The Bible (Old Testament)

The Bible is one the most famous (and infamous) religious text. It is revered as divine truth in many countries, one of them being the Vatican. This single book is revered as single leading source of morality and judgment. When I started reading this book, I noticed a few interesting details. The first being that many biblical characters lived over 500 years old. This was weird for me because the average lifespan in that age was less than 45 years old. I blew it off and continued on, like a good Christian. Thats when I began to notice that the God I had known from all my Sunday School classes was a malicious being. In less than 3 chapters, he condoned incest, rape, murder, torture, and animal abuse. In the following chapters, he allowed child abuse, the death penalty, infanticide, and many, many, MANY other horrifying punishments. He even allows for children to be slaughtered by a bear for making fun of a bald prophet's head. I was only able to find one positive feature, that rich farmers were supposed to allow peasants to go through their vineyards and let them eat as much as they needed to survive. 1 positive fact doesn't get rid of 1,000 bad ones however. This book is also filled with contradictions. For a full list of contradictions and atrocities, visit thethinkingatheist.com/page/refuting-the-bible. Rating- The Old Testament 2/10 Unacceptable.