Top Ten Reasons Why the Bible is a Horrid and Stupid Book

Just my top ten reasons. Add and vote other reasons below!
The Top Ten
1 It supports rape

I am not shoving Atheism in someone's face, I am merely educating the world about the truth. And hate me. Hate me all you want. Why would I care? For Your God's sake, send me death threats. You don't even know who I am! For all you know, I'm an alien orbiting earth!

People felt their religion was being disrespected by this list, and thus felt like they had to cause even more disrespect towards belief and tried to convert someone in the comments. Lol.

Criticising your list isn't hating you. I don't even know you. I'm giving you advice. Stop acting like atheism is the best thing ever and that Christianity is the worst.

Just learn to respect other people's religion. People shouldn't be judged on whether they're Christian, Athiest, Muslim or Jew. It's the person that counts.

2 It tells women to be silent in church

The Bible must sometimes be understood in the context of the time period it was written in. 1st Corinthians is one of two letters sent from Paul the apostle to the church at Corinth, addressing internal issues this church was having. Bet you didn't know that, did you? The women in the church at Corinth were using their newfound freedom to speak out in the middle of sermons. They were interrupting the preachers. Clearly, they needed to be told to shut up during church services. They were told to ask their husbands after the service if they had questions about the message preached. That is what this passage is talking about.

I'd like to ask, have you even bothered to read what Bible historians have to say? You are making uninformed assumptions, based on scriptures that you have taken completely out of context.

"Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church." - The Bible

Bible scriptures must be read in context of ALL other scriptures. I'm not going to go to the trouble of explaining this common misconception

So what if it does? It also tells men to love their wives as Chris did the Church.

3 It tells of a racist god that only favored the Israelites.

The common assumption of many skeptics is that God chose the Jews just to give them some sort of preferential treatment. In reality, the Bible says that the Jews were selected to be a blessing to all the nations of the world. In fact, the same passages that says that God chose the Jews also says that God does not show partiality and commands the Jews to love other peoples.

Speaking of partiality, it's clear that you hate Christianity above other religions. And my proof is in the fact that you created this list. You haven't made a list about the Quran, or the Tripitaka (Buddhist holy book), or the Vedas (one of many holy books of Hinduism).

You are incredibly uninformed and ignorant. I will quote multiple scriptures from the Bible:
"FOR GOD DOES NOT SHOW FAVORITISM." -Romans 2:11
"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female..." Galatians 3:28
"For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe." Deuteronomy 10:17

Don't feed the troll...

4 It tells of a god that commits genocide.

To be fair the Israelites kept on worshipping different religions over and over again in this one chapter that God was just punishing them for being stupid after the 3rd time. He didn't punish them with Genocide, that was the flood but there wasn't a lot of people anyways and he spared some.

Even if I were an atheist, I would be fine with this. First, their God's creation, so He can do whatever He wants with them. Second, if He is holy, He is required to punish people.

If you really want to read a "horrid" book, try The Black Book of Communism. It'll tell you all about how your atheist friends murdered 300 million people in the 20th century.

Noah's Ark was not genocide. The world had became violent.
But Noah's Ark is childish, a 600 year old man can build an ark and 2 kinds of every animal

5 It tells you there is such place as hell

Hell is that place where it is set in a child's brain, and socially ingrained in them, to make them perfect people who follow other people blindly and do what others say. And he does this because if he doesn't, he's going to go to hell. So, basically, hell is something that keeps society in order. It sounds good, but in reality, it's not.

And for all of you Christians butt hurt about me calling your holy book stupid, well, just read it. You'll find the contradictions and stupidness soon, unless your just cherry picking favorite parts. Like that guy that quoted, GOD DOES NOT SHOW FAVORITISM, but "forgot" to say that humans were his Favorite Species. ( in the book of Genesis)

Yes, Hell is absolutely a real place. And I guess that's why you hate the Bible for preaching that, because deep down you're aware of it but don't want to acknowledge it.

Heaven - No one cries, no night time, everyone has a mansion.
Worst Afterlife Ever.
If any afterlife exists I prefer reincarnation or ghosts -- haunt your enemies.

Hell isn't o much a place as an experience. Christians have depersonalized Hell to keep their e picture of an omnibenevolent God intact. He is God's wrath against sinners.

6 It tells of a god that only cared for one species

"And he (God) already has that power of coherent speech." Wow. Yes. HE does. YOU don't. Again, someone who arrogantly claims to "educate the world about the truth" cannot read and understand a simple sentence. Please stop embarrassing yourself.

No, I would not be happy. What I'm trying to prove, is that The Universe Was created for us human, not for the universe, just us, I tiny black dot in the middle of nothing.

"Shoes that God is not need in everything." Maybe you should ask Him for the power of coherent speech.

Perhaps you'd be happier if cockroaches and Komodo dragons governed the earth.

7 It tells of a person dying to get rid of something evil their loving creator gave them

It means, God. Knowing Eve would eat the apple, Plants the tree. Then he gives Humans sin. Then, a thousand years later, Jesus comes, though I don't know how it's God son, when Only Joeseph and Mary, you know. Then, Jesus comes, gets killed, and God gets rid of sin! That he gave humanity! Cause he gave Eve a test, but knew she would fail!

What the heck does this even mean?

8 It supports slavery

He punished the Egyptians for ENSLAVING the Israelites. Not because they were Egyptian. Any just judge will deal out proper judgement.

What about... Hmm... Say, all those other groups that kept slaves? Hmm? They thought it was right... In the name of God.

And then the Isrealites keep practicing Slavery. Yup. God is totally against it because he punished the Egyptians!

Yeah, but when did he punish the Isrealites, the British, the American, the Portuguese, ETC for having slaves?

9 It hypnotizes too many people into believing made up nonsense

So true honestly( not to offend ) but really there is no proof ( both sides ) I see it as a way the people used to control people years ago

10 It says homosexuality is a sin

I know. He said he accepts and loves everyone and on other pages he says that he doesn't accept certain people because they are different. But some of the things you note are not true but I still do not believe anything about the bible. Science has proven some things that make the bible fiction. There is no proof that the bible was true.

But at the same the New Testament says to love everyone. I remember reading about that in the Old Testament, but I don't believe God hates anyone he creates. Therefore, this is true because I've seen the verse, but God loves everyone.

First, God doesn't love everyone (Psalm 5, 11, Hosea 9, Romans 9) but even if He did, He can still say something is sinful.

It is a sin but God still loves everyone.

The Contenders
11 It says, you shall not murder, but Christians murdered people

Christians are not perfect goody-two-shoes who follow everything God says. Christians are still human, and humans sin. Hey, I'm a Christian and I curse pretty much every day but does that make God hate me? No. God hates nobody.

Are you sure? Cause I'm pretty sure he hates atheists, homosexuals, lesbians, and people of other religions, agnostic, the non religious and Etc. also, the people in hell. And yes, Most Christians were.

Not everything is perfect and also not all christians are religious nutjobs that shove their beliefs down other peoples throats and spread hypocrisy,that's like saying all atheists are fat neckbeards that do the same thing.Both stereotypes are wrong.-DarkBoi-X

And this is a problem with the Bible how?

12 It tells of a god that told a man to kill his son

Ah yes. I forgot that one. Here's the story: God Tells Abraham to kill his sons if he believed in him. He goes to a mountain, almost kills his son, then an angel comes up to him and says: WHADDAYA THINK YOUR DOING? Didn't you know God said don't kill your son? And so... Abraham... Was convicted... For something God Told him to do.

It's clear from this post that you HAVEN'T read the Bible. Perhaps you simply skimmed the Wikipedia cliff notes. You've misrepresented the story of Abraham. "Was convicted? " You'll just say ANYTHING, right?

He stopped Abraham from killing his son. He needed to know if a man was willing to give his son as a sacrifice, so that God could give the ultimate sacrifice-Jesus.

Yeah, well, Read. Abraham. Hears God. Tells him to kill his son as a test of faith. He almost kills his son. Then God says, WHY THE HELL ARE YOU KILLIN YOUR SON?!?!?!

13 God killed more people than satan

All Satan wanted to do was become as powerful, he was one of the most handsome characters of the Bible. He wasn't a red bloke with horns sticking out of his head.
God just got enraged and threw him into a lake of fire.
He wasn't even in the garden of eden it said serpent. I guess God killed the only talking serpent.

14 It has nothing to do with history, yet people still refer to it.

The books of Numbers, 1st and 2nd Kings, Joshua and Judges contain history of the Jewish people. Jews know this. The Old Testament is included in the Torah, the Jews holy book. So, I guess you think the Torah is also 'a horrid and stupid book'. I find it hilarious that you haven't made a list about that. You are so ignorant.

Well I don't believe in the Bible but it was written in the past an ancient book. Most Gods came from before any of us where born. So just saying that is history in a way.

Do you know how much is fiction, or misinterpretations? Like Jesus healing the sick! ( The placebo effect ) Walking on water: ice What? That's stupid!

Yes, it does have some things in there that are historical. Eg: The Lord Jesus Christ; the Babylonian Captivity; the Maccabean Revolt (not included in Protestant Bibles, but, in both Catholic & Orthodox ones), etc.

15 It's fake
16 It tells an unbelievable story of all the animals fitting on one ship

Its called genocide, but I think the story is childish.

17 God is all seeing and all knowing so he would know that Adam and Eve would eat the fruit

He needs to see what Adam and Eve would do, why would he make a test if he saw the future and saw the decision they made? Then he would have to just kill off Adam and Eve before they would even make the decision. We know that no one else can see the future except him, so that means that to us it would seem like God was unfair. See the point?

18 It Hates Cross Dressers
19 Jesus birth and death dates are not in the Bible
20 God killed 25 million people
21 You have to eat jesus flesh and drink his blood (bread and red wine)

That’s what a lot of Christian religions do, and I don’t see why because according to my knowledge and research it means nothing. Only those who eat the bread and wine will make it to heaven, and the Bible says that only 144000 will make it to heaven to rule alongside Jesus. So no, not everyone is going to heaven

22 It tells a man could survive in the stomach of a whale
23 It's just stories passed from one mouth to another for 300 years in an illiterate country before someone in the 1% of the population that could read and write decided to combine all the stories they had heard and picked the best versions.
24 It Says that You Should Kill Witches but One of the Ten Commandments is Not Kill.
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