Mr. Deity and the Void

Atheist Cherry-Picked Bible (post verse suggestions here)

I've started organizing my collection of bible quotes. Click on the bible on the right-hand side to get to the page. If you have any verses that you wish to be included, put them in the comment section of this post.

(Morality Fail) Horse Theft: Luke 19:28-31

After Jesus had said this, he traveled on and went up to Jerusalem. When he came near Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples on ahead and said, "Go into the village ahead of you. As you enter, you will find a colt tied up that no one has ever sat on. Untie it, and bring it along.
If anyone asks you why you are untying it, say this: 'The Lord needs it.'" -Luke 19:28-31

(Rape/Pillaging) Two Women For a Soldier: Judges 5:30

"They are only finding things to capture and divide, a woman or two for every soldier, rich cloth for Sisera, embroidered pieces for the neck of the queen." -Judges 5:30

(Stupid Laws) False Prophets: Zechariah 13:3 RSV

And if any one again appears as a prophet, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, 'You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the LORD'; and his father and mother who bore him shall pierce him through when he prophesies. -Zechariah 13:3 RSV

(Stupid Laws) Sabbath 2: Numbers 15:32-36

While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day. And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation. They put him in custody, because it had not been made plain what should be done to him. And the LORD said to Moses, "The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp." And all the congregation brought him outside the camp, and stoned him to death with stones, as the LORD commanded Moses. -Numbers 15:32-36

(Stupid Laws) Sabbath: Exodus 31:14-15

You shall keep the sabbath, because it is holy for you; every one who profanes it shall be put to death; whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD; whoever does any work on the sabbath day shall be put to death. - Exodus 31:14-15

(Stupid Laws) Sacraficing to Other Gods: Exodus 22:19 GNB

"Condemn to death anyone who offers sacrifices to any god except to me, the LORD. -Exodus 22:19 GNB

(Stupid Laws) Hitting a Parent: Exodus 21:15 GNB

Whoever hits his father or his mother is to be put to death. -Exodus 21:15 GNB

(Stupid Laws) Rape Victim Must Marry Rapist: Deuteronomy 22:28-29 GNB

"Suppose a man is caught raping a young woman who is not engaged. He is to pay her father the bride price of fifty pieces of silver, and she is to become his wife, because he forced her to have intercourse with him. He can never divorce her as long as he lives. -Deuteronomy 22:28-29 GNB

(Stupid Laws) Stone Rape Victims: Deuteronomy 22:23-24

"Suppose a man is caught in a town having intercourse with a young woman who is engaged to someone else. You are to take them outside the town and stone them to death. She is to die because she did not cry out for help, although she was in a town, where she could have been heard. And the man is to die because he had intercourse with someone who was engaged. In this way you will get rid of this evil. -Deuteronomy 22:23-24

(Stupid Laws) Kill Non-virgins: Deuteronomy 22:20-22

"But if the charge is true and there is no proof that she was a virgin, then they are to take her out to the entrance of her father's house, where the men of her city are to stone her to death. She has done a shameful thing among our people by having intercourse before she was married, while she was still living in her father's house. In this way you will get rid of this evil. "If a man is caught having intercourse with another man's wife, both of them are to be put to death. In this way you will get rid of this evil. -Deuteronomy 22:20-22

(Stupid Laws) Obey Priests: Deuteronomy 17:12 RSV

The man who acts presumptuously, by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die; so you shall purge the evil from Israel. -Deuteronomy 17:12 RSV

(Rituals) Jesus Summoning: Matthew 18:19-20

"For where two or three come together in my name, I am there with them." -Matthew 18:19-20

(Rituals): Sacrificing Daughter: Judges 11:29-40 (GNB)

Then the spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah. He went through Gilead and Manasseh and returned to Mizpah in Gilead and went on to Ammon. Jephthah promised the LORD: "If you will give me victory over the Ammonites, I will burn as an offering the first person that comes out of my house to meet me, when I come back from the victory. I will offer that person to you as a sacrifice." So Jephthah crossed the river to fight the Ammonites, and the LORD gave him victory. He struck at them from Aroer to the area around Minnith, twenty cities in all, and as far as Abel Keramim. There was a great slaughter, and the Ammonites were defeated by Israel. When Jephthah went back home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him, dancing and playing the tambourine. She was his only child. When he saw her, he tore his clothes in sorrow and said, "Oh, my daughter! You are breaking my heart! Why must it be you that causes me pain? I have made a solemn promise to the LORD, and I cannot take it back!" She told him, "If you have made a promise to the LORD, do what you said you would do to me, since the LORD has given you revenge on your enemies, the Ammonites." But she asked her father, "Do this one thing for me. Leave me alone for two months, so that I can go with my friends to wander in the mountains and grieve that I must die a virgin." He told her to go and sent her away for two months. She and her friends went up into the mountains and grieved because she was going to die unmarried and childless. After two months she came back to her father. He did what he had promised the LORD, and she died still a virgin. This was the origin of the custom in Israel that the Israelite women would go out for four days every year to grieve for the daughter of Jephthah of Gilead. -Judges 11:29-40 (GNB)

(Stoning) Blasphemy: Leviticus 24:10-16 RSV

Now an Israelite woman's son, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the people of Israel; and the Israelite woman's son and a man of Israel quarreled in the camp, and the Israelite woman's son blasphemed the Name (of the Lord), and cursed. And they brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelo'mith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. And they put him in custody, till the will of the LORD should be declared to them. And the LORD said to Moses, "Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him. And say to the people of Israel, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin. He who blasphemes the name of the LORD shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him; the sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death. -Leviticus 24:10-16 RSV

(Stoning) Fortune Tellers: Leviticus 20:27 GNB

"A man or a woman who acts as a medium or fortune-teller shall be put to death by stoning; they have no one but themselves to blame for their death." -Leviticus 20:27 GNB

(Slavery) Only Foreigners: Leviticus 25:42-46

The people of Israel are the LORD's slaves, and he brought them out of Egypt; they must not be sold into slavery. Do not treat them harshly, but obey your God. If you need slaves, you may buy them from the nations around you. You may also buy the children of the foreigners who are living among you. Such children born in your land may become your property, and you may leave them as an inheritance to your children, whom they must serve as long as they live. But you must not treat any Israelites harshly. -Leviticus 25:42-46

(Slavery) Striking a Slave: Exodus 21:20-21

When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be punished; for the slave is his money. -Exodus 21:20-21

(Slavery) Daughter Selling: Exodus 21:7-11 RSV

"When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do. If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed; he shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt faithlessly with her. If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter. If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights. And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money. - Exodus 21:7-11 RSV

(Slavery) Jesus Supports: Ephesians 6:5-6

Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling; and do it with a sincere heart, as though you were serving Christ. Do this not only when they are watching you, because you want to gain their approval; but with all your heart do what God wants, as slaves of Christ. -Ephesians 6:5-6

(Slavery) Slave or Die: Deuteronomy 20:10-19

"When you go to attack a city, first give its people a chance to surrender. If they open the gates and surrender, they are all to become your slaves and do forced labor for you. But if the people of that city will not surrender, but choose to fight, surround it with your army. Then, when the LORD your God lets you capture the city, kill every man in it. You may, however, take for yourselves the women, the children, the livestock, and everything else in the city. You may use everything that belongs to your enemies. The LORD has given it to you. That is how you are to deal with those cities that are far away from the land you will settle in. "But when you capture cities in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, kill everyone. Completely destroy all the people: the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, as the LORD ordered you to do. Kill them, so that they will not make you sin against the LORD by teaching you to do all the disgusting things that they do in the worship of their gods. "When you are trying to capture a city, do not cut down its fruit trees, even though the siege lasts a long time. Eat the fruit, but do not destroy the trees; the trees are not your enemies. Deuteronomy 20:10-19

(Science Fail) Unicorns 3: Isaiah 34:7 KJV

And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. -Isaiah 34:7 KJV

(Science Fail) Unicorns 2: Psalms 29:6 KJV

He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn. -Psalms 29:6 KJV

(Science Fail) Unicorns 1: Job 39:9-11 KJV

Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee? Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn? -Job 39:9-11 KJV

(Science Fail) Poison Drinking: Mark 16:15-18 GNB

He said to them, "Go throughout the whole world and preach the gospel to all people. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned. Believers will be given the power to perform miracles: they will drive out demons in my name; they will speak in strange tongues; if they pick up snakes or drink any poison, they will not be harmed; they will place their hands on sick people, and these will get well." -Mark 16:15-18 GNB

(Science Fail) Mountain Moving: Mark 11:24-25 NAB

Amen, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it shall be done for him. Therefore I tell you, all that you ask for in prayer, believe that you will receive it and it shall be yours. -Mark 11:24-25 NAB

(Science Fail) Mildew: Leviticus 14:33-53

If any of you find that the LORD has sent mildew on your house, then you must go and tell the priest about it. The priest shall order everything to be moved out of the house before he goes to examine the mildew; otherwise everything in the house will be declared unclean. -Leviticus 14:33-53

(Science Fail) Sun Standing Still: Joshua 10:11-14 GNB

While the Amorites were running down the pass from the Israelite army, the LORD made large hailstones fall down on them all the way to Azekah. More were killed by the hailstones than by the Israelites. On the day that the LORD gave the men of Israel victory over the Amorites, Joshua spoke to the LORD. In the presence of the Israelites he said, "Sun, stand still over Gibeon; Moon, stop over Aijalon Valley." The sun stood still and the moon did not move until the nation had conquered its enemies. This is written in The Book of Jashar. The sun stood still in the middle of the sky and did not go down for a whole day. Never before, and never since, has there been a day like it, when the LORD obeyed a human being. The LORD fought on Israel's side! -Joshua 10:11-14 GNB

(Science Fail) Jonah: Jonah 1:11-17

The storm was getting worse all the time, so the sailors asked him, "What should we do to you to stop the storm?" Jonah answered, "Throw me into the sea, and it will calm down. I know it is my fault that you are caught in this violent storm." Instead, the sailors tried to get the ship to shore, rowing with all their might. But the storm was becoming worse and worse, and they got nowhere. So they cried out to the LORD, "O LORD, we pray, don't punish us with death for taking this man's life! You, O LORD, are responsible for all this; it is your doing." Then they picked Jonah up and threw him into the sea, and it calmed down at once. This made the sailors so afraid of the LORD that they offered a sacrifice and promised to serve him. At the LORD's command a large fish swallowed Jonah, and he was inside the fish for three days and three nights. -Jonah 1:11-17

(Science Fail) Prayer: John 16:23-24 NAB

On that day you will not question me about anything. Amen, amen, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. Until now you have not asked anything in my name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete. -John 16:23-24 NAB

(Science Fail) Stds: Leviticus 15:1-33

The LORD gave Moses and Aaron the following regulations for the people of Israel. When any man has a discharge from his penis, the discharge is unclean, whether the penis runs with it or is stopped up by it. Any bed on which he sits or lies is unclean. Anyone who touches his bed or sits on anything the man has sat on must wash his clothes and take a bath, and he remains unclean until evening. Anyone who touches the man with the discharge must wash his clothes and take a bath, and he remains unclean until evening. If the man with the discharge spits on anyone who is ritually clean, that person must wash his clothes and take a bath, and he remains unclean until evening. Any saddle or seat on which the man with the discharge sits is unclean. Anyone who touches anything on which the man sat is unclean until evening. Anyone who carries anything on which the man sat must wash his clothes and take a bath, and he remains unclean until evening. If a man who has a discharge touches one of you without first having washed his hands, you must wash your clothes and take a bath, and you remain unclean until evening. Any clay pot that the man touches must be broken, and any wooden bowl that he touches must be washed. After the man is cured of his discharge, he must wait seven days and then wash his clothes and take a bath in fresh spring water, and he will be ritually clean. On the eighth day he shall take two doves or two pigeons to the entrance of the Tent of the LORD's presence and give them to the priest. The priest shall offer one of them as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. In this way he will perform the ritual of purification for the man. When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body, and he remains unclean until evening. Anything made of cloth or leather on which the semen falls must be washed, and it remains unclean until evening. After sexual intercourse both the man and the woman must take a bath, and they remain unclean until evening. When a woman has her monthly period, she remains unclean for seven days. Anyone who touches her is unclean until evening. Anything on which she sits or lies during her monthly period is unclean. Any who touch her bed or anything on which she has sat must wash their clothes and take a bath, and they remain unclean until evening. If a man has sexual intercourse with her during her period, he is contaminated by her impurity and remains unclean for seven days, and any bed on which he lies is unclean. If a woman has a flow of blood for several days outside her monthly period or if her flow continues beyond her regular period, she remains unclean as long as the flow continues, just as she is during her monthly period. Any bed on which she lies and anything on which she sits during this time is unclean. Any who touch them are unclean and must wash their clothes and take a bath; they remain unclean until evening. After her flow stops, she must wait seven days, and then she will be ritually clean. On the eighth day she shall take two doves or two pigeons to the priest at the entrance of the Tent of the LORD's presence. The priest shall offer one of them as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, and in this way he will perform the ritual of purification for her. The LORD told Moses to warn the people of Israel about their uncleanness, so that they would not defile the Tent of his presence, which was in the middle of the camp. If they did, they would be killed. These are the regulations about a man who has a discharge or an emission of semen, a woman during her monthly period, or a man who has sexual intercourse with a woman who is ritually unclean. Leviticus 15:1-33

(Rape/Pillaging) Virgin Females May Live: Numbers 31:7-18 NLT

They attacked Midian just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed all the men. All five of the Midianite kings – Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba – died in the battle. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. Then the Israelite army captured the Midianite women and children and seized their cattle and flocks and all their wealth as plunder. They burned all the towns and villages where the Midianites had lived. After they had gathered the plunder and captives, both people and animals, they brought them all to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the whole community of Israel, which was camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho.


Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the people went to meet them outside the camp. But Moses was furious with all the military commanders who had returned from the battle. "Why have you let all the women live?" he demanded. "These are the very ones who followed Balaam's advice and caused the people of Israel to rebel against the LORD at Mount Peor. They are the ones who caused the plague to strike the LORD's people. Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves. -Numbers 31:7-18 NLT

(Rape/Pillaging) Victory in Battle: Deuteronomy 21:10-14 GNB

"When the LORD your God gives you victory in battle and you take prisoners, you may see among them a beautiful woman that you like and want to marry. Take her to your home, where she will shave her head, cut her fingernails, and change her clothes. She is to stay in your home and mourn for her parents for a month; after that, you may marry her. Later, if you no longer want her, you are to let her go free. Since you forced her to have intercourse with you, you cannot treat her as a slave and sell her. -Deuteronomy 21:10-14 GNB

(Polytheistic Monotheism) Jesus: Mark 15:34 ISV

At three o'clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eloi, eloi, lema sabachthani?", which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" -Mark 15:34 ISV

(Polytheistic Monotheism) "Us" 2: Genesis 3:22

Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever"- Genesis 3:22

(Polytheistic Monotheism) "Us": Genesis 1:26

Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth." -Genesis 1:26

(Polytheistic Monotheism): Exodus 34:14 RSV

for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God, - Exodus 34:14 RSV

(Murder) Moses: Exodus 32:19-29 RSV

And as soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses' anger burned hot, and he threw the tables out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain. And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, and ground it to powder, and scattered it upon the water, and made the people of Israel drink it. And Moses said to Aaron, "What did this people do to you that you have brought a great sin upon them?" And Aaron said, "Let not the anger of my lord burn hot; you know the people, that they are set on evil. For they said to me, 'Make us gods, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.' And I said to them, 'Let any who have gold take it off'; so they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and there came out this calf." And when Moses saw that the people had broken loose (for Aaron had let them break loose, to their shame among their enemies), then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Who is on the LORD's side? Come to me." And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him. And he said to them, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'Put every man his sword on his side, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.'" And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. And Moses said, "Today you have ordained yourselves for the service of the LORD, each one at the cost of his son and of his brother, that he may bestow a blessing upon you this day." -Exodus 32:19-29 RSV

(Morality Fail) Jesus Promotes Hatred: Luke 14:25-26

Now large crowds were traveling with Jesus. He turned and said to them, "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, as well as his own life, he can't be my disciple. -Luke 14:25-26

(Kill Nonbelievers): 2 Chronicles 15:11-14

They sacrificed to the LORD on that day, from the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep. And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul; and that whoever would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman. They took oath to the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with horns. -2 Chronicles 15:11-14

(Infanticide) Baby Smashing: Psalms 137:8-9

Babylon, you will be destroyed. Happy are those who pay you back for what you have done to us-- who take your babies and smash them against a rock. -Psalms 137:8-9

(Infanticide) Cannibalism: Deuteronomy 28:53-63 GNB

"When your enemies are besieging your towns, you will become so desperate for food that you will even eat the children that the Lord your God has given you. Even the most refined man of noble birth will become so desperate during the siege that he will eat some of his own children because he has no other food. He will not even give any to his brother or to the wife he loves or to any of his children who are left. Even the most refined woman of noble birth, so rich that she has never had to walk anywhere, will behave in the same way. When the enemy besieges her town, she will become so desperate for food that she will secretly eat her newborn child and the afterbirth as well. She will not share them with the husband she loves or with any of her children.


"If you do not obey faithfully all of God's teachings that are written in this book and if you do not honor the wonderful and awesome name of the Lord your God, he will send on you and on your descendants incurable diseases and horrible epidemics that can never be stopped. He will bring on you once again all the dreadful diseases you experienced in Egypt, and you will never recover. He will also send all kinds of diseases and epidemics that are not mentioned in this book of God's laws and teachings, and you will be destroyed. Although you become as numerous as the stars in the sky, only a few of you will survive, because you did not obey the Lord your God. -Deuteronomy 28:53-63 GNB

(Incest) Abraham: Genesis 20:11-13 RSV

Abraham said, "I did it because I thought, There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife. Besides she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, 'This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, say of me, He is my brother.'" -Genesis 20:11-13 RSV

(Incest) Lot: Genesis 19:30-36

Now Lot went up out of Zo'ar, and dwelt in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to dwell in Zo'ar; so he dwelt in a cave with his two daughters. And the first-born said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth. Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring through our father." So they made their father drink wine that night; and the first-born went in, and lay with her father; he did not know when she lay down or when she arose. And on the next day, the first-born said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring through our father." So they made their father drink wine that night also; and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose. Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father. - Genesis 19:30-36

(Genocide) Benjaminites: Judges 20:48

The Israelites turned back against the rest of the Benjaminites and killed them all---men, women, and children, and animals as well. They burned every town in the area.-Judges 20:48

(Genocide) Jerusalem: Ezekiel 9:4-10

And the LORD said to him, "Go through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark upon the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it." And to the others he said in my hearing, "Pass through the city after him, and smite; your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity; slay old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one upon whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary." So they began with the elders who were before the house. Then he said to them, "Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth." So they went forth, and smote in the city. And while they were smiting, and I was left alone, I fell upon my face, and cried, "Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all that remains of Israel in the outpouring of thy wrath upon Jerusalem?" Then he said to me, "The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice; for they say, 'The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD does not see.' As for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity, but I will requite their deeds upon their heads." -Ezekiel 9:4-10

(Genocide) Nonbelievers: Deuteronomy 13:13-17

that some worthless people of your nation have misled the people of their town to worship gods that you have never worshiped before. If you hear such a rumor, investigate it thoroughly; and if it is true that this evil thing did happen, then kill all the people in that town and all their livestock too. Destroy that town completely. Bring together all the possessions of the people who live there and pile them up in the town square. Then burn the town and everything in it as an offering to the LORD your God. It must be left in ruins forever and never again be rebuilt. Do not keep for yourselves anything that was condemned to destruction, and then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and show you mercy. He will be merciful to you and make you a numerous people, as he promised your ancestors, -Deuteronomy 13:13-17

(Genocide) Amalekites: 1 Samuel 15:1-9 GNB

Samuel said to Saul, "I am the one whom the Lord sent to anoint you king of his people Israel. Now listen to what the Lord Almighty says. He is going to punish the people of Amalek because their ancestors opposed the Israelites when they were coming from Egypt. Go and attack the Amaleks and compelety destroy everything they have. Don't leave a thing; kill all the men, women, children and babies; the cattle, sheep, camels, and donkeys."

Saul called his forces together and inspected them at Telem: there were 200,000 soldiers from Israel and 10,000 from Judah. Then he and his men went to the city of Amalek and waited in ambush in a dry riverbed. He sent a warning to the Kenites, a people whose ancestors had been kind to the Israelites when they came from Egypt: "Go away and leave the Amalekites, so that I won't kill you along with them." So the Kenites left.

Saul defeated the Amalekites, fighting all the way from Havilah to Shur, east of Egypt; he captured King Agag of Amalek alive and killed all the people. But Saul and his men spared Agag's life and did not kill the best sheep and cattle, the best calves and lambs, or anything else that was good; they destroyed only what was useless or worthless. -1 Samuel 15:1-9 GNB

(Cruel God) Destroyer of Nations: Zephaniah 3:6-10 NLT

"I have wiped out many nations, devastating their fortress walls and towers. Their cities are now deserted; their streets are in silent ruin. There are no survivors to even tell what happened. I thought, 'Surely they will have reverence for me now! Surely they will listen to my warnings, so I won't need to strike again.' But no; however much I punish them, they continue their evil practices from dawn till dusk and dusk till dawn." So now the LORD says: "Be patient; the time is coming soon when I will stand up and accuse these evil nations. For it is my decision to gather together the kingdoms of the earth and pour out my fiercest anger and fury on them. All the earth will be devoured by the fire of my jealousy. "On that day I will purify the lips of all people, so that everyone will be able to worship the LORD together. My scattered people who live beyond the rivers of Ethiopia will come to present their offerings. -Zephaniah 3:6-10 NLT

(Cruel God) Destroy Everything: Zephaniah 1:2-6 GNB

The LORD said, "I am going to destroy everything on earth, all human beings and animals, birds and fish. I will bring about the downfall of the wicked. I will destroy everyone, and no survivors will be left. I, the LORD, have spoken. "I will punish the people of Jerusalem and of all Judah. I will destroy the last trace of the worship of Baal there, and no one will even remember the pagan priests who serve him. I will destroy anyone who goes up on the roof and worships the sun, the moon, and the stars. I will also destroy those who worship me and swear loyalty to me, but then take oaths in the name of the god Molech. I will destroy those who have turned back and no longer follow me, those who do not come to me or ask me to guide them." Zephaniah 1:2-6 GNB

(Cruel God) Killer Angel: 2 Kings 19:35 GNB

That night an angel of the LORD went to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 soldiers. At dawn the next day there they lay, all dead! -2 Kings 19:35 GNB

(Cruel God) No Mercy: Isaiah 13:11-18

The LORD says, "I will bring disaster on the earth and punish all wicked people for their sins. I will humble everyone who is proud and punish everyone who is arrogant and cruel. Those who survive will be scarcer than gold. I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place on that day when I, the LORD Almighty, show my anger. "The foreigners living in Babylon will run away to their homelands, scattering like deer escaping from hunters, like sheep without a shepherd. Anyone who is caught will be stabbed to death. While they look on helplessly, their babies will be battered to death, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be raped." The LORD says, "I am stirring up the Medes to attack Babylon. They care nothing for silver and are not tempted by gold. With their bows and arrows they will kill the young men. They will show no mercy to babies and take no pity on children. -Isaiah 13:11-18

(Cruel God) Confusing Language: Genesis 11:1-9 RSV

Now the whole earth had one language and few words. And as men migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men had built. And the LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore its name was called Ba'bel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth. -Genesis 11:1-9 RSV

(Cruel God) Disobeying: Deuteronomy 28:15-68 GNB

But if you disobey the LORD your God and do not faithfully keep all his commands and laws that I am giving you today, all these evil things will happen to you:


The LORD will curse your towns and your fields.


The LORD will curse your grain crops and the food you prepare from them.


The LORD will curse you by giving you only a few children, poor crops, and few cattle and sheep.


"The LORD will curse everything you do.


If you do evil and reject the LORD, he will bring on you disaster, confusion, and trouble in everything you do, until you are quickly and completely destroyed.


He will send disease after disease on you until there is not one of you left in the land that you are about to occupy.


The LORD will strike you with infectious diseases, with swelling and fever; he will send drought and scorching winds to destroy your crops. These disasters will be with you until you die.


No rain will fall, and your ground will become as hard as iron.


Instead of rain, the LORD will send down duststorms and sandstorms until you are destroyed.


"The LORD will give your enemies victory over you. You will attack them from one direction, but you will run from them in all directions, and all the people on earth will be terrified when they see what happens to you.


When you die, birds and wild animals will come and eat your bodies, and there will be no one to scare them off.


The LORD will send boils on you, as he did on the Egyptians. He will make your bodies break out with sores. You will be covered with scabs, and you will itch, but there will be no cure.


The LORD will make you lose your mind; he will strike you with blindness and confusion.


You will grope about in broad daylight like someone blind, and you will not be able to find your way. You will not prosper in anything you do. You will be constantly oppressed and robbed, and there will be no one to help you.


You will be engaged to a young woman---but someone else will marry her. You will build a house---but never live in it. You will plant a vineyard---but never eat its grapes.


Your cattle will be butchered before your very eyes, but you will not eat any of the meat. Your donkeys will be dragged away while you look on, and they will not be given back to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and there will be no one to help you.


Your sons and daughters will be given as slaves to foreigners while you look on. Every day you will strain your eyes, looking in vain for your children to return.


A foreign nation will take all the crops that you have worked so hard to grow, while you receive nothing but constant oppression and harsh treatment.


Your sufferings will make you lose your mind.


The LORD will cover your legs with incurable, painful sores; boils will cover you from head to foot.


The LORD will take you and your king away to a foreign land, where neither you nor your ancestors ever lived before; there you will serve gods made of wood and stone.


In the countries to which the LORD will scatter you, the people will be shocked at what has happened to you; they will make fun of you and ridicule you.


"You will plant plenty of seed, but reap only a small harvest, because the locusts will eat your crops.


You will plant vineyards and take care of them, but you will not gather their grapes or drink wine from them, because worms will eat the vines.


Olive trees will grow everywhere in your land, but you will not have any olive oil, because the olives will drop off.


You will have sons and daughters, but you will lose them, because they will be taken away as prisoners of war.


All your trees and crops will be devoured by insects.


"Foreigners who live in your land will gain more and more power, while you gradually lose yours.


They will have money to lend you, but you will have none to lend them. In the end they will be your rulers.


All these disasters will come on you, and they will be with you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the LORD your God and keep all the laws that he gave you.


They will be the evidence of God's judgment on you and your descendants forever.


The LORD blessed you in every way, but you would not serve him with glad and joyful hearts.


So then, you will serve the enemies that the LORD is going to send against you. You will be hungry, thirsty, and naked---in need of everything. The LORD will oppress you harshly until you are destroyed.


The LORD will bring against you a nation from the ends of the earth, a nation whose language you do not know. They will swoop down on you like an eagle.


They will be ruthless and show no mercy to anyone, young or old.


They will eat your livestock and your crops, and you will starve to death. They will not leave you any grain, wine, olive oil, cattle, or sheep; and you will die.


They will attack every town in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and the high, fortified walls in which you trust will fall.


"When your enemies are besieging your towns, you will become so desperate for food that you will even eat the children that the LORD your God has given you.


Even the most refined man of noble birth will become so desperate during the siege that he will eat some of his own children because he has no other food. He will not even give any to his brother or to the wife he loves or to any of his children who are left.



Even the most refined woman of noble birth, so rich that she has never had to walk anywhere, will behave in the same way. When the enemy besieges her town, she will become so desperate for food that she will secretly eat her newborn child and the afterbirth as well. She will not share them with the husband she loves or with any of her children.



If you do not obey faithfully all of God's teachings that are written in this book and if you do not honor the wonderful and awesome name of the LORD your God,


he will send on you and on your descendants incurable diseases and horrible epidemics that can never be stopped.


He will bring on you once again all the dreadful diseases you experienced in Egypt, and you will never recover.


He will also send all kinds of diseases and epidemics that are not mentioned in this book of God's laws and teachings, and you will be destroyed.


Although you become as numerous as the stars in the sky, only a few of you will survive, because you did not obey the LORD your God.


Just as the LORD took delight in making you prosper and in making you increase in number, so he will take delight in destroying you and in bringing ruin on you. You will be uprooted from the land that you are about to occupy.


"The LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve gods made of wood and stone, gods that neither you nor your ancestors have ever worshiped before.


You will find no peace anywhere, no place to call your own; the LORD will overwhelm you with anxiety, hopelessness, and despair.


Your life will always be in danger. Day and night you will be filled with terror, and you will live in constant fear of death.


Your hearts will pound with fear at everything you see. Every morning you will wish for evening; every evening you will wish for morning.


The LORD will send you back to Egypt in ships, even though he said that you would never have to go there again. There you will try to sell yourselves to your enemies as slaves, but no one will want to buy you."

-Deuteronomy 28:15-68 GNB

(Bigotry) Homosexuality: Leviticus 20:13

If a man has sexual relations with another man, they have done a disgusting thing, and both shall be put to death. They are responsible for their own death.

(Bigotry) Homosexuality: Deuteronomy 22:5

"Women are not to wear men's clothing, and men are not to wear women's clothing; the LORD your God hates people who do such things.

(Bigotry) Homosexuality: Leviticus 18:22

No man is to have sexual relations with another man; God hates that.

The Pope needs a miracle (Pat Condell)

Pat pretty much stomps a mudhole in the Catholic Church here.

Belgian Police Raid Catholic Church HQ in Sex Abuse Probe

Top Catholic Priest Accused of Sexually Abusing His Own Sons

Why are so many Catholic priests pedophiles?


Why does the Catholic Church protect pedophiles?


With all these incidences of pedophilia that have brought to the media's attention over the last few years, I cannot understand why any sane human would continue to belong to this cult of child rapists (maybe they don't watch the news or don't care). The Vatican should have action taken against it for crimes against humanity—being that it is actively engaged in protecting pedophiles, this makes them accessories after-the-fact (maybe 'before' in some cases).

There is an obvious trend here with the Catholic Church and pedophilia. Should the Catholic Church be considered a safe-haven for pedophiles? Absolutely, at least until the organization becomes aware of their moral-hypocrisy. They see condoms being used to prevent aids as being worse than the virus itself on one hand, and priests doing sexual things with young boys as being acceptable on the other—what a strange moral philosophy.

While it wouldn't completely eliminate all of it, allowing priests to marry would be a big step. In my opinion, any man that decides to live his entire life in celibacy isn't playing with a full deck of cards, this is probably the main reason why the priesthood attracts such people. Now, I'm not claiming all Catholic priests are pedophiles (impossible to know). Perhaps there are some genuine men which love God more than having sex and raising a family. I obviously am unable to understand it, just like I am unable to understand why a person would do that to a child.

Oil Spill a False Flag?

I came across these videos the other day. With the lack of information I can't really form an opinion on them—but a good conspiracy theory is always entertaining. It seems as if something so immense as this natural disaster would be impossible to fake. I suppose there is a decently sized void of information that must be overcome. It's rather oil or it isn't; if I was a betting man, I would put my money on oil.





Either way, the following questions must be answered:

Why are the people involved caught up in so much easily avoidable drama?
Why can't a pipe be plugged up in a period of two months?
Is the air space and beaches really inaccessible?


I have my doubts as to whether this is a false flag, but who knows, crazier things have happened.

Is it better to be a "paranoid conspiracy freak" than "a sheep being led into a meat grinder"?

You decide...

God: an asshole father?

The message on this church sign says more than what was probably intended. This message was up during fathers day which is hilarious.

What will happen to 'The Man with a 30 Second Memory'?

Check out this video; obviously such a guy could never believe in a god, and should be going to hell. Otherwise all "good-atheists" would have to be let in as well. Why is this? well, both are unable to believe in a religion because their brains get in the way.



Hypothetically, if this all-powerful creator wanted atheists to believe in nonsense like magic and unicorns (it's in the bible) he would have given them a brain similar to what this person is using...

Why was Sarah Palin fortunate enough to be born with a brain so incapable of intelligence? It is because of her incapable brain that she is unable to grasp concepts like evolution. People like Sarah Palin would (and do) have a much easier time believing in talking snakes and demons than a person of intelligence.

For example, a person that thought Africa was a country....



Would have a much easier time believing in things like witchcraft...






The problem many atheists have (non-herd atheists) is that, contrary to what believers think, we ARE able to wrap our heads around what religious belief is, and it is because of this that we are unable to engage in it. We understand the insanity behind those who speak in tongues, and even why such people would truly believe in the validity of such actions. 



I don't think many believers in a hell (Christians, Muslims, etc.) view this website, but if any manage to find their way here, answer the following questions.

Will the guy with a 30 Second Memory go to hell?

Why?

I'm probably the only one who finds this funny....

Vegetarians: whiniest people on earth?

Vegetarians fall into the same category for me that Christians, Muslims etc. are found in. However, they seem much more afraid of the truth behind the deliciousness of meat than believers are of their "lowly" origins. The problem with vegetarians is that they over-think the consumption of meat so much that they warp the reality of the source of the meat itself. Vegetarians look at an animal and project their large human mind into the head of let's say a chicken (a brain slightly bigger than a pea). A chicken does not experience life like a human does. Chickens do not have the complexity of thoughts that we do, yet vegetarians appear to believe that they do, or perhaps it is subconscious. I would be willing to bet that chickens do not even understand what death is (or any of our prey-species). Sure, they experience some pain a few moments before death, but once it is over, so is the pain. Way over 99% of the chicken's life was a well fed, protected existence—definitely preferable to what a chicken's existence would be in the wild (I'll get into that more later on).

Regardless, vegetarians are experiencing a misfiring of their evolutionary hard-wiring against cannibalism. This I believe is the explanation for the nausea that a vegetarian experiences when the thought of eating meat comes into their minds. This nausea is the same as the feeling of nausea caused by the thought of cannibalism, which exists in most humans. Obviously, being the species that we are, it is beneficial for us not to eat one another. Across virtually all cultures, cannibalism is viewed with the strongest possible disgust—in fact the few that engaged in the practice were made infamous for it. No one needed to let you know that cannibalism is gross, you automatically perceive it as such—this shows how being anti-cannibalism is hardwired into our brains.



All people innately enjoy the taste of meat (why vegetarians often enjoy eating imitation meat). It is the reality-warping thought patterns that delude the thinking of a vegetarian, and this is why I lump vegetarians and religious believers into the same group. It should be obvious as to what I am referring to when I say "delude". Vegetarians perceive all other animals as being human, which is why they find it disgusting to eat them. It is a similar delusion which makes certain people go ape-shit when they see animals getting "abused" and perceiving it like those animals are human, and should be treated as such (should we lock up all praymantis females after they murder and cannibalize their husbands?). While I do not think any animal should have to experience senseless pain, we all have to experience some pain to earn our keep; animals are not superior to humans, and the animals intended for human consumption are here to serve that role. Do not confuse what I am saying with people that beat dogs or whatever, I obviously am against that because that pain is senseless and destructive towards the purpose of companionship that a pet is for.

Animals such as cows and chickens are the prey of humans, it is as simple as that. Vegetarians/animal rights people as a whole seem to think that the wild is some sacred place that apparently all animals "belong". Well, here is the lovely wild. I would much rather be killed in a slaughter house than to be killed in this way, but maybe it's just me...




The life of an animal in the wild is not all that pleasant, they are pushed to the limit, and when they get old or sick they often get mauled to death by a predator (if not before). Is a fate such as that really that much better than living on a farm? Prey species need their predators just as much as their predators need them—it is a mutual relationship. If there were no predators for a prey-species, then they would find themselves overpopulating and constantly avoiding starvation. Is it better that an animal is near starving its whole life than to be killed at the end of it by some predator? Predators try to ensure their prey is well fed (some directly, some indirectly)—it is the way of nature, and humans are a part of nature.

This is why I think that vegetarians/animal rights people are the whiniest pussies on earth, they think all animals should behave like the Brady Bunch (we are animals, sorry), and to make it worse, they are so damn vocal about it. I believe that all such people should go into Africa and try to convince lions to go vegan, just to see how the ultimate disagreers in their diet-philosophy react to their presence.

An animal that is well fed during its life and is killed at the end to serve some purpose has had a more meaningful and enjoyable life than one that spends it close to starvation, and ultimately becomes worm-food (an all but meaningless purpose). In death all animals (us included) will be consumed in some way. While a slaughter house is not all too pleasant, it is certainly a lesser evil for those animals than to have never been born or to suffer in the wild. Now some people may think that those animals lives would be better to have not existed at all—well, I guess that would be a disagreement. However, to say that animals would be better off not existing at all would be considered racist if that same logic was applied to the suffering Ethiopians. If you are a person that personifies animals in order to get that fear of cannibalism, then you can't have your cake and eat it to. Just because an animal experiences pain during its life does not give you the right (in my opinion) to wish that animal was never born at all. The same goes for a person that claims that the mentally handicapped should all be aborted, being that it would be the "humane thing to do".

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The All-Loving God: Consequences of Disobedience (Deuteronomy 28:15-68)

According to the Bible, the following will happen if you disobey God. So far I personally have not needed to eat any babies, but I can't speak for all atheists. Some claim that this god is all-loving, but I think that he is one of the most hate-filled characters to appear in any fictional work—his evil is a masterpiece.

If the people that created this character truly believed that he was to be a being of love and intelligence, then those people most have taken one too many of those "spiritual mushrooms" or snorted too much of that "holy powder", because those numskulls were surly not playing with a full deck of cards when they wrote this fear-mongering nonsense. Anyways, enjoy!..


But if you disobey the LORD your God and do not faithfully keep all his commands and laws that I am giving you today, all these evil things will happen to you:

The LORD will curse your towns and your fields.

The LORD will curse your grain crops and the food you prepare from them.

The LORD will curse you by giving you only a few children, poor crops, and few cattle and sheep.

"The LORD will curse everything you do.

If you do evil and reject the LORD, he will bring on you disaster, confusion, and trouble in everything you do, until you are quickly and completely destroyed.

He will send disease after disease on you until there is not one of you left in the land that you are about to occupy.

The LORD will strike you with infectious diseases, with swelling and fever; he will send drought and scorching winds to destroy your crops. These disasters will be with you until you die.

No rain will fall, and your ground will become as hard as iron.

Instead of rain, the LORD will send down duststorms and sandstorms until you are destroyed.

"The LORD will give your enemies victory over you. You will attack them from one direction, but you will run from them in all directions, and all the people on earth will be terrified when they see what happens to you.

When you die, birds and wild animals will come and eat your bodies, and there will be no one to scare them off.

The LORD will send boils on you, as he did on the Egyptians. He will make your bodies break out with sores. You will be covered with scabs, and you will itch, but there will be no cure.

The LORD will make you lose your mind; he will strike you with blindness and confusion.

You will grope about in broad daylight like someone blind, and you will not be able to find your way. You will not prosper in anything you do. You will be constantly oppressed and robbed, and there will be no one to help you.

You will be engaged to a young woman---but someone else will marry her. You will build a house---but never live in it. You will plant a vineyard---but never eat its grapes.

Your cattle will be butchered before your very eyes, but you will not eat any of the meat. Your donkeys will be dragged away while you look on, and they will not be given back to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and there will be no one to help you.

Your sons and daughters will be given as slaves to foreigners while you look on. Every day you will strain your eyes, looking in vain for your children to return.

A foreign nation will take all the crops that you have worked so hard to grow, while you receive nothing but constant oppression and harsh treatment.

Your sufferings will make you lose your mind.

The LORD will cover your legs with incurable, painful sores; boils will cover you from head to foot.

The LORD will take you and your king away to a foreign land, where neither you nor your ancestors ever lived before; there you will serve gods made of wood and stone.

In the countries to which the LORD will scatter you, the people will be shocked at what has happened to you; they will make fun of you and ridicule you.

"You will plant plenty of seed, but reap only a small harvest, because the locusts will eat your crops.

You will plant vineyards and take care of them, but you will not gather their grapes or drink wine from them, because worms will eat the vines.

Olive trees will grow everywhere in your land, but you will not have any olive oil, because the olives will drop off.

You will have sons and daughters, but you will lose them, because they will be taken away as prisoners of war.

All your trees and crops will be devoured by insects.

"Foreigners who live in your land will gain more and more power, while you gradually lose yours.

They will have money to lend you, but you will have none to lend them. In the end they will be your rulers.

All these disasters will come on you, and they will be with you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the LORD your God and keep all the laws that he gave you.

They will be the evidence of God's judgment on you and your descendants forever.

The LORD blessed you in every way, but you would not serve him with glad and joyful hearts.

So then, you will serve the enemies that the LORD is going to send against you. You will be hungry, thirsty, and naked---in need of everything. The LORD will oppress you harshly until you are destroyed.

The LORD will bring against you a nation from the ends of the earth, a nation whose language you do not know. They will swoop down on you like an eagle.

They will be ruthless and show no mercy to anyone, young or old.

They will eat your livestock and your crops, and you will starve to death. They will not leave you any grain, wine, olive oil, cattle, or sheep; and you will die.

They will attack every town in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and the high, fortified walls in which you trust will fall.

"When your enemies are besieging your towns, you will become so desperate for food that you will even eat the children that the LORD your God has given you.

Even the most refined man of noble birth will become so desperate during the siege that he will eat some of his own children because he has no other food. He will not even give any to his brother or to the wife he loves or to any of his children who are left.


Even the most refined woman of noble birth, so rich that she has never had to walk anywhere, will behave in the same way. When the enemy besieges her town, she will become so desperate for food that she will secretly eat her newborn child and the afterbirth as well. She will not share them with the husband she loves or with any of her children.


If you do not obey faithfully all of God's teachings that are written in this book and if you do not honor the wonderful and awesome name of the LORD your God,

he will send on you and on your descendants incurable diseases and horrible epidemics that can never be stopped.

He will bring on you once again all the dreadful diseases you experienced in Egypt, and you will never recover.

He will also send all kinds of diseases and epidemics that are not mentioned in this book of God's laws and teachings, and you will be destroyed.

Although you become as numerous as the stars in the sky, only a few of you will survive, because you did not obey the LORD your God.

Just as the LORD took delight in making you prosper and in making you increase in number, so he will take delight in destroying you and in bringing ruin on you. You will be uprooted from the land that you are about to occupy.

"The LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve gods made of wood and stone, gods that neither you nor your ancestors have ever worshiped before.

You will find no peace anywhere, no place to call your own; the LORD will overwhelm you with anxiety, hopelessness, and despair.

Your life will always be in danger. Day and night you will be filled with terror, and you will live in constant fear of death.

Your hearts will pound with fear at everything you see. Every morning you will wish for evening; every evening you will wish for morning.

The LORD will send you back to Egypt in ships, even though he said that you would never have to go there again. There you will try to sell yourselves to your enemies as slaves, but no one will want to buy you."

Spending an eternity in heaven with God would be hell.

Church Sign Fail

Signs from the local churches, it appears they are getting desperate for people to show up on Sundays.

Disturbing Bible Quotes 3

Don't Spare the Children: 1 Samuel 15:1-9

Here is another lovely verse found in the Good Book.

      Samuel said to Saul, "I am the one whom the Lord sent to anoint you king of his people Israel. Now listen to what the Lord Almighty says. He is going to punish the people of Amalek because their ancestors opposed the Israelites when they were coming from Egypt. Go and attack the Amaleks and compelety destroy everything they have. Don't leave a thing; kill all the men, women, children and babies; the cattle, sheep, camels, and donkeys."
     Saul called his forces together and inspected them at Telem: there were 200,000 soldiers from Israel and 10,000 from Judah. Then he and his men went to the city of Amalek and waited in ambush in a dry riverbed. He sent a warning to the Kenites, a people whose ancestors had been kind to the Israelites when they came from Egypt: "Go away and leave the Amalekites, so that I won't kill you along with them." So the Kenites left. 
    Saul defeated the Amalekites, fighting all the way from Havilah to Shur, east of Egypt; he captured King Agag of Amalek alive and killed all the people. But Saul and his men spared Agag's life and did not kill the best sheep and cattle, the best calves and lambs, or anything else that was good; they destroyed only what was useless or worthless. -1 Samuel 15:1-9 GNB


Apparently human life is worthless/useless (using religion to support a pro-life position is hypocritical). Faith is what allows a person to read this and not feel disgusted. I personally don't get it, but they say faith is a good thing to have.

Should we have faith in the morality of desert-barbarians who loved to kill babies in their spare time?

The foundation of the New Testament is the Old Testament, regardless of what any Christian claims; it is the "word of God" according to Jesus. Getting morality from the Bible is no worse than getting it from Hitler; both support genocide, but only one is infamous for it—what a bunch of hypocrisy.

Cat Poo Parasite = Explanation for Cultural Trends?

This parasite is supposedly intended to attack the brain of a mouse destroying their innate fear of cats. This crazy parasite actually makes mice sexually attracted to cat urine—insane, right? well, it gets crazier. This parasite can infect humans and do similar things as it does to mice. I was reading this other article on this parasite the other day, anyone reading this should definitely check it out (click me). According to that article this parasite effects 'half of the people on the planet'. It appears to reduce intelligence levels and makes a person more outgoing and happy, along with reducing judgment and fear of certain things. The guy in the video here says that it is harmful to the parasite to kill judgment in humans. I however think that there may be more to it than that; perhaps people with reduced judgment coupled by the increased levels of dopamine will become more likely to take in several cats (what is beneficial for cats is beneficial for the parasite). I don't believe that it was addressed in the video, but I wonder if this parasite makes humans sexually attracted to cat urine—again, this would make them literally love cats even more.

If a large portion of the population has this parasite, and it has that great of an impact on personality etc., then we may have an explanation to account for some of the high rates of mental illness and general strangeness of the cultural trends. I wonder how many hippies have this parasite? Is there a higher rate of this parasite among either major political party in the United States? I am going to refer to this cat shit parasite as 'douchebag's disease'. Let's pray to God they find a cure.

The All-Loving God: Murderous Snakes

It is often said that God is all-loving. Here is a verse that shows how loving he is towards people that are suffering in the desert...


The Israelites left Mount Hor by the road that leads to the Gulf of Aqaba, in order to go around the territory of Edom. But on the way the people lost their patience and spoke against God and Moses. They complained, "Why did you bring us out of Egypt to die in this desert, where there is no food or water? We can't stand any more of this miserable food!" Then the Lord sent poisonous snakes among the people, and many Israelites were bitten and died. The people came to Moses and said, "We sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Now pray to the Lord to take these snakes away." So Moses prayed for the people. Then the Lord told Moses to make a metal snake and put it on a pole, so that anyone who was bitten could look at it and be healed. So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole. Anyone who had been bitten would look at the bronze snake and be healed. -Numbers 21:4 GNB

Doesn't God sound like a real nice guy? He takes some of the few people that actually believe in him during the time, and tortures them by having them travel through a desert. This guy is suppose to be all powerful, he could have given them some ATVs with endless gas; or maybe he could have instantly teleported them to the promise land; hell, at the very least he could have given them some bottled water and granola bars. He could have done it in the blink of an eye (being that he is all powerful) without breaking a sweat—instead he forces them to travel through the desert, and if they complain, HE WILL SEND FUCKING SNAKES TO KILL THEM.

Either way, it's a good thing Samuel L. Jackson wasn't there—he probably would have brought on the apocalypse.



God is like a drunken redneck in a bar—if you piss him off, you better hope he has one of his friends nearby to talk some sense into him. It's pretty funny how this god always loses his cool and needs to be talked into doing the right thing (which is not killing people with snakes because they are vocal about their dislike starvation and dehydration).

Islam vs. Secularism

Here is another video which gets into South Park's depiction of Muhammad. I just can't get over how arrogant these people are. The problem is that, as a whole, the Muslim world is not as evolved as it should be. Muslims need us to criticize their goofy religion if they want to avoid their own destruction. Criticism will instill them with humility—which is exactly what they need if they wish live in a modern world (you can't threaten to kill everyone you disagree with).

Most other religions have been put into their place throughout history. Being that Islam is next in line to be put into its place by the secular world, it's really up to them for how painful they want it to be. Secularism put the Catholic church into its place a little over 200 years ago. The power of secularism is much greater now than it was in the past (more people willing to fight for it, including many moderate Muslims). There is a line that religion cannot cross in modern society. The majority of religions in the world have learned where that line is—some learned the hard way, some learned from history. The nonsecular Muslims are like a kid that daydreams and shoots spit-balls during history class, not learning a damn thing. When he gets his grades back he blames the teacher—what a little bitch. 

So for you nonsecular Muslims, I suppose it is time for you to pick your poison, because you're not match for the secular world.

Empire State Building Declines to Light Up for Mother Teresa

Why is Phil Donohue wasting his time trying to get people that obviously don't want to celebrate a religious figure to do it anyways? Answer: God only gave freewill to those that believe in him.

What does this "lighting up" of lights actually do? Who stands to benefit? Answer: those who want to idolize a dead person (borderline sin, but who cares right?).

Why is he not protesting against authority figures within his own church that molest children? Answer: the Devil made them do it.

Why is he KICKING AND SCREAMING FOR FUCKING LIGHTS TO LIGHT UP IN A CERTAIN WAY FOR SOME DEAD LADY THAT HELPED A FEW PEOPLE THAT GOD SHIT ON? Answer: He needs all the lights he can get (he isn't all that bright to begin with).

Donohue would rather live in the past than to fight for something that really matters. I suppose many Christians are this way—it is their heritage to care more about old dead things that are irrelevant, than to focus on real problems that are happening NOW. There are many to pick from (like the BP oil spill). Douchebags like this guy would rather blow a gasket over some stupid lights in the name of religion than to help people just for the sake of helping them (religion is a killer of priorities). I suppose it is what it is, but it is funny.

Stephen Hawking on Religion: 'Science Will Win'

Certainty (poem)

those who are certain know it all

those who are honest are stupid

we are all certain

certain in our core

ignorant of our body

denying the self

God the explanation

god of human knowledge

answer to the universe

answer of ourselves 

we are not explained

no point left

just heaven 

 God is gone

nothing left

just certainty

Hatred (Poem)

I hate racism

I hate bigotry

you must

hate is evil

it is bad

it must be destroyed

hate will be gone

as soon as I'm gone

It's Genius: California Likely to Legalize Marijuana

It's brilliant! As we know, California is having very tough economic times—they are going to make an obscene amount of revenue if/when marijuana becomes legal. Not only would they make a lot of money from the taxes, but they will be making bank off all the increased tourism as well (from not only the Americas, but from around the world). You can disagree on whether or not weed should be legalized, but you must agree that this is a very smart move for California economically. I have little doubt that by legalizing weed alone, California will find themselves crawling out of their financial hole. Of course that will only last so long, when all the other states see the large amounts of revenue, they will want a piece of that pie as well.

Do I believe weed should be legalized? Yes, but that is not because I am all that interested in doing it. The question of whether or not something should be made illegal by a government is if that thing is deemed harmful to the society. I think weed is as harmful to society as women over 50 that wear revealing clothing in public (seriously, nobody wants to see that). So, if the government is to be that sensitive towards removing all things which may cause slight harm to society, then I propose the following laws:

• All women over the age of 50 must conform to a certain dress code (turtlenecks, sweatpants, sweatshirts, baggy shorts etc.).
• Cigarette/Cigar smoking should be banned.
• Alcohol should be banned.
• It should be illegal for people under the age of 17 to talk louder than a whisper.
• Child singing stars should be banned, and anyone that continues to listen to them will be dragged into a field and shot execution style.
• Old people should no longer be able to get plastic surgery (just a terrible waste of resources).
• Breast implants should be banned (having them is a form of fraud).
• Nascar should be banned... actually, no, rednecks in general should be banned.
• Lobbyist should be banned.
• Fast food restaurants should be banned.
  
  

All of the above can be argued as being as bad as marijuana for society. Here is a list of the harm marijuana is to society when made illegal. 

• Drug dealers
• Prison destroys a person's life far worse than smoking a joint.
• Can't be taxed, and all the income made by the selling of it goes to the drug dealers. 
• Wasted money spent on the prison's baby-sitters; those professional baby-sitters could be doing real, productive, jobs. 
• Housing a person in a prison cell cost a lot of money and eliminates the productivity that person could have in the outside world. 
• Causes marijuana to be a possible gateway into further crime due to the current criminal nature of obtaining it.
• Hemp has many uses such as making cloth and plastic-like materials (would be good for American industry); not having it prevents the benefit of having it.

I believe that like gay-marriage, the idea of marijuana becoming legalized pisses off the religious conservatives in this country, which may be one of the main reason why I support it.

Our Failing Education: The Bullying of the Grading System.

Schools have been letting down generation after generation; you may be asking yourself why that is. Well, it is not a straight forward answer—in fact it is probably not one particular thing at all, but a bunch of little things. I will be writing several blog posts on what I think those things are.

My first opinion for why the educational system is failing is because of the bullying nature of the grading system. It seems to me that a child's interest in becoming educated can be greatly diminished by the grading system.

How often do kids which once shinned in school, find themselves to be in the D and C range later down the road? There may be many causes to this, one being the bullying done by the jealous students which do not have the motivation or intelligence to get those high grades. Students that are unable to perform will be labeled as "stupid", and the ones that do well as "smart". This creates jealousy among the majority of students against the 'intellectual elites'—jealousy oftentimes leads to bullying, ultimately leading to the condemnation of doing well by the kids who are unable or unwilling. This is all caused directly by the grading system, and the intelligence hierarchy it creates (similar to how the Third Estate rose up against the nobility during the French Revolution). But not only that, but what about those kids which are not as intelligent as the majority of their peers (when it comes to intelligence, people obviously have great variation)? Those kids will be brainwashed into believing that they are lazy and/or stupid for their entire childhood just because they were born a certain way (subject for what should be done instead is another subject altogether). A person who is born without great intellectual ability should not be attacked psychologically for their entire childhood just because of the way they were born—there is little difference between this and the bullying nature of racism. Most of us know first hand that some kids can breeze right through school with good grades and little effort, and some other kids can put in great effort and barley pass.

We also have those kids that get stuck in the 'barley passing' mode. These kids can be as bright as any, but become unmotivated by the stinging nature of getting a bad grade. People do not like to do things that they are bad at; if you are bad at a certain subject, and you get that fact rubbed in your face, you will be that much more unmotivated. Virtually everyone does bad on a test at some point, and this is where the bullying of the grading system is perhaps the most destructive. When a child receives a bad grade, this is giving them the message that they are either lazy or stupid. Regardless of how a child processes it, this will lead to zero motivation beyond doing what is required to pass. A single bad grade is an insult to a child, they are being called "lazy" and "stupid" by their teachers use of red ink—this is believed to be best way to motivate a child, how ironic. Handing out bad grades is an intentional effort to bully students into performing. Ever hear of the expression "you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar"? Well, that is absolutely true in this case; the grading system seeks to "catch flies with vinegar", which causes harm to the confidence of majority, and at the same time causes the 'intellectual elite' to be the target of bullying by the jealous majority.

The grading system has resulted in the creation of terms like "nerd" which virtually all students dread to be labeled as (nerds are viewed as social outcasts, unpopular, wimpy etc.). Being an intellectual should not come with negative stereotypes, yet the grading system is the main reason for why it does. 

I believe I have laid out why using a grading system is itself bullying, and also causes bullying; in-case you are not convinced let me further explain it. Many people believe that bullies do their bullying because of personal insecurities—they vent frustration at those perceived as an easy targets (which may be the case in some instances of the use of grading). But I do not believe this is telling the whole story for why bullies bully. I believe bullies, rather than picking on easy targets just because they are easy, are instead looking for those that do not conform to the ideal that they hold themselves to be. Bullies pick on kids that stand out from the pack, and this is done to deter what is perceived as an undesirable deviation from the pack. This applies to grading in that it aims to attack a child's confidence in hopes of making those children conform to the desirable (grades of A's and B's).

Grading, like all types of bullying rarely have a possitive effect—all grades do is create anxiety which may lead to psychological problems down the road (1 in 4 adults have some sort of mental disorder). Not to get too hung up on this, but anxiety caused by grades can cause great harm for the learning process. You may get some old-fashioned dinosaurs that think it is needed, obviously I disagree. I believe that those early years should be as enjoyable as possible, and at the core of that enjoyment should be learning about the world around them—it should not be a period of anxiety to perform and conform to a grading system would uses bullying tactics in order to get results.

The system which should, in my opinion, be put in the old's place is the subject for another day, so I'll leave it at that.

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