Survey - If you had to re-create the Bible from memory. . .

I only know stories, not actual quotes.

Shadrach, Meshak and Abednego: they worshipped Jehovah, and the King didn’t, so he had them thrown into a furnace, and they weren’t burned. Also, an angel was hanging out with them in the fire. I believe they ended up converting the king.

Job, who worshipped God and had the good life, and God took everything away and made him a leper and basically fucked with him, just to “test” him to see if he still loved God despite all the crap he did to him. He did still love God. Sucker.

Moses when leading his wandering people, said something like “you people are so ungrateful! I have to get this water out of a rock for you!” and struck the rock with his staff and a spring came forth, but because Moses did not properly credit the Lord for the miracle, he was not allowed to go into the promised land…sucky. Also Moses parted the Red Sea (actual it was God but you know what I mean. And the army following them was swallowed by the sea after Moses & Co. got to the other side. In fact, just insert the movie “The Ten Commandments” here.

Do you want the bit about the Holy Hand Grenade?

The Bible according to a guy who really only read the stories of perversion and random violence, which was pretty much the only things I ever wanted to read about. So from memory all that I remember about the Bible.

Genesis: God created some naked people who skipped around nakedly until one day a snake convince them to eat some fruit. From then on they wore clothes and were quite modest. But they invented sex had lots of babies and the eventually populate the world.

The world was full of evil perverts called the sons of god who lay with the slutty daughters of men so god caused a big flood. All the wicked people died except Noah who built a big boat with animals and his three sons their wives and his wife. They landed and Noah got drunk and ran around naked to celebrate, his son Ham thought it was pretty funny to see a drunk 600 year old naked man dancing, which it was, and so God cursed Ham and would later justify the destruction of his his offspring and the nations they created.

Then there was Abraham who married his sister. It was pretty gross. But even more gross he slept with his 90 year old sister and had a baby. His nephew moved away to Sodom which as it name suggests was full of fithy sodomites. These people liked sex are were not picky about who it was with, they even tried to rape an angel. So god killed everyone there and lot excaped with his two daughters. They lived in a cave and the sisters take turns sudducing their father. Thats pretty gross. Meanwhile, Abe gets some a slave girl and has some sons with both her and his wife/sister and yadda yadda he sends the bitch packing. A couple thousand years later the ancestors of Abes son with his concubine hit it big when the discover the wasteland they were shipped off to was on top of a huge deposite of the black gold. So its not all bad I guess.

Abe’s son Issac/Israel had a son name Jacob who cheats his older cooler brother out of his land and property. Our hero Jacob then runs away when he is discovered until he fights God in a ancient wrestle mania king of the ring type match and wins. Good gets pissy after losing and gives him a limp using his magic god powers. Cheater! Prooving he is indeed a badass, he goes back for his stuff. He also marries sisters, the ugly Leah and the fine Rebecca or was it Racheal. Either way she was a hotty and his cousin. He has a bunch of kids with them and other women, 12 sons and daughter to be exact.

Joe his favorite, the son of his hot wife of course, pisses off his brothers because he is a prick. So of course they sell him into slavery. Joe gets into a lot of trouble in Egypt because he is a very attractive guy and he keeps turning down all the noble ladies advances. Joe is a prick he can’t help it. They throw him in prison, but he gets out and eventually is running the place. Meanwhile his brother Judah’s son dies with out leaving his widow with out a child. So wife marries son 2 and tries to have a kid. Son 2 invents both the cum shot and the withdrawl method in the same sexual outing and spills his seed on the floor. God hates wasteing seed so he strikes him dead. The widow is very sad becomes a whore. Judah comes by one day and doesn’t recognize her. Does his business, pays her and sents her on her way. Later when he finds his daughter in law is a whore he tries to stone her and in the process invents the “double standard” possibly the most important doctrine in the judeo-christian tradition. He realizes it was her he slept with and decides she was a pretty lay so he marries her himself. From this beautiful and holy union, we later get not only the future king of Israel, David, but also the king of kings himself, our savior Jesus Christ.

Later, everyone goes to Egypt to mooch off the very brother they sold into slavery. Somehow their descendents become slaves.

Next Week

Chapter 2 Exodus: The Voyage Home aka Genocide with Purpose

Tyger - It’s been used in a couple of other books as well. MZBradley had Christoforos (sp?) worshiping The Bearer of Burdens on Darkover. This time yesterday I could remember another instance as well.

It’s been awhile since I read Canticle, but if I remember correctly, the monks were trying to remember EVERYTHING, not just the bible. . . electrical motors, astronomy, wine making. . .

I’m not going to end up with a revised alien bible because the process is going to get interrupted. There are other goings-on that are, er, going on.

I’m going to be trying the NaMoWriMo thing (Nation Novel Writing Month - there are at least two threads going). So I’m going to end up with something that needs heavy editing at the least.

Actually “Genocide with Purpose” is the subtitle of the book of Josuah not Exodus. The second subtitle of Exodus should be “How Moses got his Groove Back”.

Between Exodus and Joshua are

Leviticus: Don’t Eat That!
Numbers: Like a Census and Highschool Handbook Combined!
Dueteronomy(no idea how to spell that): Don’t Have Sex with the Following People …
Joshua
Judges: Not Those Kinds of Judges with the Gavels and Robes, but Badass ones with Super Powers! I’m pretty sure this one has a talking donkey too, which is awesome on so many levels.
Ruth: The Harliquin Romance Book of the Bible!
Samuel 1: All about Samuel
Samuel 2: So Cool Samuel isn’t even in it!
Kings 1: A whole lot of Kings!
Kings 2: More Kings!
Chronicles 1: Kings Reloaded
Chronicles 2: Electric Boogaloo!
Ezra: The Wall

Well if it was up to me to share this information with those that know nothing. I know much less. It would all go back to the Simpson’s. Yes the Simpson’s all you need to recreate western civilization. WooHoo

Now do the New Testament!!!

The New Testament’s lame. Instead of perverted sex we get virgin births. Instead of entertaining violence just a lot of torture. Even the super powers are lame. Magic spit that cures blindness? A never ending bucket of fish? Boring! I’d rather read about a guy that turn his staff into a killer snake or a ox jaw into a weapon of mass destruction. God, I should have been born a jew.

Heres pretty much everything interesting in the New Testament

There was this guy Jesus who a lot of people liked because he could turn water into wine. He was a huge hit at parties I imagine. He could probably turn wheat into cocaine too but they didn’t have that back then, at least I don’t think they did. He hung out with sailors and hookers a lot so people started to talk. He started to tell people he was God’s son and that his dad could get them a sweat deal if they did what Jesus said. He did a bunch of cool things like walk on water and fast for months. This was way before David Blain was even born. Once when he came across a posessed crazy man Jesus used his almighty powers to drive the devils into a a bunch of pigs, they went crazy and got lose and jumped off a cliff. But then the people in power convinced the Romans to hang him up on a big cross. And he died. Then there was a big earthquake and it rained and suddenly it was like Dawn of the Dead with the undead rising out of their grave and causing trouble. Then Jesus came back from the dead too and hung out for a while and then flew away much like Mary Poppins did. Then all Jesus’s friends got flaming tounges that could talk in any language like in Star Trek only cooler. Most of them went around preaching and then got tortured and killed just like Jesus. The testament ends with a bunch of prophacies about Dragons eating whores, or something to that effect. There are plagues, mighty swords, chaos, magic trumpets and evil super beasts. Although it has a lot of cool things it still has no plot. This last book called revelation is pretty much the source of every heavy metal band lyrics and a couple of Roman Polanski movies.

A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away.
That’s about the only bit I remember.

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You’re right. How could I forget the Cristoforos??

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You’re right about that, too.

Good luck. :slight_smile:

Reading this thread, I’m realizing that there were a lot of gaps in my Catholic education.

I could sing the entire songbooks of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Jesus Christ Superstar. So, that’s a bit of Genesis and some New Testament for ya.

Yes, I went to the Andrew Lloyd Webber bible school.

Oh, and Tyger, just to defend my scholarly largesse, linky linky. I may have to buy new pants to fit all my scholarship in. :wink:

Let´s see if I can remember anything else… Um, I´m pretty sure the wages of sin are death, which seems to me like a pretty damned good argument for sinning only on an amateur basis. Also, then you can compete in Beijing aught eight, where Synchronized Sinning is debuting as a provisional sport. W00t.

I am the Alpha and the Omega…

Blessed are–I mean–Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. mumble mumble Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are the cheesemakers, for they shall… er…

Um, yeah, I don´t think I´d make a very good Jesus. I´m going to go back to Vengeance is mine, cuz I likes it…

Let’s see:

The Lord is a shepherd who I do not want.
He makes out with me in green pastures.
He leads me to make water.
He repairs my shoes.
He needs me to bathe regularly for his sake.
Yes, though I watch “Death Valley Days”,
I am not growing feable
My thighs rot but my staff comforts me.
I am stable but your prepare for me an enema.
You upend me and I run for the head overflowing.
Surely, goolies and merconium shall haunt me all the days of my life
And I shall dwell on the bowl of the commode, oh L O R D ! !