Evil Biblical Stupidity

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Evil Biblical Stupidity

"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest anything that is cruel."

Thomas Paine The Age of Reason

"For my people are foolish, the know me not, they are stupid children..."
Christian god-Jeremiah 4:22

This page contains a few quotations I have taken out of the Bible. It is a very brief list, but it should be enlightening. For further Bible quotes, commentaries and criticisms, I would recommend visiting the links I have included here.

Bible basics an introduction to the Bible.
Online Bibles lots o' Bibles.
The Skeptics Annotated Bible (SAB) excellent resource-contains notes on all the books of the Bible, and has a listing of verses according to their subject matter, such as violence, cruelty and insults to women. "It is time for us all to stop believing in, or pretending to believe in, a book that is so unworthy of belief."
Bible Contradictions , Bible Absurdities , Bible Vulgarities , Biblical Atrocities

Questionable biblical guidelines bad biblical advice.
The XXX-rated Bible a convenient, easy-to-navigate list of questionable and unsavory Bible quotations, categorized by subject.

Biblical Errancy an amazing amount of information. This site can be searched by Bible quotation.
Is the Bible Inspired? an ex-Christian explains why the Bible probably isn't divinely inspired.
The Bible perception versus reality. From this site.
The Skeptical Review Farrell Till, a former minister, takes on Bible inerrantists and shows why they are wrong.

The Secular Web a huge selection of scholarly articles on a wide variety of topics.

Finally, on to the Bible quotations...

Old Testament Passages

1. "Samar'ia shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword, their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open."

Hosea 13:16

2. "He whose testicles are crushed or whose male member is cut off shall not enter the assembly of the Lord."

Deuteronomy 23:1

3. "Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, remove the foreskin of your hearts..."

Jeremiah 4:4

4. "Behold the day of the Lord is coming, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in the midst of you. For I will gather the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women ravished..."

Christian god-Zechariah 14:1

5. "Behold, I will corrupt your seed and spread dung upon your faces..."

Christian god-Malachi 2:3

6. "Happy shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!"

Psalms 137:9

7. "But God will shatter the heads of his enemies..."

Psalms 68:21

8. "...they have rejected the word of the Lord, and what wisdom is in them? Therefore I will give their wives to others..."

Christian god-Jeremiah 8:9

9. "And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem..."

2 Samuel 5:13

10. "...I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the light of this sun."

Christian god-2 Samuel 12:11

11. "(Elisha) went up from there to Bethal; and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, 'Go up, you baldhead! Go up you baldhead!' And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys."

2 Kings 2:23

12. "The men of Judah carried away very much booty. And they smote all the cities round about Gerar, for the fear of the Lord was upon them. They plundered all the cities, for there was much plunder in them. And they smote the tents of those who had cattle, and carried away sheep in abundance and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem."

2 Chronicles 14:13

13. "The men of Judah captured another ten thousand (men) alive and took them to the top of the rock and threw them down from the top of the rock; and they were all dashed to pieces."

2 Chronicles 25:12

14. "Behold the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger...Whoever is found will be thrust through and whoever is caught will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces before their eyes, their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished."

Christian god-Isaiah 13:9, 13:15

15. "'Pass through the city after him, and smite; your eye shall not spare and you shall show no pity; slay old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women...'"

Christian god-Ezekiel 9:5

16. "Behold, I am against you, says the Lord of hosts, and will lift up your skirts over your face; and I will let nations look on your nakedness and kingdoms on your shame. I will throw filth at you...."

Christian god-Nahum 3:5

17. "I myself will lift up your skirts over your face and your shame will be seen."

Christian god-Jeremiah 13:26

18. "..the Lord will smite with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts."

Christian god-Isaiah 3:17

19. "But Ama'sa did not observe the sword which was in Jo'ab's hand, so Jo'ab struck him with it in the body, and shed his bowels to the ground..."

2 Samuel 20:10

20. "The Lord raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud...And Ehud said, 'I have a message from God for you.' And he rose from his seat. And Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly; and the hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not draw the sword out of his belly; and the dirt came out."

Judges 3:15, 3:20

21. "Slay and utterly destroy after them, says the Lord, and do all that I have commanded you."

Jeremiah 50:21

22. "Then they (the Israelites) utterly destroyed all in the city, both men and women, young and old, sheep and asses, with the edge of the sword."

Joshua 6:21

23. "And the Lord our God gave him over to us; and we defeated him and his sons and all his people. And we captured all his cities at that time and utterly destroyed every city, men, women and children; we left none remaining..."

Deuteronomy 2:33

24. "...Men'ahem sacked Tappuah and all who were in it and its territory from Tirzah on; because they did not open it to him, therefore he sacked it, and ripped up all the women in it who were with child."

2 Kings 15:16

25. "As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from the nations that are round about you. You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their families that are with you, who have been born in your land; and they may be your property. You may bequeath them to your sons after you, to inherit as a possession forever; you may make slaves of them, but over your bretheren the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness."

Christian god-Leviticus 25:44

26. "When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be punished; for the slave is his money."

Christian god-Exodus 21:20

27. "Bless, O Lord, his substance, and accept the work of his hands; crush the loins of his adversaries..."

Deuteronomy 33:11

28. "When men fight with one another, and the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts, then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall have no pity."

Christian god-Deuteronomy 25:11

29. "Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves."

Moses-Numbers 31:17

30. "But if the thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young woman, then you shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones..."

Christian god-Deuteronomy 22:20

31. "You shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep in which is a blemish, any defect whatever; for that is an abomination to the Lord your God."

Christian god-Deuteronomy 17:1

32. "Any animal which has its testicles bruised or crushed or torn or cut, you shall not offer to the Lord or sacrifice within your land..."

Christian god-Leviticus 22:24

33. "You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings, or honored me with your sacrifices."

Christian god-Isaiah 43:23

34. "...I make weal and create woe, I am the Lord, who do all these things."

Christian god Isaiah 45:7

35. "Folly is bound up in the heart of a child. But the rod of discipline drives it far from him."

Proverbs 22:15

36. "Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you beat him with a rod, he will not die. If you beat him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol."

Proverbs 23:13

37. "David arose and went, along with his men, and killed two hundred of the Philistines; and David brought their foreskins, which were given in full number to the king, that he might become the king's son-in-law."

1 Samuel 18:27

38. "Saul has slain his thousands and David his ten thousands."

1 Samuel 21:11

39. "...she played the harlot in the land of Egypt and doted upon her paramours there, whose members were like those of asses and whose issue was like that of horses."

Ezekiel 23:19

40. "...so when he went into his brother"s wife he spilled the semen on the ground...And what he did (spilling his semen) was displeasing in the sight of the Lord and He slew him also."

Genesis 38:9

41. "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire will be for your husband."

Christian god punishing
Eve-Genesis 3:16

42. "I will strew your flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with your carcass. I will drench the land even to the mountains with your flowing blood..."

Christian god-Ezekiel 32:5

43. "I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs, I will tear open their breast, and there I will devour them like a lion, as a wild beast would rend them."

Christian god-Hosea 13:8

44. "And I will fill your mountains with the slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those slain with the sword shall fall...Then you shall know that I am the Lord."

Christian god-Ezekiel 35:8

45. "The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked, and his soul hates him that loves violence."

Psalms 11:5

46. "And the Lord said to Moses, 'How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs which I have wrought among them?'"

Numbers 14:11

47. "While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day...And the Lord said to Moses, 'The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.' And all the congregation brought him outside the camp, and stoned him to death with stones, as the Lord commanded Moses."

Numbers 15:32

48. "...the Lord has trodden as in a wine press the virgin daughter of Judah."

Lamentations 1:15

49. "Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in the midst of you and sons shall eat their fathers...I will send famine and wild beasts against you and they shall rob you of your children; pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring a sword upon you. I, the Lord, have spoken."

Christian god-Ezekiel 5:10, 5:17

50. "I look at the faithless with disgust..."

Psalms 119:158

New Testament passages

51. "But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain."

                                                1 Corinthians 15:13

52. "Truly, truly I say to you, he who believes has eternal life."

                                                Jesus-John 6:47

53. "...but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or the age to come."

                                                Jesus-Matthew 12:32

54. "He who believes and who is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned."

                                                Jesus-Mark 16:16

55. "The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous, and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth."

                                                Jesus-Matthew 13:49

56. "...he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God."

                                                Jesus-John 3:18

57. "He who believes in the Son has eternal life; he who does not obey the son shall not see life, but the wrath of god rests upon him."

                                                Jesus-John 3:36

58. "If a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned."

                                                 Jesus-John 15:6

59. "'But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.'"

                                                Jesus speaking in a parable                                                 Luke 19:27

60. "Not all men can receive this saying, but only those to whom it is given. For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to receive this, let him receive it."

                                                Jesus-Matthew 19:11

61. "Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law; but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?"

                                                Romans 2:25

62. "On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he (Jesus) was hungry. And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. And he said to it, 'May no one ever eat fruit from you again.'"

                                                Mark 11:12

63. "But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. And they will see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory. And then he will send out the angels, and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven....Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away before all these things take place."

                                                Jesus-Mark 13:24, 13:30

64. "Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother- in-law...."

                                                Jesus-Matthew 10:34

65. "Do you think I have to come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division; for henceforth in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two against three; they will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against her mother, mother- in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in- law.".

                                                Jesus-Luke 12:51

66. "If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple."

                                                Jesus-Luke 14:26

67. "And let him who has no sword sell his mantle and buy one."

                                                Jesus-Luke 22:36

68. "Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives..."

                                                Romans 7:2

69. "For if a woman will not veil herself, she should cut off her hair; but if it disgraceful for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her wear a veil"

                                                1 Corinthians 11:6

70. "Likewise, you wives, be submissive to your husbands..."

                                                1 Peter 3:1

71. "For man was not made from woman, but woman from man. Neither was man created for woman but woman for man."

                                                1 Corinthians, 11:8

72. "As in all the churches of the saints, the women should keep silence in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says. If there is anything they desire to know, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church."

                                                1 Corinthians 14:34
73. "Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord."

                                                Ephesians 5:22

74. "Let a woman learn in silence with all submissiveness. I permit no woman to teach or have authority over men; she is to keep silent. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor."

                                                Timothy 2:11

75. "It is well for a man not to touch a woman."

                                                1 Corinthians 7:1

76. "O, woman, what have you to do with me?"

                                                Jesus talking to his mother
                                                John 1:4

77. "We destroy arguments and every proud obstacle to the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ..."

                                                2 Corinthians 10:5

78. "But if through my falsehood God's truthfulness abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner? And why not do evil that good may come?-as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just."

                                                Romans 3:7

79. "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile."

                                                1 Corinthians 3:20

80. "Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment."

                                                Romans 13:1

81. "Slaves, be obedient to those who are your earthly masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as to Christ...."

                                                Ephesians 6:5

82. "Let all who are under the yoke slavery regard their masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be defamed. Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brethren; rather they must serve all the better since those that benefit by their service are believers and beloved."

                                                1 Timothy 6:1

83. "Bid slaves to be submissive to their masters and to give satisfaction in every respect..."

                                                Titus 2:9

84. "Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes...."

                                                Jesus-Luke 12:37

85. "No servant can serve two masters..."

                                                Jesus-Luke 16:13

86. "A servant is not greater than his master."

                                                Jesus-John 15:20

87. "And that servant who knew his master's will, but did not make ready or act according to his will, shall receive a severe beating."

                                                Jesus-Luke 12:47

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