Saturday, November 30, 2013

Jacob and Essau

This is your standard Achilles heel story in the bible, two children are born unto a woman and God says that the younger will rule over his elder. Jacob, the younger, ends up ruling over Essau from exiting the womb, holding onto his heel on the way out. As they grow older it comes to light that Jacob is a huge asshole momma's boy and just sits around the tent with the womenfolk all day while Essau is out doing important things like hunting and farming and herding. Unfortunately while Essau is a damned hard worker, he is a bit lacking in the brain department. He comes into the tent after work one day and asks for his supper as usual, Instead of being a good person and just giving it to him, Jacob demands that Essau give him his half of the inheritance. Essau is just too hungry to mull this over for the two seconds it would take for anyone to get that this is a bad deal, and shakes gladly. The moral of this is that God loves the worst of us, but not in a "God loves everybody" sense, lie a "God only loves Assholes" sense.

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