The Leviticus threats were amateur hour compared to the bottle-and-a-half-of-tequila, waving-a-loaded-pistol curses Moses unleashes here in Deuteronomy...
Holy hemorrhoids! Eating afterbirth! I don't think I've ever read anything as scary. I'm not easily spooked, but I actually started sweating while I was reading this. I had to stop midway through the chapter and take a break. It was a couple of days before I had the courage to finish it.
It's terrifying to contemplate a world without God. But it's almost more terrifying to contemplate a world with a God who issues such threats. If this is what our loving God would do to us, well … God help us. There are only two possible responses to this chapter: 1) Sprint over to the nearest house of worship and start "Amening"; 2) Pour yourself a very stiff drink.
