Reply #47: Most of them are. [View All]

[Ladyhawk]

I could give you some quotes, but I've got to go to PT.

Try the The Skeptic's Annotated Bible. You can look for cruelty quotes. Most of them have to do with Yahweh commanding the Children of Israel to wipe out entire cities of people.

Thomas Jefferson was so appalled by the Bible that he edited his own version, which ended up being very small. :)

I'll give you a few examples of cruel bible verses, but the OT is packed with them:

"Happiness is smashing your little children against the rocks." Psalms 137 : 9

"And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.

"And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them." 2 Kings 2:24-25

"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, ox and sheep, camel and ass." I Samuel 15:3

Also, do a search on the word "destroy." Wow, God was into that whole destruction thing. It was considered "mercy" if God did not utterly destroy someone. :)