Fun story. Once upon a time, my dad challenged me to find a single wrong thing that God did in the Bible. I pointed out that there are two versions of the Jericho story- the one that they teach in Sunday school, that has a bunch of Hebrews killing everyone, and the one that they don’t teach in Sunday school, where a bunch of Hebrews kill everyone except the little girls, and then keep the girls as sex slaves.
“…but any young girl who has not known a man, keep for yourselves.”
He stopped the truck on the side of the road and left me to walk home lol.
Edit: just to be clear, the point was that the religious leadership was ordering them to do this, presumably at the direction of their god.
He destroyed a man’s life on a bet (Job). 2. He destroyed a couple of cities because they didn’t like him (Sodom and Gamorrah). 3. He killed the ENTIRE FUCKING WORLD and induced the highest possible genetic bottleneck possible, forcing all animals to be cousin fuckers for generations (the flood).
Yeah but not what the church teaches. The church teaches that homosexuality and promiscuity led to the downfall of Sodom but the bible explicitly states: Ezekiel 16:49 “‘Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy."
But that doesn’t really fit with the American church’s worldview so they leave that part out.
'Now go and strike Amalek and completely destroy everything that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ - Samuel 15:3
Fun story. Once upon a time, my dad challenged me to find a single wrong thing that God did in the Bible. I pointed out that there are two versions of the Jericho story- the one that they teach in Sunday school, that has a bunch of Hebrews killing everyone, and the one that they don’t teach in Sunday school, where a bunch of Hebrews kill everyone except the little girls, and then keep the girls as sex slaves.
“…but any young girl who has not known a man, keep for yourselves.”
He stopped the truck on the side of the road and left me to walk home lol.
Edit: just to be clear, the point was that the religious leadership was ordering them to do this, presumably at the direction of their god.
As a non Christian, the immediate 3 I think of.
I mean, the Sodom story had slightly more to it, IIRC…
Yeah but not what the church teaches. The church teaches that homosexuality and promiscuity led to the downfall of Sodom but the bible explicitly states: Ezekiel 16:49 “‘Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy."
But that doesn’t really fit with the American church’s worldview so they leave that part out.
I dunno. Sounds like they just overdid the partying a little bit
'Now go and strike Amalek and completely destroy everything that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ - Samuel 15:3