When I was a child attending a Chirstian church, we spent a lot of time learning about the love of Jesus (Jesus Loves Me This I Know) and about the need for us to love our fellow humans (Do unto others as you would have them do unto you). As an adult I've learned that others read hate, distrust and killing into the Bible. It explains a lot about the right-wing Christians who support, even demand, that we be involved in wars against the heathens with religious beliefs different from Christianity.
Ruth Hurmence Green has compiled some ABC's from the Bible that explain some of the human horrors found in the Holy Book of Christianity. Here are a few for you to sample...
Asking your neighbors to help you stone a stubborn son to death. Deut. 21:18-21
Beating slaves to death in stages Ex. 21:20-21
Chopping off heads, hands, feet, ears and plucking out eyes Matt. 18:8-9
John 18:10 Num. 25:9 Matt. 14:10 II Sam. 4:7, 12
Delivering people up to the torturer Matt. 18:34-35 Matt. 13:41-42
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