This is the comment that did not make it past Ray's censorship:
"Look: the power in his thighs, the pulsing sinews of his belly. His penis stiffens like a pine; his testicles bulge with vigor."
Verse 16: "Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly."
Verse 17: "He moves his tail like a cedar . . . "
Verse 17: " . . . the sinews of his stones are wrapped together."
From Thursday, July 10, 2008
The Dinosaur in the Bible
14 comments:
sorry, Ray keeps everything rated Y-7. Thats the age no one knows about science yet.
haha, good post.
OH noes nekkidness!!, that's not the fundie way.
Ray allowed "male dangly bits" through. Why didn't I think of that? Every euphemism I could come up with was infinitely worse than penis & testicles.
Wait...I'm still trying to picture the testicles bulging with vigor....
......ok this could take a while...
Penis? Testicles? OH NO THE HORROR!!!
Does anyone know if Ray has any kids? Can you imagine him trying to explain, "the facts of life"?
...Although, of course, to him, those facts would be, "Goddidit, and you're an evil lustful sinner for even asking."
The fundie discomfort with genitals baffles and amuses me. If God is our Creator, then He must have been the one who designed our assorted orifices and dangly bits, with all their excretions and secretions and densely clustered nerve endings, right? So what's the big deal?
@irukandji,
Maybe genitals came "after the fall"and are a direct result of sin.
@ skeptical sorcerer
There is a school of thought that says the snake in the garden of Eden wasn't just a snake (if you know what I mean :)). The fall was a sexual "sin" and the tree of good and evil was really the tree of sexual awakening.
Fascinating, I guess that's why they had to wear clothes after the garden. I never understood why god hates sex so much. Maybe it's cause he can't have it, can he? I think that would make sense since he's suppose to a jealous god.
I heard about that school of thought.
It's interesting though, it even makes me laugh to hear christians say it was satan in the garden?
why?
because God specifically tells the serpent that he will be below all animals and slide on his belly.
wrap around that one, creationists.
Thanks Milo. I was rather surprised that those words didn't go through.
But you have to have male dangly bits in order to think of that as a term!
Flinging Dust - any stud breeder will refer to the vitality and vigour of the testicles of one's animal. Not that size is necessarily a predictor of virility of course.
Cheers,
Craig (but not the other Craig's on the blog)
PS Good to see you all here.
But guys, I always thought you knew this, knowledge is used frequently in the Bible to refer to sex. Like when Maria was told that she was pregnant, she says "but I have known no man." So, the tree of knowledge, of course is sex, and this clearly explain the nakedness thing. They had had sex, so they felt embarrassed, like it could show in their bodies that they were having so much fun.
Then, maybe some christianities deny this thing, but lots acknowledge it, just like they acknowledge other "symbols," but I have forgotten most. Obviously the knowledge thing is one I had to remember. Now, why would the bible writers disguise sex for knowledge, hum, maybe they wanted to get rid of both? You know, to keep control. There must be some information about it somewhere, but I am still not in the mood for searching.
G.E.
I agree, get-education, that there is a hell of a lot of sex couched in euphemistic terms (just think of Jonathon being David's best mate). And the Song of Solomon is celebrating life (as the Christianists would have it), but it is hot, lusty life that it is celebrating (a sin in R.C's eyes).
But IIRC, the tree of knowledge and the tree of life were two trees/symbols borrowed from earlier (Sumerian?) mythology. I'll have to check this out sometime.
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