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mattpayton:

- An excerpt from the blog of Matt Taibbi

Required reading.

And I liked this that Taiibi said about the Abraham sacrificing his son story, one of those deeply unmoral stories in the Bible: “You’re a little kid, listening at bedtime in your pee-jays to the story, expecting that Abraham is going to tell God to go fuck himself because he loves his children so much, and be rewarded for doing so. Instead it’s exactly the opposite, the father in the story is rewarded for being willing to carve his innocent son up with a knife, the moral of the story somehow being not that God is an insane murderous psychopath, but that God is just and wise and should be obeyed. When the story is over, Dad tucks you in to bed and says he’ll see you in the morning. Now that’s realism for you.”