Specific examples please. I don't want answers like "everywhere" or "go read the bible yourself." And I already know the Egyptian children one, and the other most common ones. I need something I might have skipped over.
2007-05-28 06:49:20 · 33 answers · asked by Jaguar88 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well some of my personal observations:
Adam and Eve - no concept of right or wrong so they're hardly going to know that the snake is bad and god is good and god decides to throw them out of the garden of eden and then punish the whole of humanity for all eternity.
Noahs ark - seriously slaughering virtually every single living creature on the earth was necessary - babies, infants, mountains goats who'd never even come across a human
The entire book of Job
For a long list of god endorsed slaughter and rape you should check
http://www.evilbible.com/Murder.htm & http://www.evilbible.com/Rape.htm
and for assorted murder, rape, general unpleasantness
http://www.whywontgodhealamputees.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Evil-Ridiculous-Disgusting-Bible-Verses
2007-05-28 07:08:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Deuteronomy Leviticus and Revelations about how wearing blended fabrics is wrong, shaving your head and shaving your beard (into a goatee) is wrong, or about how Jesus will kill all of the children who had the misfortune to be born to adulterous parents. Moral absurdities like the sad tale of a woman who tries to save her husband from being beaten up by another man but has the misfortune of touching the assailant's junk and (of course) has to have her hand cut off often do little to shake the faith of believers because such a faith isn't understood in a literal way.
2007-05-28 07:09:01 · answer #2 · answered by John Harrington 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there is a long list of genocides and cruelties
if you think women's rights is unbiblical you won't see it
if you think killing unbelievers is normal, you won't see it
Slaughter Of Innocents
"And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain." (Deuteronomy 2:34)
"And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Hesbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city. But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities we took for a prey to ourselves." (Deuteronomy 3:6-7)
Such words helped give justification to mediaeval Crusaders who slaughtered men, women and children along their way to Jerusalem and stole the spoils of the cities. Even today, many Christian military men use Scripture to justify their actions. If any soldier harbors doubt about killing his fellow humans, he need only consult a military chaplain or read the Bible to calm their worries. Even George Bush (the First), with Billy Graham beside him, proclaimed the Gulf War as "moral." George Bush (the Second) continued in his father's steps by killing thousands of Iraqi civilians in the Iraqi war. Such moral wars result in thousands of "utterly destroyed" innocent men, women and children.;
(For a few more examples [but not all] see also Deuteronomy 3:3, 7:2, 20:16-17 , 25:19; Joshua 6:21, 8:26, 10-28-40; Numbers 31:17-18; I Samuel 15:3; Isaiah 13:16; and Hosea 13:16)
2007-05-28 06:52:47 · answer #3 · answered by voice_of_reason 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Wow, where does one begin?
How about drowning almost every living thing in creation?
Or, leading his ‘chosen people’ on a wild-goose chase while systematically killing off 80-85% of them?
Then there is my personal favorite: the humiliation, torture, and public crucifixion of his only son.
It just does not get any sicker and more sadistic than that. You would think people would choose a god that was not so judgmental and did not hate all of humanity so much.
2007-05-28 07:00:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why did everyone have to die in the flood (except Noah and his family)?
Why was Abraham only inches away from sacrificing his own son? (And what do you think the effect of this was on Isaac, and on Sarah?)
Why were all the Egyptians subject to the ten plagues? Why did all the Egyptian soldiers have to die in the Red Sea?
2007-05-28 06:55:04 · answer #5 · answered by fcas80 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why question someone Else's beliefs ...Just because someone does not believe in god does not mean you can question why....some people believe he was and still is cruel and others don't its the way they perceive and take in things that were done then and now including in the bible and in life now but that does not give you any right to ask why
2007-05-28 06:53:45 · answer #6 · answered by isthisthingon79 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How about this cruelty:
God is infallible and all-powerful. He is neither limited by time or space. Therefore, everything that has happened in the world or will happen is all according to God's plan.
When God created The Garden of Eden, he knew in advance that Adam would eat the apple and curse humanity. He knew in advance that he would have to create the world, then kill virtually everything and repopulate it. He knew in advance that Satan would fall. He planned the Holocaust, nuclear weapons, world wars, famines, plagues, natural disasters... Need I go on?
Its all according to his plan.
2007-05-28 07:14:51 · answer #7 · answered by Douglas G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are the common examples not enough for you?
The Egyptian children is hard to top, though personally I think the whole "eternal torture in hell" thing does top it.
There's also the bit about sending a bear to murder the children who teased the old man.
Oh, and murdering every child on earth (not just egypt) with a flood.
Etc..etc...etc....
2007-05-28 06:53:00 · answer #8 · answered by Born of a Broken Man 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Atheists have their reasons for believe God is cruel. They make very valid points. After all, who wants to believe in a God who sends homosexuals to hell just because they sleep with the same sex? Or sends them to hell just because they believed something different?
I'm Christian-Wiccan, so I worship the God and the Goddess (Jesus and Mary) and hell does not exist in my religion. Of course, everyone has a right to feel and believe differently. Why bother to ask this question when you know that no matter what answer they give you, you won't believe it? Just a thought.
Blessed be
2007-05-28 06:53:09 · answer #9 · answered by Water Witch 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
there became a renowned portray that depicts an thought of heaven and hell. there are a number of interpretations of it that explains the what message it became attempting to place across on the subject of the after existence. One interpretation potential that people who believed in god, standard god, etc went to the afterlife they believed in. people who did no longer have faith or weren't following a stable direction appeared to survive the earth and their soul entered an entire nothingness, that could have been hell. in any case, it is for God to ascertain each and each persons place interior the afterlife.
2016-10-06 04:46:28 · answer #10 · answered by carol 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋