Posted by God Delusion on January 12th, 2010
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Ahh the Bible, that ultimate authority for so many Christians. The next time someone says they believe that the Bible is 100% God’s word, you can pull out these gems where the Bible says…
You should kill your child if he strikes you (Exod. 21:15)
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death
If you work on the Sabbath, you should be put to death (Exod. 35:2)
Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death
If you curse, you should be stoned to death (Lev. 24:14)
Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
Happiness is smashing children upon the rocks (Psalms 137:9)
Happy shall he be,that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Women should be subjugated by their husbands (1 Pet. 3:1)
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
Tags: children, murder, new testament, old testament, sabbath, the Bible, wives
Category: Christianity, Critical Thinking, Intolerance, Superstition
Posted by Reason on December 10th, 2008
It’s wet, snowy and frigid here, and the malls are ass-to-elbow packed with irritated Christmas shoppers. iPod Touches are all sold out at Best Buy, and the lines at Starbucks (eggnog latté, what!) are around the block.
Oh wait, here’s a real problem: albinos in Tanzania (southeast Africa) can’t leave their bedrooms for fear of being torn limb from limb by local witchdoctors seeking their extra-magical blood and body parts.
In the Mwanga district, near Mount Kilimanjaro, a baby girl was dressed in black by her mother and left alone in the family hut.
A group of men cut off the pale girl’s legs, slit her throat, poured the blood into a pot and drank it.
In another sickening case a man was caught trying to enter the Democratic Republic of Congo with an albino child’s head in his luggage.
Someone please send some rationalist missionaries to Africa to explain to people there that magic doesn’t exist and human sacrifice is really mean.
Fishermen believe if they weave the red hair from an albino into nets, fish will be attracted by the glimmer.
Better fishing is reason to murder the local oddball? There’s nothing else shiny in Tanzania they could try first?
Human sacrifice is the worst of superstition, the darkest side of religion. The government has lately been supportive of the albino population, ordering the police to conduct a census that may allow them to keep track of people’s disappearances. But the Tanzanian Albino Society says only more legal prosecutions will help turn public opinion; to that end they’re looking for donations to their legal fund through Action on Disability.
Tags: Albino, human sacrifice, magical thinking, murder, Superstition, Tanzania, witchdoctor
Category: Superstition
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