http://www.ffrf.org/quiz/bquiz.phpThe next some time some Christian starts running their mouth of about why gays can't have equal rights because the bible says it's bad I'm going to ask them see what they say about these bible dictates.
Who decides where the bible got it wrong and the bible got it right?
What is the penalty for working on the Sabbath?You will be stoned to death. --Isn't this an excessively violent punishment from a supposedly "Good Book?" What is the harm in working on the Sabbath? It seems the only harm is to the ego of the Sovereign, who demands respect with no respect to human needs.
"Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord: whoseoever doeth work therein shall be put to death. Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day." (Exodus 35:2) For the chilling application of this law, see Numbers 15:32-36, where a man who picked up sticks on the sabbath was stoned, "and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses."
How should parents treat a stubborn and rebellious son?He should be stoned to death. --This cruelly excessive Mosaic law was actually enforced at one time by the Massachusetts colony and has been used to justify child abuse and murder.
What happens if you are not a virgin on your wedding night?You will be stoned to death. --This barbaric punishment is still being followed in some parts of the Moslem world, which share some of the teachings of the Hebrew bible. There is no such penalty, needless to say, for a groom who is not a virgin. The fact that Christian women who have engaged in premarital sex are not being stoned to death today shows that even believers recognize cruelty and absurdity in their own "Good Book."
According to the bible, who created evil?God. --Now we know who is to blame.
"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things." (Isaiah 45:7)
The word "create" above is bara, the same word used in Genesis 1:1. The word "evil" is ra, such as in Genesis 2:9, "the tree of knowledge of good and evil." Some versions, such as the NIV, have unjustifiably softened the implications of this verse by translating ra as "disaster" or "calamity," although ra is used repeatedly throughout scripture to refer to moral evil. (See Isaiah 7:14-15: "Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil
, and choose the good.") But even if the "disaster" interpretation were allowable, the verse still depicts God as a troublemaker.
I'm sorry call me what you want, but Christianity, like all religions, was created by man to control simple minds. You need only look to the Republican party to see this is action.
NOT THAT ALL Christians are simple! Not that I don't think you should be able to believe in your myths and your vision of a sky omniscient sky god who lives in the clouds.
But to see the Bible as anything more then an instrument in the biggest fraud of all mankind is ridiculous. Just look at what we have to do to keep from just throwing it out completely. It's more redacted than a CIA FOIA document. "I love the Bible! It's the word sacred word of God! Well not that part, or that part, oh don't take that literally, or that, no that's just a parable."
I was raised vaguely Christian...was taught about how Jesus was about love and tolerance but the Bible says that Jesus thought slavery was just fine? The inconsistencies just make Christianity loose all credibility in my mind.
Why do we need this book and these fables and all these people who derive power by peddling myths and superstition to raise our children to be moral and right? We don't. Religion is a scam. And I'm not a bigot for saying so.
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