Disturbing Passages in Holy Books

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I’d appreciate it if this thread could stay on the topic of Disturbing Passages in Holy Books - citing them and/or discussing them/their ramifications in some capacity - because, considering world events, I think it’s a very important one. I’d especially appreciate it if people could avoid complaints about tone or other ad hominem-ish retorts moving forward because, once again, it takes the thread off-track.

Scientology in a nutshell.

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Here’s some especially barbaric passages from Leviticus and Judges that haven’t been mentioned yet.

The endorsement of people being killed in nasty ways:

Leviticus 21:9: “When the daughter of a priest profanes herself through prostitution, she profanes her father; she shall be burned to death.”

Apparently, sometimes God likes to switch things up and burn people alive instead of stone them to death. Perhaps the occasional crucifixion adds some variety as well.

The following are mass rape and carnage scriptures that haven’t been previously alluded to.

Judges 5:30a: “Are they not finding and dividing the spoil? A woman or two for every man”

After an outrageous passage involving the rape and death of a concubine (Judges 19:22-30) which I cited a while back, Israelites from the other tribes won’t allow their daughters to marry men from the Tribe of Benjamin (i.e. Benjaminites). In Judges 20, there is a big battle because the Benjaminites decide not to hand over the guilty men. Most of the Tribe of Benjamin is killed (which was perfectly reasonable /s) - only 600 men remain. Those who survive are obviously in need of new property wives since their own have been slaughtered.

If more people actually knew what was in the Bible, then they would advocate burning it, rather than requiring the study of it in public schools.

Actually, more students would probably appreciate it. I remember the fine times we had when we read the Canterbury Tales in high school.

I saw that the book of Jeremiah was referenced elsewhere which reminded me about when God threatened that disobedient people would have to eat their young in Jeremiah 19:3-9:

“Hear the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem. This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Listen! I am going to bring a disaster on this place that will make the ears of everyone who hears of it tingle. 4 For they have forsaken me and made this a place of foreign gods; they have burned incense in it to gods that neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent. 5 They have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind. 7 “‘In this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, at the hands of those who want to kill them, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds and the wild animals. 8 I will devastate this city and make it an object of horror and scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds. 9 I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh because their enemies will press the siege so hard against them to destroy them.’”

Moral of this and various other passages of the Old Testament that have already been cited: killing babies and children is only okay if it’s YHWH’s idea. When it involves other gods, it’s really, really bad!