If the Holy Bible has been the root of so many Atrocities in the History of the World?

Question

Then why was there so much killing and violence before Moses recieved the Oral Law (Ten Commandments) what happened that made Man and Nature become so turbulent andf violent?

Why did the Egyptians keep the Jews in Captivity? there was much more violence in the world, than we have ever had since the Holy Bible was written..Was man and nature intended to reek havoc as products of evolution? or maybe somewhere in time the Perfection of the world went astray because SIN entered in?
Can you explain that?

Answer 1

Killing BEFORE moses heard voices in his head? How about the millions killed AFTER? Including killed by that god?

A part of human nature is that some of us wish to kill others, for a variety of reasons. One of the biggest ones is differences in religion.

While the gains were often political or financial, like gaining land, the divisions in most wars throughout history have been religious.

Answer 2

I think you are on to something. The human sin nature is what is violent, and Satan (and sinful man under his influence) will use whatever excuse to breed hatred and violence.

Satan has been perverting God's Word since the Garden of Eden and trying to deceive man from its truth. The so-called "religious wars" are really more about power, control, racism, politics, etc. when you get right down to it--the fanatics claiming to be fighting for a cause are usually misguided.

That said, the final Armageddon will be fought at the end of time, and Christ will return in wrath and judgment to establish His reign over all the earth, and defeat Satan once and for all.
In the meantime, He promised that Christians would be persecuted and that they would face both physical and spiritual battles as they struggle against the forces of evil in the world, so there is an element of conflict there. But the true evil, the instigator of it all, is Satan(sin), not the Bible and God.

P.S. This is really the same argument as the gun control argument....."guns don't kill people, people kill people". Religion doesn't kill people, people kill people (in the name of religion or whatever!).

Answer 3

So Moses committed no acts of violence when he went to see the Pharaoh? What about the plagues? What about the death of his son? All of this brought about my Moses asking God to punish/test the people. And then, of course, you have the oppressed Jews who were beaten and maimed until freed. Then you have Moses, once again, parting the Red Sea and drowning the Pharaoh and his men. I would say there was violence well before the commandments came into play. Sin? Sin seems to be relative in the OT.
When you oppress people there is generally going to be a tipping point where someone reacts against the oppression.

Answer 4

Religion is often a scapegoat when it comes to naming the cause of an Atrocity. More often then not the reason atrocities occur it was because of the greed of those in power and because of pride in your country, tribe, village, race or whatever. Basically as soon as people are able to look at themselves and then look at another group of people and know they are different in some ways then they can hate those people because of their difference and once the hate is there if those in power wish to wage war or conquer the others it is of no consequence because you don't realize that despite the difference you have the other people they are human beings just like you. That is why propaganda is so powerful.

Answer 5

The spread of Christianity is unlike many religions in the sense that it attempts to spread itself to the global population. This has lead to Colonialism among other things and missionary driven destruction of "primitive" cultures. This is not an anti Christian rant or judgment, it is an academic assessment.
Nature was quite often the foundation in many early religions. If not directly linked to the theology it is a catalyst to the formation, sometimes through gods and godesses as an explanation of nature and the unknown powers it held. Man has an inherent need to control nature as it is the unknown.
Christianity has the drive to control men and nature and needed to place man in opposition with nature to expedite this.

Think of it as Christianity wanted to be the middle management between man and nature in order to justify its existence and has ended up F*in it all up. This is opinion...

Answer 6

Nothing made man any more violent after than before, you just have not read any accounts of behavior before. No book has been the root of atrocities, atrocities are committed by people, although they may use some religious writing as a justification. What you are listing however are instances of historical actions none of which were caused by the book chronicling them.

Answer 7

my theory on this whole SIN thing and what society and man views as sin is just our nature as human beings. when we try to go against our nature more violence happens. if we would stop suppressing our desires (especially sexual) i think the world would be a lot happier place with less violence.

Sex is the main reason why we live. Every single living creature on the face of this Earth lives to procreate. We are the only "animals" that view sex as a bad thing. If we were more open about sex and stopped trying to suppress and revel in it I think ppl (especially men) wouldn't be so high strung and won't to go conqueror new terrorities to procreate their females. (u get what i'm saying).

Answer 8

If today we do have a negative views on the holy Bible it is because man has manipulated the bible and removed the true sayings of God.
In the past the bible was misunderstood by the people on that time ,they choose to follow their elders instead of sacred man sent by God.

Answer 9

Hey babe...
turn on the TV..
Change the channel from the bible network or what ever it is thats clouding your judgement and find a decent news broadcast...
Sit back and let your heart be truly sickened by mans inhumanity to man..
Just for fun, see if you can count how many times some religion sticks its hand up and supports some type of human suffering..



meh...

Answer 10

Because humans are imperfect and given free will. Many people (even today) use the bible and God to preach hate. Personally I find it all revolting.

Although, I think civilizations are similar if they believe in the bible or not. Christianity (religion or lack of religion) does lead to a perfect society because we are all just flawed creatures.