God's Killing Sprees

God drowns everyone on earth (except Noah and his family)     Genesis 7:23, BT 30,000,000? 30,000,000 God rains fire and brimstone on Sodom and Gomorrah, killing everyone.    Gen.19:24, BT 1000? 30,001,000 Lot's wife for looking back Gen.19:26, BT 1 30,001,001 Er who was "wicked in the sight of the Lord" Gen.38:7, BT 1 30,001,002 Onan for spilling his seed Gen.38:10, BT 1 30,001,003 7th Egyptian Plague: Hail  Exodus 9:25, BT 30,000? 30,031,003 God kills every Egyptian firstborn child.  Ex.12:29-30, BT 500,000? 30,531,003 God drowns Egyptian army  Ex.14:28, BT 1000? 30,532,003 God and Moses help Joshua kill the Amalekites  Ex.17:13, BT 1000? 30,533,003 For dancing naked around Aaron's golden calf Ex.32:27-28, 35, BT 3000 30,536,003 Aaron's sons for offering strange fire before the Lord Lev.10:1-3,Num.3:4, 26:61, BT 2 30,536,005 A blasphemer Lev.24:10-23, BT 1 30,536,006 God burned to death an unknown number for complaining  Numbers 11:1, BT 100? 30,536,106 God sent "a very great plague" for complaining about the food.  Num.11:33, BT 10,000? 30,546,106 God killed those who murmured with a plague.  Num.14:35-36, BT 100? 30,546,206 A man who picked up sticks on the Sabbath Num.15:32-36, BT 1 30,546,207 Korah, Dathan, and Abiram (and their families) Num.16:27, BT 12+ 30,546,219 Burned to death for offering incense Num.16:35, 26:10,BT 250 30,546,469 For complaining  Num.16:49, BT 14,700 30,561,169 Massacre of the Aradites  Num.21:1-3, BT 3000? 30,564,169 For complaining about the lack of food and water, God sent fiery serpents to bite the people, and many of them died.  Num.21:6, BT 100? 30,564,269 God delivers the Bashanites into Moses' hands and Moses kills everyone "until there was none left alive."  Num.21:34-35, BT 1000? 30,565,269 For "committing whoredom with the daughters of Moab" Num.25:9, BT 24,000 30,589,269 Midianite massacre (32,000 virgins were kept alive) Num.31:1-35, BT 90,000+ 30,679,269 The slaughter of the Anakim, the children of Esau, and the Horim  Deuteronomy 2:21-22 5000? 30,684,269 God hardened the king of Heshbon's heart so that the Israelites could massacre his people. (included several cities)  Dt.2:33-34, BT 3000? 30,687,269 God delivered the king of Bashan so that the Israelites could massacre his people.  Dt.3:3-6 60,000? 30,747,269 Massacre of Jericho  Joshua 6:21, BT 1000? 30,748,269 God tells Joshua to stone to death Achan (and his family) for taking the accursed thing. Joshua 7:10-12, 24-26, BT 5+ 30,748,274 God tells Joshua to attack Ai and do what he did to Jericho (kill everyone). Joshua 8:1-25, BT 12,000 30,760,274 God slaughters the Amorites and even chases them "along the way" as they try to escape. Joshua 10:10-11, BT 1000? 30,761,274 Joshua kills 5 kings and hangs their dead bodies on trees Joshua 10:24-26, BT 5 30,761,279 Massacre of 7 cities  Joshua 10:28-42, BT 7000? 30,768,279 God delivers the Hazorites.  Joshua 11:8-12, BT 1000? 30,769,279 Massacre of the Anakim  Joshua 11:20-21, BT 1000? 30,770,279 God delivered Canaanites and Perizzites Judges 1:4, BT 10,000 30,780,279 Ehud delivers a message from God: a knife into the king's belly Jg.3:15-22, BT 1 30,780,280 God delivered Moabites Jg.3:28-29, BT 10,000 30,790,280 Massacre of the Canaanites  Jg.4:15, BT 1000? 30,791,280 God forces Midianite soldiers to kill each other. Jg.7:2-22, 8:10, BT 120,000 30,911,280 God delivered the Ammonites to Jephthah to slaughter.  Jg.11:32-33, BT 1000? 30,912,280 The Spirit of the Lord comes on Samson Jg.14:19, BT 30 30,912,310 The Spirit of the Lord comes mightily on Samson Jg.15:14-15, BT 1000 30,913,310 Samson's God-assisted act of terrorism Jg.16:27-30, BT 3000 30,916,310 "The Lord smote Benjamin" Jg.20:35-37, BT 25,100 30,941,410 More Benjamites Jg.20:44-46 25,000 30,966,410 For looking into the ark of the Lord 1 Sam.6:19, BT 50,070 31,016,480 God delivered Philistines 1 Sam.14:12, BT 20 31,016,500 God forces the Philistine soldiers to kill each other.  1 Sam.14:20, BT 1000? 31,017,500 God orders Saul to kill every Amalekite man, women, and child. 1 Sam.15:2-3, BT 1000? 31,018,500 Samuel (at God's command) hacks Agag to death 1 Sam.15:32-33, BT 1 31,018,501 God delivers the Philistines.  1 Sam.23:2-5 1000? 31,019,501 "The Lord smote Nabal." 1 Sam.25:38 1 31,019,502 God delivers the Philistines to David (again).  2 Sam.5:19, 25 1000? 31,020,502 Uzzah for trying to keep the ark from falling 2 Sam.6:6-7, 1 Chr.13:9-10 1 31,020,503 David and Bathsheba's baby boy 2 Samuel 12:14-18 1 31,020,504 God sent a three-year famine because of something Saul did.  2 Sam.21:1 5000? 31,025,504 Seven sons of Saul hung up before the Lord 2 Sam.21:6-9 7 31,025,511 From plague as punishment for David's census (men only; probably 200,000 if including women and  children) 2 Sam.24:13, 1 Chr.21:7 70,000+ 31,095,511 A prophet for believing another prophet's lie 1 Kg.13:1-24 1 31,095,512 Baasha killed everyone in the house of Jeroboam "according to the saying of the Lord."  1 Kings 15:29 1000? 31,096,512 Zimri killed everyone in the house of Baasha "according to the word of the Lord."  1 Kg.16:11-12 1000? 31,097,512 God delivers the Syrians into the Israelites' hands 1 Kg.20:28-29 100,000 31,197,512 God makes a wall fall on Syrian soldiers 1 Kg.20:30 27,000 31,224,512 God sent a lion to eat a man for not killing a prophet 1 Kg.20:35-36 1 31,224,513 Ahaziah is killed for talking to the wrong god. 2 Kings 1:2-4, 17, 2 Chr.22:7-9 1 31,224,514 Burned to death by God 2 Kg.1:9-12 102 31,224,616 God sends two bears to kill children for making fun of Elisha's bald head 2 Kg.2:23-24 42 31,224,658 Trampled to death for disbelieving Elijah 2 Kg.7:17-20 1 31,224,659 God calls for a seven year famine.  2 Kg.8:1 10,000? 31,234,659 Jezebel 2 Kg.9:33-37 1 31,234,660 Jehu killed "all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria ... according to the saying of the Lord" 2 Kg.10:16-17 100? 31,234,760 God sent lions to kill "some" foreigners 2 Kg.17:25-26 3+ 31,234,763 Sleeping Assyrian soldiers 2 Kg.19:35, 2 Chr.32:21, Is.37:36 185,000 31,419,763 Saul 1 Chronicles 10:14 1 31,419,764 God delivers Israel into the hands of Judah 2 Chronicles 13:15-17 500,000 31,919,764 Jeroboam 2 Chr.13:20 1 31,919,765 "The Lord smote the Ethiopians." 2 Chr.14:9-14 1,000,000 32,919,765 God kills Jehoram by making his bowels fall out 2 Chr.21:14-19 1 32,919,766 God delivered the Israelites into the hand of the Chaldeans.  2 Chr.36:16-17 1000? 32,920,766 Ezekiel's wife Ezekiel 24:15-18 1 32,920,767 Ananias and Sapphira Acts 5:1-10 2 32,920,769                                                         

10 of God's Killing Sprees

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

- Richard Dawkins

There is plenty of evil in “the Good Book,” but here are some highlights:

1. God drowns the whole earth.
In Genesis 7:21-23, God drowns the entire population of the earth: men, women, children, fetuses, and perhaps unicorns. Only a single family survives. In Matthew 24:37-42, gentle Jesus approves of this genocide and plans to repeat it when he returns.

2. God kills half a million people.
In 2 Chronicles 13:15-18, God helps the men of Judah kill 500,000 of their fellow Israelites.

3. God slaughters all Egyptian firstborn.
In Exodus 12:29, God the baby-killer slaughters all Egyptian firstborn children and cattle because their king was stubborn.

4. God kills 14,000 people for complaining that God keeps killing them.
In Numbers 16:41-49, the Israelites complain that God is killing too many of them. So, God sends a plague that kills 14,000 more of them.

5. Genocide after genocide after genocide.
In Joshua 6:20-21, God helps the Israelites destroy Jericho, killing “men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.” In Deuteronomy 2:32-35, God has the Israelites kill everyone in Heshbon, including children. In Deuteronomy 3:3-7, God has the Israelites do the same to the people of Bashan. In Numbers 31:7-18, the Israelites kill all the Midianites except for the virgins, whom they take as spoils of war. In 1 Samuel 15:1-9, God tells the Israelites to kill all the Amalekites – men, women, children, infants, and their cattle – for something the Amalekites’ ancestors had done 400 years earlier.

6. God kills 50,000 people for curiosity.
In 1 Samuel 6:19, God kills 50,000 men for peeking into the ark of the covenant. (Newer cosmetic translations count only 70 deaths, but their text notes admit that the best and earliest manuscripts put the number at 50,070.)

7. 3,000 Israelites killed for inventing a god.
In Exodus 32, Moses has climbed Mount Sinai to get the Ten Commandments. The Israelites are bored, so they invent a golden calf god. Moses comes back and God commands him: “Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.” About 3,000 people died.

8. The Amorites destroyed by sword and by God’s rocks.
In Joshua 10:10-11, God helps the Israelites slaughter the Amorites by sword, then finishes them off with rocks from the sky.

9. God burns two cities to death.
In Genesis 19:24, God kills everyone in Sodom and Gomorrah with fire from the sky. Then God kills Lot’s wife for looking back at her burning home.

10. God has 42 children mauled by bears.
In 2 Kings 2:23-24, some kids tease the prophet Elisha, and God sends bears to dismember them. (Newer cosmetic translations say the bears “maul” the children, but the original Hebrew, baqa, means “to tear apart.”)

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EVIL GOD EVIL BIBLE: God's Many Killing Sprees

This is from the EvilBible.com Web Site

    This web site is designed to spread the vicious truth about the Bible.  For far too long priests and preachers have completely ignored the vicious criminal acts that the Bible promotes.  The so called “God” of the Bible makes Osama Bin Laden look like a Boy Scout.  This God, according to the Bible, is directly responsible for many mass-murders, rapes, pillage, plunder, slavery, child abuse and killing, not to mention the killing of unborn children.  I have included references to the Biblical passages, so grab your Bible and follow along.  You can also follow along with on-line Bibles such as BibleStudyTools.net or SkepticsAnnotatedBible.com.

    It always amazes me how many times this God orders the killing of innocent people even after the Ten Commandments said “Thou shall not kill”.  For example, God kills 70,000 innocent people because David ordered a census of the people (1 Chronicles 21).  God also orders the destruction of 60 cities so that the Israelites can live there.  He orders the killing of all the men, women, and children of each city, and the looting of all of value (Deuteronomy 3).  He orders another attack and the killing of “all the living creatures of the city: men and women, young, and old, as well as oxen sheep, and asses” (Joshua 6).  In Judges 21, He orders the murder of all the people of Jabesh-gilead, except for the virgin girls who were taken to be forcibly raped and married.  When they wanted more virgins, God told them to hide alongside the road and when they saw a girl they liked, kidnap her and forcibly rape her and make her your wife!  Just about every other page in the Old Testament has God killing somebody!  In 2 Kings 10:18-27, God orders the murder of all the worshipers of a different god in their very own church!  In total God kills 371,186 people directly and orders another 1,862,265 people murdered.

    The God of the Bible also allows slavery, including selling your own daughter as a sex slave (Exodus 21:1-11), child abuse (Judges 11:29-40 and Isaiah 13:16), and bashing babies against rocks (Hosea 13:16 & Psalms 137:9). 

    This type of criminal behavior should shock any moral person.  Murder, rape, pillage, plunder, slavery, and child abuse can not be justified by saying that some god says it’s OK.  If more people would actually sit down and read the Bible there would be a lot more atheists like myself.

    Jesus also promoted the idea that all men should castrate themselves to go to heaven:  "For there are eunuchs, that were so born from their mother's womb: and there are eunuchs, that were made eunuchs by men: and there are eunuchs, that made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it."  (Matthew 19:12 ASV)  I don't know why anyone would follow the teachings of someone who literally tells all men to cut off their privates.

    The God of the Bible also was a big fan of ritual human sacrifice and animal sacrifice.

    And just in case you are thinking that the evil and immoral laws of the Old Testament are no longer in effect, perhaps you should read where Jesus makes it perfectly clear:   "It is easier for Heaven and Earth to pass away than for the smallest part of the letter of the law to become invalid."  (Luke 16:17 NAB)  There are many more quotes on this topic at my "Do Not Ignore the Old Testament" web page.

    I know that most Christians believe that God is a good and loving god, and wants people to do good things.  I believe that most people want to do good things and behave morally.  I also believe that many Christians haven’t really read the Bible, or just read certain passages in church.  This is understandable, as the Bible is hard to read due to its archaic language and obscure references.  Also many priests and preachers don’t like to read certain passages in the Bible because they present a message of hate not love.