Atheist RefeRence Book

Version .03

This book is meant as a reference for those intending to evangelize or debate in the name of reason. It references multiple pro-religious, pro-god argument types, and their common refutations. Its meant to be a guide to help recognize, classify, and refute arguments based on your developed knowledge and practice of these arguments, and to give you an opportunity to develop a base of knowledge that would help these guidelines become more effective. It is a not-for-profit compilation of a variety of texts, paraphrased for brevity and clarity, plus additional writing by myself and other volunteers.

Compiled, Edited, and Printed in 2007 by Vincente Wilhelms AKA Procrustes

(yeah, both are pseudonyms)

Cover Art by Traveler

contents PRologue: A conveRsAtion................................................................................. 1 BAsic ARguments foR And AgAinst Religion ..................................................... 5
is Religion tRue? .....................................................................................................5 cosmologicAl (a priori)......................................................................................5 teleologicAl (a posteriori) ...............................................................................7 ontologicAl (a priori) ...................................................................................... 11 PAscAls WAgeR.................................................................................................15 PeRsonAl sPecific PRoof oR disPRoof of the existence of god ..................17 otheR ARguments AgAinst the existence of god .........................................19 is Religion useful?................................................................................................23 moRAlity............................................................................................................23 souRces foR Atheist moRAlity ........................................................................24 hoPe/PRAyeR ......................................................................................................25 good deeds ........................................................................................................25 is Atheism BAd? ......................................................................................................27 common AccusAtions ABout Atheism, .............................................................27 And theiR RefutAtions .....................................................................................27 nt vs ot ARgument ..............................................................................................33 slAveRy ....................................................................................................................33 Women .....................................................................................................................33 god demAnding muRdeR ........................................................................................34 ABsuRdities ..............................................................................................................35 killing childRen....................................................................................................35 sAcRifice..................................................................................................................35 killing, toRtuRing non-BelieveRs ......................................................................36 disgusting ...............................................................................................................36 contRAdictions .......................................................................................................37

the WoRd of god............................................................................................... 33

the ten (oR so) commAndments ....................................................................... 57

Which ten commAndments? ...............................................................................57 PRotestAnt, cAtholic, oR heBReW?......................................................................57 Which ten commAndments? ...............................................................................59 fiRst oR second tABles? .......................................................................................59 ten Punishments .....................................................................................................61 the BiBles scientific stAtements (As PRoof of divine insPiRAtion) ............ 63 AnimAliA ..................................................................................................................63 mythologicAl cReAtuRes......................................................................................63 non-RotAtion of the eARth ..................................................................................64 flAt eARth ..............................................................................................................64 BAd medicAl Advice...............................................................................................64 humAnkind 4.54 Billion yeARs old......................................................................64 nAtuRAl disAsteRs ..................................................................................................65 giAnts WAlked the eARth.....................................................................................65 miscellAneous ........................................................................................................65 hoW to PResent A PRoPeR ARgument......................................................................69 hoW to detect fAllAcies .......................................................................................70 APPendix A. suggested ReAding ...........................................................................77 APPendix B. useful WeB sites..............................................................................77 APPendix c. full texts of included WoRks ......................................................79 sAm hARRis .........................................................................................................79 BiBlicAl PAssAges ..............................................................................................89 APPendix d. souRces foR this Book ...................................................................106

god And Politics; oR, Why BotheR ARguing foR Atheism?........................... 67 tools foR the RAtionAl deBAteR ..................................................................... 69 Quotes ................................................................................................................. 75 APPendices ........................................................................................................... 77

thAnksgiving: ................................................................................................... 107

PRologue: A conveRsAtion
Assume that you, a fine follower of reason, are chatting with an acquaintance over an espresso, and, as conversations sometimes do, the dialogue veers into religion. Perhaps you both agree that W. is a nut, and you comment about his claim that God sent him to invade Iraq. Your friend, curious at your tone, inquires as to whether you believe in God. Suddenly, your heart begins to beat rapidly. Youre on the verge of a theological debate, with a friend. You dont want to lie - that would undermine your personal integrity. You also dont want to get into a yelling match or have someone wagging a finger at you, condemning you to Hell on behalf of that persons personal god. (that would be, honestly, a huge waste of your time). However, you think that this person, your friend, might actually be curious about your beliefs. And, in turn, you become curious about your friends beliefs, perhaps in hope that you can bring someone else to the brink of reason. What do you do? Well, thats ultimately up to you. But, heres what I might do... Im somewhat passive aggressive, so, even if someone asks me whether I believe in God, I would likely respond, Do you believe in God? And, I would expect my friend to say yes. Then, Id follow up, Why? That can lead to some exciting conversation and perhaps some friendly debate. I have a general rule, though, about with whom I engage in conversation. First, I prefer one-on-one. Tag-team conversation/debates can get confusing, and easily shift through many different argument types, with your opponents arguments overlapping, often incoherently, inconsistently, and certainly illogically. Its not worth the headache. I also dont try to converse with street corner evangelicals who hold the bible, yelling at passersby. It doesnt matter what you say to that person, youre not getting anywhere. Youll either make a fool of yourself in front of others, or youll make yourself a hero martyr to nearby atheists and a vicious heathen dog to everyone else, regardless of what youre saying. Never try to out-shout anyone. Youll only look as if youre trying to be more obnoxious. Whom will I engage? Friends, acquaintances whom Ive known for long enough to feel out, relatives, and


seemingly rational people in the mood for good chat and debate. Feel free to deviate from these guidelines, especially if you want to find out why my guidelines are as such. When I ask the counter question of Why do you believe in God?, I will get one of a few initial, knee-jerk responses. Its what I consider the softball phase. Just about all believers faith runs deep to some extent, and they will try to use up all the on the face rational arguments before switching to faith-based arguments. I know Ill never be able to take faith from someone, and I wouldnt want to. What I do, my goal, is to challenge their reasoning with regard to their perceived rational arguments, giving them reason to doubt. Just a little doubt is all it takes to crumble faith, and having a bit of gentle, cordial guidance might be all thats needed. The handbook consists of basic arguments for and against religion, sub-categorized by what I call the Harris Conversation Categories, which are the fundamental arguments that all believers eventually revert to when confronted with reason: Religion is true, religion is useful, atheists are bad. Under Is Religion True? The book analyzes arguments that are commonly used to justify the necessity of religion: God exists, miracles happen, prophets existed as was written. Under Is Religion Useful? the book considers arguments regarding whether morality can exist without religion, and whether faith-based hope and prayer justify the existence of religious belief. Under Is Atheism Bad? the book summarizes Sam Harris ten myths and truths of atheism (which I also recite in full later in the book). The book then lists passages in the Bible that evoke the most disgust and rejection not only from atheists, but also from those who claim to be believers. The full verses are listed in the appendix. Many Christians state that the bible is the Word of God, and that its infallible. Show them why, if thats true, they shouldnt be following it anyway. Or, at least show them that they havent been following it. The book analyzes the Ten (or so) Commandments, which believ2

ers argue to be the firm, inerrant law of God, which is curious, because there is very little agreement or consistency regarding exactly which commandments apply, how they should be read, and why believers who justify their political and social decisions based on some of these commandments dont bother applying Gods Word by enforcing the biblical punishments for violations of the commandments. The book refutes the argument that the Bible must be divinely inspired because it spoke of scientific truths that would have been unknown or immeasurable by its writers. The counter, in sum, is that in the Bible, there are many instances of blatant ignorance of facts that no one questions today. So, was it a divinely inspired joke? Did God lack that knowledge? Did Gods interpreters get all of that wrong (as well as the other blatant contradictions in the Bible?). Or, more simply, was it not divinely inspired at all? The book contains a short list of prominent areas in which religion invades our lives, against our will, and against the Constitution. When a Christian asks you why you dont just mind your own business, respond, You first. The book also contains tools for the rational debater, and a compilation of lectures, essays, and hypothetical dialogues which attempt to explain in greater detail some of the methods of argumentation. The appendices contain full texts of many of the shortened versions in the first parts of the book, as well as a list of sources, suggested reading, and useful websites. Hope you enjoy and get good use from this little handbook.

BAsic ARguments foR And AgAinst Religion

= Arguments for = Arguments against (The argument that God Exists, and, thus religion ought to) Cosmological (a priori) (First Cause; Uncaused Cause; Thomas Aquinas) First cause, prime mover = God 1. Every finite and contingent being has a cause. 2. Nothing finite and dependent (contingent) can cause itself. 3. A causal chain cannot be of infinite length. 4. Therefore, there must be a first cause; or, there must be something that is not an effect. Argument from Contingency (Aquinas) . The existence of an effect requiring the concurrent existence and action of an efficient cause implies the existence and action of that cause. 2. The cosmos as a whole exists. 3. The existence of the cosmos as a whole is radically contingent (meaning that it needs an efficient cause of its continuing existence to preserve it in being, and prevent it from being annihilated, or reduced to nothing). 4. If the cosmos needs an efficient cause of its continuing existence, then that cause must be a supernatural being, supernatural in its action, and one the existence of which is uncaused, in other words, the Supreme Being, or God. Kalam Cosmological Argument (via Big Bang Theory) . Whatever begins to exist has a cause. 2. The universe began to exist. 3. Therefore, the universe had a cause. No excuse for First Cause not having its own cause. Infinite regression of causes is possible. (Axiom of Choice)


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 If First Cause exists, does not identify with theistic god. No evidence of self-awareness or will. Lacks characteristics of theistic god. May be deistic. Universe was always in existence, no proof otherwise. Therefore, no first cause or need for first cause. Infiniteness of time and space.

Teleological (a posteriori) (Argument from Design - Intelligent Design Creationism; Aquinas; Paley (Watchmaker)) Complexity Implies Creator . X is too (complex, orderly, adaptive, apparently purposeful, and/or beautiful) to have occurred randomly or accidentally. 2. Therefore, X must have been created by a (sentient, intelligent, wise, and/or purposeful) being. 3. God is that (sentient, intelligent, wise, and/or purposeful) being. . Therefore, God exists. Complexity Implies Designer . Complexity implies a designer. 2. The universe is highly complex. 3. Therefore, the universe has a Designer. Irreducible complexity Behe: A single system which is composed of several interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, and where the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning. An irreducibly complex evolutionary pathway is one that contains one or more unselected steps (that is, one or more necessary-but-unselected mutations). The degree of irreducible complexity is the number of unselected steps in the pathway. Dembski: A system performing a given basic function is irreducibly complex if it includes a set of well-matched, mutually interacting, nonarbitrarily individuated parts such that each part in the set is indispensable to maintaining the systems basic, and therefore original, function. The set of these indispensable parts is known as the irreducible core of the system. General: Refers to biological systems and organs that supposedly could not have come about by any series of small changes. Anything less than the complete form of such a system or organ would not work at all, or would in fact be a detriment to the organism, and would therefore never survive the process of natural
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selection. Although some complex systems and organs can be explained by evolution, organs and biological features which are irreducibly complex cannot be explained by current models, and an intelligent designer must have created life or guided its evolution. The debate on irreducible complexity concerns two questions: whether irreducible complexity can be found in nature, and what significance it would have if it did exist in nature. Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District - Teaching intelligent design in public school biology classes violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States (and Article I, Section 3 of the Pennsylvania State Constitution) because intelligent design is not science and cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents. Complexity Does Not Imply Design Non-sequitur argument. - There are examples of systems that are non-random or ordered simply because it is following natural physical processes, for example diamonds or snowflakes. Argument from ignorance. (argumentum ad ignorantiam) (argument by lack of imagination), is a logical fallacy in which it is claimed that a premise is true only because it has not been proved false or that a premise is false only because it has not been proved true. Different objects can have similar properties for different reasons (stars & light bulbs). If proponent of ID cannot demonstrate that only intelligent design can cause orderly systems, the argument is invalid. Argument from Poor Design . An omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent creator God would create organisms that have optimal design. 2. Organisms have features that are suboptimal. 3. Therefore, God either did not create these organisms or is not omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent.

Does Not Prove Existence of God Voltaire: [F]rom this one argument, I cannot conclude anything more, except that it is probable that an intelligent and superior being has prepared and shaped matter with dexterity; I cannot conclude from this argument alone that this being has made the matter out of nothing or that he is infinite in any sense [i.e. that he is God]. Could just as well prove the existence of multiple gods. (no reason for single). Undesigned Designer No reasons given for why designer must be undesigned. Designer has to be at least as complex (in theory) as the design, which would, if that theory is to be held as valid, require that the designer also be designed, thus creating an infinite series of designed designers, which makes no sense. No Purpose for the Universe (design denotes purpose - watchmaker) Dawkins - Blind (biological) Watchmaker; Universe merely mimics purpose George C. Smith - Consider the idea that nature itself is the product of design. How could this be demonstrated? Nature, as we have seen, provides the basis of comparison by which we distinguish between designed objects and natural objects. We are able to infer the presence of design only to the extent that the characteristics of an object differ from natural characteristics. Therefore, to claim that nature as a whole was designed is to destroy the basis by which we differentiate between artifacts and natural objects. Evidences of design are those characteristics not found in nature, so it is impossible to produce evidence of design within the context of nature itself. Only if we first step beyond nature, and establish the existence of a supernatural designer, can we conclude that nature is the result of conscious planning.

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Ontological (a priori) (Inconceivable! - Anselm, Descartes) Anselm/Modern 1. God is, by definition, a being greater than which nothing can be conceived (imagined). 2. Existence in reality is greater than existence in the mind. 3. God must exist in reality; if God did not, then God would not be that than which nothing greater can be conceived (imagined). Anselm . God is the entity greater than which no entity can be conceived. 2. The concept of God exists in human understanding. 3. God does not exist in reality (assumed in order to refute). . The concept of God existing in reality exists in human understanding. . If an entity exists in reality and in human understanding, this entity is greater than it would have been if it existed only in human understanding (a statement of existence as a perfection). . From , 2, 3, , and  an entity can be conceived that is greater than God, the entity greater than which no thing can be conceived (logical self-contradiction). 7. Assumption 3 is wrong, therefore, God exists in reality (assuming , 2, , and  are accepted as true). Anselm 2 . God is that entity compared to which nothing greater can be conceived. 2. It is greater to be necessary than not. 3. God must be necessary. . God necessarily exists. Descartes (5th Meditation) . Whatever I clearly and distinctly perceive to be contained in the idea of something is true of that thing. 2. I clearly and distinctly perceive that necessary existence is contained in the idea of God. 3. Therefore, God exists.


Descartes (3d Meditation) . I exist. 2. I have an idea of a supremely perfect being, i.e. a being having all perfections. 3. As an imperfect being I would be unable to create such a concept through my own thoughts. . The concept must have come from God. . To be a perfect being God must exist. . God exists. Hume . The only way to prove anything a priori is through an opposite contradiction. For example, I am a married bachelor. 2. The resulting contradiction makes something inconceivable. Obviously it is impossible to have a married bachelor. 3. It is possible to comprehend anything not existing. Thus it is not inconceivable to imagine anything not existing. . Nothing can be proven to exist a priori, including God. Gaunilos Island (Overload Objection) Think of the greatest, or most perfect, conceivable island. As a matter of fact, it is likely that no such island actually exists. However, we arent thinking of the greatest conceivable island, because the greatest conceivable island would exist, as well as having all those other desirable properties. Since we can conceive of this greatest or most perfect conceivable island, then it must exist. Necessary Nonexistence (Gasking) . The creation of the world is the most marvelous achievement imaginable. 2. The merit of an achievement is the product of (a) its intrinsic quality, and (b) the ability of its creator. 3. The greater the disability (or handicap) of the creator, the more impressive the achievement. . The most formidable handicap for a creator would be nonexistence. . Therefore if we suppose that the universe is the product of an
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existent creator we can conceive a greater being namely, one who created everything while not existing. . Therefore, God does not exist. Existence as a Property Existence is not a predicate. A predicate is a quality, so it would be right to conclude God is great (since greatness is a predicate) but not right to conclude God is. This has come about because of the use of is by Anselm. Anselm uses is in the same way both for the predicate (God is great) as for the existential (God is), i.e. you cant define God into existence. In the simple equation 3x = 9 the answer is x = 3; however, x does not exist. x has the quality (the predicate) of 3 but this does not mean that there is an actual x. Another way to make this objection, first put forward by Descartes critic Pierre Gassendi and later developed by Immanuel Kant, was to argue that existence is not a quality of things at the same level of other qualities, such as the shape or the size of an object. If you think of a certain object conceptually, and if you think of the object existing, the two would essentially be the same as the idea behind the two remains unaltered as no other essential qualities are imposed on said object. The only difference between the two is that when an object exists, it merely shows that it corresponds to something that exists in the material world, without adding any other essential qualities to the object in question. In short, to think of a thing that exists and to think of that thing if it did not exist, is to in effect think of the same idea; existence does not do anything to change the idea in question.

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Pascals Wager (Are you a betting person?) Pascals Wager You live as though God exists. If God exists, you go to heaven: your gain is infinite. If God does not exist, you gain nothing & lose nothing. You live as though God does not exist. If God exists, you go to hell: your loss is infinite. If God does not exist, you gain nothing & lose nothing. Atheists Wager You should live your life and try to make the world a better place for your being in it, whether or not you believe in God. If there is no God, you have lost nothing and will be remembered fondly by those you left behind. If there is a benevolent God, he may judge you on your merits coupled with your commitments, and not just on whether or not you believed in him. Wrong God (or inconsistent revelations) You believe in a god. If your god exists, you go to heaven: your gain is infinite. If you believe in the wrong god and the actual god is monotheistic, your loss may be infinite. Hell Avoidance Insurance - Does not constitute a true belief. (its hoping, based on fear) Assumes Infinite Punishment/Reward.





Personal Specific Proof or Disproof of the Existence of God Argument of: What would it take for you to believe in God? Response: Ill believe in God when 1. God is defined by a specific, unwavering set of characteristics, 2. Sufficient evidence of each and every one of those characteristics is presented to me in such a way that I believed those characteristics to exist, or very likely to exist, and 3. None of the evidence can be attributed to anything other than the God as defined. Note: A smart (or smart-ass) believer might respond: Well, what if I define God as the Moon, the Earth, and the Sun. You have sufficient evidence that those objects/characteristics exist, so that means you believe in God. I would reply: Except that under #3, those characteristics can be attributed to other things. Each object is a thing in and of itself, as well as part of a solar system, galaxy, and universe, all of which follow the same set of rules and guidelines. Therefore, your characteristics are not unique to your idea of God, and therefore your argument does not make me believe God exists. Basically: Nothing in the bible (which is merely a written work (you can write down anything, and that, in itself, is not sufficient evidence for the existence of anything other than the words, themselves, and, perhaps, a writer)) could suffice as evidence, so any time you receive bible passages in response to your request for proof, you can just sit there. Therefore, it requires other arguments for the existence of God, which are those usually mentioned (and already covered in this hint book). As long as any ONE characteristic is not sufficiently supported with evidence, then theres no reason to believe in a God with that characteristic. If your opponent then says, well, the other characteristics still hold, so you should still believe in God based on that, you can say, well, then you would have to remove that unproved characteristic from your definition of God, and maybe Id believe, based on characteristics sufficiently proven to me.
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Argument of: How can you disprove God? Response: God is fully and wholly disproved when 1. God is defined by a specific, unwavering set of characteristics, 2. Sufficient proof is provided that at least one of those characteristics is not true.



Other Arguments Against the Existence of God Inconsistent revelations. Problem of Evil - omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent god cannot exist if there is evil in the world. Poor Design. Nonbelief - a god who wants believers to believe would do a better job. Argument from parsimony - natural theories explain everything, so spiritual/religious explanations are superfluous, and may be dismissed unless proven. Omnipotence Paradox - Can an omnipotent god make a rock so heavy, even he couldnt lift it? If not, then not omnipotent? If so, then not omnipotent. Omniscience Paradox - How can an all-knowing being change its mind? (being omnipotent) Omniscience contradicts free will, in god or creations. If god knows everything now & in future, then there is no free will. Transcendental arguments against the existence of god: Logic: . Logic presupposes that its principles are necessarily true. 2. According to the brand of Christianity assumed by TAG, God created everything, including logic; or at least everything, including logic, is dependent on God. 3. If something is created by or is dependent on God, it is not necessary it is contingent on God. . If principles of logic are contingent on God, they are not logically necessary. . If principles of logic are contingent on God, God could arrange matters so that a proposition and its negation were true at the same time. But this is absurd. How could God arrange matters


so that New Zealand is south of China and that New Zealand is not south of it? 6. Hence logic is not dependent on God, and, insofar as the Christian world view assumes that logic so dependent, it is false. Science: 1. Miracles by definition are violations of laws of nature that can only be explained by Gods intervention. 2. Science assumes that insofar as an event has an explanation at all, it has a scientific explanation one that does not presuppose God. 3. Hence doing, science assumes that the Christian world view is false. Morality: . The type of Christian morality assumed by TAG is some version of the Divine Command Theory, the view that moral obligation is dependent on the will of God. 2. Such a view is incompatible with objective morality. On the one hand, on this view what is moral is a function of the arbitrary will of God; for instance, if God wills that cruelty for its own sake is good, then it is. On the other hand, determining the will of God is impossible since there are different alleged sources of this will (The Bible, the Koran, The Book of Mormon, etc) and different interpretations of what these sources say; moreover; there is no rational way to reconcile these differences. 3. Thus, the existence of an objective morality presupposes the falsehood of the Christian world view assumed by TAG. vs. Cosmological - What caused God? Theological Noncognitivism - god concept is unverifiable by scientific tests. Extra-temporal, active creator logical impossibility. Use this argument to reply to the assertion that God exists outside the box of normal space and/or time. If God is outside normal space/time, then God would have no influence on anything inside normal space/time. If God did have influence, then two things would occur: God would then at least be considered partially extant within
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normal space/time. Gods influence would leave a trace, and thus be verifiable. Conclusions: Either God has no influence (being truly outside space/time), and therefore should be considered irrelevant, OR, God exists at least somewhat in normal space/time (thus defeating the extra-temporal deity argument), OR, God doesnt exist. The atheist argument for the non-existence of a perfect sentient being states that if existence precedes essence, it follows from the meaning of the term sentient that a sentient being cannot be complete or perfect. It is touched upon by Jean-Paul Sartre in Being and Nothingness. Sartres phrasing is that God would be a pour-soi [a being-for-itself; a consciousness] who is also an ensoi [a being-in-itself; a thing]: which is a contradiction in terms. The argument is echoed thus in Salman Rushdies novel Grimus: That which is complete is also dead. The no reason argument tries to show that an omnipotent or perfect being would not have any reason to act in any way, specifically creating the universe, because it would have no desires since the very concept of desire is subjectively human. As the universe exists, there is a contradiction, and therefore, an omnipotent god cannot exist. This argument is espoused by Scott Adams in the book Gods Debris. The Argument from a Proper Basis argues that the existence of god should be accepted despite being unprovable, because statements such as I see a chair or I feel pain can also not be proven through scientific method, when in fact they can. Seeing a chair can be verified by asking the subject to point in the direction of the chair, whilst pain can be detected through sudden elevated levels of serotonin and adrenaline in the brains frontal cortices responsible for the sensation of touch and pain. Taking statements like god exists at face value is more comparable to accepting similarly unprovable statements without question, such as pigs can fly.
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 The Need for an Answer argument states that if God needs no beginning and needs no end, why does the cosmos need a beginning and end so badly that humans need create concepts such as a divine creator and the apocalypse without proof. Occams Razor: Do not multiply entities unnecessarily. If you can explain something without supposing the existence of some entity, then do so. Take the simplest solution. There is an incredibly intricate and complex universe out there, which came into being as a result of natural processes. There is an incredibly intricate and complex universe out there, and there is also a God who created the universe. Clearly this God must be of non-zero complexity. Given that both explanations fit the facts, Occams Razor might suggest that we should take the simpler of the two -- solution number one. Unfortunately, some argue that there is a third even more simple solution: There isnt an incredibly intricate and complex universe out there. We just imagine that there is. This third option leads us logically towards solipsism, which many people find unacceptable.

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(. If it is, it doesnt prove religion is True. 2. If its not, why bother with it at all?) The question of whether religion is useful is irrelevant with respect to the question of whether God exists. They are two entirely separate arguments, and should be treated as such. If an opponent tries to use religion is useful as an argument for the existence of God, merely make a reminder that the question at hand concerns religion, not God. Morality Believers tend to claim that without God (or religion), there could be no morality. Right and Wrong, Good and Bad Either: ) God decrees what is right and wrong, and thus morality equals obedience to God; or 2) Right and wrong are independent of God, and God simply recognizes good and evil. If there were intrinsic good and evil: Does God approve of something because it is right, or is something right because God approves of it? If God approves of something because it is right, we cannot know why it is right. Thus, morality exists outside of God, relieving the necessity for God, since people can merely choose to be moral by following right and wrong. In addition, it makes God subject to this independent morality. Therefore, an atheist can be moral. If something is right because God approves of it, then morality is arbitrary, based on the whims of a God. Thus, all of Gods commands (including those in the Bible) are, by definition, good because God gave the commands. Good becomes equal to God, and goodness becomes obedience. There is no intrinsic, absolute good and bad, without the idea of a superior moral dictator. If morality is divinely inspired, how do we know what it is?
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If the answer is scripture, then examine the biblical passage section of the hint book, and ask why, then, are all the commands of scripture not followed, if the theist belief is that the Bible is inerrant or divinely inspired. If its not inerrant or divinely inspired, then it doesnt. Even if God doesnt exist, is the Bible (and 0 Commandments) a good source of moral behavior? The bits and pieces of the Bible that have any positive value can be analyzed and considered as much as the bits and pieces of any book, but the mere fact of the Bible having a few morally upright statements does not mean that the rest of it should be believed or followed, just as we dont follow the Iliad. Sources for Atheist Morality (If no Superior Moral Dictator, Why Not Kill?) Empathy, as tribal beings. Altruism Enlightened self-interest. Being kind can benefit the self and others, indirectly benefiting the self. Secular Ethics Humanism Utilitarianism Anthropocentrism

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Hope/Prayer Proven ineffective. If argued that God doesnt work that way, or the Bible really doesnt say pray and receive what you pray for: If God exists, then is either: Inconsistently answers prayer, Doesnt answer prayer. Thus, no reason to pray to God with expectation of answer or receiving anything. If God doesnt exist, or if argued that hope/prayer are still valuable and positive with or without God: Alternative to prayer is to actively participate - take action to do something about situation instead of wishing for divine intervention. Thats false hope. Disappointment with Gods inaction, or having hope crumbled, is worse than having false hope. Prayer as a placebo is less desirable than relying on the kindness of other human beings, and much less reliable. Good Deeds Its often argued that religion is good because of its charity. However, the church brainwashes children and others into believing religions unrealistic philosophy. The church does some good, providing for the poor, and providing funding for other charities. Of course, it must do this, lest it have no redeeming qualities. Ultimately, the churchs foundation is a fabrication. There is no reason to help perpetuate its harmful superstitious activities merely because it also happens to do charitable work.

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is Atheism BAd?
Atheism is not a religion, just as much as lack of belief in Atlantis doesnt make someone a follower of the religion of Anti-Atlanteanism. The question of whether atheism is bad is irrelevant with respect to the question of whether God exists. They are two entirely separate arguments, and should be treated as such. If an opponent tries to use atheism is bad as an argument for the existence of God, merely make a reminder that the question at hand concerns atheism, not God. Common Accusations about Atheism, and their Refutations (Harris 10 (Trimmed)) Atheists Believe that Life is Meaningless Religious people often worry that life is meaningless and imagine that it can only be redeemed by the promise of eternal happiness beyond the grave. Atheists tend to be quite sure that life is precious. Life is imbued with meaning by being really and fully lived. Atheism is Responsible for the Greatest Crimes in Human History Fascism and communism are too much like religions --dogmatic to the core and generally giving rise to personality cults that are indistinguishable from cults of religious hero worship. There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.

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Atheism is Dogmatic Scriptures are so prescient of humanitys needs that they could only have been written under the direction of an omniscient deity? Atheists have considered this claim, read the books, found the claim to be ridiculous. One doesnt have to take anything on faith, or be otherwise dogmatic, to reject unjustified religious beliefs. I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. Stephen Henry Roberts (1901-71). Atheists Think Everything in the Universe Arose by Chance No one knows why the universe came into being, if its not infinite. The diversity and complexity we see in the living world is not a product of mere chance. Evolution is a combination of chance mutation and natural selection. Darwin arrived at the phrase natural selection by analogy to the artificial selection performed by breeders of livestock. In both cases, selection exerts a highly non-random effect on the development of any species. Atheism Has no Connection to Science An engagement with scientific thinking tends to erode, rather than support, religious faith. U.S. polls show that about 0% of the general public believes in a personal God; yet 3% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences do not.

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Atheists are Arrogant When scientists dont know something like why the universe came into being or how the first self-replicating molecules formed they admit it. Pretending to know things one doesnt know is a profound liability in science. And yet it is the life-blood of faith-based religion. Irony: people of faith praise themselves for their humility, while claiming to know facts about cosmology, chemistry and biology that no scientist knows. When considering questions about the nature of the cosmos and our place within it, atheists tend to draw their opinions from science. This isnt arrogance; it is intellectual honesty. Atheists are Closed to Spiritual Experience There is nothing that prevents an atheist from experiencing love, ecstasy, rapture, and awe; atheists can value these experiences and seek them regularly. What atheists dont tend to do is make unjustified (and unjustifiable) claims about the nature of reality on the basis of such experiences. There is no question that some Christians have transformed their lives for the better by reading the Bible and praying to Jesus. What does this prove? It proves that certain disciplines of attention and codes of conduct can have a profound effect upon the human mind. Do the positive experiences of Christians suggest that Jesus is the sole savior of humanity? Not even remotely because Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims and even atheists regularly have similar experiences. There is, in fact, not a Christian on this Earth who can be certain that Jesus even wore a beard, much less that he was born of a virgin or rose from the dead. These are just not the sort of claims that spiritual experience can authenticate.

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Atheists Believe That There is Nothing Beyond Human Life and Human Understanding Atheists are free to admit the limits of human understanding in a way that religious people are not. It is obvious that we do not fully understand the universe; but it is even more obvious that neither the Bible nor the Koran reflects our best understanding of it. We do not know whether there is complex life elsewhere in the cosmos, but there might be. If there is, such beings could have developed an understanding of natures laws that vastly exceeds our own. Atheists can freely entertain such possibilities. They also can admit that if brilliant extraterrestrials exist, the contents of the Bible and the Koran will be even less impressive to them than they are to human atheists. From the atheist point of view, the worlds religions utterly trivialize the real beauty and immensity of the universe. One doesnt have to accept anything on insufficient evidence to make such an observation. Atheists Ignore the Fact That Religion is Extremely Beneficial to Society Those who emphasize the good effects of religion never seem to realize that such effects fail to demonstrate the truth of any religious doctrine. This is why we have terms such as wishful thinking and selfdeception. There is a profound distinction between a consoling delusion and the truth. In any case, the good effects of religion can surely be disputed. In most cases, it seems that religion gives people bad reasons to behave well, when good reasons are actually available. Ask yourself, which is more moral, helping the poor out of concern for their suffering, or doing so because you think the creator of the universe wants you to do it, will reward you for doing it or will punish you for not doing it?
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Atheism Provides no Basis for Morality If a person doesnt already understand that cruelty is wrong, he wont discover this by reading the Bible or the Koran as these books are bursting with celebrations of cruelty, both human and divine. We do not get our morality from religion. We decide what is good in our good books by recourse to moral intuitions that are (at some level) hard-wired in us and that have been refined by thousands of years of thinking about the causes and possibilities of human happiness. We have made considerable moral progress over the years, and we didnt make this progress by reading the Bible or the Koran more closely. Both books condone the practice of slavery and yet every civilized human being now recognizes that slavery is an abomination. Whatever is good in scripture like the golden rule can be valued for its ethical wisdom without our believing that it was handed down to us by the creator of the universe.

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(or: the argument that the coming of Jesus made the OT moot) Deuteronomy :- Commands to obey the law of the scripture. Matthew 5:17-19 Reminds that Jesus has come to fulfill the OT laws, not abolish them.

nt vs ot ARgument

slAveRy
Exodus 2:20-2 God instructs on the correct method to beat your slave. Colossians 3:22-2, Ephesians :,  Peter 2:3,  Peter 2:,  Timothy : Command slaves to obey earthly masters even if they are harsh, because being slave to man is serving Christ, and if slaves dont respect their masters, its a slander against Gods name and teaching. Exodus 21:1-4 Frees Hebrew slaves after six years, but no others. Leviticus 2:- Allows Israelite slaves (and, basically, all slavery). Deuteronomy 20:0- God commands you to enslave people who you conquer in the course of normal, non-holy warfare.

Women
Leviticus 20:0 Adultery with someone elses wife? Kill them both. Numbers 5:11-31 Husband, do you suspect your wife of adultery? Make her drink a magic potion that makes her barren if guilty. God says so. Deuteronomy 22:3-2 If a newlywed misrepresents her virginityby failing to prove she is a virgin on her wedding nightGod says she should be stoned to death on the doorstep of her fathers house. Deuteronomy 22:23-27 -- Rape of betrothed = adultery. If the victim fails to cry out loudly enough while she is raped, it is as-

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sumed that she is accomplice to adultery and she is killed as well. Deuteronomy 22:2-2, Deuteronomy 22: -- Rape of non-betrothed = no crime. Rapist pays victims father the brideprice (50 shekels) and marries her. He cannot divorce her. Genesis 3: - To the woman he said, I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you. Genesis :-- Lot prevents Sodomites from forcible sodomy by offering his daughters for their raping pleasure.  Timothy 2:-2 A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent. Matthew 2: - At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.  Corinthians :3-0 - God > Christ > Man > Woman. Woman, who should not pray with head uncovered, else shave her hair.  Corinthians :33-3 - God is a God of peace. And of quiet, as women should remain silent in church, not allowed to speak.

god demAnding muRdeR

Exodus 3:2 For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it must be put to death. Deuteronomy 2:-2 If your son is stubborn and rebellious, God wants you to stone him to death at the town gate. Leviticus 20:3 God hates fags. To death. Deuteronomy 2:-2 If your wife grabs a set of balls, cut off her hand, with no pity. Deuteronomy 20:0- Offer peace when you attack a city. If accepted, force all of them into slavery. If they reject, kill all the men, rape all the women, keep the plunder. Its Gods gift. Isaiah 3:3- Rape the women, dash the heads of the babies against rocks. Pro-life. Right. Numbers 3:- Kind old Moses tells his army to kill all the Midianite captured boys, kill all the non-virgin women, and rape all the virgins.
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Leviticus 2:7-2 - Moses condemns Aaron and his descendants with any defect. Genesis :-7 - The perfect, omniscient, omnipotent, all-loving God was grieved that he had made man, so he decides to kill them all, plus the animals. Luke :2 Forget that Commandment about honoring mother and father. According to Luke, if you dont hate your mother and father, and wife, and children, and kin, and yourself, you cant be a disciple. Genesis 30:37-3 - Jacob teaches biology and genetics by showing that when birds mate near spotted wood, their offspring will be spotted. I think that means I should be able to sing like Robert Plant.

killing childRen
Exodus 12:28-30 - God hates firstborns. Especially Egyptian firstborns. Isaiah 3:- - Dash the infants to pieces (if youre not already tired of killing babies). No mercy for any infants or children. Jeremiah :20-2 - God hates Teman. And orders the killing of them all, and the destruction of their pastures. Hosea 13:16 - Dash the Samarian children to the ground, and rip open the pregnant women. Pro-what? Deuteronomy 3:-7 - God commands the destruction of 0 cities: No survivors, killing all men, women, and children. Oh, but keep the livestock and plunder.

sAcRifice
Leviticus  - God likes a good barbecue. Leviticus :-2 - God likes slaughtered bulls, rams, and bloody ears? Leviticus 7:2-3 - God likesem fat and bloody.

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Deuteronomy 7:2- - Stone to death all proven evil-doers. Deuteronomy 7:2 - Kill anyone who appeals a decision by a priest or judge who represents God. 2 Chronicles :2-3 - Kill anyone who doesnt seek God; men, women, and children. Deuteronomy 3:2- - Kill anyone who suggests worshiping other gods, and completely destroy the town in which they lived, as well as everyone in it. Deuteronomy 3:- - If any of your kin suggest worshiping other gods, kill them, and then have everyone else stone them to death (again, I guess). Leviticus 2:3- - Stone to death any blasphemer. Exodus 22:20 - Kill anyone who sacrifices to a different god.  Corinthians :22 - Curse anyone who doesnt love God. Mark :- - Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved. Everyone else will be condemned. Revelation :- - The Abyss opens, and out come the locusts to torture with agonizing scorpion stings for five months anyone without the seal of God. Revelation 2:- - God will send non-believers, the vile, murderers, sexually immoral, magicians, idolaters and liars to the fiery lake of burning sulfur for their second death.

disgusting
 Samuel :2-27 - David kills 200 Philistines, and presents their foreskins to the king so that he can marry the kings daughter. Ezekiel 23:-2 - The Assyrian prostitute likes donkey-sized man-meat and horse-volumed ejaculates. Judges 3:-23 - Ehud kills Jabba (Eglon king of Moab). Judges 4:21 - But Jael, Hebers wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died. Psalm :0 - The righteous will be glad when they are avenged, when they bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.
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Genesis :30-3 - Lots daughters rape poor Lot. Without him even knowing! (right) Judges :2-30 - Concubine is sent outside to be raped and tortured throughout the night. Upon return, her master cuts her up into a dozen pieces, scattering them across Israel. Joshua 10:22-26 - Joshua kills the five kings, hanging them on trees. Matthew :2-30 - Deviant eyes should be gouged out and thrown away. Better that than you in hell. 2 Chronicles 2:- - God gives Jehoram permanent irritable bowel syndrome. 2 Kings :33-3 - Jehu kills a kings daughter and tries to bury whats left of her... her skull, feet, and hands. Numbers 2:- - God orders Moses to kill the Midianites. (2,000 died of the plague). Judges :- - Abimelech doesnt want to die by woman. Psalms 37:- - Dash the infants against the rocks! (are there even any infants left?) Genesis 3:-0 - Onan is made to sleep with his brothers wife, but, knowing the offspring would not be his, he spills his seed on the ground. So, God killed him.

contRAdictions
How can someone say the Bible is the perfect, inerrant, infallible, ineffable Word of God, and not at least be curious about all its blatant contradictions? God good to all, or just a few? PSA : The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. JER 3: And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.

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War or Peace? EXO :3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name. ROM :33 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen. Who is the father of Joseph? MAT : And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. LUK 3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli. Who was at the Empty Tomb? Is it: MAT 2: In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. MAR : And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. JOH 20:1 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. Is Jesus equal to or lesser than? JOH 10:30 I and my Father are one. JOH 14:28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. Which first--beasts or man? GEN :2 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. GEN :2 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
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and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. GEN 2: And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. GEN 2: And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. The number of beasts in the ark GEN 7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. GEN 7: Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, GEN 7: There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. How many stalls and horsemen? KI :2 And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. CH2 9:25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem. Is it folly to be wise or not? PRO :7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. ECC : For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.  Cor.:: For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and wil bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

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Human vs. ghostly impregnation ACT 2:30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; MAT : Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. The sins of the father ISA :2 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. DEU 2: The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. The bat is not a bird LEV :3 And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, LEV : And the vulture, and the kite after his kind; LEV : Every raven after his kind; LEV : And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, LEV :7 And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl, LEV : And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, LEV : And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. DEU : Of all clean birds ye shall eat. DEU :2 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, DEU :3 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind, DEU : And every raven after his kind, DEU : And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow,
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and the hawk after his kind, DEU : The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, DEU :7 And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant, DEU : And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. Rabbits do not chew their cud LEV : And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. Gerah, the term which appears in the MT means (chewed) cud, and also perhaps grain, or berry (also a 20th of a sheckel, but I think that we can agree that that is irrelevant here). It does *not* mean dung, and there is a perfectly adequate Hebrew word for that, which could have been used. Furthermore, the phrase translated chew the cud in the KJV is more exactly bring up the cud. Rabbits do not bring up anything; they let it go all the way through, then eat it again. The description given in Leviticus is inaccurate, and thats that. Rabbits do eat their own dung; they do not bring anything up and chew on it. Insects do NOT have four feet LEV 11:21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; LEV :22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind. LEV 11:23 But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you. Snails do not melt PSA : As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun. Fowl from waters or ground? GEN :20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above


the earth in the open firmament of heaven. GEN :2 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. GEN 2: And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. Odd genetic engineering GEN 30:39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. The shape of the earth ISA 0:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: MAT : Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; Astromical bodies are spherical, and you cannot see the entire exterior surface from anyplace. The kingdoms of Egypt, China, Greece, Crete, sections of Asia Minor, India, Maya (in Mexico), Carthage (North Africa), Rome (Italy), Korea, and other settlements from these kingdoms of the world were widely distributed. Snakes, while built low, do not eat dirt GEN 3: And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: Earth supported? JOB 26:7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. JOB 3: Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the
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earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Heaven supported too JOB 2: The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof. The hydrological cycle ECC :7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. JOB 38:22 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, Storehouses are not part of the cycle. Order of creation Here is the order in the first (Genesis 1), the Priestly tradition: Day : Sky, Earth, light Day 2: Water, both in ocean basins and above the sky(!) Day 3: Plants Day : Sun, Moon, stars (as calendrical and navigational aids) Day 5: Sea monsters (whales), fish, birds, land animals, creepycrawlies (reptiles, insects, etc.) Day 6: Humans (apparently both sexes at the same time) Day 7: Nothing (the Gods took the first day off anyone ever did) Note that there are days, evenings, and mornings before the Sun was created. Here, the Deity is referred to as Elohim, which is a plural, thus the literal translation, the Gods. In this tale, the Gods seem satisfied with what they have done, saying after each step that it was good. The second one (Genesis 2), the Yahwist tradition, goes: Earth and heavens (misty) Adam, the first man (on a desolate Earth) Plants Animals Eve, the first woman (from Adams rib)

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How orderly were things created? #: Step-by-step. The only discrepancy is that there is no Sun or Moon or stars on the first three days. #2: God fixes things up as he goes. The first man is lonely, and is not satisfied with animals. God finally creates a woman for him. (funny thing that an omniscient god would forget things) How satisfied with creation was he? #: God says it was good after each of his labors, and rests on the seventh day, evidently very satisfied. #2: God has to fix up his creation as he goes, and he would certainly not be very satisfied with the disobedience of that primordial couple. (funny thing that an omniscient god would forget things) Moses personality Num.2:3: Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the fact of the earth. Num.3:, 7, : And Moses was wroth...And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? ... Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman, ... But all the women children ... keep alive for yourselves. Righteous live? Ps.92:12: The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. Isa.7:: The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart. Acts 1:18: Now this man (Judas) purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. Matt. 27:-7: And he (Judas) cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. And the chief priests...bought with them the potters field.


Jesus first sermon plain or mount? Matt.:,2: And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying.... Luke:7,20: And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people...came to hear him.. And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples and said... Jesus last words Matt.27:,0: And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? ...Jesus, when he cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. Luke23:: And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, unto thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost. John:30: When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. Years of famine II SAMUEL 2:3: So God came to David, and told him, and said unto him, shall SEVEN YEARS OF FAMINE come unto thee in thy land? or will thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue. thee? I CHRONICLES 21:11: SO God came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee. Either THREE YEARS OF FAMINE or three months to be destryed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; Moved David to anger? II SAMUEL 2: And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Isreal and Judah.


I CHRONICLES 21: And SATAN stood up against Isreal, and provoked David to number Israel. The Geneology of Jesus? In two places in the New Testament the genealogy of Jesus son of Mary is mentioned. Matthew :- and Luke 3:23-3. Each gives the ancestors of Joseph the CLAIMED husband of Mary and Step father of Jesus. The first one starts from Abraham(verse 2) all the way down to Jesus. The second one from Jesus all the way back to Adam. The only common name to these two lists between David and Jesus is JOSEPH, How can this be true? and also How can Jesus have a genealogy when all Muslims and most Christians believe that Jesus had/has no father. God be seen? Exod. 2:,0; Amos :; Gen. 2:2; and John : God CAN be seen: And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my backparts. (Ex. 33:23) And the Lord spake to Moses face to face, as a man speaketh to his friend. (Ex. 33:) For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. (Gen. 32:30) God CANNOT be seen: No man hath seen God at any time. (John :) And he said, Thou canst not see my face; for there shall no man see me and live. (Ex. 33:20) Whom no man hath seen nor can see. ( Tim. :) CRUEL, UNMERCIFUL, DESTRUCTIVE, and FEROCIOUS or KIND, MERCIFUL, and GOOD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy. (Jer. 3:) Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not, but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling. The Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy. (James :)


For his mercy endureth forever. ( Chron. :3) The Lord is good to all, and his tender mercies are over all his works. (Ps. :) God is love. ( John :) Tempts? And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham. (Gen 22:) Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man. (James :3) Judas died how? And he cast down the pieces of silver into the temple and departed, and went out and hanged himself. (Matt. 27:) And falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all of his bowels gushed out. (Acts :) Ascend to heaven And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. (2 Kings 2:) No man hath ascended up to heaven but he that came down from heaven, ... the Son of Man. (John 3:3) What was Jesus prediction regarding Peters denial? Before the cock crow - Matthew 2:3 Before the cock crow twice - Mark :30 How many times did the cock crow? MAR :72 And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon, he wept. MAT 2:7 Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know
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not the man. And immediately the cock crew. MAT 2:7 And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly. LUK 22:0 And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew. LUK 22: And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. JOH 13:38 Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, still thou hast denied me thrice. JOH 18:27 Peter then denied again: and immediately the cock crew. Who killed Saul SA 3: Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it. SA 3: And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him. SA 3: So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together. SA2 : And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died. How many beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount MAT :3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. MAT : Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. MAT : Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. MAT : Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. MAT :7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.


MAT : Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. MAT : Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. MAT :0 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. MAT : Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. LUK :20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. LUK 6:21 Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh. LUK :22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of mans sake. LUK :23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets. Does every man sin? KI : If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near; CH2 6:36 If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near; PRO 20: Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? ECC 7:20 For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. JO : If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. JO : If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. JO :0 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.


JO 3: Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. Who bought potters field ACT 1:18 Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. ACT : And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood. MAT 27: And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood. MAT 27:7 And they took counsel, and bought with them the potters field, to bury strangers in. MAT 27:8 Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day. Who prophesied the potters field? Matthew 27:-0 (mentions Jeremy but no such verse in Jeremiah) is in Zechariah :2-3 Who bears guilt? GAL 6:2 Bear ye one anothers burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. GAL : For every man shall bear his own burden. Do you answer a fool? PRO 2: Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. PRO 2: Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

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How many children did Michal, the daughter of Saul, have? SA2 :23 Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death. SA2 2: But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite: How old was Jehoiachin when he began to reign? KI2 2: Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mothers name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. CH2 36:9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD. Marriage? Proverbs :22  Corinthians 7 (whole book. See ,2,27,3,0) Did those with Saul/Paul at his conversion hear a voice? ACT :7 And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man. ACT 22: And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me. Where was Jesus three days after his baptism? MAR :2 And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness. JOH 1:35 Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples;



How many apostles were in office between the resurection and ascention?  Corinthians : (2) Matthew 27:3- (minus one from 2) Acts :-2 (Mathias not elected until after resurrection) MAT 2: Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. Judging  Cor 2: The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any mans judgment: (NIV)  Cor : Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait till the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of mens hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God. Good deeds Matt : In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven. (NIV) Matt :3- But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secert. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. (NIV) For or against? MAT 12:30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad. (default is against) MAR :0 For he that is not against us is on our part. (default is for) LUK :0 And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us. (default is for)
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Whom did they see at the tomb? MAT 2:2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. MAT 28:3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: MAT 2: And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men. MAT 2: And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. MAR : And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted. LUK 2: And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments: JOH 20:12 And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. God change? malachi 3: james :7  samuel :2 jonah 3:0 genesis : Destruction of cities (what said was jeremiah was zechariah) MAT 27:9 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value; zechariah :-3 (nothing in Jeremiah remotely like)

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Whose sepulchers? acts 7: genesis 23:7, Strong drink? proverbs 3:,7 john 2:- When second coming? MAT 2:3 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. MAR 3:30 Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done. LUK 2:32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.  thessalonians :- Solomons overseers 0 in I Kings :23 20 in II Chron :0 The mother of Abijah Maachah the daughter of Absalom 2 Chron :20 Michaiah the daughter of Uriel 2 Chron 3:2 When did Baasha die? 2th year of the reign of Asa I Kings :- 3th year of the reign of Asa I 2 Chron : How old was Ahaziah when he began to reign? 22 in 2 Kings :2 2 in 2 Chron 22:2


Who was Josiahs successor? Jehoahaz - 2 Chron 3: Shallum - Jeremiah 22: The differences in the census figures of Ezra and Nehemiah. What was the color of the robe placed on Jesus during his trial? scarlet - Matthew 27:2 purple John :2 What did they give him to drink? vinegar - Matthew 27:3 wine with myrrh - Mark :23 How long was Jesus in the tomb? Depends where you look; Matthew 2:0 gives Jesus prophesying that he will spend three days and three nights in the heart of the earth, and Mark 0:3 has after three days (meta treis emeras) he will rise again. As far as I can see from a quick look, the prophecies have after three days, but the post-Resurrection narratives have on the third day.





the ten (oR so) commAndments

Which ten commAndments? PRotestAnt, cAtholic, oR heBReW?
. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. . I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me. . I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. 2. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. 2. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; Thou shalt not bow down unto them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me; And showing mercy unto the thousandth generation of them that love Me and keep My commandments. 3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. 3. Remember thou keep the Sabbath Day. 3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain. . Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is,
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and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. 4. Honor thy Father and thy Mother. . Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work. But the seventh day is the Sabbath in honour of the Lord thy God; on it thou shalt not do any work, neither thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. 5. Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. . Thou shalt not kill. 5. Honour thy father and thy mother; in order that thy days may be prolonged upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. . Thou shalt not kill. . Thou shalt not commit adultery. . Thou shalt not kill. 7. Thou shalt not commit adultery. 7. Thou shalt not steal. 7. Thou shalt not commit adultery. . Thou shalt not steal. . Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. . Thou shalt not steal. . Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. . Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours wife. . Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. 0. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbors wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbors. 0. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours goods. 0. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbours wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbours.
King James Bible, issued by the American Bible Society. /Catholic Catechism by Peter Cardinal Gasparri, published with Ecclesiastical approval and bearing the imprimatur of Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop, New York. P. J. Kenedy & Sons, 1932. /Bloch Publishing Company, New York, 1922. 

Which ten commAndments? fiRst oR second tABles?

First Tables of Stone (Exodus 20) (which Moses didst break) Second Tables of Stone (Exodus 3) (the words that were on the first) . I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me. . Thou shalt worship no other god (For the Lord is a jealous god). 2. You shall not make for yourself a graven image. You shall not bow down to them or serve them. 2. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. 3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain. 3. The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep in the month when the ear is on the corn. . Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 4. All the first-born are mine. 5. Honor your father and your mother. . Six days shalt thou work, but on the seventh thou shalt rest. . You shall not kill. 6. Thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, even of the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the years end. 7. You shall not commit adultery. 7. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. . You shall not steal. . The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning. . You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. 9. The first of the first fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord thy God. 0. You shall not covet. 0. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mothers milk.



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ten Punishments
1. Exodus 22:20: He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed. 2. Leviticus 2:: And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death. 3. Exodus 3:: Whosoever doeth any work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. 4. Exodus 21:15: He that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. 5. Exodus 21:17: He that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death. . Exodus 22:: Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death. 7. Leviticus 20:3: If a man lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death. . Leviticus 20:0: And the man that committeth adultery with another mans wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death. 9. Mark 16:16: He that believeth not, shall be damned. 0. Malachi 2:-: And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. If you will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, ... behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces.



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the BiBles scientific stAtements

(As PRoof of divine insPiRAtion)
As is stated on the Clarifying Christianity website, they believe that The Bible is not a science book, yet it is scientifically accurate. We are not aware of any scientific evidence that contradicts the Bible. (http://www.clarifyingchristianity.com/science.shtml) Perhaps those at Clarifying Christianity havent actually read the whole Bible The point of this exercise is to show that the Bible is wrought with inaccuracies a divine, omniscient being ought to have known. It makes the Bible not inerrant, not proof of divine inspiration, and certainly not scientifically accurate. Here are just a few examples of where the Bible contradicts science:

AnimAliA
Hares chew cud (Leviticus 11:6) Some creeping insects have four legs (Leviticus :20-23) Snakes eat dirt (Genesis 3:) The bat is a bird (Leviticus :, Deuteronomy :, ) Eagles carry their young on their wings (Deuteronomy 32:) Some fowls are four-footed (Leviticus :20-2) Conies chew the cud (Leviticus :) Turtles have voices (Song of Solomon 2:2) Some four legged animals fly (Leviticus 11:21) Snails melt (Psalm :) All animals have been tamed (James 3:7) Ostriches are cruel to their young (Lamentations :3) Multi-colored baby goats are born by watching goats copulate through rods of different woods (Genesis 30:37-3) All animals fear humans (Genesis :2)

mythologicAl cReAtuRes
Cockatrices (Jeremiah :7, Isaiah :, :2, :) Unicorns (Deuteronomy 33:7, Psalms 22:2, 2:, Job 3:-0,

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Numbers 23:22, Numbers 2:) Satyrs (Isaiah 3:, 3:2) Fiery serpents (Numbers 2:) Flying serpents (Isaiah :2, 30:)

non-RotAtion of the eARth

The world is stable and immovable ( Chronicles :30) The world cannot be moved (Psalm 3:) He has fixed the earth firm, immovable (1 Chronicles 16:30) Thou hast fixed the earth immovable and firm (Psalm 93:1) He has fixed the earth firm, immovable (Psalm 96:10) Who made the earth and fashioned it, and himself fixed it fast (Isaiah :)

flAt eARth
The earth has ends or edges (Job 37:3) The earth has four corners (Isaiah :2, Rev 7:) The earth is on a fixed foundation (Psalm 104:5) The earth rest on pillars ( Samuel 2:-0)

BAd medicAl Advice

Epilepsy is caused by demon possession (Luke :3) A fetus can understand speech and jump for joy (Luke :) Sick people are oppressed by the devil (Acts 0:3) Washing in a Siloam pool restores sight (John :7) Jesus believes sin causes physical disability (John :) Water stirred by angels will cure all illness (John :) Satan causes illness (Luke 3:-) Mutes are possessed by the devil (Luke :, Mathew :32-33) Sickness is caused by lack of faith (Luke :) Disease is caused by gods wrath (Numbers 2:0, Exodus :2) Leprosy is cured by dipping a live bird in the blood of a dead one, kill a lamb, Find another pair of birds and repeat step one, sprinkle lots of blood around (Leviticus :2-2)


humAnkind 4.54 Billion yeARs old

Humans have been around since the world began (Acts 3:21) Jesus believed Adam and Eve were created at the beginning of earths time (Mark 0:) Nothing has changed since the beginning of creation (Peter 3:)

nAtuRAl disAsteRs
Earthquakes are caused by gods anger (Jeremiah 0:0, Isaiah 3:3) Fire, storms, thunder and earthquakes are sent by god (Isaiah 2:7) Fire and earthquakes are caused by gods presence (Nahum :)

giAnts WAlked the eARth

God destroys a race of people as tall as cedar trees (Amos 2:) Giants existed on Earth (Genesis :, Deuteronomy 2:0-, 20-2) Men existed that were so tall they made others look like grasshoppers (Numbers 3:33) The king of the giants name was Og. His bed was 13 1/2 feet long (Deuteronomy 3:, Joshua 2:, :) A man born of a giant had 6 toes on each foot and 6 fingers on each hand (2 Samuel 2:20)

miscellAneous
The rainbow was created much later than sunshine and rain (Genesis :3) A mustard seed is the smallest of all seeds and grows into the greatest of all shrubs (Matt 3:3-32) The earth was formed out of water (2 Peter 3:) Paul is bitten by a viper on Malta and lived; there are no poisonous snakes in Malta (Acts 2:3-) Only dead seed germinate ( Corinthians :3) A man can live for 3 nights in a giant fish (Jonah 1:17) Pi = 3 (1 Kings 7:23)




god And Politics; oR, Why BotheR ARguing foR Atheism?

. Prayer in school. 2. Commandments at public/state/government buildings. 3. God on money, pledge. 4. Prayer in Congress. (rejection of Hindu prayer, so, only Christian?) . Swearing on the bible. . States have no atheist politician laws on the books! 7. Creationism, ID taught in public schools. . Religion as a test for public service. 9. Religious morality influences laws, creates law that is not necessary, not moral, but intrusive, oppressive, and unconstitutional. 0. Discrimination against atheists (and non-mainstream beliefs, non-beliefs).

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tools foR the RAtionAl deBAteR

This Bullshit Detector, a modernized tribute to the great Carl Sagan, is meant as a means to determine whether someone is trying either intentionally or unintentionally to dominate an argument by means of fallacies or fraudulent statements.

hoW to PResent A PRoPeR ARgument

Create and test multiple working hypotheses. Dont stick with the first hypothesis that comes to mind or that looks good. Dont get overly attached to your own hypothesis. Try to find reasons to reject it. Test to systematically disprove multiple alternative possibilities. Hypothesis that resists disproof among multiple working hypotheses is more likely right. We dont decide the winner among hypotheses, the experimentation decides. Independent confirmation of the facts. Substantive debate on the evidence by knowledgeable proponents of all points of view. Avoid arguments from authority. Quantify. Numerical quantities and measurements, are tools by which to discriminate among competing hypotheses. Vague and qualitative hypotheses are ambiguous. Sometimes there will be qualitative issues to confront, but quantify whenever possible. All the links in a chain argument must work, including the premise. Occams razor -- choose the simpler of two hypotheses that explain the data equally well. Falsifiability. A valid hypothesis must be, in principle, falsifiable -- shown to be false by unambiguous, duplicable experimentation. Untestable, unfalsifiable propositions are of little value. Use double blind control experimentation -- where neither the measurer nor the subjects are aware of the test and control


subjects. Separate the variables in an experiment. Isolate potential causes of effects by removing as many extra variables as possible.

hoW to detect fAllAcies

ad hominem -- attacking or appealing to the arguer, not the argument Opposite of appeal to authority. Can be used to challenge a persons credibility (as in a witness testimonial) ad hominem abusive / or ad personam -- insulting, belittling, an opponent, even if pointing out facts. ad hominem circumstantial -- attacks the bias of the opponent. ad hominem tu quoque -- an irrelevant accusation of hypocrisy. Guilt by association -- A makes claim X. C also makes claim X. A is B. Argument by authority/Appeal to authority -- basing the truth value of a claim on the authority, knowledge, or position of the claimant. The validity of a claim does not follow from the credibility of the source. Two forms: 1. Authority is influential, but not related to the subject of the claim -- an endorsement of a product by a celebrity, for instance. 2. Authority is related to the subject of the claim (often an expert in the field; and therefore makes the claim appear more likely true). Argument from adverse consequences -- were it not for the threat of hell, humans would be lawless and dangerous, thus hell, and God, must exist. Argument from ignorance -- claiming that a premise is true only because it has not been proved false or that a premise is false only because it has not been proved true. Absence of evidence is
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not evidence of absence. Special pleading -- introducing favorable details or excluding unfavorable details by alleging a need to apply additional considerations without proper criticism of these considerations themselves. . Attempting to cite something as an exemption to a generally accepted rule, principle, etc. without justifying the exemption. 2. How can God be omnipotent and omnibenevolent and still commit all the atrocities detailed in the Bible? Special plead: Its not God, its free will. or, God works in mysterious ways. Begging the question/assuming the answer -- where the conclusion of an argument is implicitly or explicitly assumed in one of the premises. This is a material fallacy, not a logical fallacy. In other words, the argument will be valid (true premises), but not sound. Does not mean prompts the question. Format: p implies q, q implies r, r implies p, suppose p, therefore q, therefore r, therefore, p. Example: We know God exists because we can see the perfect order of His Creation, an order which demonstrates supernatural intelligence in its design. 1. Conclusion = God exists. 2. Premise assumes a Creator and Designer of the universe exists, i.e., that God exists. 3. Claimant should be made to provide support for the claim that the universe exhibits intelligent design. Observational selection/enumeration of favorable circumstances -- boasting of successes without mention of the failures, or dumbing down negatives. Statistics of small numbers -- You say one out of every five people is a homosexual. Thats obviously wrong, since I know hundreds of people, and none are homosexuals.
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Misunderstanding of the nature of statistics -- does it surprise you that half the population is below average intelligence? Inconsistency Consider it reasonable for the Universe to continue to exist forever into the future, but judge absurd the possibility that it has infinite duration into the past. Prudently plan for the worst of which a potential military adversary is capable, but thriftily ignore scientific projections on environmental dangers because theyre not proved. non sequitur -- the conclusion does not follow from the premise. Common format: - If God loves us, we will win the war. We won the war. Therefore, God must love us. . If A is true, then B is true. 2. B is stated to be true. 3. Therefore, A must be true. Denying the antecedent: - If I am a citizen, then I am a human. Im not a citizen, therefore, I am not a human. . If A, then B. 2. Not A. 3. Therefore, not B. post hoc, ergo propter hoc -- false cause, coincidental correlation -- asserts that because one thing follows another, the first must be the cause of the second. False dichotomy/excluded middle - Youre either working for us or for XCorp. Youre not working for us, so you must be working for XCorp. Excludes the possibility of working for someone else, or no one. Short-term vs. long-term -- rejecting a long-term proposal by way of making a short-term proposal seem more pertinent. Slippery slope -- If we allow gay marriages, soon people will be wanting to marry their pets. Confusion of correlation and causation.
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Meaningless question -- irresistible force vs. an immovable object? (the existence of one precludes the other, by definition, so the question is meaningless) Straw man -- to create a position easy to refute, then attribute that position to an opponent. Examples of straw man setups: . Present a misrepresentation of the opponents position, refute it, and pretend that the opponents actual position has been refuted. 2. Quote an opponents words out of context -- i.e., choose quotations that are not representative of the opponents actual intentions. 3. Present someone who defends a position poorly as the defender, refute that persons arguments, and pretend that every upholder of that position, and thus the position itself, has been defeated. 4. Invent a fictitious persona with actions or beliefs that are criticized, and pretend that the person represents a group of whom the speaker is critical. . Oversimplify a persons argument into a simple analogy, which can then be attacked. Weasel words -- intended to, or has the effect of, softening the force of a potentially loaded or otherwise controversial statement. Such as calling a bloody war an Operation.

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Quotes
Remember, quoting a celebritys views on God or religion, no matter how insightful, no matter how intelligent, influential, or famous the celebrity, is an appeal to authority, and thus should not be used in actual argumentation. -Me I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose. -Clarence Darrow If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, thats okay, hes God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite. -Dennis McKinsey Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color. -Don Hirschberg My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests. -George Santayana When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you dont believe? -Quentin Crisp Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. -Thomas Jefferson
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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. -Friedrich Nietzsche I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. -Stephen Roberts A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism. -Donald Morgan It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so. -Ernestine Rose There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. -Robert Green Ingersoll A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism. -Dion Fortune

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APPendices
APPendix A. suggested ReAding
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins God is not Great - Christopher Hitchens Misquoting Jesus - Bart D. Ehrman Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason - Sam Harris Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon - Daniel Dennett The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist - Victor J Stenger Atheist Universe: The Thinking Persons Answer to Christian Fundamentalism - David Mills and Dorion Sagan The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - Carl Sagan The Theory of Everything - Stephen Hawking

APPendix B. useful WeB sites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/vincent_runyon/left_ ministry.html http://www.positiveatheism.org http://www.whywontgodhealamputees.com/ http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CH/CH101.html http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/jim_meritt/bible-contradictions.html Interesting web sites: http://www.apologeticswiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
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Sam Harris 0 mythsand 0 TruthsAbout Atheism By Sam Harris December 2, 200 The Los Angeles Times SEVERAL POLLS indicate that the term atheism has acquired such an extraordinary stigma in the United States that being an atheist is now a perfect impediment to a career in politics (in a way that being black, Muslim or homosexual is not). According to a recent Newsweek poll, only 37% of Americans would vote for an otherwise qualified atheist for president. Atheists are often imagined to be intolerant, immoral, depressed, blind to the beauty of nature and dogmatically closed to evidence of the supernatural. Even John Locke, one of the great patriarchs of the Enlightenment, believed that atheism was not at all to be tolerated because, he said, promises, covenants and oaths, which are the bonds of human societies, can have no hold upon an atheist. That was more than 300 years ago. But in the United States today, little seems to have changed. A remarkable 7% of the population claims never to doubt the existence of God; fewer than 0% identify themselves as atheists and their reputation appears to be deteriorating. Given that we know that atheists are often among the most intelligent and scientifically literate people in any society, it seems important to deflate the myths that prevent them from playing a larger role in our national discourse. ) Atheists believe that life is meaningless.
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On the contrary, religious people often worry that life is meaningless and imagine that it can only be redeemed by the promise of eternal happiness beyond the grave. Atheists tend to be quite sure that life is precious. Life is imbued with meaning by being really and fully lived. Our relationships with those we love are meaningful now; they need not last forever to be made so. Atheists tend to find this fear of meaninglessness well meaningless. 2) Atheism is responsible for the greatest crimes in human history. People of faith often claim that the crimes of Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot were the inevitable product of unbelief. The problem with fascism and communism, however, is not that they are too critical of religion; the problem is that they are too much like religions. Such regimes are dogmatic to the core and generally give rise to personality cults that are indistinguishable from cults of religious hero worship. Auschwitz, the gulag and the killing fields were not examples of what happens when human beings reject religious dogma; they are examples of political, racial and nationalistic dogma run amok. There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable. 3) Atheism is dogmatic. Jews, Christians and Muslims claim that their scriptures are so prescient of humanitys needs that they could only have been written under the direction of an omniscient deity. An atheist is simply a person who has considered this claim, read the books and found the claim to be ridiculous. One doesnt have to take anything on faith, or be otherwise dogmatic, to reject unjustified religious beliefs. As the historian Stephen Henry Roberts (0-7) once said: I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. ) Atheists think everything in the universe arose by chance.
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No one knows why the universe came into being. In fact, it is not entirely clear that we can coherently speak about the beginning or creation of the universe at all, as these ideas invoke the concept of time, and here we are talking about the origin of space-time itself. The notion that atheists believe that everything was created by chance is also regularly thrown up as a criticism of Darwinian evolution. As Richard Dawkins explains in his marvelous book, The God Delusion, this represents an utter misunderstanding of evolutionary theory. Although we dont know precisely how the Earths early chemistry begat biology, we know that the diversity and complexity we see in the living world is not a product of mere chance. Evolution is a combination of chance mutation and natural selection. Darwin arrived at the phrase natural selection by analogy to the artificial selection performed by breeders of livestock. In both cases, selection exerts a highly non-random effect on the development of any species. ) Atheism has no connection to science. Although it is possible to be a scientist and still believe in God as some scientists seem to manage it there is no question that an engagement with scientific thinking tends to erode, rather than support, religious faith. Taking the U.S. population as an example: Most polls show that about 0% of the general public believes in a personal God; yet 3% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences do not. This suggests that there are few modes of thinking less congenial to religious faith than science is. ) Atheists are arrogant. When scientists dont know something like why the universe came into being or how the first self-replicating molecules formed they admit it. Pretending to know things one doesnt know is a profound liability in science. And yet it is the life-blood of faithbased religion. One of the monumental ironies of religious discourse can be found in the frequency with which people of faith


praise themselves for their humility, while claiming to know facts about cosmology, chemistry and biology that no scientist knows. When considering questions about the nature of the cosmos and our place within it, atheists tend to draw their opinions from science. This isnt arrogance; it is intellectual honesty. 7) Atheists are closed to spiritual experience. There is nothing that prevents an atheist from experiencing love, ecstasy, rapture and awe; atheists can value these experiences and seek them regularly. What atheists dont tend to do is make unjustified (and unjustifiable) claims about the nature of reality on the basis of such experiences. There is no question that some Christians have transformed their lives for the better by reading the Bible and praying to Jesus. What does this prove? It proves that certain disciplines of attention and codes of conduct can have a profound effect upon the human mind. Do the positive experiences of Christians suggest that Jesus is the sole savior of humanity? Not even remotely because Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims and even atheists regularly have similar experiences. There is, in fact, not a Christian on this Earth who can be certain that Jesus even wore a beard, much less that he was born of a virgin or rose from the dead. These are just not the sort of claims that spiritual experience can authenticate. ) Atheists believe that there is nothing beyond human life and human understanding. Atheists are free to admit the limits of human understanding in a way that religious people are not. It is obvious that we do not fully understand the universe; but it is even more obvious that neither the Bible nor the Koran reflects our best understanding of it. We do not know whether there is complex life elsewhere in the cosmos, but there might be. If there is, such beings could have developed an understanding of natures laws that vastly exceeds our own. Atheists can freely entertain such possibilities. They also can admit that if brilliant extraterrestrials exist, the contents of the Bible and the Koran will be even less impressive to them
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than they are to human atheists. From the atheist point of view, the worlds religions utterly trivialize the real beauty and immensity of the universe. One doesnt have to accept anything on insufficient evidence to make such an observation. 9) Atheists ignore the fact that religion is extremely beneficial to society. Those who emphasize the good effects of religion never seem to realize that such effects fail to demonstrate the truth of any religious doctrine. This is why we have terms such as wishful thinking and self-deception. There is a profound distinction between a consoling delusion and the truth. In any case, the good effects of religion can surely be disputed. In most cases, it seems that religion gives people bad reasons to behave well, when good reasons are actually available. Ask yourself, which is more moral, helping the poor out of concern for their suffering, or doing so because you think the creator of the universe wants you to do it, will reward you for doing it or will punish you for not doing it? 0) Atheism provides no basis for morality. If a person doesnt already understand that cruelty is wrong, he wont discover this by reading the Bible or the Koran as these books are bursting with celebrations of cruelty, both human and divine. We do not get our morality from religion. We decide what is good in our good books by recourse to moral intuitions that are (at some level) hard-wired in us and that have been refined by thousands of years of thinking about the causes and possibilities of human happiness. We have made considerable moral progress over the years, and we didnt make this progress by reading the Bible or the Koran more closely. Both books condone the practice of slavery and yet every civilized human being now recognizes that slavery is
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Gods Enemies Are More Honest Than His Friends Sam Harris For better or worse, I am partly responsible for the recent emergence of atheism as a topic of conversation. This is somewhat ironic, as I do not like the term and rarely use it. I did not, for instance, refer to myself as an atheist when I wrote The End of Faithand yet this book is my most substantial contribution to the discourse of atheism. As I pointed out in my subsequent book, Letter to a Christian Nation, we do not have a term for a person who rejects astrology, nor do we need one. If legions of astrologers sought to bend our public policy to their pseudo-science, we wouldnt need to dub ourselves non-astrologers to put them in their place. Words like reason, evidence, and commonsense would suffice. So it should be with religion. Still, one can only spend so much time quibbling over words, and there are far more consequential matters for believers and nonbelievers to discuss. Despite my misgivings about answering to the name atheist, I consider the stigma now associated with the term to be entirely unwarranted. This stigma is, of course, the continuous product of the inane and unctuous declarations that still pass for argument among the faithful. One need look no further than the responses to this weeks question to find some mesmerizing examples. As to whether atheists and believers can have a productive conversation, I am quite sure that the answer is yes. But I am uncertain whether this conversation can bear fruit quickly enough to keep civilization from becoming fully engorged by Iron Age stupidity and horror. Our capacity for self-destruction is now spreading with 21st century efficiency, and yet our beliefs about how we should pass our days and nights on this earth still spring from ancient literature. This marriage of modern technology and preliterate superstition


is a bad one, for reasons that I should not have to specify, much less argue forand yet, arguing for them has taken up most of my time since September th, 200, the day that nineteen pious men showed our pious nation just how beneficial religious certainty can be. As someone who has spent the last few years publicly criticizing religion, I have become quite familiar with how people of faith rise to the defense of God. As it turns out, there arent a hundred ways of doing this. There appear to be just three: either a person argues that a specific religion is true, or he argues that religion is useful, or he simply attacks atheism as intolerant, elitist, irrational, or otherwise worthy of contempt. Any conversation between atheists and believers is liable to fall into one or more of these ruts, or lurch back and forth between them: . Religion is true: There are two problems with arguing that any one of the worlds religions is true. First, as Bertrand Russell pointed out a century ago, the major religions make incompatible claims about God and about what human beings must believe in order to escape the fires of hell. Given the sheer diversity of these claims, every believer should expect damnation on mere, probabilistic grounds. The second problem with arguing for the truth of religion is that the evidence for the most common religious doctrines is terrible or nonexistentand this subsumes all claims about the existence of a personal God, the divine origin of certain books, the virgin birth of certain people, the veracity of ancient miracles, etc. For thousands of years, religion has been a haven for dogmatism and false certainty, and it remains so. There is not a person on this earth who has sufficient reason to be certain that Jesus rose from the dead or that Muhammad spoke to the angel Gabriel in his cave. And yet, billions of people profess such certainty. This is embarrassing. It is also dangerousand we should stop making apologies for it. 2. Religion is useful: The argument that religion is useful is also


problematicand many of its problems are enunciated daily by bomb-blasts. Can anyone seriously argue that it is a good thing that millions of Muslims currently believe in the metaphysics of martyrdom? Is it really so useful that many Jews imagine that the Creator of the universe gave them a patch of desert on the Mediterranean? How psychologically beneficial has Christianitys anxiety about sex been these last seventy generations? The worst problem with arguing for religions usefulness, however, is that it is utterly irrelevant to the question at hand: the fact that a belief might be useful is no argument that it is true. While there are many ways to illustrate this, here is how I recently made the point in an online debate: The fact that certain religious beliefs might be useful in no way suggests their legitimacy. I can guarantee, for instance, that the following religion, invented by me in the last ten seconds, would be extraordinarily useful. It is called Scientismo. Here is its creed: Be kind to others; do not lie, steal, or murder; and oblige your children to master mathematics and science to the best of their abilities or 7 demons will torture you with hot tongs for eternity after death. If I could spread this faith to billions, I have little doubt that we would live in a better world than we do at present. Would this suggest that the 7 demons of Scientismo exist? Useful delusions are not the same thing as true beliefs. 3. Atheism is bad: Rather than argue for the truth of their religious beliefs, or produce evidence that religion is useful, apologists for God often attack atheism as though it were another religion. We are told that atheism is dogmatic, intolerant, irrational, etc. This homily has the virtue of being easy to remember and reproduceand it now reverberates ceaselessly within the echo-chamber of American religious discourse. It relies, however, on a many false ideas about atheism. On Christmas eve of this year, I published an essay in the Los Angeles Times entitled 0 Myths and 0 Truths about Atheism in which I attempted to set the record straight. I wont repeat these points here. Those interested can find this article on my website.
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Biblical Passages NT vs OT Argument (or: the argument that the coming of Jesus made the OT moot) * Deuteronomy :- See, I have taught you decrees and laws as the LORD my God commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land you are entering to take possession of it. Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding to the nations, who will hear about all these decrees and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the LORD our God is near us whenever we pray to him? And what other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and laws as this body of laws I am setting before you today? * Matthew :7- Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Slavery * Exodus 2:20-2 If a man beats his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies as a direct result, he must be punished, but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two, since the slave is his property. * Colossians 3:22-2 Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to win their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord. Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.


* Ephesians : - Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. *  Peter 2:3 - Submit yourselves for the Lords sake to every authority instituted among men: whether to the king, as the supreme authority. *  Peter 2: - Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh. *  Timothy : - All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy of full respect, so that Gods name and our teaching may not be slandered. * Some Christians claim that Biblical slaves are supposed to be released after six years, and therefore Biblical slavery is more just than our modern conception of slavery. This is not the case. The passage in question, Exodus 2:-, only refers to freeing Hebrew slaves. Foreign slaves are forever your property, to be passed down to your children (in contrast to Israelite slaves): o Leviticus 2:- Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. You can will them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly. * God commands you to enslave people who you conquer in the course of normal, non-holy warfare: o Deuteronomy 20:0- When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you. If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. When the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the LORD your God gives you from your enemies. This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
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Women * Leviticus 20:0 - If a man commits adultery with another mans wifewith the wife of his neighborboth the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death. * Numbers :-3 - If a man suspects his wife of adultery, he can force her to undertake a trial by fire where she drinks a magic potion that makes her barren if she is guilty. This is similar to the trial by water in the Code of Hammurabi where suspected adulteresses are thrown into a river to see if they float. (Note that there is no such test for men suspected of adultery, only women.) * Virgins fetched a higher brideprice than non-virgins. As such, if a newlywed misrepresents her virginityby failing to prove she is a virgin on her wedding nightGod says she should be stoned to death on the doorstep of her fathers house. (Note: no such law is found in the Code of Hammurabi.) * Deuteronomy 22:3-2 If a man takes a wife and, after lying with her, dislikes her and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity, then the girls father and mother shall bring proof that she was a virgin to the town elders at the gate. The girls father will say to the elders, I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her. Now he has slandered her and said, I did not find your daughter to be a virgin. But here is the proof of my daughters virginity. Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town, and the elders shall take the man and punish him. They shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the girls father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives. If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the girls virginity can be found, she shall be brought to the door of her fathers house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her fathers house. You must purge the evil from among you. * Rape is not punishable as a crime in the Bible. If a man rapes a married or betrothed woman, he is punished for the crime of


adultery. If the victim fails to cry out loudly enough while she is raped, it is assumed that she is accomplice to adultery and she is killed as well. * Deuteronomy 22:23-27 - If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to deaththe girl because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another mans wife. You must purge the evil from among you. But if out in the country a man happens to meet a girl pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. Do nothing to the girl; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders his neighbor, for the man found the girl out in the country, and though the betrothed girl screamed, there was no one to rescue her. * If a man rapes a virgin who is not betrothedthat is, who does not belong to another manthere is no punishment. The rapist pays his victims father the brideprice and marries her. He cannot divorce her (apparently God thought this was for the girls benefit). Again, rape is not punished at all: this law essentially states, you break it, you buy it. o Deuteronomy 22:2-2 - If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay the girls father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives. o Note that the 0 shekels the rapist pays for his victims brideprice is half of what a man must pay to a womans father if he unjustly slanders her virginity, per Deuteronomy 22:. God felt that sullying a fathers honor by accusing his daughter of having unmarried sex is worth twice as much monetary compensation as raping his daughter. Speaking of monetary values, God also makes it explicit that women are worth a little more than half as much as men: * Leviticus 27:2-7 - If anyone makes a special vow to dedicate persons to the LORD by giving equivalent values, set the value of a male between the ages of twenty and sixty at fifty shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel; and if it is a female, set her value at thirty shekels. If it is a person between the ages of
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five and twenty, set the value of a male at twenty shekels and of a female at ten shekels. If it is a person between one month and five years, set the value of a male at five shekels of silver and that of a female at three shekels of silver. If it is a person sixty years old or more, set the value of a male at fifteen shekels and of a female at ten shekels. * Women are considered worthless from a legal perspective -- the theology of both the Old and New Testament supports their inherent worthlessness. * Genesis 3: - To the woman he said, I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you. * Genesis :--  Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodomboth young and oldsurrounded the house. They called to Lot, Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and said, No, my friends. Dont do this wicked thing.  Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But dont do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof. *  Timothy 2:-2 A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent. * Matthew 2: - At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. *  Corinthians :3-0 - Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head. And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her headit is just as though her head were shaved. If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off; and if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head. A man ought not to cover his head,a since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of
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man. For man did not come from woman, but woman from man; neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. For this reason, and because of the angels, the woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head. *  Corinthians :33-3 - For God is not a God of disorder but of peace. As in all the congregations of the saints, women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church. God Demanding Murder * Exodus 3:2 For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it must be put to death. * Deuteronomy 2:-2 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. They shall say to the elders, This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard. Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid. * Leviticus 20:3 If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads. * Deuteronomy 25:11-12 If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity. * Deuteronomy 20:0- When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you. If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. When the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in


the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the LORD your God gives you from your enemies. This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby. However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. * Isaiah 3:3- Therefore I will make the heavens tremble; and the earth will shake from its place at the wrath of the LORD Almighty, in the day of his burning anger. Like a hunted gazelle, like sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his native land. Whoever is captured will be thrust through; all who are caught will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives ravished. * Numbers 31:14-18 Moses was angry with the officers of the armythe commanders of thousands and commanders of hundredswho returned from the battle. Have you allowed all the women to live? he asked them. They were the ones who followed Balaams advice and were the means of turning the Israelites away from the LORD in what happened at Peor, so that a plague struck the LORDs people. Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man. Absurdities * Leviticus 2:7-2 - Say to Aaron: For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God. No man who has any defect may come near: no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed; no man with a crippled foot or hand, or who is hunchbacked or dwarfed, or who has any eye defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles. No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect is to come near to present the offerings made to the LORD by fire. He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of his God. He may eat the most holy food of his God, as well as the holy food; yet because of his defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar, and so desecrate my sanctuary. I am the LORD, who makes them holy. So


Moses told this to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites. * Genesis :-7 - The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. So the LORD said, I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earthmen and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the airfor I am grieved that I have made them. * Luke :2 If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sistersyes, even his own lifehe cannot be my disciple. * Genesis 30:37-3 - Jacob, however, took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond and plane trees and made white stripes on them by peeling the bark and exposing the white inner wood of the branches. Then he placed the peeled branches in all the watering troughs, so that they would be directly in front of the flocks when they came to drink. When the flocks were in heat and came to drink, they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted. Killing Children * Exodus 2:2-30 - The Israelites did just what the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron. At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well. Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead. * Isaiah 3:- - Whoever is captured will be thrust through; all who are caught will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives ravished. See, I will stir up against them the Medes, who do not care for silver and have no delight in gold. Their bows will strike down the young men; they will have no mercy on infants nor will they look with compassion on children. * Jeremiah :20-2 - Therefore, hear what the LORD has planned against Edom, what he has purposed against those who


live in Teman: The young of the flock will be dragged away; he will completely destroy their pasture because of them. At the sound of their fall the earth will tremble; their cry will resound to the Red Sea. * Hosea 13:16 - The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open. * Deuteronomy 3:-7 - Next we turned and went up along the road toward Bashan, and Og king of Bashan with his whole army marched out to meet us in battle at Edrei. 2 The LORD said to me, Do not be afraid of him, for I have handed him over to you with his whole army and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon. 3 So the LORD our God also gave into our hands Og king of Bashan and all his army. We struck them down, leaving no survivors.  At that time we took all his cities. There was not one of the sixty cities that we did not take from themthe whole region of Argob, Ogs kingdom in Bashan. 5 All these cities were fortified with high walls and with gates and bars, and there were also a great many unwalled villages.  We completely destroyed them, as we had done with Sihon king of Heshbon, destroying every citymen, women and children. 7 But all the livestock and the plunder from their cities we carried off for ourselves. (They massacred all the men, women and children in 0 cities at Gods request.) Sacrifice * Leviticus  - The LORD called to Moses and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting. He said, Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When any of you brings an offering to the LORD, bring as your offering an animal from either the herd or the flock. If the offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he is to offer a male without defect. He must present it at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting so that it a will be acceptable to the LORD. He is to lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him. He is to slaughter the young bull before the LORD, and then Aarons sons the priests shall bring the blood and sprinkle it against the altar
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burned the head, the pieces and the fat. He washed the inner parts and the legs with water and burned the whole ram on the altar as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, an offering made to the LORD by fire, as the LORD commanded Moses. He then presented the other ram, the ram for the ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head. Moses slaughtered the ram and took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aarons right ear, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot. Moses also brought Aarons sons forward and put some of the blood on the lobes of their right ears, on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet. Then he sprinkled blood against the altar on all sides. * Leviticus 7:2-3 - The LORD said to Moses, Say to the Israelites: Anyone who brings a fellowship offering to the LORD is to bring part of it as his sacrifice to the LORD. With his own hands he is to bring the offering made to the LORD by fire; he is to bring the fat, together with the breast, and wave the breast before the LORD as a wave offering. The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons. You are to give the right thigh of your fellowship offerings to the priest as a contribution. The son of Aaron who offers the blood and the fat of the fellowship offering shall have the right thigh as his share. From the fellowship offerings of the Israelites, I have taken the breast that is waved and the thigh that is presented and have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons as their regular share from the Israelites. Killing, Torturing Non-Believers * Deuteronomy 7:2- - If a man or woman living among you in one of the towns the LORD gives you is found doing evil in the eyes of the LORD your God in violation of his covenant, and contrary to my command has worshiped other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or the moon or the stars of the sky, and this has been brought to your attention, then you must investigate it thoroughly. If it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, take the man or woman who has done this evil deed to your city gate and stone that person to death.


* Deuteronomy 7:2 - Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the Lord your God must die. In this way you will purge the evil from Israel. * 2 Chronicles :2-3 - They entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul. All who would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, were to be put to death, whether small or great, man or woman. * Deuteronomy 3:2- - If you hear it said about one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you to live in that wicked men have arisen among you and have led the people of their town astray, saying, Let us go and worship other gods (gods you have not known), then you must inquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly. And if it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done among you, you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. Destroy it completely, both its people and its livestock. Gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. It is to remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt. None of those condemned things shall be found in your hands, so that the LORD will turn from his fierce anger; he will show you mercy, have compassion on you, and increase your numbers, as he promised on oath to your forefathers, because you obey the LORD your God, keeping all his commands that I am giving you today and doing what is right in his eyes. * Deuteronomy 3:- - If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, Let us go and worship other gods (gods that neither you nor your fathers have known, gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), do not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity. Do not spare him or shield him. You must certainly put him to death. Your hand must be the first in putting him to death, and then the hands of all the people. Stone him to death, because he tried to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and no one among you will do such an evil thing again. * Leviticus 2:3- - Then the LORD said to Moses: Take
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the blasphemer outside the camp. All those who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the entire assembly is to stone him. Say to the Israelites: If anyone curses his God, he will be held responsible; anyone who blasphemes the name of the LORD must be put to death. The entire assembly must stone him. Whether an alien or native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death. * Exodus 22:20 - Whoever sacrifices to any god other than the LORD must be destroyed. *  Corinthians :22 - If anyone does not love the Lorda curse be on him. * Mark :- - Later Jesus appeared to the Eleven as they were eating; he rebuked them for their lack of faith and their stubborn refusal to believe those who had seen him after he had risen. He said to them, Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. * Revelation 9:1-6 - The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. And out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. They were not given power to kill them, but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a man. During those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them. * . Revelation 2:- - Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every
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tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away. He who was seated on the throne said, I am making everything new! Then he said, Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true. He said to me: It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son. But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liarstheir place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death. Disgusting *  Samuel :2-27 - Saul replied, Say to David, The king wants no other price for the bride than a hundred Philistine foreskins, to take revenge on his enemies. Sauls plan was to have David fall by the hands of the Philistines. When the attendants told David these things, he was pleased to become the kings son-in-law. So before the allotted time elapsed, David and his men went out and killed two hundred Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented the full number to the king so that he might become the kings son-in-law. Then Saul gave him his daughter Michal in marriage. * Ezekiel 23:11-21 - Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister. She too lusted after the Assyriansgovernors and commanders, warriors in full dress, mounted horsemen, all handsome young men. I saw that she too defiled herself; both of them went the same way. But she carried her prostitution still further. She saw men portrayed on a wall, figures of Chaldeans a portrayed in red, with belts around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers, natives of Chaldea. b As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust. When she carried on her prostitution openly and exposed
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her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister. Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled. * Judges 3:-23 - Again the Israelites cried out to the LORD, and he gave them a delivererEhud, a left-handed man, the son of Gera the Benjamite. The Israelites sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Ehud had made a double-edged sword about a foot and a half long, which he strapped to his right thigh under his clothing. He presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab, who was a very fat man. After Ehud had presented the tribute, he sent on their way the men who had carried it. At the idols near Gilgal he himself turned back and said, I have a secret message for you, O king. The king said, Quiet! And all his attendants left him. Ehud then approached him while he was sitting alone in the upper room of his summer palace and said, I have a message from God for you. As the king rose from his seat, Ehud reached with his left hand, drew the sword from his right thigh and plunged it into the kings belly. Even the handle sank in after the blade, which came out his back. Ehud did not pull the sword out, and the fat closed in over it. Then Ehud went out to the porch ; he shut the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them. * Judges 4:21 - But Jael, Hebers wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died. * Psalm :0 - The righteous will be glad when they are avenged, when they bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked. * Genesis :30-3 - Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. One day the older daughter said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is no man around here to lie with us, as is the custom all over the earth. Lets get our father to drink wine and then lie with him and preserve our
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family line through our father. That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and lay with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up. The next day the older daughter said to the younger, Last night I lay with my father. Lets get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and lie with him so we can preserve our family line through our father. So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went and lay with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up. So both of Lots daughters became pregnant by their father. * Judges :2-30 - But the men would not listen to him. So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go. At daybreak the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, fell down at the door and lay there until daylight. When her master got up in the morning and opened the door of the house and stepped out to continue on his way, there lay his concubine, fallen in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold. He said to her, Get up; lets go. But there was no answer. Then the man put her on his donkey and set out for home. When he reached home, he took a knife and cut up his concubine, limb by limb, into twelve parts and sent them into all the areas of Israel. Everyone who saw it said, Such a thing has never been seen or done, not since the day the Israelites came up out of Egypt. Think about it! Consider it! Tell us what to do! * Joshua 0:22-2 - Joshua said, Open the mouth of the cave and bring those five kings out to me. So they brought the five kings out of the cavethe kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish and Eglon. When they had brought these kings to Joshua, he summoned all the men of Israel and said to the army commanders who had come with him, Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings. So they came forward and placed their feet on their necks. Joshua said to them, Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Be strong and courageous. This is what the LORD will do to all the enemies you are going to fight. Then Joshua struck and killed the kings and hung them on five trees, and they were left hanging on the trees until evening. * Matthew :2-30 - If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of
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your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell. * 2 Chronicles 21:18-19 - After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels. In the course of time, at the end of the second year, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great pain. His people made no fire in his honor, as they had for his fathers. * 2 Kings :33-3 - Throw her down! Jehu said. So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered the wall and the horses as they trampled her underfoot. Jehu went in and ate and drank. Take care of that cursed woman, he said, and bury her, for she was a kings daughter. But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing except her skull, her feet and her hands. * Numbers 2:- - While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women, who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate and bowed down before these gods. So Israel joined in worshiping the Baal of Peor. And the LORDs anger burned against them. The LORD said to Moses, Take all the leaders of these people, kill them and expose them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that the LORDs fierce anger may turn away from Israel. So Moses said to Israels judges, Each of you must put to death those of your men who have joined in worshiping the Baal of Peor. Then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear through both of themthrough the Israelite and into the womans body. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped; but those who died in the plague numbered 2,000. * Judges :- - Inside the city, however, was a strong tower, to which all the men and womenall the people of the cityfled. They locked themselves in and climbed up on the tower roof. Abimelech went to the tower and stormed it. But as he approached the entrance to the tower to set it on fire, a woman
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dropped an upper millstone on his head and cracked his skull. Hurriedly he called to his armor-bearer, Draw your sword and kill me, so that they cant say, A woman killed him. So his servant ran him through, and he died. * Psalms 37:- - O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks. * Genesis 3:-0 - Then Judah said to Onan, Lie with your brothers wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to produce offspring for your brother. But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so whenever he lay with his brothers wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from producing offspring for his brother. What he did was wicked in the LORDs sight; so he put him to death also.

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http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/sam_harris/200/2/gods_enemies_are_ more_honest_t_.html http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/0-myths-and-0-truths-about-atheism/ http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/mathew/arguments.html http://www.whywontgodhealamputees.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Evil-RidiculousDisgusting-Bible-Verses (tremendous thanks to WWGHA for the bible verses) http://www.positiveatheism.org/crt/whichcom.htm http://www.skepticreport.com/skepticism/baloneydetectionkit.htm http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~urban/docs/baloney.html http://members.aol.com/ckbloomfld/bepart13.html http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/science/long.html http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/jim_meritt/bible-contradictions.html

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Why Wont God Heal Amputees.com (the community of rationals who helped me expand and tweak this book) GodIsImaginary.com (the videos that brought me here in the first place) Jim H (good suggestions) Assyriankey (miracles happen) Huntingdon (evolution vs. creationism) Hyperkubus (good suggestions) JustMe (for a lot of PR work!) MeryMer (biblical science) Traveler (illustration) Monik (idea bouncer) cMarie (idea bouncer) Oogabooga (translator)

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