mikec (04/05/83)
"4. Committed to the impossible task of deriving a measure
without a standard. Even as distance, weight, and time are
based on unchanging standards, so must the measure of
morality be based on an absolute. ..."
Larry Bickford, like all fundamentalists, prefers an absolute
morality to a relative one. Lets examine some of the morals that
a god supposedly gave us in the Bible. Even the fundamentalists
refuse to practice most of these anymore (loss of FAITH?). Just
how "GOOD", "JUST", "KIND", "LOVING" and "MORAL" is this god?
God is a being of terrific character ... cruel, vindictive,
capricious, and unjust.
Thomas Jefferson
Exodus 12:29 God KILLS the first-born of every Egyptian family
(even first-born cattle). This was a very common
practice in primitive times. Check any book on
mythology.
Exodus 15:12..17 Moses sings a song saying God is WAR-LIKE.
God the great bloody warrior.
Exodus 21:2..6 God endorses SLAVERY and explains His law.
Some other gods were against slavery. Which
gods are the good ones?
Exodus 21:7 God tells Moses that a man can SELL his daughter
as a slave. Biblical morals in action.
Exodus 21:17 God states that anyone who curses his father or
mother must be KILLED. Who among you would kill
your own children?
Exodus 22:18 God states that any witch must be KILLED. The
evidence for witchcraft is zero but God is always
as ignorant as his followers. One wonders why God
made witches in the first place? I personally
know more than one fundamentalist who claims "if
God says that witches must be killed, then, THEY
MUST BE KILLED!" (yet they don't know just what
constitutes a witch). Millions of innocent women
and children have been butchered by the pious
fanatics over the centuries because the Bible
says so. I will provide evidence upon request.
The list is very long and not for weak stomachs.
Exodus 22:20 God claims that anyone appeasing any other gods
will be utterly DISTROYED. So much for religious
ecumenicism.
Exodus 31:14..15 God says that anyone working on the sabbath
must be KILLED. After all, he had to rest on
the seventh day, so every else should too.
Exodus 32:27 God tells Moses to KILL every man, his brother,
his friend, and his neighbor. Biblical love?
Leviticus 15:18 Sex is basically DIRTY. Why did God make sex?
Leviticus 20:9 God states that anyone who curses his father or
mother must be KILLED. See Exodus 21:17 above.
Leviticus 20:10 God states that anyone committing adultery
must be KILLED. Seems kind of extreme for
any interaction between consenting adults.
Leviticus 22:18..25 God demands animal SACRIFICES. The animal
must be an unblemished male with undamaged
testicles. Sacrifice is made by burning.
This was very common in primitive times.
See any book on mythology. Why do some
people WANT to follow such asininity?
Leviticus 24:16 God states that anyone committing blasphemy
must be put to DEATH. God just can't stand
any criticism (or is it his followers?).
Leviticus 25:44..46 God sanctions SLAVERY and intends it to
last FOREVER. This is very convenient for
the Chosen People but bad for anyone else.
Leviticus 27:28..29 God demands and receives human SACRIFICE.
Extremely primitive. See mythology texts.
Numbers 16:49 God KILLS 14,700 men who were mourning for their
lost friends. Can't He stand the competition?
Numbers 31:1..41 God DIRECTS and APPROVES murdering plunder.
The National Catholic Almanac says that God
is "... just, loving, merciful ..."; close?
Numbers 31:17..18 God tells Moses to KILL all of the male
children and to KILL all of the non-virgin
women and to KEEP all of the virgin girls
as SLAVES and concubines. Holy Butchery.
Deuteronomy 13:6..10 God commands a man to KILL his brother,
his son, his daughter, or his wife if
any of them differ with him on religion.
Religious tolerance? Talk about jealous!
Deuteronomy 21:11..14 God tells Moses that a man may TAKE any
captured woman as a wife and if he does
not like her then he should let her go.
Women were little more than property. So
what's wrong with a little rape as long
as God says it's allright. Note that some
fundamentalist judges still let rapists
off easy because "the Bible says so".
Deuteronomy 21:18..21 A disobedient son must be stoned to
DEATH by the city elders. Why is God
always killing his children?
Deuteronomy 22:20..21 God says that any bride who is not a
virgin must be stoned to DEATH by the
men of the city at the door of her
fathers house. Proof of virginity is
the bloodstained sheet. Note that God
doesn't require a groom to be a virgin.
Who made this law; some men or a god?
Joshua 6:21 Gods people (with His help) utterly DESTROY all of
a city. They KILL all men, women, children, oxen,
sheep, and asses with swords. More Biblical love.
Joshua 24:13 God BOASTS about giving the Jews property that
they had not earned. If you have been Chosen then
you need not "earn" anything. God will provide.
Judges 11:30..39 Jephthan burns his only daughter to DEATH
to keep a pact with God (human sacrifice).
You don't break any contracts with God.
1 Samuel 15:2..3 God tells Samuel to utterly DESTROY Amalek.
Kill every man, woman, child, baby, ox,
sheep, camel, and ass. God has a real taste
for blood of all kinds.
1 Samuel 18:27..28 With God's help David KILLS 200 men so that
he can buy a wife with their foreskins. So
this is why God made foreskins! Also for
cutting off. (I escaped this one. Whew!)
2 Samuel 21:1..9 God DEMANDS and RECEIVES human sacrifice.
Why is it that all those other "primitive
religions" are founded on mere myths and
the Christian Religion is not (even when
virtually every miracle and god-like event
recorded in the Bible can be found in far
more ancient religious mythology)?
2 Samuel 24:15..17 God KILLS 70,000 men of Israel because
David took a census. This is absolutely
insane. 2 Samuel 24:1 claims that God TOLD
David to take a censes. But then according
to 1 Chronicles 21:1 Satan TOLD David to
take a censes. Since this simply could not
be a(nother) contradiction (Gods' word is
inerrant, remember?) then God and Satan
must be one and the same spook.
2 Kings 2:23..24 God sends two bears to SLAUGHTER 42 children.
The blood of innocent children is the best.
2 Kings 15:16 One of God's kings (Menahem) KILLS all of the
men of Tiphsah "and all of the women therein
that were with child he RIPPED UP." Pregnant
women get God's "special" treatment.
2 Chronicles 18:19..22 God advertises for a LIAR to be his
messenger and puts a "lying spirit"
in the messengers mouth. Now we know
who the real author of lies is.
Psalm 137 "Blessed be he that taketh thy children and THROWETH
them against the stones." War in Biblical times was
very primitive. Children were treated no differently
than adults. The most common ways to murder children
were to throw them on rocks from high places or to
simply club them to death (the child killers did not
want to dull their swords by killing mere children).
If God "loves little children" like religionists
claim, why are He and His followers such adept child
killers? Note that this psalm is not among the top
twenty sung in churches anymore. I wonder why?
Proverbs 23:13..14 God commands us to BEAT our children. Ever
wonder why some fundamentalists beat their
children? God says so. Apparently, what is
"Hell" for the child is "Heaven" for the
parent (I am speaking as a victim).
Isaiah 45:6..7 God claims that he is responsible for EVIL.
Who would have guessed (by reading the Bible)?
Lamentations 3:38 God is responsible for good and EVIL. But
heavy on the evil and too light on the good.
Amos 3:6 God is responsible for EVIL. There seems to be a
trend here that even a "true believer" might spot.
Matthew 10:34 Jesus says "Do NOT think that I have come to
bring peace on earth; I have NOT come to bring
peace, but a SWORD." True believers claim that
Jesus is the "prince of peace". God must have
"revealed" this to them directly, since the
Bible states quite the opposite.
Matthew 10:35..36 Jesus says "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; and a man's foes will be
those of his own house-hold." Finally, a
verified prophecy! Look at how many families
have been broken up by Christianity.
Matthew 19:12 Jesus APPROVES of self-castration "for the
kingdom of heaven's sake". "The castrati (adult
male sopranos) remained the musical glory and
the moral shame of the papal choir till the
ascension of Pope Leo XIII" (Ency. Britannica).
Like foreskins, Testicles are for cutting off.
Luke 12:49 Jesus has come to send FIRE on the earth. Just more
peace through flames from one of the great spooks.
Luke 12:51..53 Jesus says that he has NOT come to bring peace
on earth "but rather division; ... father
AGAINST son ... mother AGAINST daughter ... "
and in-laws AGAINST in-laws. Yet the clergy
continues to claim that Christ keeps families
together.
Luke 14:26 Jesus says that no man can be his disciple unless
he HATES his father, mother, brothers, sisters,
wife, children and his own life. Jesus taught love?
Luke 18:29..30 Any man who LEAVES his family for God will be
rewarded many times in this life and the next.
There are many promises made in the Bible. Does
anyone know of any that were kept? I know many
that were not. I wonder what the "family" would
say about this "wise promise"?
Luke 20:35 Jesus says that to be worthy of resurrection, men
should NOT marry. God sure does like virgins. The
early Christians were against marriage but finally
had to give in when the promised "second coming"
failed so many times. Some fools are still waiting.
Luke 22:36 Jesus tells his followers to sell their coats and
BUY swords. Directly from the "Prince of Peace".
Romans 3:7 LYING is not bad if it is done for God. Why do you
think so many fraudulent miracles were perpetrated
by the Christian Church? God says it's allright!
(And yes, I am aware that "fraudulent miracles" is
redundant. There is ZERO scientific evidence to
support ANY miracles.)
Romans 7:17..18 The human body is inherently BAD. One way to
promote the "spiritual" (whatever that is) is
to degrade the physical (known as reality).
1 Corinthians 7:1 Sex is basically BAD. Why did God "create"
sex then? See Romans 7:17 above.
1 Corinthians 7:8..9 Sex is basically BAD. If you say some-
thing enough times then it MUST be true.
Never mind any evidence (thats physical).
1 Corinthians 11:8..9 Women are INFERIOR to men. If God were a
woman and if She were as primitive and
as hateful as the Christian spook, then,
I think, the tables might be turned.
1 Corinthians 14:34..35 Women are NOT allowed to speak in
church. If a woman wants to know
something then she must ask her
husband at home. What better way to
keep women submissive than ignorance?
Ephesians 5:22..24 Wives must be SUBMISSIVE to their husbands.
You wouldn't guess that MEN wrote this one?
Philippians 3:21 The human body is lowly or VILE. Doesn't it
seem that God could have given us something
"better" if He dislikes the current model?
2 Thessalonians 2:11 "God shall send them strong delusion that
they should believe a LIE." How does one
tell God's "lies" from His "truths"?
1 Timothy 2:9..15 Women must NOT braid their hair or dress
attractively. Women must learn in silence
with submissiveness. NO woman can teach or
have authority over any man. Fortunately,
some women have the courage to recognize
primitive male dominance (chauvinism) when
they see it. For examples of COURAGE, try
Ruth Hurmence Green, Anne Nicol Gaylor,
Mary De Young and Susan B. Anthony.
James 4:4 Anyone who is a friend of the world is God's ENEMY.
God is very jealous. If you like the world then you
are Hell-bound for sure.
1 Peter 3:1 Wives must be submissive to their husbands. How
else could men dominate? See Ephesians 5:22 above.
The above is a very SMALL sample of some of the less popular
Biblical morals (supposedly) given to us by the Great Spook. An
exhaustive list would fill a very large book. The inhumane treat-
ment of women (or children) alone would fill several small books.
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous
debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the
unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the
Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call 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 everything that is cruel.
Thomas Paine
I couldn't have said it any better.
Micheal D. Cranford
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