How well do yo know your holy books
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30 of the Most Violent Exhortations from the Bible, Torah and Quran
30 of the Most Violent Exhortations from the Bible, Torah and Quran
How well do you know your holy books?
By Valerie Tarico / AlterNet
October 23, 2014
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The world has watched in horror while members of ISIS justify the next mass murder or icy execution with words from the Quran, followed by shouts of Allahu AkbarGod is the greatest! If beliefs have any power whatsoever to drive behaviorand as a psychologist I think they dothere can be little doubt that the Qurans many endorsements of violence play a role in how exactly ISIS has chosen to pursue religious and political d******n.
At the same time, it should be equally clear that a sacred text filled with violence is insufficient to trigger mass brutality unless other conditions are present as well. Culture, empathy, education and empowermentand other factors scholars understand only in partappear to have a protective influence, safeguarding even most fundamentalists against the worst teachings of their own tradition. We know this in part because the Bible contains commandments and stories that are as horrific as those being used to justify butchery in Iraq and Syria.
The following 30 violent exhortations are drawn from Jewish, Christian and Muslim scriptures. The generic word "God" is used for all deity names, and names of places or people have been replaced with generic terms. How well do you know your Torah, Bible or Quran and Hadith? Can you tell which is which? Give it a try and then check the key at the bottom.
1. Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the [holy man] who represents God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged.
2. I decided to order a man to lead the prayer and then take a flame to burn all those, who had not left their houses for the prayer, burning them alive inside their homes.
3. I will fill your mountains with the dead. Your hills, your valleys, and your streams will be filled with people slaughtered by the sword. I will make you desolate forever. Your cities will never be rebuilt. Then you will know that I am God.
4. Fight them until there is no more [disbelief or worshipping of other gods] and worship is for God alone.
5. Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
6. Whoso fighteth in the way of God, be he slain or be he victorious, on him We shall bestow a vast reward.
7. Make ready to slaughter [the infidels] sons for the guilt of their fathers; Lest they rise and posses the earth, and fill the breadth of the world with tyrants.
8. [Gods messenger]... was asked whether it was permissible to attack the pagan warriors at night with the probability of exposing their women and children to danger. The [holy man] replied, "They [women and children] are from them [unbelievers]."
9. Then I heard God say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and k**l everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity! K**l them all old and young, girls and women and little children.
10. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.
11. Keep [my holiday], for it is holy. Anyone who desecrates it must die.
12. The punishment of those who wage war against God and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement.
13. If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death.
14. It is not for a Prophet that he should have prisoners of war until he had made a great slaughter in the land...
15. Now therefore k**l every male among the little ones, and k**l every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
16. I shall terrorize the [heathens]. So wound their bodies and incapacitate them, because they oppose God and his apostle.
17. A [holy mans] daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death.
18. So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captive and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them.
19. Everyone who would not seek God was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
20. And when We wish to destroy a town, We send Our commandment to the people of it who lead easy lives, but they t***sgress therein; thus the word proves true against it, so We destroy it with utter destruction.
21. But if [a girl wasn't a virgin on her wedding night] and evidence of the girl's virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her fathers house and there her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Gods people by her unchasteness in her father's house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.
22. The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say, "O [believer]! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so k**l him."
23. If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but k**l him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you.
24. Gods Apostle said, "I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but God."
25. Cursed be he who does Gods work remissly, cursed he who holds back his sword from blood.
26. God said, "A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. [Prophet], you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But God desires k*****g them to manifest the religion."
27. Anyone who blasphemes Gods name must be stoned to death by the whole community of [believers].
28. When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these, you also accept it and withhold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept) [your religion]; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them... If they refuse to accept [the faith], demand from them [a tax]. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek God's help and fight them.
29. Anyone else who goes too near the [Holy Place] will be executed.
30. K*****g Unbelievers is a small matter to us.
After people have commented I will post the answer key. It is eye opening.
30 of the Most Violent Exhortations from the Bible, Torah and Quran
How well do you know your holy books?
By Valerie Tarico / AlterNet
October 23, 2014
283 COMMENTS
The world has watched in horror while members of ISIS justify the next mass murder or icy execution with words from the Quran, followed by shouts of Allahu AkbarGod is the greatest! If beliefs have any power whatsoever to drive behaviorand as a psychologist I think they dothere can be little doubt that the Qurans many endorsements of violence play a role in how exactly ISIS has chosen to pursue religious and political d******n.
At the same time, it should be equally clear that a sacred text filled with violence is insufficient to trigger mass brutality unless other conditions are present as well. Culture, empathy, education and empowermentand other factors scholars understand only in partappear to have a protective influence, safeguarding even most fundamentalists against the worst teachings of their own tradition. We know this in part because the Bible contains commandments and stories that are as horrific as those being used to justify butchery in Iraq and Syria.
The following 30 violent exhortations are drawn from Jewish, Christian and Muslim scriptures. The generic word "God" is used for all deity names, and names of places or people have been replaced with generic terms. How well do you know your Torah, Bible or Quran and Hadith? Can you tell which is which? Give it a try and then check the key at the bottom.
1. Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the [holy man] who represents God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged.
2. I decided to order a man to lead the prayer and then take a flame to burn all those, who had not left their houses for the prayer, burning them alive inside their homes.
3. I will fill your mountains with the dead. Your hills, your valleys, and your streams will be filled with people slaughtered by the sword. I will make you desolate forever. Your cities will never be rebuilt. Then you will know that I am God.
4. Fight them until there is no more [disbelief or worshipping of other gods] and worship is for God alone.
5. Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
6. Whoso fighteth in the way of God, be he slain or be he victorious, on him We shall bestow a vast reward.
7. Make ready to slaughter [the infidels] sons for the guilt of their fathers; Lest they rise and posses the earth, and fill the breadth of the world with tyrants.
8. [Gods messenger]... was asked whether it was permissible to attack the pagan warriors at night with the probability of exposing their women and children to danger. The [holy man] replied, "They [women and children] are from them [unbelievers]."
9. Then I heard God say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and k**l everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity! K**l them all old and young, girls and women and little children.
10. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.
11. Keep [my holiday], for it is holy. Anyone who desecrates it must die.
12. The punishment of those who wage war against God and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement.
13. If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death.
14. It is not for a Prophet that he should have prisoners of war until he had made a great slaughter in the land...
15. Now therefore k**l every male among the little ones, and k**l every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
16. I shall terrorize the [heathens]. So wound their bodies and incapacitate them, because they oppose God and his apostle.
17. A [holy mans] daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death.
18. So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captive and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them.
19. Everyone who would not seek God was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
20. And when We wish to destroy a town, We send Our commandment to the people of it who lead easy lives, but they t***sgress therein; thus the word proves true against it, so We destroy it with utter destruction.
21. But if [a girl wasn't a virgin on her wedding night] and evidence of the girl's virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her fathers house and there her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Gods people by her unchasteness in her father's house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.
22. The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say, "O [believer]! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so k**l him."
23. If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but k**l him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you.
24. Gods Apostle said, "I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but God."
25. Cursed be he who does Gods work remissly, cursed he who holds back his sword from blood.
26. God said, "A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. [Prophet], you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But God desires k*****g them to manifest the religion."
27. Anyone who blasphemes Gods name must be stoned to death by the whole community of [believers].
28. When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these, you also accept it and withhold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept) [your religion]; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them... If they refuse to accept [the faith], demand from them [a tax]. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek God's help and fight them.
29. Anyone else who goes too near the [Holy Place] will be executed.
30. K*****g Unbelievers is a small matter to us.
After people have commented I will post the answer key. It is eye opening.
Mar 9, 2016 00:10:32 #
Boo_Boo
Loc: Jellystone
Here is the response, all even numbers come from the Quran. Now then, I do not think there is a modern day Christian or a Jew that will stone a person or take off their heads, and I do not know of any who march in the streets with machetes in hand to murder anyone who is not shouting the approved propaganda. I do not know of any Jew or Christian who thinks it right to go on murdering sprees. In fact, they are the targets of those doing the slaughtering.
The month of February, 29 days.... the religion of "peace" murdered 1615 people, injured 1878 and the latest suicide bomber detonated their hell at a funeral (today, 29 Feb 2016) sent twenty-seven mourners straight to the afterlife. This month, Jews k**led .... NO ONE For religious beliefs.. Likewise, ZERO Christians k**led anyone for religious reasons.
From the bible,
1. Deuteronomy 17:12
3. Ezekiel 35:7-9
5. Matthew 10:34-35
7. Isaiah 14:21
9. Ezekiel 9:5
11. Exodus 31:12-15
13. Leviticus 20:10
15. Numbers 31
17. Leviticus 21:9
19. 2 Chronicles 15:12-13
21. Deuteronomy 22:20-21
23. Deuteronomy 13:7-12
25. Jeremiah 48:10
27. Leviticus 24:16
29. Numbers 1: 51
The month of February, 29 days.... the religion of "peace" murdered 1615 people, injured 1878 and the latest suicide bomber detonated their hell at a funeral (today, 29 Feb 2016) sent twenty-seven mourners straight to the afterlife. This month, Jews k**led .... NO ONE For religious beliefs.. Likewise, ZERO Christians k**led anyone for religious reasons.
From the bible,
1. Deuteronomy 17:12
3. Ezekiel 35:7-9
5. Matthew 10:34-35
7. Isaiah 14:21
9. Ezekiel 9:5
11. Exodus 31:12-15
13. Leviticus 20:10
15. Numbers 31
17. Leviticus 21:9
19. 2 Chronicles 15:12-13
21. Deuteronomy 22:20-21
23. Deuteronomy 13:7-12
25. Jeremiah 48:10
27. Leviticus 24:16
29. Numbers 1: 51
Artemis wrote:
30 of the Most Violent Exhortations from the Bible... (show quote)
Mar 9, 2016 00:22:11 #
Pennylynn wrote:
I Had That Figured Out By #6Here is the response, all even numbers come from the Quran.
And 'Infidel', 'Unbelievers' And 'Messenger' Is Always A Dead Give-Away
Mar 9, 2016 00:25:02 #
Artemis wrote:
After people have commented I will post the answer key. It is eye opening.
After people have commented I will post the answer key. It is eye opening.
Ye vare khe kha Adonai,
ve yish me re kha,
ya eir Adonai,
pa nav e ley kha,
vi chun ne ka,
yis sa Adonai,
pa nav e ley kha,
ve ya sem le kha,
Shalom.
Mar 9, 2016 07:06:33 #
Short answer,,,, "the new testament" for that dumb f-ck,,, artemis,,,
Pennylynn wrote:
Here is the response, all even numbers come from t... (show quote)
Mar 9, 2016 08:43:03 #
Ve'hoe wrote:
Short answer,,,, "the new testament" for that dumb f-ck,,, artemis,,,
Wouldn't have expected anything more, or less from you for that matter.
Mar 9, 2016 08:46:05 #
karpenter wrote:
I Had That Figured Out By #6
And 'Infidel', 'Unbelievers' And 'Messenger' Is Always A Dead Give-Away
And 'Infidel', 'Unbelievers' And 'Messenger' Is Always A Dead Give-Away
The point being violence in all.
Mar 9, 2016 08:59:53 #
Pennylynn wrote:
Here is the response, all even numbers come from t... (show quote)
My point,The point being violence in all. People are accused of "cherry picking" from them, maybe these expressions and verses are a good reason to do just that. Or simply choose another book without all the violence, one more in the line of acceptance of others with a more peaceful attitude.
I always appreciate your feedback as I know I can count on it's honesty.
Mar 9, 2016 09:04:03 #
Mar 9, 2016 12:36:52 #
Artemis wrote:
How ProfoundThe point being violence in all.
Would You Like To Expand On What Is Happening Today Around The World ??
Or Like Obama, You Would Prefer To Drift Hundreds, Even A Thousand Years Into The Past
To Demonstrate To Us All Your Smug Enlightened Superiority
As If This Is The First Time We've Ever Heard ANY Of This Before...
Mar 9, 2016 23:30:02 #
karpenter wrote:
How Profound
Would You Like To Expand On What Is Happening Today Around The World ??
Or Like Obama, You Would Prefer To Drift Hundreds, Even A Thousand Years Into The Past
To Demonstrate To Us All Your Smug Enlightened Superiority
As If This Is The First Time We've Ever Heard ANY Of This Before...
Would You Like To Expand On What Is Happening Today Around The World ??
Or Like Obama, You Would Prefer To Drift Hundreds, Even A Thousand Years Into The Past
To Demonstrate To Us All Your Smug Enlightened Superiority
As If This Is The First Time We've Ever Heard ANY Of This Before...
Schmuck
Mar 10, 2016 01:58:48 #
Mar 10, 2016 09:44:04 #
Theo
Loc: Within 1000 miles of Tampa, Florida
Artemis wrote:
30 of the Most Violent Exhortations from the Bible... (show quote)
So?
What you are not telling us, is the simple fact that all of the above was part of a Covenant agreement the people affected agreed to with Jehovah, their God. They were s***es in Egypt, starved and beaten by Egyptian s***e-masters, when God sent them a prophet (Moses) to bring them out of their terrible life of s***ery.
They were given the rules prior to the agreement, which presented them with some "do"s; some "Don't"s and some promises of rewards for obedience and punishments for disobedience.
They pondered and prayed over it, then entered into Covenant with God. He immediately blessed them and released them from their bondage.
The rest is History.
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