Saturday, November 21, 2009

The Bible is false (Part 1 - The Bible is Immoral)

The Bible and the religions supported by it (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), are false, and would not be the word of any moral god.How can I make such an indictment? Because the Bible teaches things which are immoral. The god of the bible encourages his followers to do many many immoral things, but let's just take slavery as an example. The Bible doesn't just condone slavery, it encourages it, in both the old and new testaments.

  • 1 Peter 2:18 - Servants, be subject to your masters
  • Titus 2:9-10 - Servants, obey in all things your masters
  • 1 Timothy 6:1-5 - Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their masters worthy of all honor
  • Colossians 3:22 - Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters
  • Ephesians 6:5 - Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh
  • Leviticus 25:44-46 - Thy bond-men and thy bond-maids which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you: of them shall ye buy bond-men and bond-maids. Moreover, of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land. And they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession, they shall be your bond-man forever.
Either you agree with this immorality, or you reject the bible. Anything else, is an ill-fated and illogical attempt to have it both ways. Personally, I am more moral than the bible, because I believe slavery is wrong. You probably are too.

The Bible was used during the U. S. Civil War by southern slave-owners to show that any good Christian should recognize that god condones slavery. And they were right. The god in the Bible does condone slavery. In fact this god's followers are admonished to obey him just as slaves should obey their masters. Luckily, these are just stories people made up thousands of years ago. We can do better. We can be more moral.

Posted by Mike at 10:18 PM

2 comments:

Jeff said...

Hey Mike, you ever look at the Google ads that show up next to your posts?

Today there's a link that claims to have proof that Jesus is divine.

Their ad-generating algorithms produce some great irony.

Are you really "friends" with Eugenie Scott?

Cheers,
Jeff Harm

March 23, 2010 4:49 PM
Mike said...

Jeff! Hey.
Yes, I have looked at those ads. At times I've wished to have some control over them, but that's not going to happen. The ads have the same target audience I do, so their algorithms are spot on I'd say.

Not RL friends with Dr. Scott, no. We've exchanged a couple emails and such, but we have yet to meet in person. She's part of an east bay atheist group that I can never seem to hook up with, but one of these days...

March 24, 2010 1:53 PM

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The purpose of this blog is to open up a dialog about reaching for truth in our beliefs. My view of faith, is that it is the thing that is used to justify a belief when there is insufficeint evidence. Faith is not a valid reason for any belief, and most people agree...until it comes to their religion, then faith is the only justification.

My purpose in saying this is not to be divisive. In fact quite the contrary. I'd like to understand why people feel that faith, rather than evidence and reason, can result in beliefs that are true. I don't see faith assisting in finding truth; rather our best chance at reaching truth is through reason and reasonableness.

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