The Holy Bible: A Good Book? - Savage Biblical Injustice
Biblical morality is archaic and savage. It reflects a barbarous, pitiless age and a tribal, slave-based society, a time when “elders” and priests ruled desperately primitive villages and nomadic or semi-nomadic clans. The Romans regarded Judaism as a primitive religion – and it was.
The legacy scarcely improved when repackaged as Christianity, for all the nonsense talked about “love” and heroic self-sacrifice. Indeed, as political need presented itself, the Christians turned increasingly to the corpus of Judaism to justify every vicious act.
The New Testament, with its skimpy biography of a humanoid god and eclectic collection of letters, meant the practitioners of Christ, raised up as “elders” and priests of a decaying world, drew heavily upon the Old Testament and its rich compendium of inhumanity and intolerance.
What's Love Got to do With IT?
‘Love’ appears 310 times in the Bible – but that’s out of a total of more than three-quarters of a million words. But ‘fun’ and ‘happiness’ appear not at all. ‘Freedom’ appears just twice, once when Paul claims to be free born (Acts 22.27,28) and once when Leviticus advises the thrashing of a raped slave:
“As their personal claims could “And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.”
– Leviticus 19.20.
‘Laughed’ shows up just 13 times whereas ‘cried’ puts in 199 appearances, which figures since ‘birth’ is there 15 times but ‘death’ no fewer than 372 times; ‘enemies’ outnumbers ‘friends’ 270 to 49, and so it goes on. Just in case anyone should miss the general tenor of this horrid book Ecclesiastes (7.1,4) spells it out:
“A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.”
“It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: ”
“Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.”
“The heart of fools is in the house of mirth.”
Jehovah: Not so keen on the physically impaired
“And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto Aaron, saying,
Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach:
a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
Or crookback, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.”
– Leviticus 21:16,24.
