II Kings 2:23-24: ??And Elisha went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up that way, there came forth little children of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; Go up, thou bald head. And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood and tore forty and two children of them asunder.??
That’s been one of my favourite extracts from the Bible ever since my sophomore year religion class when we were taught the Old Testament. It’s also ranked number 8 in Cracked.com’s “9 Most Badass Bible Verses”:http://www.cracked.com/article_15699_9-most-badass-bible-verses.html . This article is one of the funniest things I’ve read in a long time and clearly I’m not the only one as it has received over 6000 “Diggs”:http://digg.com/odd_stuff/The_9_Most_Badass_Bible_Verses_2.
Just in case you don’t believe my 5 star rating for humour, here’s some of what they had to say about the above passage:
??Christians are constantly asking for prayer in schools to help get today’s kids in line, but we beg to differ. We need bears in schools. If every teacher had the power to summon a pair of child-maiming grizzly avengers, you can bet that schoolchildren nowadays would be the most well-behaved, polite children, ever. It’s a simple choice: listen to the biology lesson, or get first-hand knowledge of the digestive system of Ursus horribilis.??
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