Welcome to a problem-identifying node of the Pandeism index!!
Every
profiler with expertise on
serial killers and those with similar
sociopathic personality
disorders will tell you, the truly heinous ones, the irredeemable
evil bastards, tend to start in their petulant
childhood years with the tormenting of
animals. It is through this which they build up the
courage (and
technique, even) to move on to the
torture and
murder of
human beings. And, if by some trick of fate they are able to get away with it, if by chance the killer is a
warlord or a
ruler like
Ivan the Terrible and old
Vlad Tepes, then they'll massacre their enemies openly and publicly and by the leagues, and even wring praise for their
barbarism from allies who either share in their
bloodlust, or fear to criticise it.
But all of the brash and brutal
battlefield butchers of human history can't match up to the deity depicted in the foundational Abrahamic
scriptures. And, in particular, we have the one that is best called Biblegod (so setting it apart from more rational deitic conceptualisations)....
A God Pleased By The Odor Of Burning Flesh....
Now there's no denying that Biblegod finds the odor of burning flesh "pleasing" for it is recited in piddly variation over a dozen times in the Bible. In multiple verses of
Leviticus 1, by way of example, Biblegod is written as giving extremely explicit instructions on which beasts of the flock to select for burning in accompaniment of all sorts of deitic favor-begging; and as to that slaughtered beast, how to wash it, skin it, slice it up, and set it ablaze and so to create "an aroma pleasing to the LORD."
So here and there and everywhere across the Old Testament, Biblegod has ordered the
killing and
burning of especially described flesh-parts of all sorts of living things; of
bulls and
lambs and
rams and
goats and
pigeons and
doves and
camels and
sloths and whatever else is around which may be
mutilated and burnt -- not simply cooked, mind you, burnt up, immolated, reduced to nothing. For it is well-detailed how it is the
odor of burning flesh, above all things, which Biblegod finds
pleasing.
In
Genesis 8, Biblegod even follows up his
mythic world-
massacre orgy of a
flood, where
forests and
jungles of
innocent animals have already been murdered in the coldest blood, with a demand of a tribute of the "pleasing aroma" a virtual
zoo's worth of burning animals from among the pithy handful claimed to have only just survived on that fictional boat!! In
Exodus 18, Biblegod lays down the slaughter-and-burn law for consecration of priests, to make, as well, a "pleasing" burning odor -- with special attention to putting bull's
blood on the
altar and burning the
liver and
kidneys. And in Exodus 29. And Leviticus 3, 4, 6, 8, 23, etc.
In Leviticus 26, Biblegod almost goes too far, threatening that if he is not obeyed, well then, not only will he lay
waste to their
cities and send
wild animals to rob them of their
children, not only will he
force the disobedient to
eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters (even though he's supposedly already had wild animals take them young'uns away), but worst of all, he threatens to (gasp) "take
no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings!!" I can see the faithful now, pleading, "send us plagues, make us eat our kids, but please,
please don't not take pleasure in the burnt offering you command us to make!!"
And lest it be dreamt that this commanded sacrifice is engendered only in the dismal myths of the Old Testament, the
Book of Luke teaches us that it was still "the Law of the Lord" that the parents of the baby
Jesus should kill for Biblegod's pleasure "a pair of doves or two young pigeons." So like the serial killers profiled by forensic experts, Biblegod starts with the burning of animals and O' shall we see how Biblegod works all the way up to humans....
....A God Who Burns Human Flesh, Eternally
For now we must consider:
Hell, the
Lake of Fire, that endless
sulfuric
pit. And what is claimed of Hell? It is supposed by the faithful to be a place of
punishment for those who fall afoul of Biblegod's line of commanded conduct; a place where people spend
eternity exuding the smell of their burning flesh....
The startling realisation to come of this is that Biblegod isn't sending people to burn eternally in hell because they've behaved badly or failed to
worship properly -- that's a line, an
excuse; he's doing it because his
psychosis has reached its perihelion, because he totally
gets off on smelling immense quantities of burning human flesh!! It doesn't matter what you believe, what you do in life, what you think of anything -- if the Bible accurately captures the irreparable psychosis of the deity described in it, then you're gonna burn, because Biblegod wants to feed his addiction, to
freebase from your
human-meat burn-stank.
That is a convenient reason to set up a system where "all fall short," providing a ready excuse to perpetuate the burning of the man-flesh; all are, then, burning in Hell-- even
Moses and
Jesus and
Mohamed, and
Buddha and
Mother Theresa,
Gandhi, and every
minister,
priest,
reverend, or
Pope there ever was. All stewing in that lake of fire over which Biblegod is perpetually nasally
orgasming from the odor of their
writhing,
pain-wracked, eternally burning flesh. And what of the children? The miscarried
fetuses, even? Well it should render some shivers to remember how the OT-described deity does seem to exude a penchant for the smell of especially
young burning flesh!!
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But let us have back our moments of
peace, now; let us withdraw from this
fable and
confess: these are myths, stories of primitives expressing their profound ignorance of things
spiritual. For a moment of
logic and
reason and
clarity assures us that there never
was a deity who commanded sacrifices of any kind, or took any moment of pleasure in the smells that waft from them. And any book that claims there was is but nonsense and
fairy tale.