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Asinine Bible Passages Part II

In my ongoing search of the stupidest passages in the Bible, I give you the second installment. Below is a passage of the utmost unfairness from a benevolent and loving God.

And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.

Exodus 34:6-7
This God believes in punishing the children of the sinful just for being the children of the sinful. The second book of Kings contradicts the above passage in Exodus.

The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

2 Kings 14:6
Or maybe the passage from Exodus means punishment other than death. If so, then it's not a contradiction. It's worse. The innocent are still punished for the sins of others. This God really loves all his children, doesn't he?

Another passage from Exodus shows the intolerance of other religions that is condoned in the Bible.

Then the LORD said: "I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the LORD, will do for you. Obey what I command you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you. Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah* poles. Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
Exodus 34:10-14
*According to Wikipedia, Asherah is a mother-goddess.

God is a jealous God. Straight from the Bible. Isn't jealousy one of the seven deadly sins?

God is vengeful.

Arm some of your men to go to war against the Midianites and to carry out the LORD's vengeance on them.

Numbers 31:3

And a sexist murderer who condones rape.

Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.

Numbers 31:17-18

God also created evil.

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Isaiah 45:7 (King James Version)

There is a discrepancy regarding the proper translation of the word evil. In the New International Version of the Bible, "evil" is replaced by "disaster" and in other versions by "calamity."

Either way, God created nastiness, so why blame people.

Human sacrifice is condoned and expected by God.

Then God said, Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about."

Genesis 22:2

God tells Abraham to sacrifice his only son. For what? To prove his loyalty to God. What kind of God would expect any of "his children" to kill their own for him. He sounds like a very reasonable God.

One more thing. For those parents who are deluded enough to let their children die rather than receive medical attention such as a blood transfusion, you disgust me. Any sane parent who loved their children would do anything to save them even if it meant sacrificing their own afterlife in heaven.

And one more passage. This one is very disturbing. Killing children for the most trivial reasons. (It's trivial to me. They're just ignorant kids. Give 'em a break. I thought God was forgiving.)

From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths*.

2 Kings 2:23-24

*In the King James Version the youths are children, which is even worse. What do kids know.

Well there you have it. Straight from the cruel, evil, jealous, vengeful and intolerant mouth of God himself. God is male. You didn't know that?

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In my ongoing search of the stupidest passages in the Bible, I give you the second installment. Below is a passage of the utmost unfairness from a benevolent and loving God.

And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.

Exodus 34:6-7
This God believes in punishing the children of the sinful just for being the children of the sinful. The second book of Kings contradicts the above passage in Exodus.

The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

2 Kings 14:6
Or maybe the passage from Exodus means punishment other than death. If so, then it's not a contradiction. It's worse. The innocent are still punished for the sins of others. This God really loves all his children, doesn't he?

Another passage from Exodus shows the intolerance of other religions that is condoned in the Bible.

Then the LORD said: "I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the LORD, will do for you. Obey what I command you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you. Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah* poles. Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
Exodus 34:10-14
*According to Wikipedia, Asherah is a mother-goddess.

God is a jealous God. Straight from the Bible. Isn't jealousy one of the seven deadly sins?

God is vengeful.

Arm some of your men to go to war against the Midianites and to carry out the LORD's vengeance on them.

Numbers 31:3

And a sexist murderer who condones rape.

Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.

Numbers 31:17-18

God also created evil.

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Isaiah 45:7 (King James Version)

There is a discrepancy regarding the proper translation of the word evil. In the New International Version of the Bible, "evil" is replaced by "disaster" and in other versions by "calamity."

Either way, God created nastiness, so why blame people.

Human sacrifice is condoned and expected by God.

Then God said, Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about."

Genesis 22:2

God tells Abraham to sacrifice his only son. For what? To prove his loyalty to God. What kind of God would expect any of "his children" to kill their own for him. He sounds like a very reasonable God.

One more thing. For those parents who are deluded enough to let their children die rather than receive medical attention such as a blood transfusion, you disgust me. Any sane parent who loved their children would do anything to save them even if it meant sacrificing their own afterlife in heaven.

And one more passage. This one is very disturbing. Killing children for the most trivial reasons. (It's trivial to me. They're just ignorant kids. Give 'em a break. I thought God was forgiving.)

From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths*.

2 Kings 2:23-24

*In the King James Version the youths are children, which is even worse. What do kids know.

Well there you have it. Straight from the cruel, evil, jealous, vengeful and intolerant mouth of God himself. God is male. You didn't know that?