30 November 2008, 10:07 pm
Injustice in Matthew While insulting the Pharisees and Sadducees, John the Baptist calls an entire generation a "generation of vipers." 3:7 Those who bear bad fruit will be cut down and burned "with unquenchable fire." 3:10, 12 Jesus strongly approves of the law and the prophets. He hasn't the slightest objection to the cruelties of the Old Testament. 5:17 Don't defend yourself in court. 5:40 "If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." Fair is fair! 6:15 Jesus recommends that to avoid sin we cut off our hands and pluck out our eyes. This advice is given immediately after he says that anyone who looks with lust at any women commits adultery. 5:29-30 Jesus says that most people will go to hell. 7:13-14 Those who fail to bear "good fruit" will be "hewn down, and cast into the fire." 7:19 "My servant lieth at home sick." Here was the perfect opportunity for Jesus to condemn slavery. All he'd have to do is say, "OK, I'll heal him. But then you must set your slave free, because slavery is an abomination to God." 8:5-9 "the children of the kingdom [the Jews] shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." 8:12 Jesus tells a man who had just lost his father: "Let the dead bury the dead." 8:21 Jesus sends some devils into a herd of pigs, causing them to run off a cliff and drown in the waters below. 8:32 Jesus tells his disciples to keep away from the Gentiles and Samaritans, and go only to the Israelites. 10:5-6 Cities that neither "receive" the disciples nor "hear" their words will be destroyed by God. It will be worse for them than for Sodom and Gomorrah. And you know what God supposedly did to those poor folks (see Gen.19:24). 10:14-15 Families will be torn apart because of Jesus (this is one of the few "prophecies" in the Bible that has actually come true). "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." 10:21 Jesus says that we should fear God who is willing and "able to destroy both soul and body in hell." 10:28 "Whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven." 10:33 Jesus says that he has come to destroy families by making family members hate each other. He has "come not to send peace, but a sword." 10:34-36 Jesus warns us not to love our parents or children too much. We have to make sure that we always love him (who we don't even know existed) more than our family. 10:37 Jesus condemns entire cities to dreadful deaths and to the eternal torment of hell because they didn't care for his preaching. 11:20-24 When Jesus' mother and brothers want to see him, Jesus rudely asks, "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?" So much for Jesus' family values. 12:47-49 Jesus explains that the reason he speaks in parables is so that no one will understand him, "lest ... they ... should understand ... and should be converted, and I should heal them." 13:10-15 "For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath." Isn't this from the Republican Party platform? 13:12 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." 13:41-42, 50 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." (See Ex.21:15, Lev.20:9, Dt.21:18-21) So, does Jesus think that children who curse their parents should be killed? It sure sounds like it. 15:4-7 Jesus refuses to heal the Canaanite woman's possessed daughter, saying "it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to the dogs." 15:22-26 "Whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it." If you want to stay alive, you must lose your life (kill yourself?) for Jesus' sake. 16:25 Jesus condemns the whole world, saying "Woe unto the world because of offenses." 18:7 Jesus advises his followers to mutilate themselves by cutting off their hands and plucking out their eyes. He says it's better to be "maimed" than to suffer "everlasting fire." 18:8-9 In the parable of the unforgiving servant, the king threatens to enslave a man and his entire family to pay for a debt. This practice, which was common at the time, seems not to have bothered Jesus very much. 18:25 "And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors." 18:34 Rich people don't go to heaven. For as Jesus says, "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. MamaBear: Buddha perscribed medicine for those that were hurting and didn't love others. Buddha didn't kill people nor did he condemn them. God was the complete opposite.... Read More »
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