READING BIBLE & GIVING IT TO CHILDREN ARE REALLY DANGEROUS FELT MANY SCHOLARS AND Approached AMERICAN Courts, and in 20th Century alone, more than 100 Courts felt Bible reading affects mind with its Obscene stories and Incest stories and Fascist Agendas.
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In Germany, lawyers moved to have the Bible banned from school
August 2000, AFP [Associated Foreign Press] revealed two lawyers in Munich had written to German
Family Minister Christine Bergmann asking her to officially class the Bible among books considered
dangerous for children because of its violent content.Bavarian lawyers Christian Sailer and Gert-Joachim
Hetzel said in their submission "on behalf of some parents of minors" that the Bible contained passages
of "a gruesomeness difficult to exceed" which are glorified as the will of God.
"It preaches genocide, racism, enmity towards Jews, gruesome executions for adulterers and homosexuals,
the murder of one's own children and many other perversities," the submission said.
The book should therefore be kept on the "not for children" list so long as the "bloodthirsty and human
rights-violating passages" were not removed.
"I moreover believe that any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child
cannot be a true system."
-- Age of Reason (18th century), by Thomas Paine
"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."
-- Mark Twain
To this day I cherish an unappeasable bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who
not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old.
None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again this side of the grave...
-- Mark Twain
Biblical Patriarchs: good rolemodels?
Moses:
According to 2 Chron. 30:16 Moses was the Man of God; yet, he...
• murdered an Egyptian (Ex. 2:12),
• ordered the murder of prisoners (Num. 31:17),
• ordered the keeping of young female prisoners for several reasons (Num. 31:17),
• led mass killings of women and children (Deut. 2:34, 3:3, 6),
• ordered killings (Deut. 13:15, 20:13),
• had a son out of wedlock (Ex. 2:21-22),
• ...
David:
• He killed (1 Sam. 17:50-51 RSV, 18:7, 27, 19:8, 23:5, 30:17, 2 Sam. 8:1, 2, 5, 13),
• ordered murders (2 Sam. 1:15, 4:5-12),
• ordered prisoners to be killed (2 Sam. 12:2931, 1 Chron. 20:3, 2 Sam. 8:1-2),
• committed unprovoked aggression and mass killing (1 Sam. 27:8-11, 2 Sam. 5:20, 25),
• gave up seven of Saul's descendants to be killed (2 Sam. 21:1-6, 9),
• requested that Joab be killed (1 Kings 2:5-6),
• intentionally arranged for Uriah to be killed in order to seize his wife (2 Sam. 11:14-17),
Some more Biblical characters:
• ABIMELECH--killed a city's inhabitants (Jud. 9:45 RSV); and murdered wantonly (Jud. 9:5);
• ELIJAH--committed murder (1 Kings 18:40);
• ABRAHAM-- ... debauched Hagar, his maidservant (Gen. 16:4), sent his maidservant and her
child into the wilderness (Gen. 21:14), ... and married his half-sister (Gen. 20:11-12);
From: Issue 13 of Biblical Errancy contains far more than the few excerpts above.
See also: Biblical Matriarchs in Biblical Errancy Issue No. 23
What was the character of Christ's male ancestors?
Assuming Matthew's genealogy to be correct, nearly all of those whose histories are recorded in the
Old Testament were guilty of infamous crimes or gross immoralities.
• Abraham married his sister and seduced her handmaid;
• Jacob, after committing bigamy, seduced two of his housemaids;
• Judah committed incest with his daughter-in-law;
• David was a polygamist, an adulterer, a robber and a murderer,
• Solomon had a thousand wives and concubines;
• Rehoboam Abijam, Joram, Ahaziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Manasseh, Amon and Jehoiachin, are all
represented as monsters of iniquity, while others are declared to have been too vile to even
name in his genealogy.
What female ancestors are named in his genealogy?
Matthew: Thamar, Rachab, Ruth and Bathsheba.
Regarding these women the Rev. Dr. Alexander Walker (Woman, p. 330) says:
"It is remarkable that in the genealogy of Christ, only four women have been named:
• Thamar who seduced the father of her late husband;
• Rachab, a common prostitute;
• Ruth, who, instead of marrying one of her cousins, went to bed with another of them; and
• Bathsheba, an adulteress, who espoused David, the murderer of her first husband"
Matthew Henry, a noted Christian commentator, says:
"There are four women, and but four, named in this genealogy,...Rachab, a Canaanitess, and a harlot
besides, and Ruth, the Moabitess.... The other two were adulteresses, Tamar and Bathsheba" (Commentary, Vol. V). -- The Christ, by John E. Remsberg
God causing genocide, as recounted in the Bible
Some of the passages relating to the many genocides described in the Bible, commanded by God:
Kill Everyone in 7 Nations
When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are about to enter and occupy, he will clear away many nations ahead of you: the Hittites, Girga****es, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. These seven nations are all more powerful than you. When the LORD your God hands these nations over to you and you conquer them, you must completely destroy them. Make no treaties with them and show them no mercy. Do not intermarry with them, and don't let your daughters and sons marry their sons and daughters. They will lead your young people away from me to worship other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and he will destroy you.
(Deuteronomy 7:1-4 NLT)
120,000 Killed for God
That is why the LORD his God allowed the king of Aram to defeat Ahaz and to exile large numbers of his people to Damascus. The armies of Israel also defeated Ahaz and inflicted many casualties on his army. In a single day Pekah son of Remaliah, Israel's king, killed 120,000 of Judah's troops because they had abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors. Then Zicri, a warrior from Ephraim, killed Maaseiah, the king's son; Azrikam, the king's palace commander; and Elkanah, the king's second-in-command. The armies of Israel captured 200,000 women and children from Judah and took tremendous amounts of plunder, which they took back to Samaria.
(2 Chronicles 28:5-8 NLT)
185,000 Killed by God:
The angel of the Lord went forth and struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. Early the next morning they were there, all the corpses of the dead.
(Isaiah 37:36 NAB)
From: Evil Bible Quotes (for August, October and November)
This site has more of God's statements as given in the Bible, as well as other Biblical quotes.
Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness. ...It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast...
-- Mark Twain, Reflections on Religion
Like nearly all the doctrines ascribed to Christ, the atonement is in the highest degree unjust and absurd. Referring to this doctrine, Lord Byron says:
"The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty. This proves his heroism, but no more does away with man's sin than a schoolboy's volunteering to be flogged for another would exculpate a dunce from negligence."
-- The Christ, by John E. Remsberg
More:
• God is NOT pro-life, he advocates child murder, infanticide, child abuse and abortion
• What is the ethics of the Bible? and Message of Love?
• The Laws of the Old Testament still apply
• Dogma, includes links to Biblical Injustice and Sin, guilt and fear
• More sources
Jesus and his teachings
The Prince of Peace?
"Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword. For I have come to set a man 'against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one's enemies will be those of his household'".
(Matthew 10:34-36 NAB)
Hate Your Family
If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he can not be my disciple.
(Luke 14:26 NAB)
Jesus Doesn’t Want to Save Everyone
And when he [Jesus] was alone, those present along with the Twelve questioned him about the parables. He answered them, "The mystery of the kingdom of God has been granted to you. But to those outside everything comes in parables, so that 'they may look and see but not perceive, and hear and listen but not understand, in order that they may not be converted and be forgiven.'"
(Mark 4:10-12 NAB)
From: Evil Bible Quotes (for February, March and June)
From The Christ by John E. Remsberg:
Whom did he pronounce blessed?
"Blessed are the poor in spirit" (Matthew v, 3).
"Is poverty of spirit a blessing? Surely not. Manliness of spirit, honesty of spirit, fulness of rightful purpose, these are virtues; but poverty of spirit is a crime."
-- Bradlaugh.
What did Christ say respecting the intellectual character of his converts?
"I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes" (Matthew xi, 25; Luke x, 21).
Commenting on this expression of thanks, Celsus, who lived at the time the Four Gospels made their appearance, says:
"This is one of their [the Christians'] rules. Let no man that is learned, wise, or prudent come among us: but if they be unlearned, or a child, or an idiot, let him freely come.
Did he [Jesus] oppose slavery?
All: He did not.
"Slavery was incorporated into the civil institutions of Moses; it was recognized accordingly by Christ and his apostles."
-- Rev. Dr. Nathan Lord, President of Dartmouth College
"I have no doubt if Jesus Christ were now on earth that he would, under certain circumstances, become a slaveholder."
-- Rev. Dr. Taylor of Yale
"Christ preaches only servitude and dependence.... True Christians are made to be slaves."
-- Rousseau
Paul's characterization of Christians
"Not many wise ... not many noble are called" (1 Corinthians i, 26).
"Base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen" (28).
"We are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things" (iv, 13).
"We are fools for Christ's sake" (10).
Imagine if these were the sought-for specifications in a job advert. Not many would apply.
More:
• Why Jesus? by Dan Barker, formerly an evangelical fundamentalist minister, missionary and Christian songwriter. He has written the book Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist, partly online here
• The Bible and Jesus Myth
• Jesus and Holy War at The Christian Heritage. Shows why the Good News isn't good and also how the prophesied Second Coming is anything but good.
• What Would Jesus Do?
• Why Jesus' teachings are immoral
• The other side of Jesus
• The Philosophy of Christ
• Jesus Christ – Paragon of Virtue?
If a man would follow, today,
the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would
strictly follow the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll
"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 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 everything that is cruel."
-- Age of Reason (18th century), by Thomas Paine
Nobody holds in greater contempt than I the writers, publishers,
or dealers in obscene literature. One of my objections to the Bible is that it
contains hundreds of grossly obscene passages not fit to be read by any decent
man; thousands of passages, in my judgment, calculated to corrupt the minds of
youth. I hope the time will come when the good sense of the American people
will demand a bible with all obscene passages left out.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, in a letter to a friend
________________________________________
In Germany, lawyers moved to have the Bible banned from school
August 2000, AFP [Associated Foreign Press] revealed two lawyers in Munich had written to German
Family Minister Christine Bergmann asking her to officially class the Bible among books considered
dangerous for children because of its violent content.Bavarian lawyers Christian Sailer and Gert-Joachim
Hetzel said in their submission "on behalf of some parents of minors" that the Bible contained passages
of "a gruesomeness difficult to exceed" which are glorified as the will of God.
"It preaches genocide, racism, enmity towards Jews, gruesome executions for adulterers and homosexuals,
the murder of one's own children and many other perversities," the submission said.
The book should therefore be kept on the "not for children" list so long as the "bloodthirsty and human
rights-violating passages" were not removed.
"I moreover believe that any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child
cannot be a true system."
-- Age of Reason (18th century), by Thomas Paine
"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."
-- Mark Twain
To this day I cherish an unappeasable bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who
not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old.
None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again this side of the grave...
-- Mark Twain
Biblical Patriarchs: good rolemodels?
Moses:
According to 2 Chron. 30:16 Moses was the Man of God; yet, he...
• murdered an Egyptian (Ex. 2:12),
• ordered the murder of prisoners (Num. 31:17),
• ordered the keeping of young female prisoners for several reasons (Num. 31:17),
• led mass killings of women and children (Deut. 2:34, 3:3, 6),
• ordered killings (Deut. 13:15, 20:13),
• had a son out of wedlock (Ex. 2:21-22),
• ...
David:
• He killed (1 Sam. 17:50-51 RSV, 18:7, 27, 19:8, 23:5, 30:17, 2 Sam. 8:1, 2, 5, 13),
• ordered murders (2 Sam. 1:15, 4:5-12),
• ordered prisoners to be killed (2 Sam. 12:2931, 1 Chron. 20:3, 2 Sam. 8:1-2),
• committed unprovoked aggression and mass killing (1 Sam. 27:8-11, 2 Sam. 5:20, 25),
• gave up seven of Saul's descendants to be killed (2 Sam. 21:1-6, 9),
• requested that Joab be killed (1 Kings 2:5-6),
• intentionally arranged for Uriah to be killed in order to seize his wife (2 Sam. 11:14-17),
Some more Biblical characters:
• ABIMELECH--killed a city's inhabitants (Jud. 9:45 RSV); and murdered wantonly (Jud. 9:5);
• ELIJAH--committed murder (1 Kings 18:40);
• ABRAHAM-- ... debauched Hagar, his maidservant (Gen. 16:4), sent his maidservant and her
child into the wilderness (Gen. 21:14), ... and married his half-sister (Gen. 20:11-12);
From: Issue 13 of Biblical Errancy contains far more than the few excerpts above.
See also: Biblical Matriarchs in Biblical Errancy Issue No. 23
What was the character of Christ's male ancestors?
Assuming Matthew's genealogy to be correct, nearly all of those whose histories are recorded in the
Old Testament were guilty of infamous crimes or gross immoralities.
• Abraham married his sister and seduced her handmaid;
• Jacob, after committing bigamy, seduced two of his housemaids;
• Judah committed incest with his daughter-in-law;
• David was a polygamist, an adulterer, a robber and a murderer,
• Solomon had a thousand wives and concubines;
• Rehoboam Abijam, Joram, Ahaziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Manasseh, Amon and Jehoiachin, are all
represented as monsters of iniquity, while others are declared to have been too vile to even
name in his genealogy.
What female ancestors are named in his genealogy?
Matthew: Thamar, Rachab, Ruth and Bathsheba.
Regarding these women the Rev. Dr. Alexander Walker (Woman, p. 330) says:
"It is remarkable that in the genealogy of Christ, only four women have been named:
• Thamar who seduced the father of her late husband;
• Rachab, a common prostitute;
• Ruth, who, instead of marrying one of her cousins, went to bed with another of them; and
• Bathsheba, an adulteress, who espoused David, the murderer of her first husband"
Matthew Henry, a noted Christian commentator, says:
"There are four women, and but four, named in this genealogy,...Rachab, a Canaanitess, and a harlot
besides, and Ruth, the Moabitess.... The other two were adulteresses, Tamar and Bathsheba" (Commentary, Vol. V). -- The Christ, by John E. Remsberg
God causing genocide, as recounted in the Bible
Some of the passages relating to the many genocides described in the Bible, commanded by God:
Kill Everyone in 7 Nations
When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are about to enter and occupy, he will clear away many nations ahead of you: the Hittites, Girga****es, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. These seven nations are all more powerful than you. When the LORD your God hands these nations over to you and you conquer them, you must completely destroy them. Make no treaties with them and show them no mercy. Do not intermarry with them, and don't let your daughters and sons marry their sons and daughters. They will lead your young people away from me to worship other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and he will destroy you.
(Deuteronomy 7:1-4 NLT)
120,000 Killed for God
That is why the LORD his God allowed the king of Aram to defeat Ahaz and to exile large numbers of his people to Damascus. The armies of Israel also defeated Ahaz and inflicted many casualties on his army. In a single day Pekah son of Remaliah, Israel's king, killed 120,000 of Judah's troops because they had abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors. Then Zicri, a warrior from Ephraim, killed Maaseiah, the king's son; Azrikam, the king's palace commander; and Elkanah, the king's second-in-command. The armies of Israel captured 200,000 women and children from Judah and took tremendous amounts of plunder, which they took back to Samaria.
(2 Chronicles 28:5-8 NLT)
185,000 Killed by God:
The angel of the Lord went forth and struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. Early the next morning they were there, all the corpses of the dead.
(Isaiah 37:36 NAB)
From: Evil Bible Quotes (for August, October and November)
This site has more of God's statements as given in the Bible, as well as other Biblical quotes.
Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness. ...It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast...
-- Mark Twain, Reflections on Religion
Like nearly all the doctrines ascribed to Christ, the atonement is in the highest degree unjust and absurd. Referring to this doctrine, Lord Byron says:
"The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty. This proves his heroism, but no more does away with man's sin than a schoolboy's volunteering to be flogged for another would exculpate a dunce from negligence."
-- The Christ, by John E. Remsberg
More:
• God is NOT pro-life, he advocates child murder, infanticide, child abuse and abortion
• What is the ethics of the Bible? and Message of Love?
• The Laws of the Old Testament still apply
• Dogma, includes links to Biblical Injustice and Sin, guilt and fear
• More sources
Jesus and his teachings
The Prince of Peace?
"Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword. For I have come to set a man 'against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one's enemies will be those of his household'".
(Matthew 10:34-36 NAB)
Hate Your Family
If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he can not be my disciple.
(Luke 14:26 NAB)
Jesus Doesn’t Want to Save Everyone
And when he [Jesus] was alone, those present along with the Twelve questioned him about the parables. He answered them, "The mystery of the kingdom of God has been granted to you. But to those outside everything comes in parables, so that 'they may look and see but not perceive, and hear and listen but not understand, in order that they may not be converted and be forgiven.'"
(Mark 4:10-12 NAB)
From: Evil Bible Quotes (for February, March and June)
From The Christ by John E. Remsberg:
Whom did he pronounce blessed?
"Blessed are the poor in spirit" (Matthew v, 3).
"Is poverty of spirit a blessing? Surely not. Manliness of spirit, honesty of spirit, fulness of rightful purpose, these are virtues; but poverty of spirit is a crime."
-- Bradlaugh.
What did Christ say respecting the intellectual character of his converts?
"I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes" (Matthew xi, 25; Luke x, 21).
Commenting on this expression of thanks, Celsus, who lived at the time the Four Gospels made their appearance, says:
"This is one of their [the Christians'] rules. Let no man that is learned, wise, or prudent come among us: but if they be unlearned, or a child, or an idiot, let him freely come.
Did he [Jesus] oppose slavery?
All: He did not.
"Slavery was incorporated into the civil institutions of Moses; it was recognized accordingly by Christ and his apostles."
-- Rev. Dr. Nathan Lord, President of Dartmouth College
"I have no doubt if Jesus Christ were now on earth that he would, under certain circumstances, become a slaveholder."
-- Rev. Dr. Taylor of Yale
"Christ preaches only servitude and dependence.... True Christians are made to be slaves."
-- Rousseau
Paul's characterization of Christians
"Not many wise ... not many noble are called" (1 Corinthians i, 26).
"Base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen" (28).
"We are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things" (iv, 13).
"We are fools for Christ's sake" (10).
Imagine if these were the sought-for specifications in a job advert. Not many would apply.
More:
• Why Jesus? by Dan Barker, formerly an evangelical fundamentalist minister, missionary and Christian songwriter. He has written the book Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist, partly online here
• The Bible and Jesus Myth
• Jesus and Holy War at The Christian Heritage. Shows why the Good News isn't good and also how the prophesied Second Coming is anything but good.
• What Would Jesus Do?
• Why Jesus' teachings are immoral
• The other side of Jesus
• The Philosophy of Christ
• Jesus Christ – Paragon of Virtue?
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