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Moral Behavior of God's "Chosen"
   One shining example of a God-fearing man can be found at Judges 19:22-30, the story of the Levite's concubine. The Levites, one must remember, are the high priests of the chosen people, God's favored sons, and they are rewarded for their saintly behavior by being given the best lodging, food, drink, loot and women in any town they enter. They are also, naturally, exempt from the wars that they may cause "in the Lord's name." The Levites are the upholders of God's law, and as such they are to be protected and esteemed no matter what. In the story of the Levite's concubine - which must be taken literally because everything in the Bible is literally true - the lowly and base men of the town want to "know" the Levite who has just entered into one of the town's more "righteous" homes. The pious man of the house beseeches the village sodomites not to take the Levite to do "this vile thing" but instead offers his virgin daughter and the Levite's concubine. (Remember, good "God-fearing" men are allowed to have concubines, i.e., prostitutes. It's all in the name of religion.) Luckily for the daughter, the man only has to toss out the concubine in order to satisfy the wicked men, who are apparently bisexual. The lusty men rape and batter the concubine, who is then left on the righteous doorstep, dead. When the Levite sees her there, brutally beaten and violated, he compassionately yells, "Get up, let us be going." (Judges 19:28)
When the murdered concubine fails to rise, the pious Levite then mercifully throws her upon his ass, returns to the house for a knife, cuts her into 12 pieces and sends her body parts to various destinations in Israel. Now, we cannot take this story as being symbolic because the Word of God is literal fact, so we must assume that the Levite's actions are true and that they are in accordance with the Lord's wishes, because the Levite is the Lord's earthly representative.
   The "Good" Patriarchs
   Other men of high moral character who are held up to be God-fearing and representatives of the Lord on Earth can be found at Genesis 12:13, where Abram tells his wife, Sarai, to lie about being his wife, and at Genesis 20:2, where Abram, now called Abraham for his just actions, himself lies about "Sarah" being his wife. When Abraham is caught in his fib regarding Sarah not being his wife, he continues the lie and doesn't even bat an eye at the incestuous implications, as he tells the king of Gerar - who, thinking Sarah is Abraham's sister, has nearly had sex with her - that Sarah is both Abraham's wife and his sister, but not by the same father. And at Genesis 16:3, Abram continues his godly behavior and commits adultery and bigamy with Hagar the Egyptian (not to mention treason, since Egypt is an enemy of the Lord's chosen). Remember, this is the behavior of one of the Lord's greatest prophets.
   As John Remsburg says:
   Who was Abraham? An insane barbarian patriarch who married his sister, denied his wife, and seduced her handmaid; who drove one child into the desert to starve, and made preparations to butcher the other.
   The pious prophet's son, Isaac, has also learned his father's trick of lying, and he too plays it upon the king of Gerar at Genesis 26:7. The king finds him out when he catches Isaac fondling his wife, but Isaac, not as good a liar as his papa, tells him the truth. For his high moral character, Isaac is eventually made very wealthy by the Lord.
   Of course, Abraham is not the only pious person who displays behavior which would be unacceptable by today's moral standards but which is considered perfectly fine and virtuous because it is committed by a biblical character. At Genesis 20:32-36, the divinely chosen Lot is made drunk and then seduced by his daughters. This immoral act is done, one assumes, with the blessings of the Lord, because it serves to continue the Hebraic lineage.
   The list of unpious behavior by "great" biblical heroes and exemplars of the Lord's will goes on:
   Noah gets plastered and exposes himself. (Gen. 9:20-23)
King David also vulgarly exposes himself to a crowd. (2 Samuel 6:20)
David possibly has a love affair with Jonathan. (1 Samuel 18-20)
"Wise" and "moral" King Solomon has "seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines." (1 Kings 11:3)
Concerning such "great" biblical characters, Remsburg states:
   Who was Jacob? Another patriarch, who won God's love by deceiving his father, cheating his uncle, robbing his brother, practicing bigamy with two of his cousins, and committing fornication with two of his housemaids.
   Who was Moses? A model of meekness; a man who boasted of his own humility; a man who murdered an Egyptian and hid his body in the sand; a man who exterminated whole nations to secure the spoils of war, a man who butchered in cold blood thousands of captive widows, a man who tore dimpled babes from the breasts of dying mothers and put them to a cruel death; a man who made orphans of thirty-two thousand innocent girls, and turned sixteen thousand of them over to the brutal lusts of a savage soldiery.
   Who was David? "A man after God's own heart." A vulgar braggadocio, using language to a woman the mere quoting of which would send me to prison; a traitor, desiring to lead an enemy's troops against his own countrymen; a thief and robber, plundering the country on every side; a liar, uttering wholesale falsehoods to screen himself from justice; a red-handed butcher, torturing and slaughtering thousands of men, women, and children, making them pass through burning brick-kilns, carving them up with saws and axes, and tearing them into pieces under harrows of iron; a polygamist, with a harem of wives and concubines; a drunken debauchee, dancing half-naked before the maids of his household; a lecherous old libertine, abducting and ravishing the wife of a faithful soldier; a murderer, having his faithful soldier put to death after desolating his home; a hoary-headed fiend, foaming with vengeance on his dying bed, demanding with his last breath the deaths of two aged men, one of whom had most contributed to make his kingdom what it was, the other a man to whom he had promised protection.
   And so on and so on throughout the "Holy" Bible. (Which should be taught in every school but definitely wouldn't make it to our movies screens or would be V-chipped out of our TVs.)
What Does God Do with All the Foreskins?
   And what to make of the obsession with the foreskin and circumcision found within the pages of "God's Word?" In the Old Testament, in order to please his future father-in-law, David enthusiastically abides by the man's request that David slay 100 hundred Philistines and bring the father-in-law their foreskins in exchange for the hand of his daughter! (1 Samuel 27) Indeed, the eager David brings Saul 200 foreskins! In the New Testament, circumcision is dwelt upon repeatedly by Paul and others - so critical is it to the lascivious Lord, who obviously screwed up in the first place by putting foreskins on men.