If you are a Christian, Let me ask you something: Have you ever read the Bible and noticed how much insanity it contains?
Here is a very simple example in Exodus 31:
14 “‘Observe the Sabbath, Because it is holy to you. Anyone who desecrates it is to be put to death
Did they really stone people to death for something as silly as working on the Sabbath? According to Numbers 15 they did:
32 While the Israelites were in the wilderness, A man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day. 33 Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly, 34 and they kept him in custody, Because it was not clear what should be done to him. 35 Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man must die. The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp. ” 36 So the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, As the Lord commanded Moses.
What kind of “god” would behave this way, Demanding death for something so trivial? The answer is easy: an imaginary god made up by deranged people in a primitive, Pre-scientific society.
Is insane the right word? The dictionary defines the word insanity in this way:
extreme folly or unreasonableness; something utterly foolish or unreasonable
Is it utterly foolish and unreasonable to kill someone because they collect wood on the wrong day of the week? Of course it is.
I would ask you to consider this new way of thinking: Understand and accept that a great number of the ideas, Rules, Decrees, Etc. Found in the Bible can be best described as insane. Become a rational, Objective person and accept this obvious conclusion, Instead of avoiding it or trying to apologize your way around the insanity.
There are so many other places where we can find insanity like this. In Deuteronomy 22 we find:
20 If, However, The charge is true and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found, 21 she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death.
If there is no evidence that a young woman is a virgin, She is stoned to death in front of her house. Can we agree that this is insane?
Then there is this:
22 If a man is found sleeping with another man’s wife, Both the man who slept with her and the woman must die.
The death penalty for adultery? That is insane.
And this:
23 If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, 24 you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, And the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you.
Also insane. And then:
28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, For he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
This is “God’s law”. There is no question that such a law is appalling, Because it treats women as property and forces women to marry their rapists. This article offers additional details.
If you are a Christian, Years of training and indoctrination can make it extremely difficult to acknowledge even the most obvious problems with your religion. But please, Please try to accept this simple fact: verses like these represent insanity. Then understand that the reason for such insanity is the fact that the “god” in the Bible is imaginary.
You can use these insane verses in the Bible to gain perspective. Reading them, You know that something is wrong here. Use that knowledge as a foundation, Approach your religion objectively from that foundation, And you will find hundreds of other facts that all tell you that God is imaginary.
Your life will be greatly improved by stepping away from insanity.
Taken from "How God Works"