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What is a popular book that everyone buys but nobody reads? (midwest.social)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 205 points 10 months ago (4 children)

The Bible

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago

The trick is to jump around like a choose your own adventure.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Just popped in to find and upvote.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When I was in elementary school I actually tried to just read the bible. I didn't get very far through Genesis before I gave up.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You didn't even make it to the part where a man of god uses nature magic to summon bears to kill 42 children, or where a guy is mad that a father gives him the wrong daughter as property that he combines genocide with animal abuse!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

For me, nothing tops the guy whose neighbors want to rape the angel that came to visit him, so he offers the crowd his daughters to rape instead.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

That first bit is part of the Apocrypha. It's not in the official bible.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's from Second Kings 2:23-25, which is part of the Torah and the official 66 books of the bible. Though some (most) translations say that the curse is in the name of the lord/god.

From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. “Get out of here, baldy!” they said. “Get out of here, baldy!” He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys. And he went on to Mount Carmel and from there returned to Samaria.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

some boys

two bears

mauled forty-two of them

Just how many boys in totality are we talking about here? And did the bears have to stop and take a break?

And he went on to Mount Carmel and...

"And then he went about his day, completely disregarding the two exhausted bears and the 42 mauled boys that were part of a sizable mob that he casually called a curse down upon'

[–] mindbleach 2 points 10 months ago

If you treat bible stories like D&D campaigns, this makes perfect sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the specifics.