Dashing Infants – In the Bible, “dashing” is a verb; not an adjective

Infanticide: the intentional killing of infants. In many past societies, certain forms of infanticide were considered permissible. In most countries, female infanticide is more common than the killing of male offspring, due to sex-selective infanticide.

One of the forgotten themes of the bible is the killing of infants. One of my major goals in life is to share the bible with as many people as possible. I do this in person and across the internet. The bible is such an amazing book, I think the citizens of our planet should know as much about it as possible. Today, I want to share about infanticide.

When Christ returns to the Earth in his glory to usher in the last days, some bad stuff is going to happen. The well-known prophet Isaiah was kind enough to give us a preview. It helps me understand why people are so anxious for His return.

Isaiah 13:15-18 New International Version (NIV)

Whoever is captured will be thrust through;

all who are caught will fall by the sword.

Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes;

their houses will be looted and their wives violated.

See, I will stir up against them the Medes,

who do not care for silver

and have no delight in gold.

Their bows will strike down the young men;

they will have no mercy on infants,

nor will they look with compassion on children.



Ancient Figurines



Once upon a time, the people in Samaria disrespected God by making little silver statues. They probably looked a little like these ones from Madhya Pradesh. Of course God couldn’t tolerate that, so it was imperative that their infants receive dashing and their pregnant women be torn open. This of course raises the question: in God’s eyes, is it a worse punishment for a woman to be “violated,” or “ripped open?”

Hosea 13:16 New International Version (NIV)

The people of Samaria must bear their guilt,

because they have rebelled against their God.

They will fall by the sword;

their little ones will be dashed to the ground,

their pregnant women ripped open.

When the children in Israel were living in Babylon (remember the stories about Daniel in the Lion Den and Ashack, Meshack, and Abednego?) God decided that one day the Babylonians would be punished for making His chosen people move from Palestine to Iraq. In Psalms, we get to learn how great it will be to be the one who gets to punish the Babylonian people.

Psalms 137:8-9 New International Version (NIV)

Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,

happy is the one who repays you

according to what you have done to us.
Happy is the one who seizes your infants

and dashes them against the rocks.

Holy crap! This whole time I was assuming it was BAD to dash infants. I can’t believe I was wrong. It may be time for me to re-evaluate my personal morals. I’m clearly even further out of synch with God than I thought!

Moral: Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.





The expansive epic of Jacob, son of Isaac: Part 6 – Rachel is a very naughty girl

Always make sure your favorite wife isn’t a criminal before describing the terms of punishment

After Jacob decided to leave Laban to head home with his wives, livestock, slaves, and other riches his favorite wife Rachel snuck into her father’s tent and stole his collection of images. These images were the little pagan gods Laban worshiped and Rachel was nervous about leaving home without them.

As soon as Laban figured out that Jacob had taken off with his daughters and grandchildren he gathered up his “brethren” (whatever that means) and chased down Jacob. The night before he caught Jacob Yahweh showed up and told Laban to “Take heed that speak not to Jacob either good or bad.” Laban didn’t have his pagan gods with him (because that bitch Rachel stole them) so he decided to keep Yahweh’s instruction in mind when he caught up with Jacob.

“You jerk,” Laban blurted out as soon as he got close to Jacob. “How dare you take away my daughters like a bandit that comes in the night? You were very foolish to take away my opportunity to throw a going away party and to kiss my grandchildren farewell. Now, I would be kicking your ass right now if Yahweh hadn’t told me to behave myself. As it is, I understand you want to go home after all these years working for me. I just need to know: Why the hell did you steal my gods?”

Jacob responded, “I snuck away because I was afraid you would take your daughters from me by force. As for the gods, I didn’t take them, but I will help you look for them and we will kill whoever has them.” They searched through the camp, but Rachel was very clever and hid the gods under her camel’s saddle and sat upon it. Then when her dad came into the tent she said, “I’m sorry I don’t stand up to greet you, but I’m on the rag right now, so what can you do, right?”

Due to that lying bitch Rachel’s cleverness Laban didn’t find his gods and Jacob got upset and yelled at Laban for harassing them after he’d worked for him the past 20 years to earn the daughters and the cattle. Laban felt a little badly about the situation then so he said, “You know, all these people; they come from me. They are either my daughters or grandchildren. The animals also come from me. How then could I ever do anything to harm any of them? Let us make a promise now to never try to kill each other.

So they held this big ceremonial promise thing involving a big pile of rocks and Laban went home. Rachel kept those gods though, the crafty bitch.

Ref: Genesis 31:19-55