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                <title>A MUST SEE BRODUCTION OP&#039;S BIG BRO</title>
                <link>http://www.bakotopia.com/home/Blog/uncleiman/37644</link>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:26:01 PST</pubDate>
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                <title>The Agra</title>
                <link>http://www.bakotopia.com/home/Blog/VilaWolf/37643</link>
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                                    &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(51, 102, 255);&quot;&gt;My fave &#039;vampire&#039; is the Agra which is completely harmless to humans. A humanoid seen most often smoking cigars along rivers who will lead fishermen to the best spots. They feed no on blood but &amp;quot;life energy&amp;quot; of fish yet leave the meat unharmed and still fit for consumption. The best time to find a Agra is actually during a light to medium rainfall.&lt;br /&gt;
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Of course the only real way to actually see an Agra is to bend over, grab your ankles and look out between your legs. As I am a migraine sufferer and blood to the head hurts me I&#039;ll never get to see one. :(&lt;br /&gt;
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They&#039;re a completely &amp;quot;wtf&amp;quot; myth which is why I love it so much.... makes you think someone had some of that Ergot contaminated bread and were doing some serious hallucinating. What gets me most though is that some poor researcher out doing field work had the sense of humor enough to go with it and write it down and that others found his papers and said &amp;quot;sure! I&#039;ll publish this!!&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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                <pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:18:03 PST</pubDate>
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                <title>BOXCAR SERMON THE VIDEO? HELP THE  COUNCILMEN GET THERE! COME TO SANDRINI&#039;S 12/5</title>
                <link>http://www.bakotopia.com/home/Blog/thecouncilmen/37572</link>
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                                      &lt;img src="http://www.bakotopia.com/file/picture/340756/0/0/" width="100" height="75" border="0"/&gt;
                                    &lt;p align=&quot;center&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Tahoma;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 14pt; color: red;&quot;&gt;THE COUNCILMEN ARE SCHEDULED TO &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 14pt; color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;December 14th to December 20th in Nashville TN.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;Rodney Powell&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; is producing THE COUNCILMEN&amp;rsquo;S first video BOXCAR SERMON as well as developing and promoting the band.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;RODNEY POWELL, drummer for the legendary band &amp;ldquo;THE TENESSEE THREE&amp;rdquo; featuring BOB WOOTTON friend and lead guitarist for JOHNNY &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:stockticker&gt;&lt;/st1:stockticker&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:stockticker&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;CASH&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:stockticker&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:stockticker&gt;&lt;/st1:stockticker&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:stockticker&gt;&lt;/st1:stockticker&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:stockticker&gt;&lt;/st1:stockticker&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;, contacted THE COUNCILMEN after hearing BOXCAR SERMON on Music Nation. Powell states, &amp;ldquo;I know a hit when I hear one, and BOXCAR SERMON is a hit&amp;rdquo;. Powell&amp;rsquo;s experience in the music industry spans over thirty years. Powell worked as road manager/drummer for the band HEARTLAND, as well as the drummer for the Tennessee Three, Randy Travis and Donna Summer. In 2004 Powell started POWELL MUSIC GROUP a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Nashville&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt; based company to help launch artist careers offering development deals, video production, artist management and endorsement brokering.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;The Councilmen are playing &lt;strong&gt;Sandrini&#039;s December 5th&lt;/strong&gt; to raise money for airline tickets to get them to Nashville. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Hope you all can make it out !&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Tami, Councilmen Manager&lt;/p&gt;
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                <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:06:03 PST</pubDate>
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                <title>Ella is improving!  Praise God</title>
                <link>http://www.bakotopia.com/home/Blog/Grampsdon/37614</link>
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                                    &lt;p&gt;It appears that Ella&#039;s lung capacity is improved enough that she is breathing on her own, and my be moved from the ICU to a private room.&amp;nbsp; Her mom and dad have been offered a small appartment in the &lt;em&gt;Ronald MacDonald House &lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp; This gives them so much more freedom and privacy, yet near they sweet daughter.&amp;nbsp; We are on the way up.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:47:58 PST</pubDate>
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                <title>A karmic George Bush vid</title>
                <link>http://www.bakotopia.com/home/Blog/matt/37579</link>
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                                    &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana;&quot;&gt;It&#039;s getting chilier for Georgie Bush...&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;CNN&#039;s Rick Sanchez Reports on Bush being ignored at G20 Summit.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana;&quot;&gt;You think W is counting the days, so he can hand over his mess to Obama?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;lt;Check out the video at left.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana;&quot;&gt;Yikes!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(255, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana;&quot;&gt;THOUGHTS?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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                <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:08:48 PST</pubDate>
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                <title>Why you Should Question Religion</title>
                <link>http://www.bakotopia.com/home/Blog/VilaWolf/37535</link>
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                                    &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(51, 102, 255);&quot;&gt;My problems with religion are basic. They are simple. Anyone who claims to have absolute authority on truth is completely off their rocker and highly dangerous at best. There are NO answers to be found in that book. Only contradictions. I know my last two posts on the topic have been reposts of others time and efforts. I chose that route to give those people my props. To give them credit for their efforts in fighting against Fundamentalism. &lt;br /&gt;
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My own inner battle with religion was a twenty year journey. I was raised Catholic. I was so into the religion that the very DAY John Paul said females could be Alter Servers I signed up. I was the first female Alter Server at my parish, St. Philips the Apostle. It was during the Alter class that I was taught Latin and became aware of the &amp;ldquo;other&amp;rdquo; Biblical verses. The ones that are more often than not printed in black ink so the common Parishioner skips over them to read the &amp;ldquo;important&amp;rdquo; red verses. Immediately the back of my brain began to itch. That book was not right. That book was not Holy. No merciful god would ever say such things. I talked to Monsignor Sweat about these doubts and he told me the basic, the bible is not the hand of god as it was written by the hand of men. Yeah, that old excuse. &lt;br /&gt;
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The bible is &amp;ldquo;gods book and law&amp;rdquo;. If he did not like the way it was written he no doubt would have said something. The bible is after all full of stories about him talking to people. And don&amp;rsquo;t give me the nine about Free Will and Faith. God talked to people all the time in that book and it did not effect the free will of the people he spake to. &lt;br /&gt;
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I left the Church with in a year of becoming an Altar Server. &lt;br /&gt;
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I still believed in god and still thought he was good. But my &amp;ldquo;Ravenclaw Mind&amp;rdquo; kept itching. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(51, 102, 255);&quot;&gt;History said otherwise. History proved me wrong. God has caused an awful lot of strife in his day. So many people died because of him. So many cultures had been obliterated oppressed and raped because of him. So much hate. 9-11 was the final act. Fundamentalism of every kind is wrong and dangerous. All any religion is, is a way to control people through the monopoly of knowledge. Remember what the first book to be mass produced is and how the church fought so hard against it&amp;rsquo;s release? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(51, 102, 255);&quot;&gt;The Bible. The church did not want the common folk to be able to read it for themselves. The church did not want a literate people because Knowledge is Power and it is through the Printer Word that knowledge is spread. &lt;br /&gt;
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That would be the greatest example of Christian Hypocrisy of them all. You push the bible on others like a drug. You cling to it with everything you have, yet according to your own church, you are not even allowed to possess it.&lt;br /&gt;
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How many scientists were burned, tortured and executed by the Church? How many cultures have been all but wiped off the Earth by your religion? How many books have been burned? Religion is nothing but an excuse to plunder and pillage. Religion is nothing more than a plague. You speak of Love, Mercy and Charity yet you only leave burned ashes in your wake. You cannot claim that the sins of he past church has no impact on you. The book has not changed. It&amp;rsquo;s same as it was. And lest not forget&amp;hellip;&lt;br /&gt;
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The Sins Of the Father Shall Be Visited Upon the Son a Thousand Times.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(51, 102, 255);&quot;&gt;For those of us who have NOT&amp;nbsp;completely read the bible all the way through but only the lines in red lets take a closer look at &amp;ldquo;gods love&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
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Kill People Who Don&#039;t Listen to Priests&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. &amp;nbsp;Such evil must be purged from Israel.&amp;nbsp; (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Kill Witches &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; You should not let a sorceress live.&amp;nbsp; (Exodus 22:17 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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Kill Homosexuals&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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Kill Fortunetellers&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; A man or a woman who acts as a medium or fortuneteller shall be put to death by stoning; they have no one but themselves to blame for their death.&amp;nbsp; (Leviticus 20:27 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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Death for Hitting Dad&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Whoever strikes his father or mother shall be put to death. &amp;nbsp;(Exodus 21:15 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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Death for Cursing Parents&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 1) If one curses his father or mother, his lamp will go out at the coming of darkness.&amp;nbsp; (Proverbs 20:20 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 2) All who curse their father or mother must be put to death.&amp;nbsp; They are guilty of a capital offense.&amp;nbsp; (Leviticus 20:9 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Death for Adultery&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; If a man commits adultery with another man&#039;s wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death.&amp;nbsp; (Leviticus 20:10 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Death for Fornication &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; A priest&#039;s daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death.&amp;nbsp; (Leviticus 21:9 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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Death to Followers of Other Religions &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall be doomed.&amp;nbsp; (Exodus 22:19 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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Kill Nonbelievers&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.&amp;nbsp; (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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Kill False Prophets&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; If a man still prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall say to him, &amp;quot;You shall not live, because you have spoken a lie in the name of the Lord.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; When he prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall thrust him through.&amp;nbsp; (Zechariah 13:3 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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Kill the Entire Town if One Person Worships Another God&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods.&amp;nbsp; In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully.&amp;nbsp; If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock.&amp;nbsp; Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it.&amp;nbsp; Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God.&amp;nbsp; That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt.&amp;nbsp; Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction.&amp;nbsp; Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you.&amp;nbsp; He will have compassion on you and make you a great nation, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors.&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;The LORD your God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving you today, doing what is pleasing to him.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Kill Women Who Are Not Virgins On Their Wedding Night&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; But if this charge is true (that she wasn&#039;t a virgin on her wedding night), and evidence of the girls virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her fathers house and there her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Israel by her unchasteness in her father&#039;s house.&amp;nbsp; Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.&amp;nbsp; (Deuteronomy&amp;nbsp; 22:20-21 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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Kill Followers of Other Religions.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 1) If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him.&amp;nbsp; Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you.&amp;nbsp; You shall stone him to death, because he sought to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery.&amp;nbsp; And all Israel, hearing of this, shall fear and never do such evil as this in your midst.&amp;nbsp; (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 2) Suppose a man or woman among you, in one of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, has done evil in the sight of the LORD your God and has violated the covenant by serving other gods or by worshiping the sun, the moon, or any of the forces of heaven, which I have strictly forbidden.&amp;nbsp; When you hear about it, investigate the matter thoroughly. If it is true that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, then that man or woman must be taken to the gates of the town and stoned to death. &amp;nbsp;(Deuteronomy 17:2-5 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Death for Blasphemy&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; One day a man who had an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father got into a fight with one of the Israelite men.&amp;nbsp; During the fight, this son of an Israelite woman blasphemed the LORD&#039;s name. &amp;nbsp;So the man was brought to Moses for judgment. &amp;nbsp;His mother&#039;s name was Shelomith. She was the daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan.&amp;nbsp; They put the man in custody until the LORD&#039;s will in the matter should become clear. &amp;nbsp;Then the LORD said to Moses, &amp;quot;Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and tell all those who heard him to lay their hands on his head. &amp;nbsp;Then let the entire community stone him to death.&amp;nbsp; Say to the people of Israel: Those who blaspheme God will suffer the consequences of their guilt and be punished.&amp;nbsp; Anyone who blasphemes the LORD&#039;s name must be stoned to death by the whole community of Israel. &amp;nbsp;Any Israelite or foreigner among you who blasphemes the LORD&#039;s name will surely die.&amp;nbsp; (Leviticus 24:10-16 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Kill False Prophets &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 1) Suppose there are prophets among you, or those who have dreams about the future, and they promise you signs or miracles, &amp;nbsp;and the predicted signs or miracles take place. &amp;nbsp;If the prophets then say, &#039;Come, let us worship the gods of foreign nations,&#039; do not listen to them. &amp;nbsp;The LORD your God is testing you to see if you love him with all your heart and soul. &amp;nbsp;Serve only the LORD your God and fear him alone. &amp;nbsp;Obey his commands, listen to his voice, and cling to him. &amp;nbsp;The false prophets or dreamers who try to lead you astray must be put to death, for they encourage rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of slavery in the land of Egypt. &amp;nbsp;Since they try to keep you from following the LORD your God, you must execute them to remove the evil from among you.&amp;nbsp; (Deuteronomy 13:1-5 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 2) But any prophet who claims to give a message from another god or who falsely claims to speak for me must die.&#039;&amp;nbsp; You may wonder, &#039;How will we know whether the prophecy is from the LORD or not?&#039;&amp;nbsp; If the prophet predicts something in the LORD&#039;s name and it does not happen, the LORD did not give the message. &amp;nbsp;That prophet has spoken on his own and need not be feared.&amp;nbsp; (Deuteronomy 18:20-22 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Infidels and Gays Should Die&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; So God let them go ahead and do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. &amp;nbsp;As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other&#039;s bodies.&amp;nbsp; Instead of believing what they knew was the truth about God, they deliberately chose to believe lies. &amp;nbsp;So they worshiped the things God made but not the Creator himself, who is to be praised forever. &amp;nbsp;Amen. &amp;nbsp;That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. &amp;nbsp;Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other.&amp;nbsp; And the men, instead of having normal sexual relationships with women, burned with lust for each other. &amp;nbsp;Men did shameful things with other men and, as a result, suffered within themselves the penalty they so richly deserved. &amp;nbsp;When they refused to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their evil minds and let them do things that should never be done.&amp;nbsp; Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, fighting, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip.&amp;nbsp; They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. &amp;nbsp;They are forever inventing new ways of sinning and are disobedient to their parents.&amp;nbsp; They refuse to understand, break their promises, and are heartless and unforgiving.&amp;nbsp; They are fully aware of God&#039;s death penalty for those who do these things, yet they go right ahead and do them anyway. &amp;nbsp;And, worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too.&amp;nbsp; (Romans 1:24-32 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Kill Anyone who Approaches the Tabernacle&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; For the LORD had said to Moses, &#039;Exempt the tribe of Levi from the census; do not include them when you count the rest of the Israelites.&amp;nbsp; You must put the Levites in charge of the Tabernacle of the Covenant, along with its furnishings and equipment. &amp;nbsp;They must carry the Tabernacle and its equipment as you travel, and they must care for it and camp around it.&amp;nbsp; Whenever the Tabernacle is moved, the Levites will take it down and set it up again. &amp;nbsp;Anyone else who goes too near the Tabernacle will be executed.&#039;&amp;nbsp; (Numbers 1:48-51 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Kill People for Working on the Sabbath&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The LORD then gave these further instructions to Moses: &#039;Tell the people of Israel to keep my Sabbath day, for the Sabbath is a sign of the covenant between me and you forever. &amp;nbsp;It helps you to remember that I am the LORD, who makes you holy.&amp;nbsp; Yes, keep the Sabbath day, for it is holy. &amp;nbsp;Anyone who desecrates it must die; anyone who works on that day will be cut off from the community.&amp;nbsp; Work six days only, but the seventh day must be a day of total rest. &amp;nbsp;I repeat: Because the LORD considers it a holy day, anyone who works on the Sabbath must be put to death.&#039;&amp;nbsp; (Exodus 31:12-15 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Kill Brats&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; From there Elisha went up to Bethel.&amp;nbsp; While he was on his way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him.&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;Go up baldhead,&amp;quot; they shouted, &amp;quot;go up baldhead!&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; The prophet turned and saw them, and he cursed them in the name of the Lord.&amp;nbsp; Then two shebears came out of the woods and tore forty two of the children to pieces. &amp;nbsp;(2 Kings 2:23-24 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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God Kills the Curious &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; And he smote of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of Jehovah, he smote of the people seventy men, `and&#039; fifty thousand men; and the people mourned, because Jehovah had smitten the people with a great slaughter.&amp;nbsp; And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before Jehovah, this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from us? &amp;nbsp; (1Samuel 6:19-20 ASV)&lt;br /&gt;
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Killed by a Lion&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Meanwhile, the LORD instructed one of the group of prophets to say to another man, &amp;quot;Strike me!&amp;quot; &amp;nbsp;But the man refused to strike the prophet.&amp;nbsp; Then the prophet told him, &amp;quot;Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, a lion will kill you as soon as you leave me.&amp;quot; &amp;nbsp;And sure enough, when he had gone, a lion attacked and killed him. &amp;nbsp;(1 Kings 20:35-36 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Killing the Good Samaritan&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The ark of God was placed on a new cart and taken away from the house of Abinadab on the hill.&amp;nbsp; Uzzah and Ahio, sons of Abinadab guided the cart, with Ahio walking before it, while David and all the Israelites made merry before the Lord with all their strength, with singing and with citharas, harps, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; When they came to the threshing floor of Nodan, Uzzah reached out his hand to the ark of God to steady it, for the oxen were making it tip.&amp;nbsp; But the Lord was angry with Uzzah; God struck him on that spot, and he died there before God.&amp;nbsp; (2 Samuel 6:3-7 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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Kill Sons of Sinners&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Make ready to slaughter his sons for the guilt of their fathers; Lest they rise and posses the earth, and fill the breadth of the world with tyrants.&amp;nbsp; (Isaiah 14:21 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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God Will Kill Children&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The glory of Israel will fly away like a bird, for your children will die at birth or perish in the womb or never even be conceived.&amp;nbsp; Even if your children do survive to grow up, I will take them from you.&amp;nbsp; It will be a terrible day when I turn away and leave you alone.&amp;nbsp; I have watched Israel become as beautiful and pleasant as Tyre.&amp;nbsp; But now Israel will bring out her children to be slaughtered.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; O LORD, what should I request for your people?&amp;nbsp; I will ask for wombs that don&#039;t give birth and breasts that give no milk.&amp;nbsp; The LORD says, &amp;quot;All their wickedness began at Gilgal; there I began to hate them.&amp;nbsp; I will drive them from my land because of their evil actions.&amp;nbsp; I will love them no more because all their leaders are rebels.&amp;nbsp; The people of Israel are stricken.&amp;nbsp; Their roots are dried up; they will bear no more fruit.&amp;nbsp; And if they give birth, I will slaughter their beloved children.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; (Hosea 9:11-16 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Kill Men, Women, and Children&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;Then I heard the LORD say to the other men, &amp;quot;Follow him through the city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked. &amp;nbsp;Show no mercy; have no pity!&amp;nbsp; Kill them all &amp;ndash; old and young, girls and women and little children. &amp;nbsp;But do not touch anyone with the mark. &amp;nbsp;Begin your task right here at the Temple.&amp;quot; &amp;nbsp;So they began by killing the seventy leaders.&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;Defile the Temple!&amp;quot; the LORD commanded. &amp;nbsp;&amp;quot;Fill its courtyards with the bodies of those you kill! &amp;nbsp;Go!&amp;quot; &amp;nbsp;So they went throughout the city and did as they were told.&amp;quot; &amp;nbsp;(Ezekiel 9:5-7 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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God Kills all the First Born of Egypt&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; And at midnight the LORD killed all the firstborn sons in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn son of the captive in the dungeon. Even the firstborn of their livestock were killed.&amp;nbsp; Pharaoh and his officials and all the people of Egypt woke up during the night, and loud wailing was heard throughout the land of Egypt. There was not a single house where someone had not died. &amp;nbsp;(Exodus 12:29-30 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Kill Old Men and Young Women&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;You are my battle-ax and sword,&amp;quot; says the LORD. &amp;nbsp;&amp;quot;With you I will shatter nations and destroy many kingdoms.&amp;nbsp; With you I will shatter armies, destroying the horse and rider, the chariot and charioteer.&amp;nbsp; With you I will shatter men and women, old people and children, young men and maidens.&amp;nbsp; With you I will shatter shepherds and flocks, farmers and oxen, captains and rulers. &amp;nbsp;&amp;quot;As you watch, I will repay Babylon and the people of Babylonia for all the wrong they have done to my people in Jerusalem,&amp;quot; says the LORD.&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;Look, O mighty mountain, destroyer of the earth! &amp;nbsp;I am your enemy,&amp;quot; says the LORD. &amp;nbsp;&amp;quot;I will raise my fist against you, to roll you down from the heights. &amp;nbsp;When I am finished, you will be nothing but a heap of rubble.&amp;nbsp; You will be desolate forever. &amp;nbsp;Even your stones will never again be used for building. &amp;nbsp;You will be completely wiped out,&amp;quot; says the LORD.&amp;nbsp; (Jeremiah 51:20-26)&lt;br /&gt;
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God Will Kill the Children of Sinners&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; If even then you remain hostile toward me and refuse to obey, I will inflict you with seven more disasters for your sins.&amp;nbsp; I will release wild animals that will kill your children and destroy your cattle, so your numbers will dwindle and your roads will be deserted. &amp;nbsp;(Leviticus 26:21-22 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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More Rape and Baby Killing&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Anyone who is captured will be run through with a sword.&amp;nbsp; Their little children will be dashed to death right before their eyes.&amp;nbsp; Their homes will be sacked and their wives raped by the attacking hordes.&amp;nbsp; For I will stir up the Medes against Babylon, and no amount of silver or gold will buy them off.&amp;nbsp; The attacking armies will shoot down the young people with arrows.&amp;nbsp; They will have no mercy on helpless babies and will show no compassion for the children.&amp;nbsp; (Isaiah 13:15-18 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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More of Samson&#039;s Murders&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; (The Lord saves Sampson from standing trial for 30 murders and arson by allowing him to kill 1000 more men.)&amp;nbsp; When he reached Lehi, and the Philistines came shouting to meet him, the spirit of the Lord came upon him: the ropes around his arms become as flax that is consumed by fire and the bonds melted away from his hands.&amp;nbsp; Near him was the fresh jawbone of an ass; he reached out, grasped it, and with it killed a thousand men. &amp;nbsp;(Judges 15:14-15 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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Peter Kills Two People&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; There was also a man named Ananias who, with his wife, Sapphira, sold some property.&amp;nbsp; He brought part of the money to the apostles, but he claimed it was the full amount.&amp;nbsp; His wife had agreed to this deception.&amp;nbsp; Then Peter said, &amp;quot;Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart?&amp;nbsp; You lied to the Holy Spirit, and you kept some of the money for yourself.&amp;nbsp; The property was yours to sell or not sell, as you wished.&amp;nbsp; And after selling it, the money was yours to give away.&amp;nbsp; How could you do a thing like this?&amp;nbsp; You weren&#039;t lying to us but to God.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; As soon as Ananias heard these words, he fell to the floor and died.&amp;nbsp; Everyone who heard about it was terrified.&amp;nbsp; Then some young men wrapped him in a sheet and took him out and buried him.&amp;nbsp; About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.&amp;nbsp; Peter asked her, &amp;quot;Was this the price you and your husband received for your land?&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;Yes,&amp;quot; she replied, &amp;quot;that was the price.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; And Peter said, &amp;quot;How could the two of you even think of doing a thing like this &amp;ndash; conspiring together to test the Spirit of the Lord?&amp;nbsp; Just outside that door are the young men who buried your husband, and they will carry you out, too.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; Instantly, she fell to the floor and died.&amp;nbsp; When the young men came in and saw that she was dead, they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.&amp;nbsp; Great fear gripped the entire church and all others who heard what had happened. &amp;nbsp; (Acts 5:1-11 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Mass Murder&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; This is what the Lord of&amp;nbsp; hosts has to say: &#039;I will punish what Amalek did to Israel when he barred his way as he was coming up from Egypt.&amp;nbsp; Go, now, attack Amalek, and deal with him and all that he has under the ban.&amp;nbsp; Do not spare him, but kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and asses.&#039;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;(1 Samuel 15:2-3 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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You Have to Kill&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Cursed be he who does the Lords work remissly, cursed he who holds back his sword from blood. &amp;nbsp;(Jeremiah 48:10 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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The Danites Kill the Next Town&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; But the territory of the Danites was too small for them; so the Danites marched up and attacked Leshem, which they captured and put to the sword.&amp;nbsp; Once they had taken possession of Lesham, they renamed the settlement after their ancestor Dan.&amp;nbsp; (Joshua 19:47 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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God Kills Some More &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Then the LORD said to me, &amp;quot;Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for these people, I wouldn&#039;t help them.&amp;nbsp; Away with them!&amp;nbsp; Get them out of my sight!&amp;nbsp; And if they say to you, &#039;But where can we go?&#039; tell them, &#039;This is what the LORD says: Those who are destined for death, to death; those who are destined for war, to war; those who are destined for famine, to famine; those who are destined for captivity, to captivity.&#039;&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;I will send four kinds of destroyers against them,&amp;quot; says the LORD.&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;I will send the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, the vultures to devour, and the wild animals to finish up what is left.&amp;nbsp; Because of the wicked things Manasseh son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem, I will make my people an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; (Jeremiah 15:1-4 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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God Promises More Killing&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I will make Mount Seir utterly desolate, killing off all who try to escape and any who return.&amp;nbsp; I will fill your mountains with the dead. Your hills, your valleys, and your streams will be filled with people slaughtered by the sword.&amp;nbsp; I will make you desolate forever. Your cities will never be rebuilt. Then you will know that I am the LORD.&amp;nbsp; (Ezekiel 35:7-9 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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The Angel of Death&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; My angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites; and I will wipe them out.&amp;nbsp; (Exodus 23:23 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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Destruction of Ai&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Then the LORD said to Joshua, &amp;quot;Do not be afraid or discouraged.&amp;nbsp; Take the entire army and attack Ai, for I have given to you the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.&amp;nbsp; You will destroy them as you destroyed Jericho and its king. But this time you may keep the captured goods and the cattle for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the city.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; So Joshua and the army of Israel set out to attack Ai.&amp;nbsp; Joshua chose thirty thousand fighting men and sent them out at night with these orders: &amp;quot;Hide in ambush close behind the city and be ready for action.&amp;nbsp; When our main army attacks, the men of Ai will come out to fight as they did before, and we will run away from them.&amp;nbsp; We will let them chase us until they have all left the city. For they will say, &#039;The Israelites are running away from us as they did before.&#039;&amp;nbsp; Then you will jump up from your ambush and take possession of the city, for the LORD your God will give it to you.&amp;nbsp; Set the city on fire, as the LORD has commanded.&amp;nbsp; You have your orders.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; So they left that night and lay in ambush between Bethel and the west side of Ai.&amp;nbsp; But Joshua remained among the people in the camp that night.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Early the next morning Joshua roused his men and started toward Ai, accompanied by the leaders of Israel.&amp;nbsp; They camped on the north side of Ai, with a valley between them and the city.&amp;nbsp; That night Joshua sent five thousand men to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.&amp;nbsp; So they stationed the main army north of the city and the ambush west of the city.&amp;nbsp; Joshua himself spent that night in the valley.&amp;nbsp; When the king of Ai saw the Israelites across the valley, he and all his army hurriedly went out early the next morning and attacked the Israelites at a place overlooking the Jordan Valley.&amp;nbsp; But he didn&#039;t realize there was an ambush behind the city.&amp;nbsp; Joshua and the Israelite army fled toward the wilderness as though they were badly beaten,&amp;nbsp; and all the men in the city were called out to chase after them.&amp;nbsp; In this way, they were lured away from the city.&amp;nbsp; There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not chase after the Israelites, and the city was left wide open.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Then the LORD said to Joshua, &amp;quot;Point your spear toward Ai, for I will give you the city.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; Joshua did as he was commanded.&amp;nbsp; As soon as Joshua gave the signal, the men in ambush jumped up and poured into the city.&amp;nbsp; They quickly captured it and set it on fire.&amp;nbsp; When the men of Ai looked behind them, smoke from the city was filling the sky, and they had nowhere to go. For the Israelites who had fled in the direction of the wilderness now turned on their pursuers.&amp;nbsp; When Joshua and the other Israelites saw that the ambush had succeeded and that smoke was rising from the city, they turned and attacked the men of Ai.&amp;nbsp; Then the Israelites who were inside the city came out and started killing the enemy from the rear. So the men of Ai were caught in a trap, and all of them died. Not a single person survived or escaped.&amp;nbsp; Only the king of Ai was taken alive and brought to Joshua.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; When the Israelite army finished killing all the men outside the city, they went back and finished off everyone inside.&amp;nbsp; So the entire population of Ai was wiped out that day &amp;ndash; twelve thousand in all. &amp;nbsp;For Joshua kept holding out his spear until everyone who had lived in Ai was completely destroyed.&amp;nbsp; Only the cattle and the treasures of the city were not destroyed, for the Israelites kept these for themselves, as the LORD had commanded Joshua.&amp;nbsp; So Ai became a permanent mound of ruins, desolate to this very day.&amp;nbsp; Joshua hung the king of Ai on a tree and left him there until evening. At sunset the Israelites took down the body and threw it in front of the city gate.&amp;nbsp; They piled a great heap of stones over him that can still be seen today.&amp;nbsp; (Joshua 8:1-29 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Killing at Jericho&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; When the people heard the sound of the horns, they shouted as loud as they could. Suddenly, the walls of Jericho collapsed, and the Israelites charged straight into the city from every side and captured it.&amp;nbsp; They completely destroyed everything in it &amp;ndash; men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep, donkeys &amp;ndash; everything.&amp;nbsp; (Joshua 6:20-21 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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God Kills an Extended Family&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;You have done more evil than all who lived before you.&amp;nbsp; You have made other gods and have made me furious with your gold calves.&amp;nbsp; And since you have turned your back on me, I will bring disaster on your dynasty and kill all your sons, slave or free alike.&amp;nbsp; I will burn up your royal dynasty as one burns up trash until it is all gone.&amp;nbsp; I, the LORD, vow that the members of your family who die in the city will be eaten by dogs, and those who die in the field will be eaten by vultures.&#039;&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; Then Ahijah said to Jeroboam&#039;s wife, &amp;quot;Go on home, and when you enter the city, the child will die.&amp;nbsp; All Israel will mourn for him and bury him.&amp;nbsp; He is the only member of your family who will have a proper burial, for this child is the only good thing that the LORD, the God of Israel, sees in the entire family of Jeroboam.&amp;nbsp; And the LORD will raise up a king over Israel who will destroy the family of Jeroboam.&amp;nbsp; This will happen today, even now!&amp;nbsp; Then the LORD will shake Israel like a reed whipped about in a stream.&amp;nbsp; He will uproot the people of Israel from this good land that he gave their ancestors and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, for they have angered the LORD by worshiping Asherah poles.&amp;nbsp; He will abandon Israel because Jeroboam sinned and made all of Israel sin along with him.&amp;quot; &amp;nbsp;(1 Kings 14:9-16 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Mass Murder&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The men of Israel withdrew through the territory of the Benjaminites, putting to the sword the inhabitants of the city, the livestock, and all they chanced upon.&amp;nbsp; Moreover they destroyed by fire all the cities they came upon.&amp;nbsp; (Judges 20:48 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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The Angel of Death&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; That night the angel of the Lord went forth and struck down one hundred and eighty five thousand men in the Assyrian camp.&amp;nbsp; Early the next morning, there they were, all the corpuses of the dead. &amp;nbsp;(2 Kings 19:35 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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Kill Your Neighbors &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; (Moses) stood at the entrance to the camp and shouted, &amp;quot;All of you who are on the LORD&#039;s side, come over here and join me.&amp;quot; And all the Levites came. &amp;nbsp;He told them, &amp;quot;This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Strap on your swords! Go back and forth from one end of the camp to the other, killing even your brothers, friends, and neighbors.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; The Levites obeyed Moses, and about three thousand people died that day.&amp;nbsp; Then Moses told the Levites, &amp;quot;Today you have been ordained for the service of the LORD, for you obeyed him even though it meant killing your own sons and brothers. Because of this, he will now give you a great blessing.&amp;quot; &amp;nbsp;(Exodus 32:26-29 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Kill the Family of Sinners&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; And Joshua said to Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession to him; and tell me now what thou hast done, hide it not from me.&amp;nbsp; And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done.&amp;nbsp; When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them, and behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; [Note that the sin is not looting, but failing to give the loot to the treasury of the Lord.]&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent, and behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.&amp;nbsp; And they took them from the midst of the tent, and brought them to Joshua, and to all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD.&amp;nbsp; And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them to the valley of Achor.&amp;nbsp; And Joshua said, why hast thou troubled us?&amp;nbsp; the LORD shall trouble thee this day.&amp;nbsp; And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.&amp;nbsp; And they raised over him a great heap of stones to this day.&amp;nbsp; So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger: wherefore the name of that place was called the valley of Achor to this day.&amp;nbsp; (Joshua 7:19-26 Webster&#039;s Bible)&lt;br /&gt;
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Kill Followers of Other Religions &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; While the Israelites were camped at Acacia, some of the men defiled themselves by sleeping with the local Moabite women.&amp;nbsp; These women invited them to attend sacrifices to their gods, and soon the Israelites were feasting with them and worshiping the gods of Moab.&amp;nbsp; Before long Israel was joining in the worship of Baal of Peor, causing the LORD&#039;s anger to blaze against his people. &amp;nbsp;The LORD issued the following command to Moses: &amp;quot;Seize all the ringleaders and execute them before the LORD in broad daylight, so his fierce anger will turn away from the people of Israel.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; So Moses ordered Israel&#039;s judges to execute everyone who had joined in worshiping Baal of Peor. &amp;nbsp;Just then one of the Israelite men brought a Midianite woman into the camp, right before the eyes of Moses and all the people, as they were weeping at the entrance of the Tabernacle.&amp;nbsp; When Phinehas son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest saw this, he jumped up and left the assembly. &amp;nbsp;Then he took a spear and rushed after the man into his tent. Phinehas thrust the spear all the way through the man&#039;s body and into the woman&#039;s stomach. &amp;nbsp;So the plague against the Israelites was stopped, but not before 24,000 people had died. &amp;nbsp;(Numbers 25:1-9 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Murder&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; At the customary time for offering the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet walked up to the altar and prayed, &amp;quot;O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, prove today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant. Prove that I have done all this at your command.&amp;nbsp; O LORD, answer me! Answer me so these people will know that you, O LORD, are God and that you have brought them back to yourself.&amp;quot; &amp;nbsp;Immediately the fire of the LORD flashed down from heaven and burned up the young bull, the wood, the stones, and the dust. &amp;nbsp;It even licked up all the water in the ditch!&amp;nbsp; And when the people saw it, they fell on their faces and cried out, &amp;quot;The LORD is God!&amp;nbsp; The LORD is God!&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; Then Elijah commanded, &amp;quot;Seize all the prophets of Baal. &amp;nbsp;Don&#039;t let a single one escape!&amp;quot; &amp;nbsp;So the people seized them all, and Elijah took them down to the Kishon Valley and killed them there. &amp;nbsp;(1 Kings 18:36-40 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Kill All of Babylon&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;Go up, my warriors, against the land of Merathaim and against the people of Pekod. Yes, march against Babylon, the land of rebels, a land that I will judge! &amp;nbsp;Pursue, kill, and completely destroy them, as I have commanded you,&amp;quot; says the LORD.&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;Let the battle cry be heard in the land, a shout of great destruction&amp;quot;.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;(Jeremiah 50:21-22 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Micah Kills a Whole Town&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Then, with Micah&#039;s idols and his priest, the men of Dan came to the town of Laish, whose people were peaceful and secure. &amp;nbsp;They attacked and killed all the people and burned the town to the ground.&amp;nbsp; There was no one to rescue the residents of the town, for they lived a great distance from Sidon and had no allies nearby. &amp;nbsp;This happened in the valley near Beth-rehob.Then the people of the tribe of Dan rebuilt the town and lived there.&amp;nbsp; They renamed the town Dan after their ancestor, Israel&#039;s son, but it had originally been called Laish. &amp;nbsp;(Judges 18:27-29 NLT) &amp;nbsp;(Note that God approves of this slaughter in verse 6.)&lt;br /&gt;
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Murder, rape, and pillage at Jabesh-gilead&amp;nbsp; (Judges 21:10-24 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; So they sent twelve thousand warriors to Jabesh-gilead with orders to kill everyone there, including women and children.&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;This is what you are to do,&amp;quot; they said. &amp;quot;Completely destroy all the males and every woman who is not a virgin.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; Among the residents of Jabesh-gilead they found four hundred young virgins who had never slept with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The Israelite assembly sent a peace delegation to the little remnant of Benjamin who were living at the rock of Rimmon. Then the men of Benjamin returned to their homes, and the four hundred women of Jabesh-gilead who were spared were given to them as wives.&amp;nbsp; But there were not enough women for all of them.&amp;nbsp; The people felt sorry for Benjamin because the LORD had left this gap in the tribes of Israel.&amp;nbsp; So the Israelite leaders asked, &amp;quot;How can we find wives for the few who remain, since all the women of the tribe of Benjamin are dead?&amp;nbsp; There must be heirs for the survivors so that an entire tribe of Israel will not be lost forever.&amp;nbsp; But we cannot give them our own daughters in marriage because we have sworn with a solemn oath that anyone who does this will fall under God&#039;s curse.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Then they thought of the annual festival of the LORD held in Shiloh, between Lebonah and Bethel, along the east side of the road that goes from Bethel to Shechem.&amp;nbsp; They told the men of Benjamin who still needed wives, &amp;quot;Go and hide in the vineyards.&amp;nbsp; When the women of Shiloh come out for their dances, rush out from the vineyards, and each of you can take one of them home to be your wife!&amp;nbsp; And when their fathers and brothers come to us in protest, we will tell them, &#039;Please be understanding.&amp;nbsp; Let them have your daughters, for we didn&#039;t find enough wives for them when we destroyed Jabesh-gilead. And you are not guilty of breaking the vow since you did not give your daughters in marriage to them.&#039;&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; So the men of Benjamin did as they were told.&amp;nbsp; They kidnapped the women who took part in the celebration and carried them off to the land of their own inheritance.&amp;nbsp; Then they rebuilt their towns and lived in them.&amp;nbsp; So the assembly of Israel departed by tribes and families, and they returned to their own homes.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Obviously these women were repeatedly raped.&amp;nbsp; These sick bastards killed and raped an entire town and then wanted more virgins, so they hid beside the road to kidnap and rape some more.&amp;nbsp; How can anyone see this as anything but evil?&lt;br /&gt;
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Murder, rape and pillage of the Midianites&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; (Numbers 31:7-18 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; They attacked Midian just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed all the men.&amp;nbsp; All five of the Midianite kings &amp;ndash; Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba &amp;ndash; died in the battle.&amp;nbsp; They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.&amp;nbsp; Then the Israelite army captured the Midianite women and children and seized their cattle and flocks and all their wealth as plunder.&amp;nbsp; They burned all the towns and villages where the Midianites had lived.&amp;nbsp; After they had gathered the plunder and captives, both people and animals, they brought them all to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the whole community of Israel, which was camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the people went to meet them outside the camp.&amp;nbsp; But Moses was furious with all the military commanders who had returned from the battle.&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;Why have you let all the women live?&amp;quot; he demanded.&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;These are the very ones who followed Balaam&#039;s advice and caused the people of Israel to rebel against the LORD at Mount Peor.&amp;nbsp; They are the ones who caused the plague to strike the LORD&#039;s people.&amp;nbsp; Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man.&amp;nbsp; Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves.&lt;br /&gt;
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Clearly Moses and God approves of rape of virgins.&lt;br /&gt;
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More Murder Rape and Pillage&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; (Deuteronomy 20:10-14)&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. &amp;nbsp;If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. &amp;nbsp;But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. &amp;nbsp;When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. &amp;nbsp;But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. &amp;nbsp;You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.&lt;br /&gt;
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What kind of God approves of murder, rape, and slavery?&lt;br /&gt;
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Laws of Rape &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;(Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father.&amp;nbsp; Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.&lt;br /&gt;
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What kind of lunatic would make a rape victim marry her attacker?&amp;nbsp; Answer: God.&lt;br /&gt;
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Death to the Rape Victim&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; (Deuteronomy 22:23-24 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; It is clear that God doesn&#039;t give a damn about the rape victim.&amp;nbsp; He is only concerned about the violation of another mans &amp;quot;property&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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David&#039;s Punishment - Polygamy, Rape, Baby Killing, and God&#039;s &amp;quot;Forgiveness&amp;quot; (2 Samuel 12:11-14 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Thus says the Lord: &#039;I will bring evil upon you out of your own house.&amp;nbsp; I will take your wives [plural] while you live to see it, and will give them to your neighbor.&amp;nbsp; He shall lie with your wives in broad daylight.&amp;nbsp; You have done this deed in secret, but I will bring it about in the presence of all Israel, and with the sun looking down.&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Then David said to Nathan, &amp;quot;I have sinned against the Lord.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; Nathan answered David: &amp;quot;The Lord on his part has forgiven your sin: you shall not die.&amp;nbsp; But since you have utterly spurned the Lord by this deed, the child born to you must surely die.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; [The child dies seven days later.]&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; This has got to be one of the sickest quotes of the Bible.&amp;nbsp; God himself brings the completely innocent rape victims to the rapist.&amp;nbsp; What kind of pathetic loser would do something so evil?&amp;nbsp; And then he kills a child!&amp;nbsp; This is sick, really sick!&lt;br /&gt;
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Rape of Female Captives&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; (Deuteronomy 21:10-14 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;When you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house.&amp;nbsp; But before she may live there, she must shave her head and pare her nails and lay aside her captive&#039;s garb.&amp;nbsp; After she has mourned her father and mother for a full month, you may have relations with her, and you shall be her husband and she shall be your wife.&amp;nbsp; However, if later on you lose your liking for her, you shall give her her freedom, if she wishes it; but you shall not sell her or enslave her, since she was married to you under compulsion.&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Once again God approves of forcible rape.&lt;br /&gt;
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Rape and the Spoils of War (Judges 5:30 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; They must be dividing the spoils they took: there must be a damsel or two for each man, Spoils of dyed cloth as Sisera&#039;s spoil, an ornate shawl or two for me in the spoil.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; (Judges 5:30 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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Sex Slaves (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are.&amp;nbsp; If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. &amp;nbsp;But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her.&amp;nbsp; And if the slave girl&#039;s owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter.&amp;nbsp; If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife.&amp;nbsp; If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;(Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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God Assists Rape and Plunder&amp;nbsp;(Zechariah 14:1-2 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Lo, a day shall come for the Lord when the spoils shall be divided in your midst.&amp;nbsp; And I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle: the city shall be taken, houses plundered, women ravished; half of the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be removed from the city. &amp;nbsp; (Zechariah 14:1-2 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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Except for murder, slavery has got to be one of the most immoral things a person can do.&amp;nbsp; Yet slavery is rampant throughout the Bible in both the Old and New Testaments.&amp;nbsp; The Bible clearly approves of slavery in many passages, and it goes so far as to tell how to obtain slaves, how hard you can beat them, and when you can have sex with the female slaves.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Many Jews and Christians will try to ignore the moral problems of slavery by saying that these slaves were actually servants or indentured servants.&amp;nbsp; Many translations of the Bible use the word &amp;quot;servant&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;bondservant&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;manservant&amp;quot; instead of &amp;quot;slave&amp;quot; to make the Bible seem less immoral than it really is.&amp;nbsp; While many slaves may have worked as household servants, that doesn&#039;t mean that they were not slaves who were bought, sold, and treated worse than livestock.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The following passage shows that slaves are clearly property to be bought and sold like livestock.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you.&amp;nbsp; You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land.&amp;nbsp; You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance.&amp;nbsp; You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way. &amp;nbsp;(Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The following passage describes how the Hebrew slaves are to be treated.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; If you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for only six years.&amp;nbsp; Set him free in the seventh year, and he will owe you nothing for his freedom.&amp;nbsp; If he was single when he became your slave and then married afterward, only he will go free in the seventh year.&amp;nbsp; But if he was married before he became a slave, then his wife will be freed with him.&amp;nbsp; If his master gave him a wife while he was a slave, and they had sons or daughters, then the man will be free in the seventh year, but his wife and children will still belong to his master.&amp;nbsp; But the slave may plainly declare, &#039;I love my master, my wife, and my children.&amp;nbsp; I would rather not go free.&#039;&amp;nbsp; If he does this, his master must present him before God.&amp;nbsp; Then his master must take him to the door and publicly pierce his ear with an awl.&amp;nbsp; After that, the slave will belong to his master forever.&amp;nbsp; (Exodus 21:2-6 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Notice how they can get a male Hebrew slave to become a permanent slave by keeping his wife and children hostage until he says he wants to become a permanent slave.&amp;nbsp; What kind of family values are these?&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The following passage describes the sickening practice of sex slavery.&amp;nbsp; How can anyone think it is moral to sell your own daughter as a sex slave?&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are.&amp;nbsp; If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again.&amp;nbsp; But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her.&amp;nbsp; And if the slave girl&#039;s owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter.&amp;nbsp; If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife.&amp;nbsp; If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment.&amp;nbsp; (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; So these are the Bible family values!&amp;nbsp; A man can buy as many sex slaves as he wants as long as he feeds them, clothes them, and screws them!&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; What does the Bible say about beating slaves?&amp;nbsp; It says you can beat both male and female slaves with a rod so hard that as long as they don&#039;t die right away you are cleared of any wrong doing.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished.&amp;nbsp; If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property.&amp;nbsp; (Exodus 21:20-21 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; You would think that Jesus and the New Testament would have a different view of slavery, but slavery is still approved of in the New Testament, as the following passages show.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear.&amp;nbsp; Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ.&amp;nbsp; (Ephesians 6:5 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Christians who are slaves should give their masters full respect so that the name of God and his teaching will not be shamed.&amp;nbsp; If your master is a Christian, that is no excuse for being disrespectful. &amp;nbsp;You should work all the harder because you are helping another believer by your efforts.&amp;nbsp; Teach these truths, Timothy, and encourage everyone to obey them. &amp;nbsp;(1 Timothy 6:1-2 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; In the following parable, Jesus clearly approves of beating slaves even if they didn&#039;t know they were doing anything wrong.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The servant will be severely punished, for though he knew his duty, he refused to do it.&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;But people who are not aware that they are doing wrong will be punished only lightly.&amp;nbsp; Much is required from those to whom much is given, and much more is required from those to whom much more is given.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; (Luke 12:47-48 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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The Bible, especially the Old Testament, is filled with numerous stories of animal and human sacrifice.&amp;nbsp; God, we are told, likes the pleasing aroma of burning flesh.&amp;nbsp; Animal sacrifice is much more common than human sacrifice, but both occur and are &amp;quot;pleasing to the Lord&amp;quot;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Genesis, the first book of the Bible, has Abraham preparing to sacrifice his son to God.&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;Take your son, your only son &amp;ndash; yes, Isaac, whom you love so much &amp;ndash; and go to the land of Moriah.&amp;nbsp; Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will point out to you.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; (Genesis 22:1-18)&amp;nbsp; Abraham takes his own son up on a mountain and builds an altar upon which to burn him.&amp;nbsp; He even lies to his son and has him help build the altar.&amp;nbsp; Then Abraham ties his son to the altar and puts a knife to his throat.&amp;nbsp; He then hears God tell him this was just a test of his faith.&amp;nbsp; However, God still wanted to smell some burnt flesh so he tells Abraham to burn a ram.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Even though he didn&#039;t kill his son, it is still an incredibly cruel and evil thing to do.&amp;nbsp; If Abraham did that today he would be in jail serving a long sentence as someone&#039;s prison-bitch.&amp;nbsp; It amazes me how Christians see this story as a sign of God&#039;s love.&amp;nbsp; There is no love here, just pure unadulterated evil.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The first seven chapters of Leviticus have extensive rules regarding animal and food sacrifices.&amp;nbsp; These offerings are supposed to be burnt so that God can smell them.&amp;nbsp; If you read through these it seems clear to me that the priests were getting their followers to make a big feast for them every week.&amp;nbsp; The priests were very particular about what kind of food to bring and how to prepare it.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Even more peculiar is God&#039;s obsession with first-born sons.&amp;nbsp; In Exodus 13:2 the Lord said &amp;quot;Consecrate to me every first-born that opens the womb among Israelites, both man and beast, for it belongs to me.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; Later it says that you can redeem (replace) an ass with a sheep and that you must redeem a child for an unspecified price.&amp;nbsp; It is clear from the context that &amp;quot;consecrate&amp;quot; means a burning sacrifice.&amp;nbsp; These priests are guilty of theft and kidnapping.&amp;nbsp; Since any sins in the Old Testament were punishable by death, these priests used the threat of death to extort food and money from their followers.&amp;nbsp; What do we call a scum-bag that threatens to kill your kids unless you pay a ransom?&amp;nbsp; A kidnapper!&amp;nbsp; If these priests were alive today they would be in prison with Abraham.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; However, in Leviticus 27:28-29, the Lord allows for no redemptions.&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;Note also that any one of his possessions which a man vows as doomed to the Lord, whether it is a human being or an animal, or a hereditary field, shall be neither sold nor ransomed; everything that is thus doomed becomes most sacred to the Lord.&amp;nbsp; All human beings that are doomed lose the right to be redeemed; they must be put to death.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; I must admit that I am a bit confused by this contradiction, but it might only apply to slaves in your possession.&amp;nbsp; Not that it makes any difference.&amp;nbsp; A human sacrifice is a human sacrifice, and it is just sick.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;At that time the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he went throughout the land of Gilead and Manasseh, including Mizpah in Gilead, and led an army against the Ammonites.&amp;nbsp; And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD. He said, &amp;quot;If you give me victory over the Ammonites, I will give to the LORD the first thing coming out of my house to greet me when I return in triumph.&amp;nbsp; I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;So Jephthah led his army against the Ammonites, and the LORD gave him victory.&amp;nbsp; He thoroughly defeated the Ammonites from Aroer to an area near Minnith &amp;ndash; twenty towns &amp;ndash; and as far away as Abel-keramim. Thus Israel subdued the Ammonites.&amp;nbsp; When Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, his daughter &amp;ndash; his only child &amp;ndash; ran out to meet him, playing on a tambourine and dancing for joy.&amp;nbsp; When he saw her, he tore his clothes in anguish.&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;My daughter!&amp;quot; he cried out.&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;My heart is breaking!&amp;nbsp; What a tragedy that you came out to greet me. For I have made a vow to the LORD and cannot take it back.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; And she said, &amp;quot;Father, you have made a promise to the LORD.&amp;nbsp; You must do to me what you have promised, for the LORD has given you a great victory over your enemies, the Ammonites.&amp;nbsp; But first let me go up and roam in the hills and weep with my friends for two months, because I will die a virgin.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;You may go,&amp;quot; Jephthah said. And he let her go away for two months.&amp;nbsp; She and her friends went into the hills and wept because she would never have children.&amp;nbsp; When she returned home, her father kept his vow, and she died a virgin.&amp;nbsp; So it has become a custom in Israel for young Israelite women to go away for four days each year to lament the fate of Jephthah&#039;s daughter.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; (Judges 11:29-40 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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God Commands Burning Humans&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; [The Lord speaking]&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;The one who has stolen what was set apart for destruction will himself be burned with fire, along with everything he has, for he has broken the covenant of the LORD and has done a horrible thing in Israel.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; (Joshua 7:15 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Josiah and Human Sacrifice&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; At the LORD&#039;s command, a man of God from Judah went to Bethel, and he arrived there just as Jeroboam was approaching the altar to offer a sacrifice.&amp;nbsp; Then at the LORD&#039;s command, he shouted, &amp;quot;O altar, altar! &amp;nbsp;This is what the LORD says: A child named Josiah will be born into the dynasty of David. &amp;nbsp;On you he will sacrifice the priests from the pagan shrines who come here to burn incense, and human bones will be burned on you.&amp;quot; &amp;nbsp;(1 Kings 13:1-2 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; He [Josiah] executed the priests of the pagan shrines on their own altars, and he burned human bones on the altars to desecrate them. &amp;nbsp;Finally, he returned to Jerusalem. &amp;nbsp;King Josiah then issued this order to all the people: &amp;quot;You must celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in the Book of the Covenant.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; There had not been a Passover celebration like that since the time when the judges ruled in Israel, throughout all the years of the kings of Israel and Judah.&amp;nbsp; This Passover was celebrated to the LORD in Jerusalem during the eighteenth year of King Josiah&#039;s reign. &amp;nbsp;Josiah also exterminated the mediums and psychics, the household gods, and every other kind of idol worship, both in Jerusalem and throughout the land of Judah. &amp;nbsp;He did this in obedience to all the laws written in the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had found in the LORD&#039;s Temple.&amp;nbsp; Never before had there been a king like Josiah, who turned to the LORD with all his heart and soul and strength, obeying all the laws of Moses.&amp;nbsp; And there has never been a king like him since.&amp;nbsp; (2 Kings 23:20-25 NLT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Human Sacrifice&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Chastised a little, they shall be greatly blessed, because God tried them and found them worthy of himself.&amp;nbsp; As gold in the furnace, he proved them, and as sacrificial offerings he took them to himself.&amp;nbsp; In the time of their visitation they shall shine, and shall dart about as sparks through stubble;&amp;nbsp; (Wisdom 3:5-7 NAB The Book of The Wisdom of Solomon is mostly in Catholic versions of the Bible.) &lt;br /&gt;
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Child Sacrifice&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; And this became a hidden trap for mankind, because men, in bondage to misfortune or to royal authority, bestowed on objects of stone or wood the name that ought not to be shared.&amp;nbsp; Afterward it was not enough for them to err about the knowledge of God, but they live in great strife due to ignorance, and they call such great evils peace.&amp;nbsp; For whether they kill children in their initiations, or celebrate secret mysteries, or hold frenzied revels with strange customs&amp;hellip;&amp;nbsp; (Wisdom 14:21-23 RSV)&amp;nbsp; The Book of The Wisdom of Solomon is mostly in Catholic versions of the Bible.&amp;nbsp; This passage condemns human sacrifice but acknowledges that it did happen by early God worshipers.&lt;br /&gt;
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Humans are Fuel for Fire&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; As for you, son of man, prophesy: Thus says the Lord GOD against the Ammonites and their insults: A sword, a sword is drawn for slaughter, burnished to consume and to flash lightning, because you planned with false visions and lying divinations to lay it on the necks of depraved and wicked men whose day has come when their crimes are at an end. &amp;nbsp;Return it to its sheath! &amp;nbsp;In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you. &amp;nbsp;I will pour out my indignation upon you, breathing my fiery wrath upon you, I will hand you over to ravaging men, artisans of destruction.&amp;nbsp; You shall be fuel for the fire, your blood shall flow throughout the land. &amp;nbsp;You shall not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken.&amp;nbsp; (Ezekiel 21:33-37 NAB)&lt;br /&gt;
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(See Below for the end of this article&amp;nbsp;damn word count limit)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>A Quick Comment</title>
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                                    &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(51, 102, 255);&quot;&gt;Don&#039;t bother posting a reply or contacting me if you haven&#039;t at least read the article I&#039;ve posted and then get mad at me when I call you on it.&lt;br /&gt;
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Holy hell, talk about being an inspiration to botched lobotomy patients everywhere.&amp;nbsp; Of course I&#039;m going to call you out when I catch you being retarded. Yes, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;../../../home/User/AnnieLWhite&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(51, 102, 255);&quot;&gt;AnnieLWhite&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(51, 102, 255);&quot;&gt;                  I am talking about you. I am so pleased you woke up today and decided your goal was to embarrass yourself on the internet. What possessed you to think that you were capable of being entertaining or interesting to read? You are validating my inherent mistrust of Bakersfield Natives. &lt;br /&gt;
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Please try to have some small idea of what in the hell you&#039;re talking about before you try to post again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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                <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:03:18 PST</pubDate>
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                <title>A Twinkielicious Bath </title>
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                                    &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It just occurred to me that I haven&amp;rsquo;t had a bath for a very long time. It&amp;rsquo;s not that I don&amp;rsquo;t enjoy them. It&amp;rsquo;s just that my baths (the very few I&amp;rsquo;ve actually been able to have in my life) usually go a little something like this:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Me: rush home from a hectic day at work. All I can think of at this moment is a glass of Cabernet and a candlelit bubble bath. But first, I need to make dinner, feed the family, help the kids with their homework, send the older two to bed, do a bit of chores around the house, put the little twinkies in their cribs&amp;hellip; then run the hot water while I&amp;rsquo;m rushing around the house trying to get everything in order so when I finally do end up in my bubble bath, I can relax. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Prep time? About 2 or 3 hours&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bath? About 30 seconds &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Then I it starts.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I hear, &amp;ldquo;Mooooooooommmmmmm&amp;hellip;.. my brother won&amp;rsquo;t leave me alone. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Me: Ignore&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Them: she started it. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No he did. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No she did. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you gonna believe? &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mom&amp;hellip;.. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MOOMMMMM?????? &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mom, she hit me. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He started it. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She hit me. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MOMMMMMMMMMMMMMM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Me? Bath=over&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m not complaining, though. Really. It was mostly just an observation. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I haven&amp;rsquo;t had a bath for a very long time. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And my teenagers haven&amp;rsquo;t been pesky little fighting&amp;nbsp;pre-teen&amp;nbsp;boogers&amp;nbsp;for even longer. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v646/gigli_04/joshandcrys.jpg?t=1180464389&quot; /&gt;-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y96/NormaT/quincenera001.jpg?t=1227214321&quot; /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gawd I miss that! &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;i&gt;*Plus, I thought this twinkie-taking-a-bath picture was sooo cute I wanted to blog about it.*&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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                                    &lt;p&gt;&lt;span id=&quot;intelliTXT&quot; _extended=&quot;true&quot; itxtvisited=&quot;1&quot;&gt;
&lt;p _extended=&quot;true&quot; itxtvisited=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,454744,00.html&quot;&gt;http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,454744,00.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p _extended=&quot;true&quot; itxtvisited=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;strong _extended=&quot;true&quot; itxtvisited=&quot;1&quot;&gt;An extraordinary account from a German army medic has finally confirmed what the world long suspected: Hitler only had one testicle.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p _extended=&quot;true&quot; itxtvisited=&quot;1&quot;&gt;War veteran Johan Jambor made the revelation to a priest in the 1960s, who wrote it down.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p _extended=&quot;true&quot; itxtvisited=&quot;1&quot;&gt;The priest&amp;rsquo;s document has now come to light &amp;ndash;- 23 years after Jambor&amp;rsquo;s death.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p _extended=&quot;true&quot; itxtvisited=&quot;1&quot;&gt;The war tyrant&amp;rsquo;s medical condition has been mocked for years in a British song.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p _extended=&quot;true&quot; itxtvisited=&quot;1&quot;&gt;The lyrics are:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p _extended=&quot;true&quot; itxtvisited=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Hitler has only got one ball, G&amp;ouml;ring has two but very small, Himmler is somewhat sim&#039;lar, But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p _extended=&quot;true&quot; itxtvisited=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Hitler has only got one ball, The other is on the kitchen wall, His mother, the dirty b&amp;mdash;&amp;mdash;r, Chopped it off when he was small.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p _extended=&quot;true&quot; itxtvisited=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Until now there has never been complete proof Hitler was monorchic &amp;mdash; the medical term for having one testicle.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p _extended=&quot;true&quot; itxtvisited=&quot;1&quot;&gt;But the document tells how Jambor saw the proof with his own eyes. In the account, he relives the horror of serving as an army medic in World War I.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- QUIGO --&gt;&lt;!-- QUIGO --&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;quigo quigo1&quot; _extended=&quot;true&quot; itxtvisited=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p _extended=&quot;true&quot; itxtvisited=&quot;1&quot;&gt;He died aged 94 in 1985, but had told his secret to priest Franciszek Pawlar, who kept a note of their conversation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p _extended=&quot;true&quot; itxtvisited=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Johan&amp;rsquo;s friend Blassius Hanczuch confirmed the priest&amp;rsquo;s account of how the medic saved Hitler&amp;rsquo;s life. He said: &amp;ldquo;In 1916 they had their hardest fight in the Battle of the Somme.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p _extended=&quot;true&quot; itxtvisited=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;For several hours, Johan and his friends picked up injured soldiers. He remembers Hitler.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p _extended=&quot;true&quot; itxtvisited=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;They called him the &#039;Screamer.&#039; He was very noisy. Hitler was screaming &amp;lsquo;help, help.&#039;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p _extended=&quot;true&quot; itxtvisited=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;His abdomen and legs were all in blood. Hitler was injured in the abdomen and lost one testicle. His first question to the doctor was: &amp;lsquo;Will I be able to have children?&#039;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p _extended=&quot;true&quot; itxtvisited=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Hitler&amp;rsquo;s genitals have long caused controversy. Some historians dismissed the &amp;ldquo;one ball&amp;rdquo; song as propaganda. But an alleged Soviet autopsy on Hitler backed it up.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p _extended=&quot;true&quot; itxtvisited=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Records show Hitler did suffer a groin injury in the Somme.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:43:28 PST</pubDate>
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                <title>A Bakotopia Shout out?</title>
                <link>http://www.bakotopia.com/home/Blog/AnnieLWhite/37509</link>
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                                    &lt;p&gt;From Hectic Films&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Episode 3 Daddy 911&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;where is the magazine? kinda like wheres waldo...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;free advertisement Matt? hahah&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;great plug.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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                <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:35:53 PST</pubDate>
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                <title>Alesandro</title>
                <link>http://www.bakotopia.com/home/Blog/losthills/37500</link>
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                                      &lt;img src="http://www.bakotopia.com/file/picture/339611/0/0/" width="100" height="75" border="0"/&gt;
                                    &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small&quot;&gt;This is a song I wrote many years ago when I lived in the town of Ramona. Performed at Linnaea&#039;s Cafe in San Luis Obispo, California, on October 12th, 2008. Linnaea&#039;s is a very cool place, and I always have a great time when I go out there.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small&quot;&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;You can call me Alesandro&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;I am just a working class boy.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;I live on a hillside&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Just above the hissing of the highway -&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;That road that goes across the barren mountains,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;And could take me far away.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;~&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Sometimes on Friday night&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;I wear my cowboy boots to town.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;I don&#039;t go to dance,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;But just to listen to the sound&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Of that mournful steel guitar&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;It reminds me of my home far away&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;~&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Sometimes I get a smile from those girls&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;With their cigarrettes and curls.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;But they just cannot move me&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Like the one that was once my whole world.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;When I close my eyes I can see her dancing on the lawn.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;The summer stars are shining&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;And that fiddle and guitar are playing on...&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;~&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Where the sun comes up in the morning&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;That is where I long to go.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;I always take my hat off&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;When that Western wind begins to blow.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Wating on the Winter&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;When those pouring rains will chill me to my soul.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;~&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;I walk out to my pick-up;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Check the water and oil before I go.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Scrape the frost from my windshield,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Wishing it was snow.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Head out on that highway to my job,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;To the only thing I know.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;~&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;There&#039;s cows on the hillside.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;They watch me as I go.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;That morning sun can blind you&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;When it splashes on the road.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;And when I close my eyes I can see her&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Dancing on the lawn.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;The summer stars are shining&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;And that fiddle and guitar are playing on....&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;~&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;I was just a cowhand.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;She was a pearl among swine.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;What could have posessed me&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;To believe I could make an angel mine?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;But she ran off with me to the mountains,&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;To that cabin in the pines.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;~&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;That fence out across the canyon -&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;It&#039;s been down since last Summer&#039;s fire.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Some things can&#039;t be mended&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Just with sweat and bailing wire.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Somewhere there&#039;s a line I can&#039;t see&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Between heartache and desire.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;~&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;You can call me Alesandro&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;I am just a working class boy.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;There&#039;s castles in the clouds.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;I watch as they all drift away.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;And when I close my eyes I can see her&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Dancing on the lawn.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;The Summer stars are shining&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;And that fiddle and guitar are playing on...&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lost Hills&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0f6MSTmDRw&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0f6MSTmDRw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot; /&gt;
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-- &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The Earth is not dying. She is being murdered, and we know who is killing her and we have their names and addresses.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Utah Phillips&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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                <title>Biblical Archaeology - More like Serial Hoaxing</title>
                <link>http://www.bakotopia.com/home/Blog/VilaWolf/37476</link>
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                                    &lt;p&gt;To an outsider, the very term appears contradictory, at least in the way its practitioners use it. Why not settle for &amp;lsquo;Middle Eastern Archaeology&amp;rsquo;? The answer, we suspect, is that the sub-discipline wants to dismiss any skeptical notion that archaeology and the Bible don&amp;rsquo;t mesh and that one undermines the authority of the other. They would much rather use archaeology to back up the stories presented in the Bible as a means of bolstering the faith of waverers. If we can&amp;rsquo;t find evidence for Solomon&amp;rsquo;s glorious empire, it must be that we&amp;rsquo;re not interpreting the archaeological data correctly and that a big discovery is just around the corner (the &amp;ldquo;Jehoash inscription&amp;rsquo; leaps to mind in this context). If contemporary Roman documents don&amp;rsquo;t mention Jesus of Nazareth, why here&amp;rsquo;s an ossuary that belongs to James, his brother&amp;hellip; It&amp;rsquo;s all very much centred around contentious objects, poorly-dated sites and great interpretative leaps that the non-religious may find astounding.&lt;br /&gt;
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Archaeology has a suite of methods which enable us to access information about the past. In order to answer various questions about life in the past we must have some data to analyse. This data is accessed or created using various methodologies. All kinds of questions can be asked of archaeological data, Who? What? Where? When? How? and Why?&lt;br /&gt;
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Conventional archaeological investigations include documentary or historical research. There is usually some degree of preliminary survey (whether using geophysics, aerial photography, oral history or other prospecting tools). This is followed by excavation in which a targeted (or sampled) area of the site or landscape is subjected to analysis. Artifacts and ecofacts are recorded for analysis and the different features of the site are recorded for posterity. All this enables the archaeologist to reconstruct the area of interest and examine the various aspects of the site. Typical questions that we might ask are: How does the distribution of finds change over time and what are the relationships between different areas of the site? Is there a clear division of the space according to gender or task roles, and what does this tell us about life in the past?&lt;br /&gt;
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Biblical archaeology seems particularly prone to fraud, especially of fraudulent artifacts that confirm the religious beliefs of the faithful. One of the greatest stumbling-blocks that Christians have always experienced is that while they are proud to base their religion on books that they claim to be thoroughly historical in nature, many events of the New Testament &amp;ndash; especially those of the Gospels &amp;ndash; have no confirmation outside the Bible. Roman records are silent about many of the events and personages in stories familiar to all Christians. Forgeries purporting to confirm some of these details have been around since the first development of the religion and continue to be produced today.&lt;br /&gt;
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The &amp;ldquo;James the Just ossuary&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
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On 21 October 2002, Hershel Shanks, editor of The Biblical Archaeology Review, announced at a press conference that an amazing discovery had been made in Israel: a contemporary inscription confirming the existence Jesus of Nazareth and his brother, James the Just. The &amp;lsquo;find&amp;rsquo; was an ossuary, a stone box designed to contain the bones of a deceased individual. Jewish practice in the first century CE was to lay out bodies of the wealthy in family tombs until all the flesh had decayed and subsequently to gather up the bones for storage in ossuaries. This was a typical example of the middle for the first century CE, close to the traditional date of James&amp;rsquo;s martyrdom in 62 CE.&lt;br /&gt;
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Most ossuaries carry an inscription naming the individual inside together with a patronymic (name of the father); this example reads יעקוב בר יוםף אחוי ד ישוע (Ya&amp;lsquo;aquv bar Yusef akhui de Yeshua&amp;lsquo;, &amp;ldquo;James son of Joseph brother of Jesus&amp;rdquo;). All three names &amp;ndash; Ya&amp;lsquo;aquv (Jacob or James), Yusef (Joseph) and Yeshua (Jesus) were common enough at the time, but what is intriguing is that James is identified not just as the son of Joseph, but as the brother of Jesus, implying that Jesus was somehow more important than Joseph within the family for identifying James. This coincidence led those who first studied the ossuary to conclude that it was likely that James was indeed James &amp;ldquo;the Just&amp;rdquo;, brother of Jesus of Nazareth.&lt;br /&gt;
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The box was brought to Hershel Shanks&amp;rsquo;s attention by an Israeli collector of antiquities, Oded Golan. He claimed to have bought the box from an Arab dealer in Jerusalem in the 1960s and to have taken no real interest in it until shortly before the announcement of the inscription. Initial studies, including one by the Geological Survey of Israel, concluded that the ossuary was a genuine first-century artefact, made from a limestone local to the Jerusalem area and that no evidence for modern forgery could be detected.&lt;br /&gt;
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However, from the outset, there were critical voices. For a start, there are no parallels for the formula used to identify the person contained in the box. A second and more thorough analysis by the Israeli Antiquities&amp;rsquo; Authority found a number of irregularities in the inscription, in the patina covering it and in the circumstances of its discovery. While there is no doubt that the ossuary is genuine, and that the first half of inscription (ףםוי רב בוקעי - Ya&amp;lsquo;aquv bar Yusef) is also genuine, the epigrapher Rochelle Altman dismissed the second half as a &amp;ldquo;poor forgery&amp;rdquo;. In 2003, the Israeli police arrested Oded Golan on suspicion of forging antiquities; they found his home and a workshop he rented filled with forged objects in various stages of manufacture together with the equipment needed to make the objects. He eventually confessed his guilt during questioning, but denied the charges during his trial in 2004. He was, nevertheless, found guilty.&lt;br /&gt;
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Despite this damning evidence against the authenticity of the inscription, Hershel Shanks continues to defend the ossuary, launching bitter attacks on its critics. The archaeological community, for the most part, does not accept the object as providing contemporary proof for the existence of Jesus of Nazareth. This story raises important questions. Why was the &amp;lsquo;discovery&amp;rsquo; announced at a press conference before academic study took place? Why were the first tests of authenticity conducted by the Geological Survey of Israel rather then the Israel Antiquities&amp;rsquo; Authority? Why was so much faith placed in an object without provenance? Why has Hershel Shanks continued to support its authenticity despite the overwhelming evidence that Oded Golan was an accomplished forger who worked over many years? There is a lesson for us all in this d&amp;eacute;b&amp;acirc;cle.&lt;br /&gt;
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The &amp;lsquo;Jesus family tomb&amp;rsquo; (Talpiot tomb)&lt;br /&gt;
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During construction work in March 1980 at Talpiot (&amp;rlm;תלפיות&amp;lrm;), a suburb of Jerusalem some 5 km south-east of the historic city established in 1922, contractors uncovered the entrance to a previously unknown tomb carved into the local limestone bedrock. Its entrance was marked by a carved fa&amp;ccedil;ade with a steeply carved false pediment and a circle beneath; there are other tombs of similar design in the area, which appear to date from the first centuries BCE and CE. The local supervisor for the then Israel Department of Antiquities (now the Israel Antiquities Authority, &amp;rlm;רשות העתיקות&amp;lrm;), Amos Kloner, visited the site the day after its discovery and drew up a project design for its salvage excavation by Yosef Gat (with Eliot Braun, Shimon Gibson and Joe Zias), which was completed in a matter of days. They uncovered six separate burial shafts within the tomb and two recessed shelves where bodies were laid out for defleshing. The bones were collected from these shelves and placed into ossuaries (bone boxes), of which ten were found in the tomb. Six of the ossuaries were found to carry inscriptions and all contained human bones; one of the uninscribed ossuaries was also undecorated and no photographs were taken of it. In addition, fragments of bone were found on the recessed shelves and three skulls were recovered from the floor; the excavators believed this scattering of bone to have occurred during the looting of the tomb in antiquity. All the bone material was reburied by religious authorities without any osteological analysis. Although Josef Gat (who died in 1993) published a brief summary note on the excavation in 1981, Amos Kloner published a more detailed account of the work on the tomb in 1996, using data from Levy Yitzhak Rahmani&amp;rsquo;s work on the inscriptions, published in 1994.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the completion of the apartment blocks on the site in 1982, the site appears to have been left open. It is now in a courtyard on Dov Gruner Street, at the junction of Olei Hagardom Street and Avshalom Haviv Street. A local resident, Tova Bracha, complained after her children had made their way into the tomb and found scraps of manuscript religious texts, which suggests that it was being used as a genizah, a repository for texts considered too holy by Judaism to be destroyed. Following this, the local authorities sealed the entrance with a concrete slab.&lt;br /&gt;
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The wider public was first alerted to the tomb as a result of a BBC documentary The Body in Question in the series The Heart of the Matter, shown on Easter Sunday (7 April) 1996 (unfortunately, the BBC website has no archives relating to this programme). Presented by Joan Bakewell, it posed an hypothetical question: how would Christianity be affected if evidence that Jesus was not resurrected and ascended bodily into heaven&amp;mdash;as the New Testament sources claim&amp;mdash;were found? Although the programme makers Chris Mann and Ray Bruce at no point claimed that the inscribed ossuaries named Jesus of Nazareth, they speculated on the ramifications of discovering an ossuary that did name him unequivocally. Joan Bakewell subsequently wrote an article for The Sunday Times that highlighted the inscibed ossuaries and was roundly criticised by various Christian groups and other broadsheet newspapers. Joan Bakewell subsequently wrote an article reflecting on the controversy for The Independent of 2 March 2007, when the next chapter in the story unfolded.&lt;br /&gt;
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In 2005, the Canadian investigative journalist Simcha Jacobovici entered the tomb for filming, although he did not have permission from the Israel Antiquities Authority. He and director James Cameron (best known for Titanic) were making a documentary about the tomb, which they believed to have been the tomb of Jesus of Nazareth and members of his family including, controversially, a supposed wife and son. Following this unauthorised intrusion, the tomb was resealed and is not now accessible to the public. Jacobovici and Cameron&amp;rsquo;s documentary was released in March 2007, to a great deal more controversy than The Heart of the Matter had generated.&lt;br /&gt;
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The inscriptions&lt;br /&gt;
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Controversy has centred on the six inscriptions, five of which are in Aramaic and a sixth in Greek. They read (701) &amp;Mu;&amp;alpha;&amp;rho;&amp;iota;&amp;alpha;&amp;mu;&amp;eta;&amp;nu;&amp;omicron;&amp;upsilon;-&amp;Mu;&amp;alpha;&amp;rho;&amp;alpha; (Mariamenou-Mara; this is the Greek text and the reading is disputed), (702) &amp;rlm;יהודה בר ישוע&amp;lrm; (Yehudah bar Yeshu&amp;lsquo;a), (703) Matiah, (704) Yeshu&amp;lsquo;a bar Yehosef (again, the reading of Yeshu&amp;lsquo;a is disputed), (705) &amp;rlm;יוסה&amp;lrm; (Yoseh) and (706) Maryah (the numbers refer to their catalogue entries in Rahmani&amp;rsquo;s A Catalogue of Jewish Ossuaries in the Collections of the State of Israel (Israel Antiquities Authority, 1994)). These names can be transcribed into English as Mariamne compounded with a variant of Martha, Judah son of Jesus, Matthew, Jesus son of Joseph, Joseph and Mary (albeit an Aramaic transcription of the Latinised form of the name).&lt;br /&gt;
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Although there have been suggestions that the readings of Ossuaries 701 and 704 are uncertain (the first has been read &amp;Mu;&amp;alpha;&amp;rho;&amp;iota;&amp;alpha;&amp;mu; &amp;eta; &amp;kappa;&amp;alpha;&amp;iota; &amp;Mu;&amp;alpha;&amp;rho;&amp;alpha; (Mariam who is also Mara) and the second as Hanun bar Yehosef), there is no question that they are not genuinely ancient. This is unlike the &amp;lsquo;James the Just ossuary&amp;rsquo;, which is demonstrably at least in part a forgery. The controversy is therefore about their content, not their authenticity.&lt;br /&gt;
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The arguments began with Jacobovici and Cameron&amp;rsquo;s documentary, The Lost Tomb of Jesus and its follow-up book, which used a statistical analysis of the names performed by Dr Andrey Feuerverger of the University of Toronto to argue that the tomb could not be of anyone other than Jesus of Nazareth and his immediate family. In other words, they transformed The Body in Question&amp;rsquo;s hypothetical scenario into an hypothesis and identification. Although the names are all common names of the first century CE (Mary accounts for 21.3% of contemporary women&amp;rsquo;s names, Joseph for 8.3%, Judah for 6.2% and Jesus for 3.8% of men&amp;rsquo;s names respectively), they argue that the chances of these names occurring in combination were one in six hundred. In other words, there is a 600:1 likelihood that this is the tomb of Jesus of Nazareth and his family. They also suggest that the missing tenth ossuary was the &amp;lsquo;James the Just ossuary&amp;rsquo;.&lt;br /&gt;
Critique of the claims&lt;br /&gt;
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However, there are problems with their statistical analysis apart from the commonness of the names recorded. Firstly, they count Joseph twice, which is inadmissible, as there is no evidence that the Yoseh of Ossuary 705 is to be identified with the father of the Yeshu&amp;lsquo;a bar Yehosef of Ossuary 704. Secondly, the probability that an individual named Yehoshu&amp;lsquo;a had a father named Yehosef is 0.83, that one of the burials was of a Maryam is 0.616 and that an individual named Yehoshu&amp;lsquo;a was the son of Yehosef and Maryam is 1.26; as at least twenty-two ossuaries belonging to a Yehoshu&amp;lsquo;a have been identified, it is very likely that this combination of son and two parents would occur by chance in the existing assemblage. Indeed, given the likely number of people in Jerusalem during the period when the ossuaries were made, around 80,000 men, it is statistically likely that around a thousand men were called Yehoshu&amp;lsquo;a bar Yehosef. Thirdly, as there is no evidence that Jesus of Nazareth had a son at all, let alone one called Yehudah, it is not valid to use this name in the statistics. Fourthly, there is nothing to indicate that Mariamne (or Mariam, according to the alternative reading) was the wife of Yehoshu&amp;lsquo;a bar Yehosef and she could have been the wife of any of the men in the tomb.&lt;br /&gt;
The 2008 Princeton Symposium&lt;br /&gt;
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In January 2008, the Third Princeton Theological Seminary Symposium on Jewish Views of the Afterlife and Burial Practices in Second Temple Judaism was held in Jerusalem and it was specifically themed as Evaluating the Talpiot Tomb in Context. Simcha Jacobovici issued press releases stating that biblical scholars had now vindicated his claims, especially regarding the statistical data, and that the issue was now once again open for discussion. Both Time magazine and CNN covered the symposium in some detail, giving the public the impression that respected scholars were now taking the hypothesis seriously. However, shortly after the symposium, a group of fifteen scholars who had been present and including both Amos Kloner and Joe Zias, who had worked on the origianl excavation of the tomb, issued an open letter stating that Jacobovici had misled the press about the reaction of the scholars present and that other than from James Tabor and Jacobovici himself, there had been little support for the hypothesis. Indeed, a leaked memo written before the symposium took place complained about Tabor and Jacobovici attempting to &amp;ldquo;distort the agenda and skew the proceedings in a way that was favorable to their pre-conceived plan&amp;rdquo; (the source can be found on Joe Zias&amp;rsquo;s website, which also hosts a thorough and very useful &amp;lsquo;deconstruction&amp;rsquo; of the documentary).&lt;br /&gt;
The family of Jesus of Nazareth&lt;br /&gt;
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Jacobovici and Cameron use their &amp;lsquo;secure&amp;rsquo; identification of the individuals buried in the tomb to undermine the reliability of the New Testament sources for the life and family of Jesus of Nazareth. Following recent discussions about the role of Mary Magdalene in the development of Christianity, they follow a number of recent conspiracy theories that make her his wife. The documentary claims that DNA analysis of the bone fragments from Ossuary 701 (which they identify as belonging to Mary Magdalene) and those from Ossuary 704 (supposedly Jesus of Nazareth) shows that these individuals were married rather than related by blood. Of course, this is a ridiculous claim, as DNA analysis shows whether or not people share a common ancestor, not their marital status. Finally, Robert Genna, the analyst quoted by the documentary as confirming that the patina on the &amp;lsquo;James the Just ossuary&amp;rsquo; matches those on the ossuaries from Talpiot, now denies every having said it.&lt;br /&gt;
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The only real evidence we have about the family of Jesus of Nazareth comes from the New Testament, which is contradictory in places. Nevertheless, all the sources agree that the mother of Jesus was called Mary, that she was married to Joseph (although the story of the virgin birth would mean that Joseph was emphatically not the father of Jesus) and that Jesus had at least four brothers (James &amp;lsquo;the Just&amp;rsquo;, Joses, Simon and Judah) and at least two sisters. None of the sources (whether ca