BIBLE STUDIES I: The Story of Passover

Around April every year, Jews celebrate the religious festival of Passover. Just imagine that, Jews everywhere celebrating the murder of children. Because make no mistake, that is what it is, a celebration of infanticide. Let us examine the story: according to the Book of Exodus, while the Israelites are living among the Egyptians, Moses demanded of Pharaoh the emancipation of the Israelites; if not, the land of Egypt would be visited by ten plaques. The murder of the firstborn was the tenth and final of these plagues and starts in Chapter 11:

 

³ And the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants and in the sight of the people.

⁴ And Moses said, “Thus saith the Lord: ‘About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt;

⁵ and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant who is behind the mill, and all the firstborn of beasts.

⁶ And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.

⁷ But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast, that ye may know how the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.’

 

 

 

Then in Chapter 12, the Jewish god Yahweh commands Moses to instruct the Jews to take a lamb, slaughter it, cook it and eat it, and smear its blood on the outside of the door frame so that Yahweh knows which households to leave alone when he comes around to murder the firstborn of Egypt (both human and animal). This event is then to be celebrated at the beginning of each year by the Jews. The rest of the episode is not relevant to us here, as it concerns the obsession with male genital mutilation and stuff.

 

So there it is quite clearly, except that, as the meme asks, why would an omniscient deity need markings to know which houses to leave alone? The answer is simply that some Semitic sky fairy did not kill the Egyptians’ children; Jews did. They went into the houses of their neighbours and slew them as they slept. Hallelujah, a miracle! And as it states, they did not just kill the children of the Egyptians, but the children of their slaves as well.

 

Christians, of course, go along with all of this as perfectly normal. Same deity, and with regard to the Pentateuch, same book. Even if they believe the literal story (which does not bear scrutiny) that their god murdered children, how do they juxtapose that with their notion that “God is love”? How do they reconcile their anti-abortion campaigns with their deity’s infanticide? 

 

So called Christian nationalists and especially the Christian Nazitards will try to explain how Jesus was not a Jew. We will explore that further in another article. But with regard to Passover, here is the thing: the Last Supper was a Passover feast. John 13:1 tells us explicitly: “Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.” There it is: Jesus literally celebrated the murder of Gentile children.