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

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

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

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

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

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

  8. The first commandment ("Thou shalt have no other gods before me.") condemns those who worship any other than the biblical god. 5:4

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

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

  11. God forbids marriages with those of other tribes. 7:3

  12. 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

  13. Destroy the altars, images, and places of worship of those with different religions. 7:5

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

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

  16. God's favorite people 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

  17. 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

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

  19. Burn and "utterly detest" the religious symbols of other faiths. They are an abomination to God. If you bring such an image into your house you will become "a cursed thing like it." 7:25-26

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

  21. God orders the destruction of all other places of worship. 12:2-3

  22. 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

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

  24. 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

  25. 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

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

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

  28. Wizards, witches, astrologers, and new age folks are all "an abomination unto the Lord." 18:10-12

  29. 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

  30. Women cannot wear men's clothing and vice versa -- it's an "abomination unto the Lord." 22:5

  31. 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

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

  33. 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

  34. 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

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

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

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

  38. "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

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

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

  41. You will be enslaved and driven mad in another country. 28:33-34

  42. "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

  43. 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

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

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

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

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

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

  49. If you don't do as God says he'll send plagues to torment and destroy you. 28:58-67

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

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

  52. "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

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

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

  55. 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