Blogger’s Note: The Old Testament records the perceived history of a pre-modern and highly primitive people living in the Middle East and North African regions. In this regard, irrespective of whatever theological myths and delusions these people developed – the view of the world they perpetuated and reported is ahistorical, backward and has little to do with science. If individuals carefully read the Christian Bible carefully and for themselves – then a direct knowledge is gained that is not dependent upon the viewpoints of others. Much of the day-to-day culture of these people is entirely uncivilised, frightening and horrific. This is typical of such cultures around the world at a similar level of socio-economic development and their is nothing special about these people in anyway. For instance, there is slave-owning and slave-abuse, lying about being enslaved, lying in general, lying in business, dishonesty, greed, theft, delusion, illusion, hatred, misogyny, rape, child-rape, murder, incest, paedophilia, child abuse, betrayal, racism, sexual genetical mutilation, prostitution, violence, torture, ridiculous myth-making and routine animal cruelty. The list of dysfunctionality is potentially endless.
It is a curious fact, however, that although the Judeo-Christian tradition is often ultra-conservative and opposed to nearly every form of sexual expression – the Old Testament (particularly in Genesis) – is packed full of overt sexual activity. This is not the “sterilised” sexuality found throughout general discourse today, but a clear expression of the patriarchal domination of women and girls. The different tribes that believed themselves to be racially and spiritually superior to one another – and everyone else – led to the brutal sexual exploitation of women and girls. Not only this, but the female victims are portrayed as being complicit in their own abuse – agreeing with what these men are thinking – and actively participating in their own rape and manipulation. The Soviet System advocates the objective and detached study of religion so that is degenerate spell over humanity is broken and logic and reason is used to place these superstitious tales into their proper and correct place in history. These texts are nothing special – but they are historically interesting with regards to the evolution of human understanding. ACW (13.4.2024)
The Story of Judah and Tamar
It happened at about that time that Judah left his brother, to go down and settle with a certain Adullamite called Hirah. There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite called Shua. He made her his wife and went in to her. She conceived and gave birth to a son whom she named Er. She conceived again and gave birth to a son whom she named Onan. Yet again he gave birth to a son whom she named Shelah. She was at Chezib when she gave birth to him.
Judah took a wife for his first-born Er, and her name was Tamar. But Er, Judah’s first-born, was evil in the eyes of the Lord and the Lord put him death. Then Judah said to Onan, ‘Go into your brother’s wife, and do your duty as her brother-in-law, to raise up off-spring for your brother.’ But Onan, knowing that that the off-spring would not be his, spilt his seed on the ground each time he went to his brother’s wife, so that that he would not provide off-spring for his brother. What he did was wicked in the eyes of the Lord, who put him to death too. Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, ‘Go home as a widow to your father, until my son Shelah grows up.’ For he was thinking, ‘He must not die like his brothers.’ So Tamar went back to her father’s house.
A long time passed, and then Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. After Judah had finished mourning he went up to Timnah for his sheep shearing, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. When Tamar was told, ‘Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah for the shearing of his sheep,’ she changed out of her widow’s clothes, disguised herself with a veil, wrapped herself up, and sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that, although Shelah was grown up, she had not been given to him as his wife. Judah, seeing her, took her for a prostitute as her face was veiled. Turning aside to her on the road, he said, ‘Here, please let me come in to you.’ He did not know she was his daughter-in-law. ‘What will you give me if you come into me?’ she asked. He said, ‘I will send you a young goat from the flock.’ She replied, ‘If you give me a pledge until you send it.’ He asked, ‘ What pledge should I give you?’ She replied, ‘Your seal and cord and your staff which is in your hand.’ He gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him. Then she got up and left him and, taking off her veil, put on the clothes of her widowhood.
Holy Bible, Revised New Jerusalem Bible – Study Edition – Darton, Longman, and Todd, (2019), Pages 38-39 – Genesis 38: 1-19
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