Editor,
Samson in the Bible was a suicide bomber! Samson prayed to God to help him to murder his enemies as he killed himself. The Bible says 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 possibly more people that day than were killed on 9/11 at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Have you heard any preacher, any priest, any rabbi damn Samson’s revenge mass murder of thousands of people?
The Bible contains both poison crap and precious wisdom. Tragically many people swallow the poison along with the wisdom.
The Bible says God commanded the mass murder of every man, woman, and child in Palestine. 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.”
For more torture and mass murder in the name of God, read the entire books of Deuteronomy and Numbers. 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.
No wonder many Bible believers can build and finance nuclear weapons and can wage war with no conscience, no guilt and no shame! All Bible verses that support war are evil poison!
Many tribes and nations throughout history believed they were God’s favorites, God’s chosen people. They stupidly 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, fairly, and humbly, to reject addiction to money and status...
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 people as the main test to separate its poison crap from its precious wisdom.
Don Schrader
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