Deuteronomy
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Injustice in Deuteronomy

  1. "The Lord destroyed them before them" -- the general treatment of the people who were supposedly displaced by the Israelites. 2:21-22

  2. God hardened the heart of the king of Heshbon and so that he could have him and all of his people killed. 2:30

  3. At God's instructions, the Israelites "utterly destroyed the men, women, and the little ones" leaving "none to remain." 2:33-36

  4. All nations shall be terrorized by the followers of Yahweh. 2:25

  5. The Israelites, with God's help, kill all the men, women, and children of every city. 3:3-6

  6. When going to war, don't be afraid. God is on your side; "he shall fight for you." 3:22

  7. God destroyed the followers of Baalpeor. 4:3

  8. God is "a consuming fire, even a jealous God." 4:24

  9. If someone makes an image of anything (like a bird or flower) then God will destroy the entire nation. 4:25-26

  10. God brought the Israelites out of Egypt "by war ... and by great terrors." 4:34

  11. God, by his own admission, is a jealous God who unjustly punishes great-great grandchildren for the failings of their long-dead ancestors. 5:9

  12. "Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's ... manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's." In the Bible, slaves (servants in the KJV) are the rightful property of slave-owners; they are his possessions -- like an ox or an ass. 5:21

  13. If you worship the wrong god, God will get jealous and kill you. 6:15

  14. God instructs the Israelites to kill, without mercy, all the inhabitants (strangers) of the land that they conquer. 7:2

  15. If you do show any mercy to such strangers, "give your daughters to any of them, or "take" any of their daughters, then you'll get God so angry that he'll "destroy thee suddenly." 7:4

  16. God prefers the Israelites to everyone else. It's not that he's prejudiced, he just like them better. 7:6

  17. God will kill those who hate him. 7:10

  18. Those who do as God says will never be infertile (neither will their cows!) and will never get sick. (God will send infertility and diseases on the other guys.) 7:14-15

  19. God commands his people to "consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity on them." 7:16

  20. God will send hornets to kill your enemies, "for the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible." 7:20-23

  21. God makes people wealthy (or poor). 8:17-18

  22. "If thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods ... ye shall surely perish." 8:19-20

  23. God is "a consuming fire" that destroys people. 9:3

  24. After God kills those of other faiths, be sure to reject their beliefs and do not learn about them. Otherwise God will have to kill you too. 12:30

  25. Prophets and dreamers are to be executed if they say or dream the wrong things. 13:1-5

  26. If your brother, son, daughter, wife, or friend tries to get you to worship another god, "thou shalt surely kill him, thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death."  13:6-10

  27. If you hear of a city where another god is worshiped, then destroy everyone in the city (even the cattle) and burn it down. (Watch out Salt Lake!) 13:12-16

  28. Don't eat any dead animals that you find lying around. But it's okay to give it to strangers or sell it to foreigners. 14:21

  29. Instructions for buying your brother. 15:12-17

  30. Kill everyone who has religious beliefs that are different from your own. 17:2-7

  31. Anyone who will not listen to a priest or a judge must be executed. 17:12-13

  32. False prophets are to be (you guessed it) executed. How do you know who is a false prophet? By whether or not their predictions come true. (Watch out Jehovah's Witnesses!) 18:20

  33. Murderers and perjurers are to be executed -- "and thine eye shall not pity" them. 19:11-13, 18-21

  34. "And thine eye shall not pity. Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." 19:21

  35. God travels with people and fights in their wars. 20:4

  36. God tells the Israelites to enslave the people that they conquer in war. 20:10-11

  37. In the cities that god "delivers into thine hands" you must kill all the males (including old men, boys, and babies) with "the edge of the sword .... But the women ... shalt thou take unto yourself." 20:13

  38. "But of the cities ... which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth." Kill the old men and women, the sick and the dying, the blind and the lame, pregnant mothers, nursing mothers, infants, toddlers, and babies. 20:16

  39. If you find a dead body and don't know the cause of death, then get all the elders together, cut off the head of a heifer, wash your hands over its body, and say our hands have not shed this blood. (That'll do it!) 21:1-8

  40. If you have a "stubborn and rebellious son," then you and the other men in your neighborhood "shall stone him with stones that he die." 21:18-21

  41. Hang on trees the bodies of those who are "accursed of God." They make nice decorations. 21:22

  42. If a man marries, then decides that he hates his wife, he can claim she wasn't a virgin when they were married. If her father can't produce the "tokens of her virginity" (bloody sheets), then the woman is to be stoned to death at her father's doorstep. 22:13-21

  43. "If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die." 22:22

  44. If a betrothed virgin is raped in the city and doesn't cry out loud enough, then "the men of the city shall stone her to death." 22:23-24

  45. If a man rapes an unbetrothed virgin, he must pay her father 50 shekels of silver and then marry her. 22:28-29

  46. You can't go to church if your testicles are damaged or your penis has been cut off. 23:1

  47. God won't let bastards attend church. Neither can the sons or daughters of bastards "even to the tenth generation." So if you plan to attend church next Sunday be ready to prove that your genitals are intact and don't forget your birth certificate and genealogical records for at least the last ten generations. Don't laugh. This stuff is important to God. 23:2

  48. No Moabite will ever be allowed into the congregation of the Lord. 23:3, 6

  49. God says not be bring any whore, sodomite, or dog into the house of the Lord. For "these things are an abomination to the Lord." Sodomites and dogs are biblical names for homosexuals. 23:17-18

  50. Usury is wrong except when lending to strangers. Then it's okay. 23:20

  51. If a man marries a woman and later finds "some uncleanness in her," then he can divorce her and kick her out of his house. If another man marries her and then dies, the first husband cannot marry her again. "For that is an abomination before the Lord." 24:1-4

  52. Those who capture slaves and sell them must be executed. 24:7

  53. "Remember what the Lord thy God did unto Miriam." (He struck her with leprosy for rightly accusing Moses of breaking God's laws regarding marriage [Num.12:10]). 24:9

  54. Legal disputes are settled by a judge who determines guilt or innocence. No lawyers or jury are needed. Those found guilty will be beaten with 40 stripes. 25:1-3

  55. If a man dies before his wife has a child, then the widow must marry her husband's brother -- whether she likes him or not, and whether she wants to or not. 25:5

  56. If two men fight and the wife of one grabs the "secrets" of the other, "then thou shalt cut off her hand" and "thine eye shall not pity her." 25:11-12

  57. God commands the Israelites to "blot out the rembrance of Amalek from under heaven." A few hundred years later God orders Saul to kill of the Amalekites "both man and woman, infant and suckling." (1 Sam.15:2-3) 25:19

  58. If you don't obey all of the laws that are given in the Old Testament, God shower you with the curses that are given in the next 52 verses. 28:16-68

  59. "Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field." I guess you'll be cursed just about wherever you go. 28:16

  60. "Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body." 28:18

  61. "Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out." 28:19

  62. If you misbehave, god will send you "cursing, vexing, the pestilence, consumption, fever, inflammation, extreme burning, the sword, blasting, and mildew." 28:20-22

  63. "And thy carcass shall be meat to all the fowls of the air." 28:25-26

  64. "The Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and the emerods [hemorrhoids], and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst be healed. The Lord will smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart." 28:27-28

  65. "Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her." 28:30

  66. "Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes." 28:31

  67. Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people." 28:32

  68. You will be enslaved and driven mad in another country. 28:33-24

  69. "The Lord will smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head." 28:35

  70. You will be ruled by other nations, forced to serve other gods, become a laughingstock among your neighbors, have your crops destroyed by locusts, your vines eaten by worms, and have fruitless olive trees. 28:36-40

  71. "Thou shalt begat sons and daughters, but thou shall not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity." 28:41

  72. Locusts will destroy your trees and fruit. 28:42

  73. "All these curses shall come upon thee ... and upon thy seed for ever." 28:48-49

  74. God will enslave you and destroy you with hunger, thirst, hardship, and all kinds of deprivation. 28:48-52

  75. "And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters." 28:53-55

  76. "The tender and delicate woman" will be forced to eat her own children "that cometh out from between her feet." 28:56-57

  77. If you don't do as God says he'll send plagues to torment and destroy you. 28:58-64

  78. "The LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind." 28:65-67

  79. God will have you sold to your enemies -- but even they won't buy you. 28:68

  80. If you serve the gods of other nations, "all the curses that are in this book" will fall upon you. 29:18-20

  81. "And the Lord will put all these curses upon thine enemies." See Dt.28:16-64 for some of the curses God has in mind. 30:7

  82. Moses tells the people that God will destroy all the inhabitants of the lands that they pass through. 31:3

  83. God hates non-believers. 32:19-20

  84. When God gets mad -- watch out! He'll starve you to death, burn you with fire, and send vicious beasts to devour you. He'll "destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs." Not even the helpless and innocent are spared by this psychotic God. 32:21-26

  85. God says, "To me belongeth vengeance, and recompense ... for the day of their destruction is at hand." 32:35

  86. God says, "I kill ... I wound ... I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh." Someone should take his sword and arrows away, at least until he's feeling better. 32:39-43