Sunday, August 31, 2008

Lucky Charms

Micah the Ephraimite offers a young Levite to be the spiritual leader of Micah's perverted sense of Yahwehistic worship. Micah offers the young Levite with a nice annual payment plan for his religious service to Micah's own personal shrine to Yahweh. The young Levite is given a whole new wardrobe, and a living allowance. The state of worship in Israel is as such that neither of these parties see the incompatibility of the system of worship they just set up.



Levites had no allotment of land, and they had the monopoly on the priesthood. Micah now assumes that with his arrangement that he will be able to manipulate Yahweh like a Canaanite would try and manipulate his god. The religious system looks a little Yahwehistic, but in actuality it is completely pagan.


On the young Levite's side, he was simply a "laid back" professional minister following the path of least resistance and waiting for an opportunity to open up.

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