LOVE G-D: HATE WHAT IS EVIL

 

G-d in the Torah is absolutely unambiguous: love, revere, respect, acknowledge, NO OTHER GODS BUT HIM. 

יהוה‎ ALONE.

 

How intolerant! ;) How disrespectful of other paths! That's not at all adequately multicultural! ;)

Now you might say, as many do, "I don't like any of them. They can all get stuffed." But that's not true. Even if you are an absolute atheist, you have gods. They are just mortal perishable gods. Whatever you pay the highest respect to, whatever you owe obedience to, that is your god. Their god may be satisfying their desires, or sex, or the respect of their peers, or any of a myriad of things. They indeed have many gods, none of them good. 

The absolutism and exclusivity of G-d's claims in the Bible are an inalienable part of the entire thing. You can't just subtract that if you don't like it. If you are a Christian church or a Reform synagogue, and you let Buddhists or Hindus or, G-d forbid, Wiccans, have ceremonies or preach at your place of worship, just stop. Take the sign off your door that says "church" or "synagogue." Sell all your bibles, sell em to someone who will read them. Call yourself an "Open-Source Temple" or something, but what you don't do is you don't clutch the Bible in one hand while clutching Hinduism or Wicca or Secularism in the other.

Did you not even read the thing in your own hand?

Idiot! Vegetable!

Do you not care that you are doing the very thing that the Prophet Elijah commanded people to be killed for? Do you not care that you are doing the very thing that King Josiah slayed pagan priests on their own altars to stop?

I don't personally care if you want to practice Wicca, or Hinduism, or Buddhism, or Secularism, or anything else. Not my circus, not my monkeys. It's your loss. What I DO care about is if you are defaming the name of the Lord יהוה‎ by MIXING HIS NAME WITH THAT OF OTHER GODS. They don't belong together.

The demands of the Lord are ABSOLUTELY UNEQUIVOCALLY EXCLUSIVE.

You cannot claim to worship Him AND other gods. It says so, right there in the Bible.

Read it before you become a preacher, motherfucker.


Moreover, G-d has rules that are mostly pretty clear. We may not want them to be clear, but they actually are:

The first one is actually the whole "no other gods" thing. It's right there, the very first Commandment.

Don't make idols.
(Okay I am simplifying that one. I regard it as a ban on the representation of any sentient being, but lets keep it simple.)

Don't misrepresent G-d, as happens continually in the so-called progressive churches.

Remember the Sabbath day, don't work or make others work on the Sabbath.
Wow that one really fell by the wayside. The Sabbath is on Saturday, by the way.  

Honor your mother and father.

Don't murder. This includes murdering your sons and daughters, born or unborn.

Do not commit adultery
(There's another one that fell out of use.)

Don't steal. (This includes you, Washington D.C.)

Don't lie or falsely accuse someone
(technically the commandment is against false accusation, but certainly G-d hates lies.)

You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.

There are other laws, but these are the biggies.

SO, if you are ensconced in a Christian church or a Reform synagogue and you are preaching the compatibility of the religion of the G-d of Sinai with other beliefs, or preaching things that the Bible clearly preaches against; if you are preaching for abortion, homosexuality, sexual immorality, divorce or moral relativism...

...you are utterly completely gratuitously intentionally misrepresenting G-d.

Such a person should be stoned to death. Stoned, with extreme prejudice. However the Bible also preaches against taking the law into your own hands, so in the absence of community elders who can get together and decide, "yup, this so-called pastor or preacher needs to be stoned to death," there's not a lot that can be done along those lines.

But I swear, if I hear any more from these progressive aborting divorcing homosexualizing gender-fluidizing preachers, I'm gonna want to make a large order at the rock quarry.

Murder is EVIL
Abortion is EVIL
Pagan idolatry is EVIL
Misrepresenting G-d is EVIL
Breaking the Sabbath is EVIL
Dishonoring your parents is EVIL
Adultery is EVIL
Divorce is EVIL
Sexual immorality is EVIL
Stealing is EVIL
Lying is EVIL
Coveting what doesn't belong to you is EVIL.

Love G-d: hate what is evil.