder, genocide campaign had been a roaring success. He neglects to mention the early battle where he stood up on a hill and jerked off while many died from both sides.

Of the same thing.

They had so many sheep and foreign virgins that they could fuck all night long. The long wait was worth it. Especially if you had the tent of luxury. Surely they understood why the Lord made them wait 40 years.

"Why's that."

"'Cause he's the War Lord of War Lords and does as he pleases. It pleases him to make war slaves of us."

Then Moses bitched about how the people bitched when friends and neighbors were dropping off from hunger and thirst and how the Lord doesn't like to hear complaints and killed many more.

And he talked about spying the land out before putting the people to the sword.

And that the enemy was bigger and stronger but not to worry.

"We've got the swords and the numbers. We will kill anyone not a war slave to the Lord because the Lord only likes his war slaves and hates all the other creatures. Especially humans not descended from Noah 'cause their very existence, the existence of the universe, screams denial in the face of the Lord of War."

"You are a big ass mother fuckin' lie."

"My war murder slaves will cut you down."

In more modern times, of course, they preferred public burning. Priest from a different clan. The Lord loves burning fat.

And Moses told 'em why everyone had to die in the wilderness. No one but Caleb and Joshua were permitted to go.

And the descendants of the complainers.

"Don't you fuckin' ask for water. It is the Lord's will that you suffer and die."

So they agreed to do whatever the Lord said and were fuckin' happy they could murder women and rape their children and eat their cattle.

One world religion bowing down to one overlord. Kill all those that don’t like it.

It won’t work. Evolution will not allow it.


chapter 02

Okay. Still talk of the recent genocides, where from and to where.

They didn't try the descendents of Esau, for even if Jacob had been a thieving, back stabbing son of a bitch to his brother. He was his brother and blood is bloody well blood. And he had a kick ass military. Like the Catholics of a later time.

"You better not fight 'cause I, the Lord, won't let you have none of his land that he killed others to possess. Pay for your food and drink and don't fuck with nothing. You have always had manna."

Actually, the Edomites didn’t let them walk through. Just a minor contradiction and we aren’t keeping score to prove how wrong the scriptures are. Even if they were completely true they would still be wrong. Religion based on genocide. Come now. We are better than that.

They didn't cut down the Moabites 'cause they came from Lot. And Lot raped his own virgin daughters so his tribes were very sacred.

They had to murder all the Emim, a great and numerous people. Big as Anakites, the decedents of love affairs with the gods.

And Esau wiped 'em out. Well, his decedents.

Just a note for those who think the Israelites are the most vile murderers in history. They weren't, aren't. They were and still are mediocre. The world swims in the blood of mediocrity murdered by mediocrity.

After the warriors had all died off. Which happens after 40 years in the wilderness. Void of wood land.

The Zamzummim were also a great people wiped out by the War Lord. He did it as a favor for Esau. The Horites wiped out before. The Avvim who lived in the Gaza area. Also wiped out of history. Forever. The Caphtorim from Crete. Killed 'em all.

Then we, the Jocobites, took Sihon the Amorite into battle. And I scared the shit out of everyone under heaven. People trembled at the name of Jacob. Or Israel. Or religious blood cult systematic genocide machine. Or tax collectors.

So then we wanted to offer a peaceful invasion after our terror propaganda and the King said.

"Fuck off, you fuckin' murdering pricks."

So we got right pissed at them and killed 'em all. And took their land. They fought us at Jahaz and we killed them. All of them. When we take someone to war, they die. We kill 'em all. We are the killers. Our God is the one true God.

But we didn't kill the Ammonites. 'Cause they are our cousins.


chapter 03

We went up the road toward Basham, and King Og came out to meet us. And we killed 'em all. Every last mother fucking human, save the hottest little virgin girls. 60 towns. Total genocide. A great war.

Some towns with walls. Some without. We doomed them: every man, woman and child. We are the great killers.

We killed the kings and took all the land and its riches and killed everyone. We will kill more 'cause one thing, the only thing, we ever knew outside of thirsting in the wilderness, was kill, kill, kill, for the man in the big tent.

Fuckin' the virgins and killing their mothers. Cutting to pieces fathers and brothers. We are the mad killer apes and we love to kill. It's business number one and the Earth belongs to the killers the Lord chose to kill everyone else.

And they go on and on like they did with the sheep and goat rules. Saying everything 6 times so no one will read the brutal shit and come to the conclusion that we are a fuckin' brutal, still long way from civilized, animal. In many respects less advanced in evolution than many animals. Still way behind the crows.

But we are great killers. Working together to kill every living thing on the planet.

'Cause the Lord loves the smell of burnt death.

We are going over the river to kill some more. The Lord is God of genocide and he will kill until he has killed them all.

Moses pleads with his war Lord to let him cross the river into the promise land. The hill country. Lebanon.

"Fuck you, Moses. You hit the fuckin' rock when I said speak to it. Don't ever ask again, you thankless bastard. Run up the hill and see what you will never set foot on. And weep. Then get Joshua ready to share out the land for the chosen race. The 9 and a half tribes that are yet to get their promise land."

Just a note regarding the tone of Deuteronomy. Something new. The advent of 'we'.


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