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The Bible

The truth of this world is very strange. The book I was brought up to respect, the book I read a thousand times as a child, is full of more hate, violence and cruelty than any other book on my shelf. We ignore this by simply not reading those sections. But they are still there. And if you ever do decide to read the whole Bible, you will be horrified.

Unbelievably, I would describe the Bible as by far the most evil book I have ever read. If someone wrote such a book today it would be classified as hate speech.




The Ten Commandments



The Ten Commandments.
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The Brick Testament



A mother trying desperately to save her child during The Flood.
One of the more moving images from The Brick Testament by Brendan Powell Smith.





A blasphemer is stoned to death by Moses. His Israelite mother and Egyptian father weep for him. Start the story here.
From The Brick Testament by Brendan Powell Smith.




Verses




The Bible in its Own Words: An unbeliever's choice of quotes



"It is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist; he takes the side of Spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentence toward forgiveness of sin; I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it. Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others, again, of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being."
- Thomas Jefferson, private letter.

"merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy, nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams."
- Thomas Jefferson, private letter, on the Book of Revelation.



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