1.God, the mass murderer.  Gen.7:4, 19:24
   2.God tells Abraham to kill his second son for a burnt offering
Gen.22:2, 10
   3.God threatens to kill the Pharaoh's firstborn son  Ex.4:23
   4.God murders the Egyptian firstborn humans and animals  Ex.12:30
   5.God drowns Pharaoh's army  Ex.14:27-28
   6."The Lord is a man of war."  Ex.15:3
   7.Children who strike their parents are to be killed  Ex.21:15
   8.It's OK to beat a slave as long as he lives a day or two  "for he
is his money"  Ex.21:20-21
   9."Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."  Ex.22:18
  10.You must kill those who worship another god  Ex.22:20
  11.If you make God angry, he will kill you with his own sword
Ex.22:24
  12.Sabbath breakers must be killed  Ex.31:14-15, 35:2
  13.God tells every man to slay "his brother, companion, neighbor."
Ex.32:27
  14.God kills Aaron's sons for offering "strange fire before the
Lord." Lev.10:1-2
  15.Children who curse their parents, adulterers, and homosexuals
must be killed. Lev.20:9-12
  16.Woman with "familiar spirits" must be stoned to death. Lev.20:27
  17.The unchaste daughters of priests must be burnt to death.
Lev.21:9
  18.Cursers and blasphemers must be stoned to death. Lev.24:16, 24
  19."Ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it."
Lev.26:16
  20.God will "send wild beasts among you, which shall rob your of
your children." Lev.26:22
  21."And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your
daughters shall ye eat." Lev.26:30
  22.Strangers are to be killed. Num.1:51, 3:10, 3:38, 18:7
  23.God kills Aaron's sons for offering "strange fire before the
Lord." Num.3:4, 26:61
  24.Don't touch or look at "any holy thing" or God will kill you.
Num.4:15, 20
  25.The law of jealousies Num.5:11-31
  26.God hates whiners. If God hears you complain he'll burn you to
death. Num.11:1
  27.Don't gather sticks on the sabbath day. Num.15:32-36
  28.God buries alive Korah and his family. Num.16:27-35, 26:10
  29.God burns to death 250 men. Num.16:35, 26:10
  30.God kills 14,700 with a plague. Num.16:41-50
  31.God sends "fiery serpent" to bite the people. Num.21:6
  32.God's people will "rise up ... and drink the blood of the slain."
Num.23:24
  33.God will "eat up the nations of his enemies, and shall break
their bones, and pierce them through
     with his arrows." Num.24:8
  34.God tells Moses to "take all the heads of the people and hang
them up before the Lord." Num.25:4
  35.God's hero (Phinehas) thrusts a javelin through a man and his
Midianite wife's belly. Num.25:7-8
  36.God kills 24,000 (23,000 according to 1 Cor.10:8) in a plague.
Num.25:9
  37.Moses tells his men to kill all the males and non-virgin women,
but to keep all the virgins alive for
     themselves. Num.31:14-18
  38.God hardens King Sihon's spirit and then kills him and all the
men, women, and "little ones" in his
     kingdom. Dt.2:30-34
  39.God delivers Og into Moses' hands, who then kills every man,
woman, and child in every city.
     Dt.3:3-6
  40.God tells the Israelites to kill everyone in the lands that that
they conquer and to "show no mercy
     unto them." Dt.7:2
  41.Kill any prophets or "dreamers of dreams" if they say or dream
the wrong things. Dt.13:1-5
  42.Kill any friends or family that worship a god that is different
than your own. Dt.13:6-10
  43.Kill all the inhabitants of any city where you find people that
worship differently than you.
     Dt.13:12-16
  44.Kill everyone who has religious views that are different than
your own. Dt.17:2-7
  45.Kill anyone who refuses to listen to a priest. Dt.17:12-13
  46.Kill any false prophets. Dt.18:20
  47.Kill all the men and boys in the cities that God "delivers into
your hands," but keep the women for
     yourself. Dt.20:13-15
  48.Kill everything that breathes in the cities that God gives you
for an inheritance. Dt.20:16
  49.Kill rebellious or disobedient sons. Dt.21:18-21
  50.Women, be sure to keep the tokens of your virginity. Otherwise
the men of your city may stone
     you to death. Dt.22:13-21
  51.Kill adulterers. Dt.22:2
  52.Kill rape victims if they fail to cry out loud enough.
Dt.22:23-34
  53.You must cut off a woman's hand if she touches the "secrets" of a
man who is fighting with her
     husband. "And thine eye shall not pity her." Dt.25:11-12
  54.If you misbehave, God will make you eat your sons and daughters.
Dt.28:53, 28:55 28:56-67
  55.Don't make God angry or he'll burn or starve you to death. If
that fails, he'll have some animals eat
     you or snakes bite you. As a last resort he'll kill you with "the
sword without, and terror within."
     He'll "destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling
also with the man of gray hairs."
     Dt.32:23-25
  56."I [God] will make mine arrows drunk with blood and my sword
shall devour flesh." Dt.32:42
  57.Joshua killed "everything that breathed" in each of the cities
that he conquered, "as the Lord God of
     Israel commanded." Jos.6:21, 8:24-26, 10:28-29, 10:32-33, 10:35,
10:37, 10:38, 10:40, 11:8, 11:11,
     11:12, 11:14, 11:21
  58.If you happen to see "the accursed thing," don't touch it. If you
do, you, your family, and all of
     your animals must be burned. Jos.7:1-26
  59.God gets right in and fights with the Israelites. He "slew them
with a great slaughter" and even
     "chased them along the way." What a guy. Jos.10:10
  60.God threw down "great stones from heaven" so that he could kill
even more people than the
     Israelites "slew with the sword." Jos.10:11
  61."The Lord fought for Israel." Jos.10:14
  62.Cutting off the thumbs and big toes of 71 kings. Jg.1:6-7
  63.Ehud's message from God. Jg.3:20-22
  64.Jael drives a tent stake through her guest's head. For this she
is "blessed above women."
     Jg.4:17-23, 5:24-26
  65.Jephthah sacrifices his daughter to God. Jg.11:29-39
  66.The spirit of God comes mightily upon Samson (and he kills
things). Jg.14:6, 14:19, 15:14-16
  67.Samson catches 300 foxes, ties their tails together, and sets
them on fire. Jg.15:4-5
  68.Samson kills 1000 men with the jawbone of an ass. Jg.14:15-16
  69.The Levite and his concubine. Jg.19:22-30
  70.God smites the Philistines with hemorrhoids in their secret
parts. 1 Sam.5:9
  71.God kills 50,070 men for looking into the ark of the Lord. 1
Sam.6:19
  72."I will make a covenant with you, that I may thrust your eyes
out." 1 Sam.11:2
  73.The spirit of the Lord comes upon Samuel so he hacks some oxen in
pieces and sends the pieces to
     all the coasts of Israel. 1 Sam.11:7
  74.God orders Saul to kill every Amalekite "man and woman, infant
and suckling, ox and sheep, camel
     and ass." 1 Sam.15:3
  75.David buys a wife with 200 Philistine foreskins (twice the asking
price). 1 Sam.18:25-27
  76.Killing those that "pisseth against the wall." 1 Sam.25:22, 26:34

  77.David kills all the Amalekites again (see 15:7-8 where Saul kills
them all the first time). 1
     Sam.27:8-11
  78.Smiting "under the fifth rib." 2 Sam.2:23, 3:27, 4:6, 20:10
  79.David has his "young men" kill people, cut off their hands and
feet, and hang them up over a pool.
     2 Sam.4:12
  80.Whoever kills the lame and the blind "that are hated of David's
soul" shall be made "chief and
     captain." 2 Sam.5:8
  81.Uzzah is killed by God for trying to protect the ark from
falling. 2 Sam.6:6
  82.To punish David for having Uriah killed, God kills David's
newborn son. 2 Sam.12:15, 18
  83.David tortures people with saws, axes, and fire. 2 Sam.12:31
  84.Hanging dead bodies up "unto the Lord." 2 Sam.21:6, 9
  85.God kills a couple hundred thousand people to punish David for
having a census. 2 Sam.24:15
  86.Solomon kills 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep when dedicating the
temple to his bloodthirsty God.
     1Kg.8:63
  87.God kills everyone "that pisseth against the wall." 1 Kg.14:10,
16:11, 21:21
  88.Those that die in the city will be eaten by dogs, while those
that die in the country will be eaten by
     fowls. 1 Kg.14:11, 16:4
  89.Killing everything that breathes for a loving God. 1 Kg.15:29
  90.Laying the foundation for a city using your firstborn child and
using your youngest son to set up
     the gates. 1 Kg.16:34
  91.When many people are needlessly slaughtered, you will know that
the Lord is God. 1 Kg.20:28
  92.Stoning blasphemers to death. 1 Kg.21:13
  93.God's dog food. 1 Kg.21:19, 21:23
  94.Elijah proves that he is a man of God by burning to death 102
men. 2 Kg.1:10, 12
  95.God sends two bears to rip up 42 little children for making fun
of Elisha's bald head. 2 Kg.2:23-24
  96.Elisha makes his servant (Gehazi) and all of his descendants
lepers forever. 2 Kg.5:27
  97.God answers Elisha's prayer by smiting his adversaries with
blindness. 2 Kg.6:18
  98.Mothers boiling and eating their own children. 2 Kg.6:28-29
  99.God sends a famine on the people that lasts for seven years. 2
Kg.8:1
 100.God has Jezebel thrown off a wall and feeds her body to the dogs.
2 Kg.9:33-37
 101.The 70 sons of Ahab are killed and their heads are put in
baskets. 2 Kg.10:7-8
 102.Jehu shows off his "zeal for the Lord" by murdering everyone in
Samaria. 2 Kg.10:16-17
 103.God, the divine physician, strikes king Azariah with leprosy. 2
Kg.15:5
 104.God sends lions to devour the Samaritans because "they knew not
the manner of the God of the
     land." 2 Kg.17:25-26
 105.An angel of the Lord kills 185,000 men while they sleep. "And
when they arose, behold, they were
     all dead corpses." 2 Kg.19:35
 106.God kills Uzza for trying to keep the ark from falling. 1
Chr.13:9-10
 107.David tortures all the inhabitants of several cities with saws,
harrows of iron, and axes. 1 Chr.20:3
 108.God kills 70,000 men because David had a census. 1 Chr.21:7-14
 109.Esther has two men hung on a tree. Est.2:23
 110.Esther has Hamam hung. Est.7:10
 111.Esther has Haman's ten sons hung. Est.9:13
 112.God (or Satan) kills Job's children in a windstorm. Job 1:19
 113.Satan (or God) smites Job with boils from the "sole of his foot
unto his crown." Job 2:7
 114.God will hit the heathens with a rod of iron and "dash them in
pieces." Ps.2:9
 115.God will rain fire and brimstone upon "wicked" people. Ps.11:6
 116.The God of Peace teaches us to kill our neighbors in war.
Ps.18:34
 117.If God doesn't like you, he'll burn you to death. Ps.21:9
 118.If you forget God he will tear you in pieces. PS.50:22
 119.If you don't trust God, he'll kill you, and while you're dying
the "righteous" will laugh at you.
     Ps.52:5-6
 120."Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth, ... let them be cut
pieces." Ps.58:6-8
 121."The righteous" will rejoice when they see "the wicked" being
dismembered by God. They'll "wash
     their feet in the blood of the wicked." Ps.58:10
 122.God will "wound the head of his enemies" and the righteous will
dip their feet in their blood.
     Ps.68:21, 23
 123.God will "fill the places with dead bodies." Ps.110:6
 124.God is praised for slaughtering little babies. Ps.135:8, 136:10
 125.Happiness is smashing your little children against rocks.
Ps.137:9
 126.A prayer that God will burn people to death. Ps.140:10
 127.The God of Peace teaches us to kill each other in war. Ps.144:1
 128.Beat the hell out of your children. Pr.13:24, 19:18, 22:15,
23:13-14, 29:15
 129."The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil; so do stripes the
inward parts of the belly." Pr.20:30
 130.Beat your slaves just like you do your children. Don't try to
correct them with words. Pr.29:19
 131.If you mock your father or disobey your mother, the ravens will
pick out your eyeballs and feed
     them to the eagles. Pr.30:17
 132. If you associate or gird yourself God will break you in pieces.
Is.8:9
 133. God will make every man kill his brother and then force him to
eat "the flesh of his own arm."
     Is.9:19-20
 134.If God can find you, he will "thrust you through," smash your
children "to pieces" before your
     eyes, and rape your wife. Is.13:15-18
 135."There stink shall come up out of their carcasses, and the
mountains shall be melted with their
     blood." Is.34:2-3
 136.God's sword is "filled with blood." He plans to kill so many
people that the "land will be soaked with
     blood." Is.34:5-8
 137.God will make people "eat their own flesh" and be "drunken with
their own blood." Is.49:26
 138.God's clothes will get stained with the blood of humans.
Is.63:3-6
 139.God will "plead with all flesh" with his fire and sword. "And the
slain of the Lord shall be many."
     Is.66:16
 140.The carcasses of those killed by God will be piled high. They
will rot and burn forever. Is.66:24
 141.God says he "will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which
will not be charmed, and they
     shall bite you." Jer.8:17
 142.God will kill the young men in war and starve their children to
death. Jer.11:22-23
 143.God's sword will "devour" everyone until "no flesh shall have
peace." Jer.12:12
 144. God will make everyone drunk and then "dash the fathers and the
sons together." He vows to "not
     pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them." Jer.13:13-14
 145.God promises to kill everyone by war, starvation, and disease.
Jer.14:12,24:10, 29:17-18, 42:17-18,
     22
 146.God will destroy by famine and sword those who are misled by the
prophets. Jer.14:16
 147.God plans to kill people with swords, tear their flesh with dogs,
and feed their bodies to the birds
     and beasts. Why? Because of something some former king did.
Jer.15:2-4
 148. God has ordained that everyone "shall die of grievous deaths,"
and that they shall neither "be
     lamented" nor even buried, but "they shall be as dung upon the
face of the earth." Jer.16:3-4
 149.When the people ask why God is killing everyone, God answers by
saying, "Because your fathers
     have forsaken me." Jer.16:10
 150.Jeremiah asks God to kill the young men in war and the children
by starvation. Jer.18:21
 151.God will make parents eat their own children, and friends eat
each other. Jer.19:7-9
 152.God will kill everyone, "both man and beast," with a "great
pestilence." Jer.21:6
 153.God will force all of Israel to "be drunken." Then, he'll kill
them all with a sword. Jer.24:27-28
 154.God will kill so many people that the entire earth will be
covered with their dead bodies. No one is
     to mourn them or even bury them, "they shall be as dung upon the
ground." Jer.25:33
 155.Even those Jews that flee to Egypt will not be spared. God will
hunt them down and kill them all
     with war, famine, and disease. Jer.44:12-13
 156.On the day of the Lord, God's sword will become drunk with blood.
Jer.46:10
 157."Cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood." Jer.48:10
 158.God will cause the daughters of Rabbah to be burned to death.
Jer.49:2
 159.God will "break in pieces" pretty much everyone and everything he
can think of.. Jer.51:21-23
 160.If a good person does something wrong after God "lays a stumbling
block before him," then God
     will kill him. "He shall die in his sin" and whatever good he has
done will be forgotten. Ezek.3:20
 161.God will cause fathers to eat their sons and sons to eat their
fathers. Ezek.5:10
 162.God plans to kill everyone with plagues, famines, and wars. But
if any still survive, then he'll send
     beasts to devour them. Ezek.5:17
 163.God plans to decorate the land with human bones and dead bodies.
Ezek.6:5
 164. God marks the foreheads of the men who will be saved. To God
only men are worth keeping. All
     of the women and unmarked men are to be slaughtered. God will
"fill the courts with the slain" and
     will have pity on no one. Ezek.9:4
 165.God deceives some of his prophets and then kills them for
believing his lies. Ezek.14:9
 166.God gets all excited about cooking human flesh and "scum."
Ezek.24:3-10
 167.God kills Ezekiel's wife and tells him not to mourn her.
Ezek.24:15-18
 168.God will cause every man's sword to be against his brother. By
doing so he will magnify and
     sanctify himself and let everyone know that he's the Lord.
Ezek.38:21-23
 169.God is preparing a feast for the birds and beasts. He's going to
have them eat human flesh until
     they're full and drink human blood until they're drunk.
Ezek.39:4, 17-20
 170. Nebuchadnezzar decrees that anyone who says anything against the
Hebrew god "shall be cut in
     pieces, and their houses shall become a dunghill." Dan.3:29
 171.Nebuchadnezzar orders those who accused Daniel (including their
wives and children) to be cast
     into the lions den. Dan.6:24
 172.God assures Hosea that he will "slay even the beloved fruit of
the womb." Hos.9:16
 173.God will rip humans apart and eat them like a lion. Hos.13:7-8
 174.God promises to dash to pieces the infants of Samaria and "their
women with child shall be ripped
     up." Hos.13:16
 175.God will "sell your sons and your daughters." Jl.3:8
 176.God says to "prepare for war" by beating "your plowshares into
swords, and your pruning hooks
     into spears." Jl.3:10
 177. The divine pyromaniac sets fire to Hazel, Gaza, Teman, Rabbah,
and Moab. Am.1:4 - 2:2
 178.God will "slay all the princes" of Moab. Am.2:3
 179.God sends the pestilence, kills young men with the sword, and
makes the "stink of your camps to
     come up unto your nostrils." Am.4:10
 180.God will kill "the last of them with the sword," and any that try
to escape by diving to the bottom
     of the sea will be bitten, at God's command, by a serpent. God
will set his "eyes upon them for evil,
     not for good." Am.9:1-4
 181.Plucking off skin, flesh from bones, eating human flesh, flaying
off skin, breaking bones, chopping
     bodies in pieces, making human stew. Mic.3:2
 182.God says that "the fire shall devour thee, the sword shall cut
thee off, it shall eat thee up like the
     cankerworm." Nah.3:15
 183."Before him [God] went the pestilence, and burning coals at his
feet." Hab.3:5
 184.God plans to kill every living thing. Zeph.1:2
 185.God will "bring distress upon men" so that they "walk like blind
men." He will pour out their blood
     like dust and "their flesh as dung." Zeph.1:17
 186.God will kill the Ethiopians with his own sword. Zeph.2:12
 187.God brags about destroying a city and killing all of its
inhabitants.Zeph.3:6
 188."All of the earth shall be devoured with the fire" of God's
jealousy. Zeph.3:8
 189.God will make the horses and their riders be killed by "the sword
of his brother." Hag.2:22
 190.God will "set all men one against his neighbor." Zech.8:10
 191.God will mercilessly "feed the flock of slaughter" by making
every one kill his neighbor.
     Zech.11:6-7
 192.God wants everyone to eat "the flesh of another." Zech.11:9
 193.God will open his eyes and smite "every rider with madness ...
and every horse ... with blindness."
     Zech.12:4
 194.A prophet must be killed by his own parents by "thrusting him
through when he prophesieth."
     Zech.13:3
 195.God will smite the people with plagues that will cause their
flesh, eyes, and tongues to rot away.
     Zech.14:12
 196.God will make everyone fight and kill his neighbor. Zech.14:13
 197.God sends his plagues on animals too. Zech.14:15
 198.God will "smite the heathen" with a plague.Zech.14:18
 199.God wants the good folks to "tread down the wicked." Mal.4:3
 200.Jesus recommends that to avoid sin we cut off our hands and pluck
out our eyes. Mt.5:29, 18:8
 201.Jesus strongly approves of the law and the prophets. He hasn't
the slightest objection to the
     cruelties of the Old Testament. Mt.5:17
 202.Jesus says that most people are going to hell. Mt.7:13-14
 203.Jesus sends some devils into a herd of pigs, causing them to run
off a cliff and drown in the waters
     below. Mt.8:32
 204.Families will be torn apart because of Jesus. "Brother shall
deliver up the brother to death, and the
     father the child: and the children shall rise up against their
parents, and cause them to be put to
     death. Mt.10:21
 205.Jesus condemns entire cities to dreadful deaths and to the
eternal torment of hell because they
     didn't care for his preaching. Mt.11:20-24
 206. Jesus will send his angels to gather up "all that offend" and
they "shall cast them into a furnace of
     fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." Mt.13:41-42,
50
 207.Jesus is criticized by the Pharisees for not washing his hands
before eating. He defends himself by
     attacking them for not killing disobedient children according to
the commandment: "He that curseth
     father or mother, let him die the death." Mt.15:4-7
 208. Jesus sends the devils into 2000 pigs, causing them to jump off
a cliff and be drowned in the sea.
     Mk.5:12-13
 209.Any city that doesn't "receive" the followers of Jesus will be
destroyed in a manner even more
     savage than that of Sodom and Gomorrah. Mk.6:11
 210. Jesus criticizes the Jews for not killing their disobedient
children according to Old Testament law.
     Mk.7:9
 211. Jesus tells us to cut off our hands and feet, and pluck out our
eyes to avoid going to hell. Mk.9:43
 212.Jesus kills a fig tree for not bearing figs, even though it was
out of season. Mk.11:13
 213.Jesus says that those that believe and are baptized will be
saved, while those who don't will be
     damned. Mk.16:16
 214.God strikes Zacharias dumb for doubting the angel Gabriel's
words. Lk.1:20
 215.John the Baptist says that Christ will burn the damned "with fire
unquenchable." Lk.3:17
 216.Jesus says that entire cities will be violently destroyed and the
inhabitants "thrust down to hell" for
     not "receiving" his disciples. Lk.10:10-15
 217. Jesus says that we should fear God since he has the power to
kill us and then torture us forever in
     hell. Lk.12:5
 218.All of the vicious Old Testament laws will be binding forever.
Lk.16:17
 219."Bring them [those who preferred not to be ruled by Jesus]
hither, and slay them before me."
     Lk.19:22-27
 220.Those who, for whatever reason, do not believe in Jesus are
tormented forever in hell. Jn.3:18
 221.Jesus says that the wrath of God" is on all unbelievers. Jn.3:36
 222.Those who do not believe in Jesus will be cast into a fire to be
burned. Jn.15:6
 223.God will torture forever those who don't know the password to
heaven. Acts 4:12
 224.Peter and God scare Ananias and his wife to death for not forking
over all of the money that they
     made when selling their land. Acts 5:1-10
 225.The "angel of the Lord" killed Herod by having him "eaten of
worms" because "he gave not God the
     glory." Acts 12:23
 226.Paul and the Holy Ghost conspire together to make Elymas (the
sorcerer) blind. Acts 13:8-11
 227."The wrath of God" is on all unbelievers. Rom.1:18-20
 228."He that doubteth is damned ... Whosoever is not of faith is
sin." Rom.14:23
 229.Those who disagree with Paul's religious views are damned.
Gal.1:8-9
 230.Jesus will take "vengeance on them that know not God" by burning
them forever "in flaming fire."
     2 Th.1:7-9
 231.Jesus will "consume" the wicked "with the spirit of his mouth." 2
Th.2:8
 232.God will cause us to believe lies so that he can damn our souls
to hell. 2 Th.2:11-12
 233.God makes people evil and then condemns them to hell. Jude 4
 234.Jude reminds us that God destroys those who don't believe in him.
Jude 5
 235.God gave power to someone sitting on a red horse "to take from
the earth ... that they should kill
     one another." Rev.6:4
 236.God makes some horse-like locusts with human heads, women's hair,
lion's teeth, and scorpion's
     tails. They sting people and hurt them for five months.
Rev.9:7-10
 237.Four angels, with an army of 200 million, killed a third of the
earth's population. Rev.9:15-19
 238.God will have people killed by fire, plagues, and beasts. There
will be dead bodies rotting, unburied
     everywhere. And those that are not killed by God (the
Christians?) will "rejoice over them [the dead
     nonchristians?] and make merry, and shall send gifts to one
another." Rev.11:5-10
 239.God will send an earthquake that will kill 7000 people. Rev.11:13

 240.Those who receive the mark of the beast will "drink of the wine
of the wrath of God ... and shall
     be tormented with fire and brimstone ... and the smoke of their
torment ascendeth up for ever and
     ever." Rev.14:10-11
 241."The great winepress of the wrath of God ... was trodden ... and
the blood cam out of the
     winepress, even unto the horses bridles." Rev.14:19
 242. The seven vials of wrath: 1) sores, 2) sea turned to blood, 3)
rivers turned to blood, 4) people
     scorched with fire, 5) people gnaw their tongues in pain, 6)
Euphrates dries up, 7) thunder,
     lightening, earthquake, and hail. Rev.16:1-21
 243.The great harlot is described as being "full of abominations and
filthiness of her fornication." She
     has a rather large and prominent sign on her forehead, will be
made "desolate and naked," and her
     flesh will be eaten and burned with fire. Rev.17:1-16
 244. Jesus, whose clothes are dipped in blood, has a sharp sword
sticking out of his mouth. Thus
     attired, he treads the winepress of the wrath of God.
Rev.19:13-15
 245. An angel calls all the fowls to feast upon dead human bodies, or
as the angel calls it "the supper of
     the great God." Rev.19:17-18
 246.The beast and the false prophet are cast alive into a lake of
fire. The rest were killed with the sword
     of Jesus. "An all the fowls were filled with their flesh."
Rev.19:20-21
 247.God will send fire from heaven to devour people. Rev.20:9-10
 248.Whoever isn't found listed in the book of life will be cast into
the lake of fire. Rev.20:15
 249.Those who are fearful or unbelieving will be cast into "the lake
which burneth with fire and
     brimstone." Rev.21:8
 

Evolution is a science, and thus deals only in what can be known. It restricts itself to empirical facts and consistent, logical theories about the world derived from those facts. It is not a philosophy, nor a belief system, nor a religion; nevertheless, it does often touch upon matters which, to some people, fall under the scope of those things. Creationists have seized upon this inevitable confusion and used it to defend themselves against the undeniable proof that what they promote is religion and not science by claiming that evolution is a religion as well. However, as will be shown, this claim is completely false.

There are some specific qualifications that are usually required for a religion, and evolution fails all of them. It has no prophets. It has no scriptures. It has no temples and no priesthood. It sets no rules for behavior; evolution does not promise me a reward if I adhere to it, nor does it threaten me with punishment if I deny it. It provides nothing to worship; no one prays to evolution. It is silent on the topics of life after death and the existence of the soul. It says nothing about the existence of a god or lack thereof - it can be seamlessly incorporated into any belief system, from the most ardent atheism to all but the most literal fundamentalist theism, with any deity or other supernatural entity of choice given credit for using evolution as the mechanism by which life was caused to diversify. And most importantly, evolution is a science and does not require belief or faith of any sort.

Of course, some creationists would dispute some of the above claims. Some would no doubt leap to make the claim that evolution does have both a prophet and scriptures - Charles Darwin and his On the Origin of Species. However, this is ridiculous on the face of it. While Darwin was an intelligent and perceptive scientist, no one has ever claimed that his writings were divine revelations from on high, nor that he possessed any special perception or faculty not available to the rest of humanity. His central insight of natural selection was merely born of much education, study and meticulous observation. In principle, anyone could have come up with it (and someone else did - English naturalist Alfred Russell Wallace proposed a similar idea independently, at nearly the same time). Nor is it claimed that Darwin's writings are inerrant - much the opposite, in fact. It is now recognized that his work, though amazingly insightful and indisputably correct in most places, was wrong or incomplete in several areas, such as his speculations on the mechanism of inheritance, which were only poorly understood in his day and which he could not have been expected to know the truth about. While evolution does incorporate many of Darwin's original ideas, it has also changed and grown beyond him. His principle of natural selection has been merged with the more recent sciences of genetics and molecular biology to form the present-day theory of evolution known as the modern synthesis.

Other creationists might also make the claim that there is a penalty for opposing evolution - censure, ridicule and exile from the scientific mainstream, with corresponding denial of job offers and tenure. Of course, they would vehemently deny the claim that this only happens to people who stubbornly cling to their irrational, anti-scientific beliefs in the light of overwhelming contradictory evidence. But there is another, better counterargument: If this is the penalty for denying evolution, why is it only levied on the creationists, and not the evolutionary scientists whom the creationists would have us believe speak out against evolution and admit to its faults on a regular basis? See On Conspiracies and Mined Quotes.

But none of those things are the main reasons why creationists wrongly insist that evolution is a religion. There are two of these...........

The first is the claim, made by countless creationists, that evolution is inherently atheistic, or that it denies the existence of God. However, this is not true. It is true that evolution stands in opposition to a narrowly literal reading of a small portion of a particular religion's scripture, but this is a far cry from the sweeping accusations made by its detractors. Contradicting one possible interpretation of one chapter of one holy book is hardly the same as denying the very possibility of the existence of God.

The fact is that evolution, like all scientific theories, is naturalistic; that is to say, it confines itself strictly to what can be empirically measured, tested and explained. All supernatural phenomena - God, angels, devils, miracles, and so on - are non-naturalistic and thus fall beyond the scope of science. Evolution does not say God exists; neither does it say God does not exist. Such a question simply cannot be considered by science. It is, instead, one for theology or philosophy. What evolution does do is provide a consistent scientific explanation for the development of life that does not require direct divine intervention - it does not require miracles, but neither does it forbid them. If there is a God, evolution tells us how he caused life to develop and diversify. If there is no God, evolution tells us how life developed and diversified in his absence. But the theory itself does not say either of these things; it merely says what happened, making no metaphysical claims one way or the other. If evolution is atheistic because it does not require miracles, then so is all the rest of science.

Additionally,  the majority of the world's religious people find no conflict between evolution and their faith. As recently as 1996, the Pope, the spiritual leader of one billion Christians around the world, reaffirmed that there was "no opposition" between evolution and the Bible. A great number of other religious organizations accept the truth of evolution as well; some of them are listed in the "Voices for Evolution" section of the National Center for Science Education's site.

One more point remains to be made with regards to this argument. Creationists, in their arrogance, insist that they have discovered the true meaning of their holy text - that they know with certainty exactly how it is meant to be read and interpreted - and that anyone who disagrees with them about this interpretation is either sadly deceived or not really a member of their religion at all.[1] (This is the usual defense against theistic evolution.) But as the creationists' own Bible warns them, "pride goeth... before a fall" [2], and few things could be imagined as more prideful than their unbending insistence that they have once and for all time discovered what scripture really means. In other words, how can the creationists be so sure that this time they've got it right, when so many times in the past people who attempted to extract scientific data from the Bible were mistaken? To name just the most obvious example, there was once a time when a straightforwardly literal reading of the Bible led people to the conclusion that the sun orbited the earth. This conclusion was not only taken as following naturally from the plain meaning of the text, it was held that to doubt it was to deny that the Bible had any meaning at all. As Cardinal Bellarmine wrote in 1615 about Galileo's heliocentric theory, "But to want to affirm ... that the earth is situated in the third sphere and revolves with great speed around the sun, is a very dangerous thing, not only by irritating all the philosophers and scholastic theologians, but also by injuring our holy faith and rendering the Holy Scriptures false."[3] The similarities to the creationists' arguments against theistic evolution are instructive. To deny geocentrism, the church authorities said, was to deny that the Bible was inspired by God and free of error; to admit geocentrism would bring Christianity crashing down. Yet today, heliocentrism is universally acknowledged, even among creationist groups (though there are a few holdouts [4]), and Christianity has not come to an end. In fact, most people are wondering why anyone ever thought there was a conflict in the first place. The reader is invited to find parallels with the current debate over evolution.

The second major reason creationists often label evolution a religion is this. To believe in evolution takes faith, they say, because no one has ever seen it happen. They argue that to accept evolution requires a leap of faith that is at least as great as the leap of faith required to accept God!

Leave aside for the moment the question of what this says about the creationists' views on religion. (Surely they approve of it? Why do they think calling evolution a religion is an attack on it? As some have noted, it's as if they're saying, "Hey, you guys are just as irrational as we are!") The fact remains that this accusation, like all the others, is untrue. Evolution is a science, and as such, it is based on and accepted by empirical evidence - not faith.

By definition, faith is belief in something for which there is no objective evidence. In the case of evolution, nothing could be further from the truth. Evolution is one of the best-supported theories in all of science, upheld by numerous lines of evidence[5] from many branches of science that all converge on the same conclusion. For instance, there are many transitional series showing the large-scale change of life over time, and nested hierarchies of genetic similarity that corroborate these fossils and allow us to chart the tree of evolutionary relationships. Nor is our evidence of evolution limited to reconstructing what happened in the past. Indeed, we can directly observe all the components of evolution working around us today - genetic mutations, increased or decreased by drift and acted upon by selection, to produce new genes and new morphology conferring differential reproductive success and increased fitness on a wide range of living organisms. No faith is necessary, because acceptance of evolution does not require one to accept any process that cannot be observed today and that is not supported by evidence to prove its occurrence in the past. The creationist claim that evolution requires faith in unobserved processes is flatly false.

To accept evolution, or any scientific theory, it is absolutely unnecessary to make a leap of faith - it wouldn't be a scientific theory otherwise. All that is required is a willingness to accept evidence, conclusions drawn from that evidence, and theories logically based on those conclusions. Unlike the fundamentalist religion of creationism, evolution can be freely questioned, scrutinized in detail and refined to fit the evidence, and indeed, even its most dedicated defenders are constantly doing this. Just like general relativity, the heliocentric solar system, or the germ theory of disease, the theory of evolution can be taken on the basis of the evidence alone. It is not accepted or rejected by, and does not depend on, people's faith.

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1. Why would God entrust the spreading of 'His' word to one of his 'fallible' children? He knows men are sinners and are untruI doubt a professor would allow one of his students to teach a class if all the other students' futures were at stake. If God loved us so much and he wants us to be with him, why would he put our eternal souls at risk like that?

2. If Satan is the ultimate trickster, how do we know that Satan hasn't tricked Christians into worshipping him as God (Yahweh) and are actually rebuking the "real" God in his own name? - Inspired by Cice Mool

3. If god cast the devil into hell and hell is a place for eternal punishment from which even god cannot grant a pardon, then why do the preachers tell us the devil is walking up and down the hallways of high schools tempting teenagers to do drugs and have pre-marital sex? A warden who allows his prisoners the freedom to go out and kill and rape would be terminated for incompetence. - jshanahan@austin.rr.com

4. I have often heard from many believers that even Satan has a presence in the church, which is why even in church people can still have impure thoughts. If Satan can find his way in the church, how do Christians know that Satan didn't find his way into the Bible and twist the whole book? - The Infidel Guy

5. If the Universe is everywhere by definition, why do theists ask where it came from? How can there be anywhere for the universe to come from if the Universe is already everywhere by definition? - Chris and The Infidel Guy

6. Does God think? If so, he cannot be all-knowing. Think about it. - The Infidel Guy
 
7. If a soul is non-physical and the human body is physical, how does a soul stay in our bodies?

8. If God is all-knowing, how could he be disappointed in His creation? -- Pm453ca@aol.com

9. If God is unchangeable (immutable), how is there evidence of a god when everything else around us is changing? - The Infidel Guy

10. Why did God flood the earth to remove evil? It didn't work! Evil came right back, God should have known that would happen! So why did He bother? - PhineasBg

11. Why is it that theists tell me that I have to examine every part of the universe and not find God anywhere in order to say that there is no god, when in fact all I need to do is not find God in one location since he is supposed to be omnipresent? - Chris

12. If the garden of Eden was a perfect paradise as xians claim, then why did Eve even want to eat the apple? Wouldn't a perfect place provide everything a person would want or desire and thus she would want nothing? - keyser soze

13. Romans 6:23 says "For the wages of sin is death" Does this mean animals sin as well? Or uni-cellular organisms? Do plants sin? Because they all die as well, not just humans. Why does an animal die, if it doesn't know the moral difference between right and wrong? - Nef

14. Why would an all-powerful god become flesh in order to sacrifice himself to himself so that his creation might escape the wrath of himself. Couldn't god, in his infinite wisdom, come up with something a little more efficient? - Omphaloskeptic2@aol.com

15. If we are the children of god, and yet we have never seen him, does that make us the bastards of god? Not to mention my mom didn't marry God- hyasynth_vii@yahoo.com

16. After 9/11 a lot of people have been tossing around "god bless america". Why do they keep saying this? From the looks of it god hasn't blessed anything. If god had blessed america, the 9/11 event would've never happened. Theists seem to give the answer of "everything is part of gods big plan". If everything is part of gods big plan, why are we after Bin Laden? Wasn't he and other terrorists just carrying out gods desired plan? So it seems that Bin Laden/ terrorism isnt our enemy , but god. - rsri13@hotmail.com

17. Christians say that God is NOT the author of confusion. Can you say, Tower of Babel? - The Screaming Monkeys

18. Christians will tell you that if a baby dies it goes to heaven. Why then are they so against abortion? All the child is being deprived of is the opportunity to go to hell. Either that or god expects unborn fetuses to accept Jesus. - dissolvedego@satannet.org

19. Why does God have emotions (jealousy, anger, sadness, love, etc.) if he is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent? Emotions are reactionary, how can God react to us if he is all-knowing and has a divine plan?

20. If Jesus Christ is allegedly the omnipotent god made flesh.....how is it that he did not inherit Original Sin? Remember, he is allegedly Man and god in union, and if truly man, as well as god, he must have inherited Original Sin. ???- His Lordship, Lucifer

21. If God is the father of Jesus, what is Jesus' DNA like? Does God have sperm? If he doesn't, where did Mary get the DNA from that was needed to make Jesus? This would make Mary asexual and Jesus would then be a girl. No Y chromosome. - chris_crispy@hotmail.com and Rebe2amble@aol.com

22. I never got the remote controlled car I prayed for as a child, but if I want to go to hell, will God grant my wish?.... Gee, thanks God! - dissolvedego@satannet.org

23. In the "Last Days" Jesus is supposed to appear in the clouds. How are the Christians on the opposite end of the world going to see him? Are there going to be millions of Jesus'? What about people that work underground? - Rebe2amble@aol.com

24. A true Muslim man is not supposed to do anything that the prophet Muhammad didn't do. If one remembers there was a big debate over whether or not Muslims should eat Mangoes. If this is true why in the Hell were these Islamic Fundamentalists flying airplanes?

25. If the earth was covered by a complete global flood, every living creature killed except those surviving on the ark, why are there many completely unique animal species in Australia that are found no where else indigenously on the earth? - mitch@mchsi.com

26. If god is omniscient and "god is love," why would he allow a child to be conceived, knowing that that child would one day reject him and spend eternity burning in a lake of fire? If I were god, I wouldn't allow it; I have more love for humanity than he does. -- TiredTurkeyProd

27. How can Heaven be utter bliss when you know that people you love and care about are burning in Hell? -- The Infidel Guy - ANSWER: - When we get to Heaven there will be no pain. God erases our memories of our loved ones that may be in Hell because he doesn't want to experience pain.

28. Revelations takes place on Earth. What if we colonize the moon or Mars or inhabit a self-sustaining space station? Do we escape "judgement"? -- Ray Sommers ANSWER: God will get them too. - Jim

29. Many people believe in ghosts. My question is, "Why is it that people see only ghosts of people or pets? Why not Neanderthals or better yet dinosaurs? That would be one hell of a ghost to see a Brontosaurus parading downtown.

30. If god did open the sea so that Moses and the jews could run away from Egypt, why didn't he open the concentration camps gates? -- Guilherme Hoffmann

31. Why are we granted free will if our duty in this life to our god is to do as we are told? We are to follow rules upon threat of punishment. Is that free will? -- Gandalfs Nephew

32. Isaiah 40:28 says, "...the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is he weary?" If this is true, why did God rest on the seventh day?

33. Everytime I go to a funeral the preacher and guests always say that "God" has called that person to Heaven or they say, "God said it was time to come home", or some such variation. If God is calling these people "home", why are we putting the murderers of these victims in prison? How can we punish a man or woman for doing God's will?

34. Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?

35. Traditional Jews utilize Yahweh or (YHWH) as Gods name because his true name is supposedly unpronounceable. My question is, how can it be possible that people are using the Lords name in vain when nobody really knows what his name is?

36. Why is God predominately called a "he"?

37. If you are born retarded, then does that mean your "soul" is retarded as well?-- Matt Edwards

38. Planet Earth, we are reliably informed, is several billion years old. The last dinosaur expired some 70 million years ago. Homo sapiens, the only form of life according to christian doctrine, that is of any interest to their god is not more than 100,000 years old. How in the name of all that is reasonable did the judaeo-christian god occupy himself for all those millions - billions of years until humankind came along to keep him so busy ? -- Trish Huesken /John Perkins

39. If man is modeled after "God" does that mean "God" has a penis? -- Terry Clark

40. Why can't we wait until we get to Heaven to worship God?

41. What is the purpose of prayer? What can a finite being on Earth possibly tell an omnipotent, omniscient deity that he doesn't know already?

42. If God has a plan for you, and his plan cannot be thwarted, do you really have a free will?

43. If the "soul" is everything that is you (the essence) then how come when someone gets into an accident, they lose memories, functions and can be paralyzed? Why should "brain damage" matter if this "soul" is so important? -- Matt Edwards

44. Christians like to talk about what Jesus sacrificed. If Jesus was the all-knowing God, then when he "died" didn't he know he'd be in heaven in less than 3 days to rule? If Jesus is alive and ruling today, what did he sacrifice? -- Cyndy Hammond

45. If the omnipotent God wants us to know him, why doesn't everyone know him?
God knows that men are sinners, untrustworthy and evil, why does God leave it up to fallible man (clergy..etc) to teach others about his word? Why would he put our eternal souls at risk if he loves us to much? - The Infidel Guy and Danno778

46. Where is Hell and Heaven? It was believed that heaven was in the sky until modern astronomers showed otherwise.

47. If God's design is so great, why do men have nipples?

48. How did Adam and Eve know it was wrong to disobey God if they hadn't eaten of the tree of knowledge (of good and evil) yet? You can't blame them if they didn't know.

49. If God has such a tremendous problem with uncircumcised penises, why did he make man with foreskin in the first place?

50. If God is all-knowing is there anything we can do to shock him? If not, why does he react so often to what we do?

51. If reincarnation is real, why is it that our population is growing? Where would the extra "souls" come from? -- Matt Edwards

52. Why does the omnipotent, omnipresent God need help from man or angels to spread his word or do acts?

53. How did Jesus ascend to Heaven in the Flesh when Paul says that flesh cannot inherit the kingdom of Heaven? (1 Cor.15:50)

54. If God wants us to live right and choose "the good," why did he create evil? (Isaiah 45:6,7) Not to mention he already knows which people are not going to choose "the good" so why create those people in the first place? It seems that many people are born to go to Hell.

55. I hear Christians all the time speaking of a war between Heaven and Hell, if this is true does God have limitations of power? Man only conducts wars because of our limitations of power and foresight. God has both all-power and all-knowledge, no reason for war.

56. The Bible is full of phrases beginning with, "and the lord saw". Didn't he know before hand?

57. The Bible states that in the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth. It says nothing about the Universe. Some would say "the Heavens" was space, if so, when did God create Heaven? If "the heavens" is the spiritual Heaven, when did God create Space?

58. If Christians say they know God exists and that he will work miracles, what do they need faith for? Faith is not knowing.

59. Brain transplants will eventually be possible, where would the soul be then?

60. If God really wants us to know him, why doesn't he place the knowledge of him in our minds at birth? The same way many theists believe that God implants our sense of right and wrong in us a right birth.

61. If God was Jesus' father (not Joseph), then why is Jesus' family tree traced through Joseph? -- Cyndy Hammond

62. Christians say that since we and our universe are an intelligent design, that we must have been created by god. But then god is an intelligent design also, so who created him? -- Rathish Sriparavastu

63. Why does almost every description of God also equal non-existence? (i.e. incorporeal, immaterial, ineffable, unfathomable, incomprehensible, etc.)

64. Why can't God appear before everyone at the same time? Everyone in the world would then know he exists and not believe. And please, don't say he already tried that. Surely a God knows exactly what to do to convince a measly human of his existence.

65. According to the New Testament Matthew 5:17 says "Do not suppose that I have come to abolish the Law and the prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to complete. I tell you this: so long as heaven and earth endure, not a letter, not a stroke, will disappear from the Law until all that must happen has Happened." So since Jesus has not returned the "Law" is still in effect, so why aren't we still burning witches, stoning adulterers and disobedient children, killing homosexuals, ostracizing people that work on the Sabbath (nurses, doctors etc.), flinging blood onto the horns of the alter, pulling off the heads of small birds, and don't forget human sacrifice to God (Leviticus 27 P.28 )? -- Sheila L. Chambers

66. If believers can accept that a God has always been here. Why can't they accept an equally plausible argument that the non-conscious Universe has always been here in some form?

67. If the story of Noah's ark is true. What did Noah do with all the feces? There wasn't even adequate ventilation. Hell, what did the meat-eating animals eat? And where were the dinosaurs and Unicorns in all this?

68. What loving god accepts sacrifices of his own creations? especially his son? -- Reverend Heresy

69. Was Jesus God in human form? If so was God saving us from himself. Kinda selfish eh? That's what the Christians unknowingly proclaim when they acknowledge that Jesus is God.

70. Many Christians claim that man can't judge God's actions as evil because he has a divine plan and is GOD. This being the case, then it would stand to reason that one cannot judge whether God is good either. Wouldn't God be ammoral? It appears that morality is a subjective concept that varies from culture to culture. Therefore, how we judge God either way?

71. Why would a god make non-believers and punish them for being what he made them to be? -- Cyndy Hammond

72. What is God's plan? The omniscient, omnipotent God doesn't need plans. Plans are a limitation of power. We make plans because we are not all-knowing nor all-powerful. In order for God to have a plan, or design, is to make him as humanistic as you or I. Limited.

73. Many people believe there is a soul. If you can supposedly see, smell, taste, touch and hear without a body then why do you have one? Wouldn't a body be a waste? Why aren't we just "souls" floating around in the first place? -- Matt Edwards

74. How could the all-merciful/loving God watch billions of his children burn over and over again for eternity?

75. Before reading and writing were invented (5000BC), on what basis did God use to judge the people who died before the Hebrew and Greek text (BIBLE) were written? -- agent2g@aol.com

76. How could souls burn? Aren't souls non-physical entities? I've heard of spiritual burns before. Sheesh, God sure goes through a lot of effort just to torture the children he loves.
How can one hold to the barbaric belief that something has to DIE in order to appease a god for a bad deed? -- Nickolaus Wing

78. Christians always say that everything is part of gods big plan. If everything is already planned out by god, what difference does it make if they pray or not? -- Rathish Sriparavastu

79. Why does SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) occur? Why would God allow a baby to live for such a short period of time? Why not just let them not be born in the first place? -- Terry Clark

80. Why didn't god forbid Adam & Eve to eat from the other magic tree? - damon@internetwis.com

France, Summer of 1765- Catholicism was the state religion in France at the time. A wooden crucifix on a bridge in Abbeville was mysteriously vandalized one night. The local communion was asked to tell the civilian judges everything they knew about who did this. Not being able to reveal anything specific about the occurance and fearing banishment from the communion, churchgoers told the judges of 3 boys they saw who had not removed their hats when a procession passed.  One of the boys, 21 year old, French nobleman Jean-Francois de la Barre. When given this boys' name the judges went and searched his bedroom, there they found 3 prohibited books including "Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary".   La Barre was tortured until he confessed to his alleged crimes, then sentenced by the Paris parlement (high court) to be tortured AGAIN. Near death anyway, he was then beheaded and thrown into a fire along with his copy of Voltaire's book.

Just a little story to get the discussion started. Atheists were subject to captial punishment for their beliefs or lack thereof long before our friend La Barre. At the beginning of the Roman Empire anyone found guilty of 'atheos' (not recognizing any of the dieties supported by the state) was executed. Sounds like mortal sin to me...  

WHY????

Monett, MO- In a town with an area of 7 square miles and a population of 7,396 (according to the census recorded in 2000, that was the most recent record I could find) we have 37 churches. That is 5.29 churches for every square mile!!