hile linking through the "Secular Web" I found some fascinating quotations from the Old and New Testaments.
Some of the passages seemed totally preposterous. So I took the trouble to verify them in my own copy of the book
(found in the section "Fiction" on my shelves).
As far as I got, all the inconsistency, atrocity and absurdity is really there!
Here is a small exerpt from the hundreds of gems to be found at the site:
- JG 21:10-12 "... Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword and; also the women and little ones.... every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall utterly destroy."
- Joshua was a great general, a very righteous person. When not quite finished killing a lot of people, he turned to the mountain top and said to the sun, "Stand still untill I finish this job," and it stood still.
It shows how little the bible authors knew about the earth and what makes day and night. Of course they thought that if the sun stood still, the night wouldn't come. We know that even if it had stood still, this would not have affected the course of day and night which is brought about by the revolution of the earth on its axis.
- All winged creeping things that go upon all fours are an abomination to you. Yet these may you eat of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have legs above their feet, with which to leap upon the earth; even these of them you may eat: the locust after its kind, the bald locust after its kind, the cricket after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind. But all winged creeping things, which have four feet, are an abomination to you (Lev. 11:20-23, BB) Neither insects nor birds creep on four legs!
- If men slay, ravish, and destroy for the glory of God, the motive not only condones, but consecrates, the act. Hence, in the early history of Christianity, the practice of lying for the good of the Church was not only
allowed, but considered praiseworthy. To require universal belief in one
particular faith, and to condemn to eternal perdition those who are unable
to comply therewith, is not the most moral doctrine. Truly, a book that
teaches that "many are called but few are chosen," or, in other words, that
the majority of our fellow creatures are to be cast into a burning lake,
cannot assist to promote the happiness and good of mankind.
As the Secular Web is somewhat difficult to navigate (you gain access mostly through their search page, if you know the author's name), here are the links to some of the most relevant pages from that think tank:
Bible Atrocities by Charles Watts
Bible Inconsistencies by Donald Morgan
Bible Absurdities by Clarence Darrow
Bible Morality by Charles Watts
Bible Biology by Farrell Till
