@izzythepush,
That is if you see the Bible as a religious book... I see it as a book of hate...
Nature and science are my only holy books...
1 Women are sinful by nature
2 Women need no genealogy because only men's count
3 Female harems are fine
4 Homosexuality punishable by death
5 Child sacrifice, okay to prove faith
6 Crucifying a man makes all the wrong in the book right
7 Trash this world because the next will be better
8 Scientists burnt at the stake because they disagreed with the book
9 The world kept in the dark because only clergy are permitted to read
10 The shielding of pedophiles in the name of God and the confessional
11 Biblically sanctioned genocide
12 Native Americans are savages
13 Black people are sons of Ham and cursed...
14 The Israelites kill Hamor, his son, and all the men of their village, taking as plunder their wealth, cattle, wives and children
15 God is unhappy with the wickedness of man and decides to do something about it. He kills every living thing on the face of the earth other than Noah's family and thereby makes himself the greatest mass murderer in history.
16 Moses murders an Egyptian
17 With the Lord's approval, Joshua mows down Amalek and his people
18 With the Lord's approval, a slave may be beaten to death with no punishment for the perpetrator as long as the slave doesn't die too quickly
19 "Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.
20 With the Lord's approval, the Israelites slay 3000 men.
21 "I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children."
22 As a punishment, the Lord will cause people to eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters and fathers and friends.
23 God makes Miriam a leper for seven days because she and Aaron had spoken against Moses.
24 A Sabbath breaker (who had gathered sticks for a fire) is stoned to death at the Lord's command.
25 The Lord causes the earth to open and swallow up the men and their households (including wives and children) because the men had been rebellious.
26 A fire from the Lord consumes 250 men.
27 A plague from the Lord kills 14,700 people.
28 The Israelites utterly destroy the Canaanites.
29 Fiery serpents, sent by the Lord, kill many Israelites.
30 With the Lord's approval, the Israelites slay Og "... and his sons and all his people, until there was not one survivor left ...."
"And the Lord said unto Moses, take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun ...."
31 "When the Lord delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the males .... As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves."
32 "In the cities of the nations the Lord is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes."
33 Achan, his children and his cattle are stoned to death because Achan had taken a taboo thing.
34 Saul smites the Amalekites.
35 David has Rechan and Baanah killed, their hands and feet cut off, and their bodies hanged by the pool at Hebron.
36 David slew 22,000 Syrians.
37 David slew 18,000 Edomites in the valley of salt and made the rest slaves.
38"David left neither man nor woman alive ....". (Note: This implies that children and infants were included in the slaughter.)
39 Solomon has Adonijah murdered. Solomon has Joab murdered. Solomon has Shime-i murdered.
40 Fire from heaven comes down and consumes fifty men.
41 Menahem ripped open all the women who were pregnant.
Where is the freedom in any of this?
A book of bondage deserves no freedom to proliferate...
...and the list goes on!
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/donald_morgan/atrocity.html
I was chatting with a relative yesterday and she said she was crying and I asked why? She said, "Because I don't want you to burn in hell."
She said, "Just read the book and you will find the love of God."
