Biblical Violence, Hate, and Immorality
Truth Does Not Demand Faith
As a jazz pianist I feel I possess truths that do not require faith. I have never gotten together with other jazz musicians and chanted, “Yes, the notes of an E minor half-diminished chord are E, G, B flat, and D, praise the Chord, brothers and sisters! May the Chord be with you. Have faith in the Chord.” I further believe that a waltz is in 3/4 time, but I don’t need to meet every week to talk about it; it is just a fact. Likewise, scientists don’t gather and keep chanting together in a huddled mass every week that they know biological evolution is responsible for the creation of life. They feel no need to reassure themselves of what they see as Truth.
Religious Truth is a different thing, though, isn’t it? We need to keep drumming this stuff into our heads all the time, lest we fall victim to rational thought.
Many Christians seem to have a difficult time hearing and dealing with rational thought that in any way contradicts what they think is actual historical fact. They must continuously repeat these shocking ideas to themselves every Sunday and every religious celebration. Look at the Nicene Creed that Constantine and his conspirators wrote for people to repeat over and over and over. Why must people, once they are given to accept a religious belief, gather in support groups and repeat their beliefs over and over?
Creationism
Many school systems are constantly under pressure to give equal time to the religious concept of Creationism. This religious-mythology-as-science intrusion of anti-intellectual compulsion into the public school system is damaging to society. We know that the movement to teaching Creationism is not about science, it is about religion and politics. It would be as if to give equal time to the stork in obstetrics. Critical thinking is not critical thinking when you exempt religious beliefs from its scrutiny. Religious beliefs (raising the dead, God as a Burning Bush, Noah saving the animals, a talking serpent, parting of the sea, and so on) all crumble when examined from a scientific platform.
If the Creationists are right (and they realize they must be right if their religion is to survive) then God would have to be a rather odd fellow. Did Adam and Eve have a belly button? Whom did Cain marry if there was only him with Mom and Dad? Did God create light waves to look as if they were coming from old galaxies to keep us confused as to the truth of the age of the Universe? Did he create everything to look as if it were old, even though it was brand new? Did God create fossils to look like life actually evolved? Brian Fellow (a character from the Saturday Night Live television show) would have to exclaim, “This is carazy.”
Consistency in Myth and Knowledge is Critical
But this creates a problem. Cultural Vision notes that in true tribal culture (which is the type of societal structure humanity evolved with), one of the functions that mythology serves is to offer an image of reality that is consistent with the knowledge of the tribe. Mythology, in order to fulfill its higher purpose, must corroborate with that which is known to be factual.
When I was around seven years old I deduced that there was no Easter Bunny. I confronted my parents, who could not defy my logic and fessed up to the secret. But as I realized the scam, I deduced right there that the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus were also a hoax, and they admitted as such.
This is similar to the dilemma the Church has with its mythology dependant on such a delicate house of cards. But we are not gullible children who are genetically programmed to soak up as much mythology as possible. The problem here is that if the world actually did evolve as science claims rather than created by God as the Church claims, somewhere there needs be a concession. How we began should be a question we, as a culture and all-encompassing society composing of many faiths and system of beliefs, should have a mutual understanding of.
The problem is that if there was no Adam, the whole system crashes because there was no original sin, the “fall” of man. But that means there is no hell or heaven. If that is the case, then we have no need for salvation. From that one would have to admit that there was no need for the resurrection, and science would determine that such an event could not have happened anyway.
Believing as a “Get out of Hell Free” Card
Christian religious indoctrination teaches that what makes you eligible for eternal salvation is what you believe, not necessarily what you do. In other words, the true believers and the faithful will join God in life-everlasting. You can even kill someone and be saved by asking for forgiveness from the Lord. Ask and thou shalt receive. But if you are an atheist and don’t “believe in the Lord,” no matter how pleasant or giving of a person you might be, then you will not be “saved” and will go someplace else, like eternal damnation burning in Hell. If you want to sin and get away with it, all you have to do is believe in God (and Jesus for the Christians) to be saved.
The Calvinistic Inhuman Tendencies of Civilization
In order for this system we live in to survive, you need large numbers of people to agree on some foundational tenets that support all the other attributes. We’ve looked at some of the foundation. I’d like to look at the most damaging attribute this system of beliefs has perpetuated on today’s societies. At this point I am going to be referring to Judaism and Islam, as well as Christianity.
The most fatal meme (a sociological snippet of information) to come forth from the Old Testament days is the righteous mentality that emanates from the highly egocentric point of view that mankind is predestined to rule over creation, that mankind should “own” parts of the planet to alter in any way he chooses. (This must be eliminated if we are to survive as a species.)
That is the meme in its most extreme, although it sounds to us modern-day civilized folks like a perfectly reasonable assumption. The doctrine of predestination lies at the root of the great religions. They all think they are the “chosen people.”
The most dangerous form of predestination is Calvinism. Calvinists think that material wealth is a blessing from God signaling divine favor. This was also the Puritan way of thinking. They are extremely moral in their personal life, but all’s fair when it comes to business, patriotism, and military violence. They take a dour attitude with physical pleasure, but compensate for their dreariness with a fierce greed and lust for power and wealth.
Our Myths are Sane, Yours are “Carazy”
It seems that Christians can easily dismiss the “miracles” of Islam. They scoff at other supernatural claims, such as the visit between Joseph Smith and the angel Moroni. If they are holding claim to our society, we should take a good look at their own outrageous claims. Even the disciple Thomas, who was there to see Christ in action, said that the women’s news “seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.” (Luke 24:11)
And should anyone dare to examine these now written (and therefore second- or third-hand information) tales, they might be denounced for “picking the Bible to pieces.” But I believe failing to look closely at all aspects of the story(s) would be in violation of a basic principle of scholarship and study.
Biblical Morals and Commands
What might be most frightening about the Bible is that if you Believe in it, you are commanded by God, Creator of the Universe, to follow the Word of God. But if 
a person in our society were to follow the Word of God of the Old Testament, that person would soon be put in prison. Here is a sampling:
If a woman was not a virgin when she married, you should stone her to death. This is part of Mosaic Law. (Deuteronomy 22:21) And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast. (Leviticus 20:16) If your child hits you or swears at you, you are to put that child to death. (Leviticus 20:9) A stubborn and rebellious son should be stoned to death by all the men of his city. (Deuteronomy 21:18-21) It is a good practice to sell your daughter into slavery. (Exodus 21:7) Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. (Psalm 137:9)
It’s sexual abuse, anti-women, domestic violence, and child abuse all rolled up into one. Consider that Abraham drove one child into the desert to starve, and made preparations to butcher the other. The Bible even advocates slavery! (see Timothy 6:1, Ephesians 6:5, Titus 2:9, Peter 2:18) Leviticus 25:44 states that you may buy slaves from the nations that are around us.
Intolerance to non-believers is innate in these religions:
People who work on the Sabbath should be put to death. (Exodus 35:2)
It certainly fosters a bad attitude towards women . . . :
Suffer not a woman to teach nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing. (1 Timothy 2:12-15) There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. (Ezekiel 23:30) Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. (Exodus 22:18) Whenever a woman has her menstrual period, she will be ceremonially unclean for seven days. If you touch her during that time, you will be defiled until evening. (Leviticus 15:19)
. . . but I find the promotion of ethnic cleansing the most disturbing aspect of the Bible: But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy. Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand. (2 Chronicles 36:16-17)
The Bible even says we should ostracize the children of broken families . . . :
A child born out of wedlock should be publicly exposed by the church. (Deuteronomy 23:2)
. . . and that we should kill Gay people:
Death for homosexuals (Leviticus 20:13; Romans 1:27,32)
The Bible can be as gross and disgusting . . . :
Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces. (Malachi 2:3) Hath he not sent me to the men who sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you? (2 Kings 18:27) And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. (Deuteronomy 28:53) And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man. (Ezekel 4:12.15)
. . . as it can be threatening:
He that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation. (Mark 3:29) Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortionists, shall inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6: 9-10)
Violence is glorified in the Bible, just as it is in other religious traditions and teachings. Moses murdered an Egyptian and hid his body in the sand. Moses exterminated whole nations to secure the spoils of war. Moses butchered in cold blood thousands of captive widows as he tore babies from the breast of dying mothers and put them to a cruel death.
They called David “a man after God’s own heart,” and yet didn’t he lead an enemy’s troops against his own countrymen? Didn’t he plunder the country on every side? He was a liar to avoid justice. But worst of all he was a butcher of people as he tortured and slaughtered thousands of men, women, and children, forcing them through burning brick ovens. Using saws and axes he tore them to pieces. He murdered a faithful soldier after raping his wife. I know this because the Bible told me so.
The Bible is stained with blood. Open it at random:
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. (Matthew 10: 34-37)
Take all the heads of the people and hang them up before the Lord against the sun. (Numbers 25:8)
And this is the thing that ye shall do, ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man. (Judges 5:30)
And when the Lord thy God hath delivered [a city] into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself. (Deuteronomy 20:13-14)
And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males. . . . And the children of Israel took all the women of the Midian captive, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods. (Numbers 31:7-9)
Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. (Numbers 31: 17-18)
But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses. The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea: That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same. (Psalms 68:21-23)
And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. (2 Samuel 4:12)
And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them. (Deuteronomy 7:2)
And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord. (Joshua 6:24)
And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The Lord is able to give thee much more than this. . . . And Amaziah strengthened himself . . . and smote the children of Seir ten thousand. And the other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces. (2 Chronicles 25:9-12)
But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth. (Deuteronomy 20:16)
Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city [of nonbelievers] with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. (1 Samuel 13:15)
And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did unto the king of Jerico. Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah: And the Lord delivered it also, and the king thereof, into the hand of Israel: and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain in it. (Joshua 10:29-30)
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. (1 Samuel 15:3)
And let’s not forget all the adulterous sex:
Consider Abraham who married his sister and seduced his wife’s handmaid. Abraham’s nephew, Lot, had two daughters. When Lot’s wife was turned into a pillar of salt, his daughters got him drunk and had sex with him. They both got pregnant and their sons were the progenitors of two nations, the Moabites and the Ammonites. Jacob won God’s love by deceiving his father, cheating his uncle, robbing his brother, practicing bigamy with two of his cousins, and committing fornication with two of his housemaids. David was a drunken polygamist who had a harem of wives and mistresses known as concubines and danced half-naked before the maids of his household. This well-known religious icon also abducted and ravished the wife of a faithful soldier. Why, even Moses made orphans of 32 thousand innocent girls, and turned 16 thousand of them over the brutal lusts of a savage soldiery.
“That’s Carazy!” Sounds more like a pornographic movie than thoughts about spiritual interconnections with the universe!
Plus we are coerced into accepting an entirely fictional and utterly fantastic set of events over the past 7000 years that we know is physically impossible to the point that it is simply silly to take the Bible seriously:
God instructed Moses to order 3 million people to stone to death one man who had upset Him. (Numbers 15:35,36)
God struck an entire city of men down with Hemorrhoids. (I Samuel 5:8,9)
The planet Earth is a four-cornered flat earth floating on water (Isiah 11:12, Psalms 24:2, 136:6) with heaven above and the earth below. (I Thessians 4:16-17) All of this was created in just one week. (Genesis 1:1-2:2)
Adam could speak a language when he was just one-day old. (Gen 2:19)
If you are sick or if you commit a sin, it is because you are infested with demons. (Mk. 1:21-34, 2:6-9)
The moon will turn to blood at the end of history. (Acts 2:20)
The bible says that there was no rain on the earth up to at least the time of man’s appearance. (Gen 2:5) The bible also says plants appeared on the third day and insects not until the sixth. And yet we know from high school biology that plants depend upon insect pollination for their very existence. Another mystery?
Rising from the dead, walking on water, rivers parting, talking snakes, voices from burning bushes, magic wands and rods, demons, giants, angels, devils, ghosts, disembodied voices, unclean spirits, and curing blindness with spit is just a few of the Bible’s wonders. It just goes on and on.
God is so callous towards all of mankind that at one point He was sorry that He even created people. So, out of spite and anger and to show these sinful folks who is in charge and make them suffer for their sins God destroyed all but a sample of them in a world-wide flood; wiped out everybody! Even all the animals too. Then he commenced to start the whole bloody process all over again! (Gen 6:5-7)
Eliminate all Faith-based Institutions from all Civil Structures
All of the above insane and psychotic (by definition) ideas and quotes are not only entirely responsible for the rationalization for the Crusades, the Inquisition, the torture and murder of millions of women, the overrunning of many thousands of indigenous cultures around the world and right here in America, as well as the Holocaust, it is also in these modern times the subliminal justification for forcing unwanted pregnancies on abused women, spousal abuse, sex discrimination, sexual-preference discrimination, all Holy wars, terrorism, ethnic strife, slavery, colonialism, among so many other ills and damaging aspects of our modern day system of morals and sense of justice, all of which ultimately block us from achieving true freedom.
Religious institutions not only have not the answer, they are the root of the problem.
Society Must Promote Human Values and True Freedom
Religious institutions have now acquired ample political power to enforce its views on the mass population, which demands a question of ethical integrity and moral foundation. These institutions earned their place by pure political conquest, not by argument, not by evidence, nor any proof of Truth.
And so it has become time for all people, religious and not, to affirm the truly sacred duty of our societal structures to protect true Freedom and return to humanity our humanity by disallowing religious influence in the secular business of society. In this way we can bring true Freedom to the masses by allowing people to decide for themselves how and what to honor. This is the task we have before us today.
What is Freedom?
What is true Freedom? This is a valid question. Most people think it means being free to do whatever you want whenever you want to do it. The second part of these twin websites, PrimalTrinity.org will take a close look at the spiritual aspect of freedom and how we can have it when we are ready for it.