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[quote:Anonymous Coward 162054:MV80MTMxMTFfNjQ0ODg0MF8zQjhDODdGMA==] Here is some sick shit...if you're brave enough to read it....... Genesis 4:2-5 "And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect." As reading a few verses ahead will reveal, the enmity between the brothers inspired by this event is what led to Cain's killing Abel. But why did God accept Abel's offering but not Cain's? The plants of the field were part of God's "very good" creation just as the animals were, and both brothers made offerings befitting their chosen occupations. We are not told of any pre-existing sin which would cause God to look down on Cain. The only remaining explanation is that God preferred Abel's offering because it involved pain and bloodshed - the butchering of innocent animals - whereas Cain's peaceful offering of fruit did not. The message of the story of Abel and Cain is that faithfulness and obedience are not enough - God also demands willingness to spill blood in his name, and prefers to be worshipped in ways which cause death and suffering. As the rest of this article will show, this theme will recur again and again throughout the Bible. Genesis 7 Angered by the sinfulness of man, God sends a massive flood that wipes out every living thing, other than Noah, his family, and the animals they take on the ark. "And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.... And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth." This was not a quick or clean death. The human beings and animals left behind probably would have felt the first stirrings of anxiety as they saw the rain begin to fall and the water level begin to rise. As rivers overflowed their banks, they would have had to abandon their homes and move to higher ground, to watch mudslides and flash floods sweep away the villages and any who were left behind in them. As the many separate floods began to merge and the raging waters rose higher, they would have been forced to keep climbing, pursued by lightning, howling winds and lapping waves. Upon reaching the highest ground possible and discovering that the flood waters were still rising, there would have been nothing left to do but cower in the last extremity of terror and wait to be overtaken. Their end would not have been pleasant: battered and crushed by rocks and currents, suffocated in mud and silt, and finally pulled under and drowned. The flood waters must have been choked with bodies. Was such total destruction necessary? Are we to believe that every human being on the planet, other than Noah and his family - including children and newborn babies, husbands and wives, grandfathers and grandmothers, pregnant women and young lovers - was so irredeemably evil that there was absolutely no choice other than to violently kill them all? This is implausible on its face. Humanity is not so monolithic and never has been; there has never been a nation, a race, or a society in history where literally everyone thought and acted exactly the same way. The Biblical picture that depicts Noah and his family as the only good people in the entire world is unrealistic and unbelievable. Apologists often try to justify this atrocity by citing the supposed utter depravity of the pre-flood period, but no Bible verse supports such an inference; in fact, Genesis explicitly says that man after the flood was no more evil than man before (8:21), an admission which nullifies the very purpose of the flood. Indeed, according to the Bible's dictum that all sin deserves death (Romans 6:23), there is no reason to believe the pre-flood people were significantly different or more evil than people today. And even if the antediluvian society was beyond redemption, why did God also kill the children? Why did he also kill the animals? What did they do to deserve this catastrophic end? Rather than unleashing such indiscriminate destruction, why didn't God just snap his fingers and make the evil people disappear, or something else similarly selective? Genesis 22:1-10 One of the most famous episodes in the Old Testament is the patriarch Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son Isaac, and God's blessing him with a great covenant in return for his obedience. However, the true message of this story is not inspiring, but appalling. "And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.... And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son." That the sacrifice was not actually carried out does not change the moral revulsion we should feel at this episode. What kind of god would demand a man prove his obedience by murdering his only son? And more so, what kind of man would obey such a command? Abraham has been held up as an archetype by Judaism, Christianity and Islam alike, but is this really the sort of behavior we should strive to emulate - the willingness to kill in God's name? Had I been in Abraham's place, I would have thrown away that knife and let Jehovah know, in no uncertain terms, that I would never serve any deity who demanded such a price. And had I been in God's place, that is exactly the response I would have rewarded. But no. The God of the Bible rewarded - blessed, actually - a man who would have slit the throat of his son on command. Evidently, this is the quality Jehovah values - not humanistic morality, not an unshakable respect for human life, but a willingness to lay one's conscience aside and blindly obey. Regrettably, Abraham's spiritual heirs have carried on his legacy of killing in obedience to what they believe to be a divine decree, and the tragic results are the bloodshed and terrorism that still rages in places like the Middle East today. Exodus 4:21 After appointing Moses his spokesman, God sends his new-minted prophet back to speak with Pharaoh, to demand that the enslaved Israelites be released. However, even before Moses returns to Egypt, God tells him that his message will fall on deaf ears, because: "When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go." And when Moses returns, this indeed happens. As soon as he performs his first miracle (turning his staff into a snake), we are told that God "hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he hearkened not unto them" (7:13). Nor is this the only time this happens. In fact, God hardens Pharaoh's heart on seven more occasions, according to the Bible: 9:12, 10:1, 10:20, 10:27, 11:10, 14:4, and 14:8. On each occasion, God sends a plague on the people of Egypt to persuade Pharaoh to change his mind, and then hardens Pharaoh's heart so that he will not change his mind! Such behavior cannot be called good. How is it fair for God to demand someone do what he says, then remove that person's free will so they cannot do what he says, and then punish them severely for failing to obey him? How is it fair of God to punish someone for doing what he forced them to do? Is that anyone's idea of justice? What purpose does this inconsistent behavior serve? In fact, the text tells us: "And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments" (7:3-4). In other words, a peaceful exodus would not have satisfied God. It was not enough for him that his people were freed - they had to be freed through destruction and bloodshed. He forced Pharaoh to keep his people captive so that he could prove how powerful he was by sending plagues that devastated the land and killed thousands of innocent people! For more on this, see the next item. Exodus 12:29-30 After nine previous plagues fail to persuade the hard-hearted Pharaoh (who was hard-hearted because God forced him to be that way, as detailed above) to free the Israelites from their slavery in Egypt, God unleashes his final and most terrible plague: the death of the firstborn. "And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead." The next morning in Egypt must have been a black dawn indeed. How many mothers and fathers were there, stumbling dead-eyed out of their homes? How many wails of grief and funeral songs could be heard? How many graves had to be dug? One can only imagine the horror, grief and despair that would ensue if anything comparable happened in a modern nation. But why did God do this? After all, ancient Egypt was not a democracy. It was entirely Pharaoh's stubborn heart that was to blame - the ordinary Egyptian people had no part in this decision! What purpose did it serve to punish them? More, what purpose did it serve to punish their children? Among the people dead, many must have been young children, toddlers, infants, newborn babies. What responsibility did they bear for the Israelites' centuries-long captivity? The text tells us plainly that in all of Egypt, "there was not a house where there was not one dead". But was there not a house where anyone had any sympathy for the Israelites? Out of the entire nation of Egypt, there must have been at least a few people who felt sorry for their plight. Did these people deserve to be punished as well? The text even tells us that God slaughtered the firstborn children of prisoners in the dungeon, who certainly had no power to release the Israelites - indeed, given the harshness of Pharaoh, the people who felt sympathy for them might well have been the ones who were imprisoned. God even killed the firstborn of the cattle! (This despite the fact that God had already killed all the Egyptian cattle in the fifth plague, in 9:6.) There cannot have been any purpose to this massacre. If God truly wanted the Israelites to be freed, he would have focused his efforts on the one person in all of Egypt who had the power to make that decision (and, again, would not have taken away his free will to prevent him from doing so). It was nothing but pointless cruelty to torment the innocent Egyptian populace with plague after plague, culminating in an atrocity that must have shattered every family in the nation. Do the followers of this god claim to be "pro-family", when he himself is obviously not? Exodus 22:20 "He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed." Whether this verse is read as a directive for the people to exact this punishment against an apostate, or as a promise that God himself will do this, the intent is clear: a decree that anyone who worships any deity other than the God of the Bible must die. How can such a commandment be described as anything other than evil? What Jew or Christian would defend this rule as morally praiseworthy? In all civilized nations in the world today, as well as according to Article 18 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, freedom of religion and freedom of belief are held as fundamental human rights. But this right is not respected by the God of the Bible - just the opposite. The only system of government he approves of is a dictatorial theocracy where no one is allowed to practice any belief system other than the state-approved one, under pain of death. Leviticus 20:13 "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." Like the previous verse, this law prescribes an outrageous, barbaric penalty for something that is not even a crime at all. Why should the private sexual activity of consenting adults be any business of the state? The only crimes are those activities that cause tangible harm to others. Speech and activity that others merely find distasteful do not qualify. Again, what Jew or Christian would defend this verse? What believer would agree with a law saying that sexually active homosexuals - only male homosexuals, apparently - are to be killed? Not denied the right to marry, not even imprisoned, but executed. Should homosexuality be a capital crime deserving lethal injection, the electric chair, or the gas chamber? (or worse methods - see below). Anyone who does not think so is placing themself in opposition to the rules laid down in the Bible. Numbers 15:32-36 "And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.... And the Lord said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses." Almost as if the Bible was trying to outdo itself, this passage reaches a new height in outrageously disproportionate punishments for trifling offenses. For the terrible crime of picking up sticks on a day when people were not supposed to pick up sticks, God commanded that a man be put to death. Will anyone claim this punishment was either justified or commensurate? Not only the incredible severity of the sentence, but the sheer cruelty of the method deserves comment. God ordered the man be executed by stoning, a sentence which involves burying the condemned in a pit, then gathering a crowd to throw stones at his head until he dies. As might be expected, the victim suffers a great deal before this happens. Simply put, stoning is a form of death by torture. Despite official condemnation by the European Union, American lawmakers, and human rights groups such as Amnesty International, this barbaric practice is still carried out today as an official form of punishment in some countries that practice Islamic sharia law such as Iran. (The human rights group Iran-e-Azad provides more information on this practice. ) Ironically, these nations, which have been universally condemned as barbaric, retrogressive and inhumane, are following Biblical law more closely than the predominantly Jewish and Christian nations today. Would a morally good deity ever impose this punishment for any crime? Numbers 25:4 While abiding in the land of the Midianites en route to the promised land, some Israelite men begin to marry Midianitish women, and worship their gods. This infuriates Jehovah, who gives his followers a dire command: "And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel. And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor." And the judges go on to do this. The most fervent of them, a priest named Phinehas, impales an Israelite man and a Midianite women together on the same spear (25:7-8) and is praised for it by God! This sickening act of bloodshed finally turns the tide of God's wrath, but only after 24,000 Israelites have already died in a divinely sent plague. Again, notable is God's reaction - he did not forgive the wayward Israelites, nor offer them a chance to repent, nor did he allow them to go their own way while his faithful followers went theirs. Instead, he ordered them to be killed. How many Jews or Christians would be willing to murder a friend or relative who married a person of another religion and then converted to that religion? That is exactly what the God of the Bible commands. [/quote]
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