chapter 04

Okay, Israel, take heed to the laws and rules. So you don't die. Do not add or take away any rules. You saw what I did to followers of Baal-peor. All dead, every one of the false god worshipers.

"I gave you laws and rules. You observe them faithfully. It will show others how wise you are with so many bloody laws. Perfect laws. Especially for tent tribes in the desert with great flocks and herds. The Lord your God there when you call. A great nation. So much teaching. Of laws."

"Don't ever forget. Teach your children to teach their children until they get space technology and bring sheep law to all the stars. I spoke to you out of a fire on the mountain. I gave you law. Hammered in stone to make it truth. The Lord told me what to tell you."

"Like no fuckin' your neighbor's sheep or eating his wives."

"Watch your step. Don't make sculptures. No animal, man or woman. No beast, no bird, no cockroach, no fish, no bug. Don't worship the sun, moon, anything in the heavens. The Lord took us out of Egypt, that iron blast furnace."

Which, by the way, makes your humble narrator think they might have taken some real nice swords when they left Egypt. There was no mention of iron before the genocide of the Midianites. This doesn’t mean there wasn’t iron in Egypt at the time the Israelites where said to have left there. Even if they never were there. Somewhere along the way, iron was added to our ancestors’ war weapons.

"Now the Lord was pissed off at me 'cause you people are stupid and said I can't come over the river. I must die on this side of the Jordan."

Fire. It was god. Did the speaking.

Vs. 15: - since you saw no shape when the Lord your God spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire - EQ

Vs. 24: For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, an impassioned God. EQ

Vs. 33: Has any people heard the voice of god speaking out of a fire, as you have, and survived? EQ

If you are bad, I'll drop heaven on your head. Utterly wipe you out. Maybe send a few of you around the planet. To some man made gods.

And if you change your mind and look for the Lord, you'll find him in the local bar. Obey him. Always obey all the laws and rules and he'll be nice to you.

Is anything as great as this. Has anyone else heard a voice coming out of a fire. And lived. With pestilence, terror and war we, me, you, us, are fuckin' awesome.

The Lord alone is God. There can only be one. And the Lord is it. You heard thunder and I told you what the Lord meant by it. You see his great fire. We worship fire and call it God.

The Lord alone is God. No one else is.

So Moses assigned 3 cities on each side of the Jordan for murderers. The nice ones.

Whatever. The establishing of a dictatorship over the slowly becoming conscious and very slowly intelligent mad killer primates. How to be, what to think and who to pay taxes to. Who and when to kill to secure mineral resources and land.

Moses goes on and on about their holy genocide march. A sermon of servitude for the ignorant masses.


chapter 05

vs. 4: Face to face the Lord spoke to you on the mountain out of the fire - EQ

Learn the rules I give you. Study them. So one day, someone will see it for what it is. Festering bile. History of a species, for this is a common story, that will believe anything if it has been beaten into it. And that species will do anything, including murdering and raping each other and wave banners to symbolize to themselves their relevance. Which is still a puzzle.

And Moses said. You were afraid of the fire. We burnt some people and I said there are no Gods but me. Or the Lord.

And God is possessed and will torture you, your children, their children and their children if you break my laws. Worship only me and I'll be nice a thousand generations.

Don't swear by no one but me. Keep the Sabbath.

Even your sons and daughters, sheep, oxen, asses, men and women slaves. 'Cause I brought you as slaves from Egypt. All have the day off on the Sabbath.

Or I kill 'em.

Be nice to your Mom and Dad. Do what they say. Don't do no unauthorized murder, don't do adultery. Steal nothing except for plunder, don't lie 'bout no one. Don't even wanna sex your neighbor, or their slaves or son.

I wrote this on a rock. We heard the voice in the fire. So obey or be consumed by fire.

Vs. 23: For what mortal ever heard the voice of the living God speak out of the fire, as we did, and lived? EQ

So you know that the Catholics weren't the first to burn people to maintain control. Wealth.

And you said you would rather obey whatever the law is rather than burn.

And the Lord liked that.

"Follow only me."

Deuteronomy makes it very clear that Fire is God. God is Fire. And in a very real way this is our truth. In all the old religions. And all new religions come from old religions. Always holy fire. Fire is how the universe, this universe and likely all the others started. Out of the fire of our sun was spit all the elements of our solar system. The earth was a big ball of fire about 5 billion years ago. A short way under the surface it is and will remain a ball of fire billions of years. If it wasn’t a mineral fire, we would not be. And we would be insignificant small-brained primates had we not taken control of fire, 5 or 8 hundred thousand years ago.

We come from fire and we live by fire and most all we have done is with the help of fire.

This, however, does not mean we need religion. What we need is knowledge and wisdom. And a creative curious mind burning with passion.

And we need to better master our God.

Fire.


chapter 06

These are the laws and rules what the Lord told me to tell you to live by. Remember. You are my slaves. And you must tell your children. Instill the fear of the Lord into them. So I don't have to kill them.

Obey Israel.

Vs. 15: - lest the anger of the Lord your God blaze forth against you and He wipe you off the face of the earth EQ

The Lord is our God. Did I say that before. Are you getting this. Obey or die. Teach your children. Chant my law. Scratch it into you forehead; write it on your arm. Write it on your house, your door, your gate.

I'm giving you land. Obey me. Swear only by my name. I said that too. Didn't I. Is anyone paying attention. You with your head down. Look up. If you don't obey me, I'll wipe you off the face of the Earth.

"Moses is an asshole."

"Who said that. Kill him and most of his relatives. Keep the virgin girls."

"Eat shit."

"We were slaves, you unruly bastards. We gained our power and will kill and make others slaves. Forever. For I am God."

Moses may have talked to fire, if you have sat by a campfire you may have been drawn into the fire with your thoughts.

But the truth be known. The fire did not speak in words. The fire consumed the wood and turned it into heat and light, ash and gas.

Anyone, and especially Moses, who claimed that they heard the voice of God tell them what to dictate to the masses, is a lying bastard. Anyone who teaches the words of those who wrote of the life of Moses as the laws of God.

Is also a lying bastard.

No matter how elegant his robe and how extravagant his hat.


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