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Religious zealots tell us that the Bible is proof of God.
This is just plain false. The bible is merely
an assertion that God exists, but provides no proof.
If it can be said that the Bible is the proof of God, then it can
also be said that Charles Darwin's book
On The Origin Of Species, is proof of evolution.
The Bible is an ancient novel chock-full of nudity, sex, murder,
rape, genocide, patricide, fratricide, homicide, bestiality,
seduction, drinking, cruelty, homosexuality, socialism,
magic, witchcraft, wizardry, child and animal sacrifice,
prostitution, swearing, lying, cheating, stealing,
sexism, misogyny, adultery, polygamy, concubinage,
superstition, idolatry, gambling, beatings, maimings, stabbings,
testicle-crushing, and really bad morals. As if it didn't already
contain enough bad* stuff to get it banned a thousand times over,
the wretched book promotes slavery, telling you exactly who you can
keep as slaves, and just how severely you can beat them. How cool is
that?
There are a multitude of different bibles and all are
considered the inerrant word of God.
If it often read to children on Sunday.
The Pentateuch is the collection of the first five books
of the Bible, from Genesis to Deuteronomy. This section covers the
time between the creation of the universe and Israel's entrance into
the Promised Land.
If it doesn't say what one wants to hear, therefore it's
- out of context.
- mistranslated.
- misunderstood.
- not guided by the Holy Spirit.
- a deliberate attempt to mislead us by the Adversary.
- an atheist/communist lie.
Mix and match any or all of the above to taste.
When a christian says they only follow the NT, they are not just
throwing out Noah & the ark, they are also throwing out Adam & Eve,
the Garden of Eden, Original Sin, Sodom & Gomorrah,
Moses & the Exodus, the ten commandments and all the "prophecies"
of a messiah. They are throwing out the entire reason god needed
to send Jesus to die for the sins of mankind. Without the OT,
the entire purpose of the NT doesn't exist.
No, that just isn't how any of this works. If the bible is word
& commands of a god, then it is ALL the word & commands of a god,
and no mere human should have the audacity to throw ANY of it
out. Take it all, or NONE of it matters.
We must keep children from learning Bible stories. Teaching children
Bible is Child Abuse.
The Bible is full of Rape, Misogyny, Genocide, Slavery, Torture,
Humiliation and other things that are very traumatizing for
children to learn about. It is even worse for them to internalize
these messages of self-hatred, shame over sexuality however
expressed, hatred and domination of women...
This is child abuse to expose children to this material. The Bible
should be considered "adults only" and any church with a Sunday
School needs to be sued for child endangerment and spiritual rape.
The Bible consistently teaches an authoritarian model of
the universe that you cannot question, where the group
identity and conformance to that belief system is more
important than attachment to reality and the ultimate
goal is the destruction of this world and the overwhelming
majority of the people on it, with a chosen few selected
by the authoritarian to be rewarded with favor and the out
group is cursed with eternal suffering.
Despite having a lot of influence on history and literature,
the bible is a completely worthless book. As a guide, it
fails on virtually every single level. All of the value the
bible does have is totally independent of any actual content.
The bible fails as a:
- Moral guide. Actually the bible is quite immoral,
endorsing genocide, slavery, a property-based view
of rape, sexism, misogyny, xenophobia, child sexual
and physical abuse and eternal torment for all who
reject its falsehoods.
- Historical guide. All of the stories related in the
book, i.e. the exodus, the conquest of Canaan, the
united monarchy, the life and miracles of Jesus are
fiction.
- Scientific guide. The bible is actually pre-scientific,
with all of its authors--including those immersed in
Hellenistic culture--believing the world is supported
by four pillars and surrounded by a dome protecting
the terrestrial surface from the waters above.
- Reliable guide to the life and opinions of its purported
authors. This is because of the book's many
pseudepigraphical issues. Often the traditional
authorship designates the authorship of many anonymous
scribes.
- The bible is quite literally a piece of garbage, worth
less than toilet paper, although it is the object of
near idolatrous worship by deluded Christians. This isn't
to say the bible doesn't have any value, considered as
a physical object, but that whatever value it does have
is extrinsic i.e. related to its compositional structure
and textual transmission.
The bible is a rape manual and any Christian who defends it is a pro-rape
advocate. Far from being some kind of magical shield that protects women
from sexual violence, bible-based Christianity increases a woman's
likelihood of being raped.
Far from condemning rape, the bible specifies under what conditions a man
is allowed to rape. For example, a man is allowed to rape female prisoners
of war (Deut. 21:10-14); his own female slaves (Ex. 21:7-11) and unmarried
virgins, provided he pays a fine to her father and marries her after he
rapes her (Deut. 22: 28-29). The bible lays out in some detail what a man
is to do in these situations. This makes the bible a pro-rape instruction
manual. Any Christian who sees this legislation as the commands of an
objectively moral god must be written off as a pro-rape advocate.
Further, following a bible-based Christianity places women at significant
risk of rape. The bible commands women to submit to their husbands, as if
they were chattel property (Eph. 5:22). In another passage, after women are
advised to be in "subjection" to their own husbands, husbands are asked to
respect their wives, despite their mental and physical inferiority
(as weaker vessels 1 Pet. 3:1-7). At 1 Tim. 2:11-15, women's inferior
position to man is justified, in part, because of Eve's role as temptress
in the garden of Eden.
These patriarchal values of total female submission and male hierarchical
dominance, informed by an ideology of female inferiority, are what places
women at increased risk of sexual violence. If a woman is expected to
submit to her husband and be saved through childbearing, she cannot be
raped. Nor can she complain to the relevant authorities because the bible
categorically denies the equality of the sexes. Instead, from a biblical
perspective, women are seen as breeding stock with no voice of their own.
Christianity doesn't protect women; it dehumanizes them.
You are automatically morally superior to the Judeo-Christian god if
you are opposed to sexism, patriarchy, misogyny, xenophobia,
homophobia, property-based rape, slavery, infanticide and genocide.
The bible not only encourages, but endorses misogyny, sexism, patriarchy,
xenophobia, homophobia, property-based rape, slavery, infanticide and
genocide. We are morally superior to the Judeo-Christian god if we can
agree that all of the aforementioned moral failings are actual moral
failings and that these moral failings are always wrong and immoral.
If the Judeo-Christian god were really omniscient and omnibenevolent
he would have created a world where none of these moral failings exist.
Instead he created a world where all of them are allowed to proliferate
unchecked. This makes the Judeo-Christian god a supremely evil being,
rather than a supremely good one. Fortunately he doesn't exist.
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