Sunday, July 20, 2008

Terrorism in Bible - Leviticus and Numbers

Leviticus (20.27) - Any person with a familiar spirit / a wizard shall be stoned to death.
Leviticus (25.44 - 46) - Buy heathens as slaves and they shall remain as your slaves for eternity (their descendants shall be the slaves of slave owners’ descendants).
Leviticus (26.16 - 39) - Severe punishments for those who do not follow God’s orders. This includes God sending beasts to kill the children of such people. Other punishments include plague, fever, defeat by enemies, punishing seven times more for the sins etc. (whatever did the children do to suffer such a horrible death?). Also God shall make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters. He will destroy their cities and they will be left to suffer among heathens.
Numbers (11.1) - People complained to God. God did not like it and so He burned those who complained.
Numbers (14.36-37) - People murmured against God (or perhaps Moses) and so God sends a plague among them to destroy them.
Numbers (16.30-35) - Korah and those who supported him, along with their families and wealth, were swallowed by the earth. Also, God sent a fire to kill 250 people who offered incense (why kill them?). Korah did not believe Moses.
Numbers (16.41-49) - People criticize Moses saying that he killed the people of the Lord. God does not like this and hence sends a plague that kills 14,700 persons. (No freedom of speech or thought? Then why provide humans with a rational mind?)
Numbers (21.3) - Israelites vow to God that they will destroy the entire cities of Canaan if God delivered the Canaanites unto their hands. God did so and the Canaan cities were completely destroyed. Bloodthirsty God?
Numbers (21.34-35) - With the help of God, Moses kills all the Amorites and Bashan people(including children) such that no one was left alive among them.
Numbers (25.1-9) - Israelites commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab and participate in their festivals. So God orders Moses to kill them and hang their bodies before the sun so that the anger of the Lord be turned away from Israel. But still plague came upon Israel. But a man brings a Midian (non-Israeli) woman to the congregation and Aaron’s grandson kills both the woman and the man. God is pleased by this act and stops the plague. But the plague had already killed 24,000 people. It seems God has nothing to do but kill.
Numbers (chapter 31): All the males among Midianites including children are killed. All women who were not virgins were killed as well. The Israelites got 32000 virgins from this bloody campaign. The booty including virgins was then split among them. Even God receives a share.
Numbers (33.50-52) - God orders Moses to destroy Canaan, drive out the inhabitants of the land and also destroy their places of worship. (religious intolerance)
Numbers (33.55-56) - God says that if the Israelites don’t do so, He will make the remaining Canaanites as pricks in their eyes and thorns in their sides. He will do to the Israelites what He wants to do to the Canaanites (utter destruction). God threatens the Israelites that if they show mercy to Canaanites, He will destroy them. It seems that God does not like human values.

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