List of atrocities and death
sentences (not complete):
God condemns all men for the offence of one: Rom. 5:12, Rom. 5:17-19, 1 Cor. 15:21,22.
All created beings are drowned because God made one species imperfect: Gen. 6:5, 7, Gen 6:17, Gen. 7:23. How about the fishes?
The innocent cursed for the guilty: Gen. 9:20-22, 24-25.
Human sacrifice commanded by God: Lev. 27:28, 29, Josh. 6:17, jer. 7:30, Ezek. 20:25,26 and Mic. 6:7. Also Gen. 22:2, 9, 10 (Abraham - Isaac) and Jephthah burns his daughter Judg. 11:29-31 and 11:34, 39.
The man after God's own heart sends seven innocent men to be offered to the Lord: 2 Sam. 21:1,3-6,9,14, compare Num. 25:4.
God hardens Pharaoh's heart and commits other crimes: Exod. 7:3,4,13, Exod. 10:1, 20, 27, Exod. 14:17 and Exod. 7:20, 21; 9:3, 6; 9:19, 23, 25.
God the midnight assassin: Exod. 12:29, 30 and Exod. 11:3-6.
God sanctions slavery: Exod. 21:2, 4-6 and Lev. 25:44-46.
A man may sell his daughter: Exod. 21:7.
God orders slave-capturing expeditions: Deut. 20:10-15.
A slave might be slowly beaten to death: Exod. 21:20,21.
Witches are to be killed: Exod. 22:8, Lev. 20:27, Deut. 18:10, Gal. 5:19,20. Witchcraft is of course a purely imaginary crime, there are no witches just as there are no Easter bunnies, tooth fairies, angels, devils and deities.
Death for consulting wizards: Lev. 20:6.
Death for idolatry or heresy: Exod. 22:20, Deut. 13:1, 2, 5, 14, 15, Deut. 17:2-5, Deut. 18:20.
A father is to slay his own daughter, or wife, or son, or friend, for a difference of religion. Deut. 13:6, 8-10.
Death to him who 'doeth ought presumptuously': Num. 15:30, Deut 17:12, Num. 5:2,4; 12:14 and Deut 23:1-3.
Death to all sabbath-breakers: Exod. 31:14, 15.
Death for kindling a fire: Exod. 31:14.
Death for picking up sticks: Num. 15:32, 35-36.
Death for not keeping the feast of the passover: Num. 9:13.
Death for eating leavened bread: Exod. 12:15; 12:19.
Death for eating fat: Lev. 7:22, 25.
Death for eating blood: Lev. 3:16, 17; Lev. 7:26, 27., Lev. 17:10-16.
Death to children for not being circumcised: Gen. 17:14.
Death for imitating holy ointment: Exod. 30:22, 25, 33.
Death for making perfume: Exod. 330:34-35, 38.
Death for eating a day too late: Lev. 19:5-8 and 7:18.
Death for sacrificing without the priests' aid: Lev. 17:8, 9.
Death for killing cattle without bringing an offering: Lev. 17:2-5.
Death for purely ceremonial offences: Lev. 7:20, 21 and 22:3,9.
Death for touching a holy thing: Num. 4:15 and 2 Sam. 6:6-7.
Death for approaching the holy candlestick: Num. 18:3.
Death for entering the holy place: Num. 4:20.
Death for entering the holy place without tinkling bells: Exod. 28:34, 35.
Death for entering the holy place without linen breeches: Exod.28:42, 43.
Death for not being purified: Lev. 5:2, Num. 19:20, Lev. 22:3, 9, Num. 19:13, Lev. 22:5-6, Lev. 11:4, 7, 10, 12-20, 24, 39.
Death for eating animals that have died a natural death etc.: Lev. 22:8,9, Lev. 17:13-16, see also Deut. 14:21.
Death for working on the day of atonement, or for not afflicting one's soul: Lev. 23:29, 30.
Death for staying near the tabernacle: Num. 1:51; 18:22; 17:13.
Death for approaching too near the clergy: Num. 3:10; 18:7, 3:38.
Death for blasphemy: Lev. 24:16, Lev. 24:10-11, 13-14, 23.
Death for unchastity, or for imperfection of structure: Deut. 22:20,21 and Lev. 21:9.
Death for sexual intercourse during menstruation: Lev. 20:18.
People burnt to death for complaining: Num. 11:1.
People killed for wanting a change of diet: Num. 11:4-6, 31, 33-34.
God orders Moses to massacre all Midianites (who had sheltered Moses for forty years when he fled for life from Egypt) including women and male little ones and to keep only the virgins alive as prey of war for the enjoyment of the warriors, the Lord's priests and the Lord himself (what is the size of His penis?) Num. 31:1-2, 9-11, 14-18, 32, 35, 40.
Priests burnt alive for using the wrong sort of fire: Lev. 10:1,2.
Massacre of a whole nation: Deut. 2:30, 34.
All Bashan massacred: Deut. 3:6.
Cruelty to animals, and incendiarism: Judg. 15:4, 5.
Pious slaughter of peaceful citizens: Judge 18:6-7.
God murders 50,070 men for looking inside a box: 1 Sam. 6:19.
God has the Amalekites massacred for an offence 400 years old: 1 Sam. 15:1-3, 8. See also 1 Sam. 5:10, 11.
God's prophets cause political and religious massacres: 1 king 21:20-24, 2 King 9:6-10, 2 Kings 10:10, 11, 16-19, 25, 28, 30.
God's angel slays 185,000 in one night.
Curious mercies: Ps. 136:2, 10, 15, 17-21.
More cruelties: Lam. 2:21, Lam. 3:10, 11, Hos. 13:7, 8, Ezek. 6:12,
13, Isa. 13:6, 9, 16-18, Nah. 1:2-3, 5-6, Hab. 3:5, Zeph. 1:2, 3.
God gives away land that does not belong to him and recommends the slaughter of the rightful occupants. Book of Joshua 1:1fff (History repeated itself November 29th, 1947, when the General Assembly of theUnited Nations gave away the same land, which did not belong to them, and the rightful owners were again killed and expelled.)
The NT sanctifies and upholds atrocities of the OT: Luke 16:31, Matt. 5:17-19, Luke 16:17, 2 Tim. 3:15, 16, John 5:39, 46, 47, Luke 24:25, 27, Heb. 11:17, 30-31, James 2:21, 22.
The NT adds worse terrors and atrocities of its own in the shape of eternal torments: Matt. 18:8, Matt. 25:41, 46, Mark 9:43-48, Luke 12:5, Matt. 10:28, Matt. 23:33, Luke 16:23, 24.
Description of hell and rejoicing of the saints over the sufferings of the tormented: Rev. 14:9-11; 19:1, 3-4, 20; 20:1-3, 10.
The great majority of mankind will go to hell: Matt. 7:14, Matt. 22:13, 14, Luke 13:23, 24.
God hardens people's hearts, so that they shall not be saved from hell: John 12:39, 40.
Man is helpless to save himself from hell: Rom. 9:9-13, 16, 18, 21-22.
Predestination: Rom. 8:29, 30, Rom. 11:7-10, Eph. 1:4, 5, Rev. 17:8, Rev. 20:15.
Idealised cannibalism: John 6:53-56.
A man and his wife killed for keeping part of their own property: Acts 4:34, 35; 5:1-3, 5-11.
A man struck blind for opposing Christianity: Acts 13:8-11.
The Judgment Day: 1 Peter 4:7, Luke 17:29, 30, 2 Peter 3:7, 10, Rom.
2:5, Rev. 6:12-17, Matt. 25:41-46.
Compiled from the Bible Handbook, published by American Atheists.
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