sharinganerror wrote:
1. God was disappointed with Cain's sacrifice because Cain was a lazy bastard who gave God his old rotten fruit, not the best of what he worked for. Abel, on the other hand, gave his most prized lamb that was in a sense because he WASN'T a lazy bastard. Cain got mad at Abel, when he should've been angry with himself, and killed him. God got pissed because, HELLO, Abel didn't do anything wrong, but Cain was already digging his grave. 2. Ok, the BIBLE was written before that stupid book, J.R.R. Tolkien is and was known for inadvertently plagiarizing the scripture and making his own fiction with it. 3. God was only ok with incest because there were no fucking people on earth except for noah and his family after the flood, 98% or something near that had been obliterated, he wasn't gonna let humanity end like that. Gays kill.... eachother. one word=AIDS two words=really sick.
OK, in the gratitude that you are actually answering my points unlike someone else, I'll grant you the first one, though I mean the idea of animal sacrifice is kinda insane anyway, but that's just personal opinion. So OK, maybe Cain was just being lazy and that's what hacked off the big man.
Point 2, yeah, me referencing The Silmarillion is just me being a dick. Mainly its the way that they both start off with a list of names, and it doesn't make for a particularly enthralling read. But it does get better later on. But yeah, the opening few chapters of the Silmarillion clearly do owe alot to the Bible, Genesis in particular.
Point 3. Can't agree. God allegedly killed 99.9999999999% of the population in the flood. Which of course is another example of his genocidal ways that I totally forgot about, somehow. But yeah, after a little research I've found that Lot was the nephew of Abraham, and he came 11 generations after Noah, so lot was 12 generations. If we work from current numbers like an average of 2 kids per family (obviously alot more in those days) & a lifespan of 75 years (also, considerably more in those days, Noah lived for nearly 1,000 years apparently), well work out the size of the family tree yourself. It'd have gotten to the stage that it really doesn't count as incest. I mean incest is between close blood relations, your brother/sister, mother/father, 1st cousins, aunts & uncles would all count as well. But once you get much further down the family tree than that it's really not such a big deal, and that was where they were by the time that Lot's daughters slept with him.
