On Mar 30, 10:08 am, "Machete" <Mach...@democratscankissmyass.com>
wrote:
Behold in wide-eyed wonder and amazement: a few examples of problems
and just plain weirdness in the Bible.
The story of Noah involves God mass murdering most of the humans on
Earth, and killing off almost all of the other animal life, also. The
fact that the story doesn't deal with microscopic forms of life, is an
indication that "God" didn't know about its existence.
Another story involving god's mass murder is the destruction of Sodom
and Gomorrah. The hero of this story is Lot, a nephew of Abraham.
Two male angels were sent to warn Lot to leave the city before its
destruction. Lot welcomed the Angels into his house, which was
subsequently surrounded by sinful townsmen who demanded that the
Angels be turned over to them so they could be sodomized.
Lot protected the Angels by offering his two virgin daughters to be
used by the crowd, instead of the two male angels. The male angels
saved the day by striking blind the marauding crowd that wanted to
sodomize them.
Lot's household escapes along with their apparently God blessed
animals, but Lot's wife gets turned to salt by God, for committing the
sin of looking back at the destruction of the city. The story
continues and gets even more perverse.
Lott and his two daughters wind up living in a cave, isolated from
other people. Lacking male attention, the girls decided to get their
father drunk so he would have sex with them, which he did, getting
both of them pregnant.
Something similar to the Lott story shows up in Judges 19. Here, a
girl concubine is handed over to a mob instead of a male visitor, and
she is gang raped all night by the mob. After this ordeal she crawls
to the man's door who turned her over to the mob, and then she dies.
Upon finding her there the man cuts her body up into 12 pieces and
sends her into all the coasts of Israel.
Another example of God's penchant for weirdness and mass murder is the
killing of children through plague in Egypt when the Israelites were
trying to leave the Pharaoh's service.
The book of Numbers tells of how God incited Moses to attack the
Medinanites. The Israelite army killed all the men and destroyed the
citys, but they failed to kill the Medinanite women and children. This
infuriated Moses and he gave orders that all the boy children should
be killed, and all women killed unless they were virgins.
These biblical stories advocate genocide. They set precedent for it
and put God's authority behind it.
The book of Joshua all about genocide. The wiping out of populations
so that the Israelites could claim the land for themselves, under
God's orders. That's essentially the same thing as Hitler intended to
do, and did partially for a time, in his invasions into Eastern Europe
and the Soviet Union.
According to Leviticus 20, offenses meriting death: cursing your
parents; committing adultery; sex with your stepmother or your
daughter-in-law; homosexuality; marrying a woman and her daughter;
bestiality; working on the Sabbath.
According to the Bible, if a man finds his wife is not a virgin at
marriage, he can have her stoned to death.
The Bible is a strange book - it's not a guide for actual human
history, or ethics for humans.