Bible Court

The cartoon I made called “If God Exists Everything is Permitted” is doing quite well with nearly 200K views already, and I figured it would, which is why I set it up to have a “sequel” at the end. Rather than just blatantly make it a series, I thought I’d reuse the courtroom setting and characters more as a format than a coherent series, because I think it translates quite well the absurdity of religion into a modern situation that we would never accept. People want the 10 Commandments in the courthouse, and they want us to swear on bibles, but what if we applied actual biblical standards to court cases?

So, for the next iteration of bible court, I give you Numbers 11. God had provided the Israelites with manna from heaven for 40 years so that they could survive in the desert. They begin to miss the taste of meat, however, which angers God, so He literally buries them in 3 feet of quail for a day’s walk in every direction. There’s your meat, you ingrates; now eat all of it for a month until it “comes out of your nostrils” (yes God says that, Numbers 11:20). Talk about an overreaction! Then, as they start to eat, before they can even swallow, He afflicts them with deadly plague. Lesson learned. Right? Obviously these can only be the actions of the objective source of all morality...right?

This time, I think I’ll add a jury to the courtroom. Same lawyers and judge. The defendant made dinner for his kids, but one of them wanted something else, so the defendant got angry, gave the kid salmonella riddled chicken and forced him to eat it, and he died as a lesson to his siblings. The lawyer uses Numbers 11 as a defense, and of course the murderer is immediately exonerated. I think I’ll post the script on patreon again, like I did last time, so that I can get any input you may want to offer.