Editor,
The Bible contains some of the worst poison crap and some of the best precious wisdom ever written. Many people tragically swallow both the poison and the wisdom and proclaim it all the word of God.
Deuteronomy 7:2 — “And when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them; then you must utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.”
Joshua 10:40 — “So Joshua smote the whole land. … He left none remaining but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel commanded.”
Samson was a suicide bomber. He prayed for God to strengthen him to do revenge and to murder his enemies as he killed himself. The building Samson destroyed was full of men and women, and 3,000 more people were on the roof, (Judges 16:25-30). Samson killed more people that day than were killed on Sept. 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Have you heard any preacher, priest or rabbi strongly condemn Samson’s vengeful mass murder of thousands of people?
For more torture and mass murder in the name of God, read the books of Deuteronomy and Numbers in the Bible. Hitler was not the first to commit genocide. Columbus and other European invaders of the Americas were not the first to massacre indigenous people in the name of God.
The Bible states that the Lord God commanded total genocide of every man, woman and child living in Palestine more than 3,000 years before Hitler. Today this is the U.S. Empire’s nuclear bomb policy toward targeted “enemy” nations.
No wonder many Bible-believers who swallow the Bible’s poison crap as the word of God can build and finance nuclear weapons and wage war with no conscience, no guilt and no shame.
Those Bible verses stating that God commanded mass murder are spiritual poison. Those verses depict a vicious cosmic terrorist whom I refuse to worship and I would never want to spend eternity with.
Many tribes and nations throughout history believed they were God’s favorites, God’s chosen people. They used God’s name to justify slaughtering their enemies.
The Bible’s precious wisdom teaches us to love, forgive and do good to our enemies, to conquer evil with good, to treat all people as we want others to treat us, to apologize and make amends when we wrong others, to live simply and to reject addiction to money and status.
Gandhi said the only people on Earth who do not realize Jesus was nonviolent are Christians. Read the Bible with extreme caution always. Spit out its poison crap. Take to heart its wisdom and aim to live it. Use compassion for all as the main test to separate its poison crap from its precious wisdom.
Don Schrader
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