How brutal and savage.  That is from the Bible?  NO WAY.

I'm sure well find someone here attempting to invent some kind of exuse or create a crazy abstract interpretation for this quote.  

Here's a few more to add to the list:

Exodus 35:2. Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.

Deuteronomy 21:18-21. If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Leviticus 20:13. If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

Deuteronomy 22:13-21. If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then turns against her, and charges her with shameful deeds and publicly defames her, and says, 'I took this woman, but when I came near her, I did not find her a virgin......
But if this charge is true, that the girl was not found a virgin, then they shall bring out the girl to the doorway of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death because she has (D)committed an act of folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father's house; thus (E)you shall purge the evil from among you.

Let's see someone explain these away.

Word of God my @$$.  Reading passages such as these makes me sick.  How can anyone worship a god who promotes such things?  Dispickable.  All of the good teachings in the Bible combined could never cover up or make up for these sick "teachings."  Wake up Christians.

Here's a link to almost 100 bible passages which promote attrochious acts of violence and savagry.  Educate yourself.  http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/donald_morgan/atrocity.html

Chumley and Dude,

Both of you are historical and biblical illiterates whose distortions of Scripture are googled and not based on direct grappling with original texts.
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-Compared to your typical churchgoer (who you'd have us emulate, right? ADMIT IT!) Dude and I are veritable
BIBLE SCHOLARS, Don. That's not saying much I realize... but hey,
you gotta start somewhere, righto???
As far as me googling for Psalm 137:9... WHAT Bible are you using,
Don old boy? Are you saying that isn't in the Bible then? BTW, I got it  straight from the KJV (online version, for what that's worth...)
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But Chumley, you are poisoning Bruce's site with your ignorant venom and creating thread after thread that has nothing to do with the site's purpose.  And you don't even have the courtesy to post your venom in the "Off Topic" section.
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-"Venom"? Because I won't conform to your dogma?
You'd make a good Thought Police agent in the world of
"1984", Don. (I'll bet you just HATE living in a democracy,
what with free speech and other such awful things..!)
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As you know, I'm planning to leave this section of the site after a post or two.  Unlike you two, Rondele is a skeptic who knows what he doesn't know and has an honest and open-ended spiritual quest.  So I'm going to create at least one more post to address his issues.  Neither of you are willing to read books with perspectives that challenge your venemous dogmas.  But I'll make you a deal: I'll debate you both on Jesus and the Bible on one condition--that you create your anti-Christian threads in the "Off Topic" section out of courtesy to members who want their discussion kept on the site's fbcus.
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-So you can proselytize UNCHALLENGED on the main forum, eh? (Surprise, surprise...)
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  There I'll continue to answer your questions there long after I've vacated the "Afterlife Knowledge" section of this wesite.  Are you game or not?  if so, signify this not  by replying to this post, but by starting a new thread in the "Off Topic" section.

Don
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-I guess I'm just not as good at tortuous mental gymnastics as
you are. I'm not able to see how smashing a little kid's brains
all over a rock is really a sign of "God's love."
No, I'm the type who just sees things, the way he reads 'em.
I've read books. I've read some of the stuff you've suggested.
But none of it is going to turn me into a Christian dogma-head,
sorry 'bout that. (Having read the likes of Robert Ingersoll, Bertrand
Russel, and Richard Dawkins, the authors you've been offering up
seem a bit "bush league" to me (no pun intended.) I wonder how you'd do in a debate with James Randi, Don?)
So far, all of your arguments have had the consistency of
half-cooked farina... (But what else would you expect from
Christian apologetics, no matter how brilliant the presenter..?)
Augustine and Thomas Aquinas didn't convince me, Don. Once
these "heavyweights" (relatively speaking) are out of the way,
what's left..?

B-man

I thought I would just make the observation that some of the threads begun lately have been titled so as to be directed specifically at certain people, and they tend to make the comments appear personal and disrespectful in some cases. 

I feel that it is not appropriate to single people out in this way, and, at the very least, we can be mindful of it. 

love, blink

Dude,

I never said those verses weren't in the Bible.  I said that you and Chum had to google them to track them down.  Neither of you has an even rudimentary knowledge of Scripture, as I will quickly demonstrate if you accept my invitation to engage in the "Off Topic" section.   But a word of warning!  Such an engagement will hold your feet to the fire for the broad range of your irresponsible statements about Jesus and the Bible which you gleaned from Acharya and other incompetent online sources.  By the way, "Acharya" is her pompous pseudonym and means "Guru" or "teacher."  Her real name is D. Murdock. As I've said, I will not be posting in this section after tomorrow. 

[Dude:] "Can you not come to terms with the disgusting words that your "god" teaches?  You make no sense and your arguement against these passages is absurd."
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Spoken with the arrogant presumption of a lightweight innocent!  I haven't shared my argument in defense of the Bible as a  whole.  So how do you know my "argument...is absurd?"  I will enjoy making constructive use of you and Chum as my whipping boys.  Gentlemen, start your "Off Topic" thread.

Don

Dude,

No, what is important is this: you have taken many ignorant dogmatic cheap shots at Jesus and the Bible with impunity on many threads.  And now you are confronted by potential humiliation from someone who has just called your bluff and challenged you to subject your claims to closer scrutiny.  I will quickly demonstrate that you don't know what you are talking about.   That would be OK if you weren't so arrogantly dogmatic.   You and Chum can't hide behind your excuse that I'll sneak back to this section and "proselytize."  If that happens, you can abruptly end your intellectual ordeal.  So I expect you to "man up," start the Off Topic thread, and see what happens.

Don

Dude,

I never said those verses weren't in the Bible.  I said that you and Chum had to google them to track them down.  Neither of you has an even rudimentary knowledge of Scripture, as I will quickly demonstrate if you accept my invitation to engage in the "Off Topic" section.   But a word of warning!  Such an engagement will hold your feet to the fire for the broad range of your irresponsible statements about Jesus and the Bible which you gleaned from Acharya and other incompetent online sources.  By the way, "Acharya" is her pompous pseudonym and means "Guru" or "teacher."  Her real name is D. Murdock. As I've said, I will not be posting in this section after tomorrow. 

[Dude:] "Can you not come to terms with the disgusting words that your "god" teaches?  You make no sense and your arguement against these passages is absurd."
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Spoken with the arrogant presumption of a lightweight innocent!  I haven't shared my argument in defense of the Bible as a  whole.  So how do you know my "argument...is absurd?"  I will enjoy making constructive use of you and Chum as my whipping boys.

Don
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"Whipping boys?"
What do you mean? Are you going to call us names and launch
ad hominem attacks, you mean?
#1. That doesn't scare me, Don. It is COMICAL in fact..!
#2. Why would I want to listen to, or read, a bunch of rehashed
C.S. Lewis (THAT clown should have stuck to ripping off his buddy J.R.R. Tolkien, IMHO) and Josh MacDowell (so full of holes, he's not even funny, just pathetic) arguments? As such, we won't be able to PROVE you're wrong. And conversely, you won't be able to prove WE are wrong. (Arguing with people like you is a bit like firing a pistol into a mud puddle. You're hitting something, but in the end there wasn't anything to shoot at - and you're wasting your ammo!)

B-man

Somewhere I came across an Eleventh Commandment which seems appropriate here - "Thou shalt be involved in no bad scenes."

If we can't PUL it together, we're gonna get pulled apart.

d