Please quote the scripture that you find more stupid than the rest.
The winner of this contest wins $50 Monopoly money.
I'm not going to quote it, but I think it was really stupid that Canaan and all of his descendants were cursed because Ham saw his drunk father butt naked.
The reason this verse is so stupid to me, is his descendants were cursed, and there is indication that many of them would be slaves as a result of this curse.
I think of how much suffering his descendants went through because he looked at his father's nakedness. It just grinds my gears.
Anything in the Bible that suggest a person's descendants will be cursed because of actions they never did, is just really stupid to me!
(The way all women have to go through such labor pains because Eve ate an apple, and how we are all cursed because of Adam and Eve's sins is also stupid.)
Who do you think hams descendants are in the world today?
The Bible never claimed to be a perfect and complete record of anything, despite the claims of the less informed.
However, there are other records, both ancient and modern, that add some clarity to many of the "strange" things partially recorded in the Bible.
Whether or not the claims of these records can be believed is up to the individual and the inspiration that they would receive from the Lord.
I'm going to go back a ways to provide appropriate context, but I will not go into great depth or the quoting of records. If you want the specific references I can share them upon request.
After Adam and Eve partook of the fruit, they gained the Knowledge of Good and Evil and became like the gods, the Lord, before casting them out of the Garden, gave unto Adam and Eve coats of skins, which were a symbol of the Lord's protection and Priesthood being upon them both as they entered into the cold and dreary mortal world.
Adam and Eve taught their children the ways of the Lord and Adam gave to his sons the Lord's Priesthood, so they could perform saving ordinances. The Genesis account recorded that both Abel and Cain had the Priesthood and were authorized to offer up sacrifices unto the Lord, according to the covenants that the Lord made with their parents.
Cain, however, harbored resentment toward his brother Abel. He envied Abel's righteousness and the fact that he had been called to tend to the flocks, while Cain was a tiller of the ground. There is also a record that Cain envied the wife that was given to Abel.
This resentment led to Cain rejecting the Lord (even first-hand appearances) and he sought out the counsels of Satan, who commanded Cain to make an offering unto the Lord of the fruits of the ground, which he knew would be rejected because it was not according to the covenant. This rejection made Cain more worth, which Satan delighted in, and he convinced Cain to make a covenant with him, to supersede the covenant made to Adam and Eve, and if Cain were obedient to Satan's commands then Satan would give to Cain the life of his brother Abel and his flocks.
Cain covenanted with Satan, as well as all those other children of Adam and Eve that followed after Cain, as well as Cain's own children, and afterwards he followed the commands of Satan and murdered his brother Abel. The Lord cursed Cain and his followers for what had been done. The curse was manifold and included a change to their physical appearance so that Adam and his faithful children could discern them by sight as well as a curse upon their labors, so that the Earth would not give them as much yield in its harvest, therefore they would need to be vagabonds and wanderers.
However, the most damaging aspect of the curse was that Cain and his followers would no longer have the right to His Priesthood.
The reason I brought all this up is to explain that Ham's wife, who was brought upon the Ark, was a descendant of Cain and it ties into why the curse was perpetuated through her unto Ham's children.
It is important to note that the curse placed upon Cain and his followers was passed down through their seed, however, many of the effects of the curse were conditioned upon the personal righteousness of the descendant. There were some of the descendants of Cain and his followers who repented the ways of their fathers and rejoined Adam's other children.
Keeping this in mind helps us understand how Ham's wife, a descendant of Cain, was able to live with Noah and be saved on the Ark, she did not live after the manner of Cain, therefore, the curse had been lifted.
The drama with Ham started after the Flood, for he envied Shem, his brother, who had received the Priesthood from Noah.
Noah not only had the Priesthood to give, but he also had in his possession the original coat of skins made and given to Adam by the Lord. It had passed from Adam to Enoch to Methuselah to Noah. He wore it as a symbol of his legitimacy as an inheritor of the Priesthood.
It was this very garment that Ham stole from his father while he slept and exposed his nakedness. He took this garment and gave it to his son Canaan, who accepted it and claimed that his owning it made him the legitimate heir to the Priesthood.
Obviously, the right to the Priesthood could not be taken by force, so when Noah discovered what had happened to the garment and that Canaan meant to keep it and use it as a means to claim false inheritance of the Priesthood, he cursed Canaan, denying him the right to the Priesthood and claiming that he would never rise to power and authority by this act, but would be a servant of servants.
This denial of right to the Priesthood persisted through Canaan's line as well as the descendants of those who followed after Canaan (similar to what happened to Cain and his followers).
Noah's cursing was more like a reigniting of the previous curse placed on Cain, with the added effect of becoming servants of servants. There may be descendants of Canaan living today, but the effects of the curse can be mitigated by righteous living.
