Listening to Bible story or drama cassettes

TheListener

Did anyone grow up listening to the bible dramas or bible story book on cassette?

Did anyone else find Jehovah and his pronouncements very scary? It's like letting your kid watch an R rated violent movie right before bed. OK 10,000 israelites just got murdered; "goodnight honey. sleep tight. don't piss of God or WHAM!! you're dead. Don't let the bed bugs errr I mean locusts bite."

I had nightmares that Jehovah was going to talk really mean to me and then kill me.

In Jehovah's voice "LISTENER!! LIIIIISTENNNNERRRR!! WHY DID YOU TOUCH YOURSELF TONIGHT?? YOU KNOW THAT'S NOT RIGHT. YOU WILL BE COVERED IN BOILS FROM HEAD TO TOE. LET'S SEE YOU TOUCH YOURSELF THEN!

the_classicist

Yes, I listened; as a kid, they helped me get to sleep, b/c the narrator had a grandfatherly voice.

GetBusyLiving

I had the Bible story book memorized before I could even read because of those damn tapes. That writing on the wall story still creeps me out. You know you're a hardcore braindead cultist when you haven't got the common sense to keep that junk away from little kids.

GBL

diamondblue1974

I remember listening to them as a kid but the only thing I can remember about them is that they were bloody boring and I choose this point in time to admit something that I did as a child which my mother would be mad about....

Our tape player started to chew the cassette up and I left it to it in the hope that the tape would be irrepairably damaged; not only did I succeed but it busted the cassette player too....BONUS no more boring dramas or kingdom melodies for me....heheh.

DB74

TheListener

Oh my god I almost forgot about the Kingdom Melody tapes. Woohoo what great fun music for a kid to listen to.

Maybe for nightime or something but most of them sound like some kind of march or something.

Of course, there's that new tape KM#9 where they jazzed the music up a bit. Not too bad if you can forget the cultic thinking behind it.

ljwtiamb

Tapes! Why in my day we had to let our imaginations scare the crap outta us.

Thank goodness we had those Paradise Lost pictures of the earth swallowing up cars, women & babies to keep us in line, with lightning bolts from heaven crushing buildings & churches.

Not to mention, the wonderful illustrations of dragons and mythical beasts in the Revelation & Daniel books.

No wonder I was a faithful lil' witness!

POs Son

I still have a few of the tapes in the basement in all my kid-junk. I haev no desire to use them now.... hmmm eBay sounds good!

Insomniac

Oh, man, weren't those tapes a trip? When we didn't have television, they were my only form of entertainment. I vividly recall one where Moses' sister (Zipporah?) and their bro Aaron were being all prideful and such, and Jehovah gave her leprosy. The person doing her voice had this really bloodcurdling scream that used to terrify me. I mean, it seemed an exceedingly harsh punishment for a loving god to deal to a basically good person. Can't believe my parents used to want me to read and listen to such violent, scary stuff, and yet t.v. was considered bad.

Listening to Bible story or drama cassettes

Share this