You've probably heard of a few of the stories in this book. Noah's Flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, David and Goliath, maybe. But there are more than 100 others that are unknown to pretty much everyone. Did you know, for example, that God: *Forced friends and family to kill each other for dancing naked around Aaron's golden calf? *Burned complainers to death, forced the survivors to eat quail until it literally came out their noses, sent "fiery serpents" to bite people for complaining about the lack of food and water, and killed 14,700 for complaining about his killings? *Helped Samson murder thirty men for their clothes, slaughter 1000 with the jawbone of an ass, and kill 3000 civilians in a a suicide terrorist attack? *Smote Philistines with hemorrhoids in their secret parts? *Slowly killed a baby to punish David for committing adultery? *Killed 70,000 because David had a census that he (or Satan) told him to do? *Sent a lion to kill a prophet for believing another prophet's lie, another lion to kill a man for not smiting a prophet, and more lions to kill people that didn't fear him enough? *Killed 450 religious leaders in a prayer contest and burned 102 men to death for asking Elijah to come down from his hill? *Sent two bears to rip apart 42 boys for making fun of Elisha's bald head? *Killed Ahab for not killing a captured king, and then sent Jehu to kill all of Ahab's family and friends who had ever "pissed against a wall?" All of these killings, and more, are found in the Bible, and the God of the Bible is proud of each one. Here's what he said about them: "I kill ... I wound ... I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh." -- Deuteronomy 32:39-42 These stories fill the pages of the Bible, yet they are seldom read in church and are ignored by most Bible believers. Drunk with Blood brings them out into the open. It's time for us all to take a look.
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Steve Wells is the creator of "The Skeptic's Annotated Bible/ Quran /Book of Mormon" (http://SkepticsAnnotatedBible.com) and is the author of the blog, "Dwindling in Unbelief" (http://dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com). He has spent way too much time (the last 20 years) analyzing the three worst books ever written.
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No Longer offering MY blood for God's binge drinking ~ I've sobered up!,
By Vyckie D. Garrison "NO LONGER QUIVERING" (Norfolk, NE United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
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When my daughter saw the cover of my copy of "Drunk With Blood: God's Killings in the Bible," she asked, "So are you becoming a Satanist now?"
Drunk With Blood really is a horrible book ~ and what makes it such a horror is that it enumerates the sheer number of people whom God either killed Himself or else approved of their deaths ~ straight from the Bible! From the back cover: Who has killed more, Satan or God? (Biblical numbers only, no estimates.) Satan 10 God 2,476,633 That's slightly less than 2.5 MILLION people killed by God in the bible, folks. In the introduction, author Steve Wells, explains how he came up with the numbers ~ he only uses the actual #s from the bible. For instance, in the story of Job ~ God gave Satan permission to kill all of Job's children & servants. The bible says he had 10 children. Since he was a wealthy man, Job probably had more servants than children ~ but "Drunk With Blood" doesn't count the servants' deaths. Which means that these numbers that Steve Wells came up with are actually under-representative of the # of people killed by God. Steve explains that he also didn't include FUTURE killings ~ those promised by God in Revelation ~ since they haven't happened yet. The promised End Times killings are ~ Wow ~ a horrendous # of dead people ~ to be killed by Jesus, himself! Rev 14 foretells "one like the Son of Man" swinging his sickle & "reaping" enough dead that their blood fills a huge winepress. Wells calculates that the amount of blood needed to fill this winepress would require the death of 24 TRILLION people ~ killed by JESUS! 'Cuz ~ as we've been told ~ the first time, Jesus came as a Lamb ~ next time, He'll come as a Lion ~ wreaking vengeance upon the enemies of God. Quoting Steve Wells, "there are many other verses that say similar (bats**t crazy) things in the Bible, & they're not all in Revelation ..." Ch 1: The Flood of Noah ~ est. # killed 20 Million ~ Everyone on earth except Noah & family. Ch 2: Abraham's war to rescue Lot ~ est. # killed: 100 Ch 3 Sodom & Gomorrah ~ est. # killed: 2000 So you get the idea ~ "Drunk With Blood: God's Killings in the Bible" quotes verse after verse where God killed the creatures He made in His own image. When I was a Christian, I generally skimmed over those barbaric killings ~ I figured God must've had a reason ~ even if I didn't get it. Or I would say, "Well, that was the old covenant" Jesus came to be the ultimate sacrifice ~ so Christianity is different. Quoting @AlmightGod: To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click "I agree." "Drunk With Blood" includes God's killings in the New Testament too: Ananias & Sapphira, Herod Aggripa, and of course, Jesus. "God killed his son in order to stop himself from torturing people forever after they die..." It's impossible to see all God's killings ~ clearly enumerated ~ chapter & verse ~ & not conclude that the bible God is EVIL. So here's the thing ~ for all the talk about God being LOVE & the value of human life ~ the bible God relishes the death of His enemies ... and He also glories in the deaths of his chosen people (martyrs get a crown) and even His own Son! As a former Quiverfull believer, I saw this devaluing of human life ~ esp. for women ~ for mothers who risk their lives producing "arrows for God's army" (See Kathryn Joyce, Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement) Mary Pride ~ a Quiverfull leader, says that women who die in childbirth are to be honored as martyrs! Quiverfull moms who die in childbirth are just so much collateral damage in the war for the advancement of God's kingdom. After reading "Drunk With Blood" I am not at all surprised when I think of the callous attitude re: maternal deaths among the "pro-life" and "pro-family" ~ biblical family values camp. I used to identify with Job ~ "Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him" was my life verse ~ ugh! I feel betrayed by this "Creator!" I was willing to die for Him ~ yet, the bible God thinks nothing of wholesale slaughter of men, women, children. What was I thinking? Such a monster God is unworthy of my devotion & self-sacrifice. And my oldest daughter ~ she very well could have become another victim of this Killer God ~ as a "Quivering daughter" (see Hillary McFarland, Quivering Daughters), following His ways drove her to attempt suicide. When God says, Love me & serve me or burn forever ~ that's not a choice ~ that's an ultimatum. Thanks, Steve Wells for "Drunk With Blood: God's Killings in the Bible" ~ this book is an awesome contribution to HUMAN SANITY!!
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Not Inspired or Inerrant,
By Michael (Albuquerque, NM) - See all my reviews
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"The bible is the ispired and inerrant word of God." How many people take this statement for fact without ever having actually cracked open their dusty family bible, let alone having read through it? I was one of them for many years. Sure we all have our favorite bible stories that we were told as a child. Noah leading the adorable animals into the ark, Moses parting the Red Sea, or David and Goliath.
But how many of us stop to consider the millions of people, including the elderly, babies, and pregnant women killed in the flood? Were all the babies alive in the world at the time so wicked as to deserve being drowned? How about all the millions of innocent animals that were killed? How many innocent first born Egyptian children were murdered so that god could prove a point to a pharoah whose heart he had hardened? How many of us are familiar with the story of Moses commanding his army (after they had already killed all of the Midianite men, captured the women and children, plundered their valuables and animals, and burned their cities down) to slaughter all of the male children and non virgin female prisoners of war? Moses, being very generous, allowed the army to keep the virgins, all 32,000 of them (Numbers 31). How may of us know about King David's genocidal wars detailed throughout the books of Samuel? How many of us approve of god slowly killing an innocent baby to teach the father, the adulterous King David, a lesson? How many parents would tell their children the story of Elisha sending two bears to rip apart 42 children for teasing him (2 Kings 2 23-24) or the story of Jephthah agreeing to the human sacrafice of his own daughter (and god happily accepting) so that god could help him slaughter the Ammonites (Judges 11 34-39)? The fact is, many people are unaware of these stories because they haven't actually read the bible and their ministers shy away from telling them. Steve Wells does an amazing job of bringing to light the uncomfortable and ignored stories in the bible. This book is primarily quotations from the King James Bible interspersed with insightful and humorous (despite the horrific subject matter) annotations. He counts the numbers of god approved and god assisted killings throughout the bible (its millions and millions). In doing so, Wells exposes the bible for what it is: a collection of bloody and violent myths that doesn't deserve the title of inspired or inerrant. Hopefully this book will help people to take a more critical look at a book that millions accept unquestioningly as a moral guide.
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Required reading for anyone who thinks God is Love,
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Drunk with Blood is both humorously entertaining and historically accurate; well, insofar as the Bible itself is historically accurate. While the pious reader may be offended by Wells's commentary, his inclusion of the relevant biblical verses and their context renders your offense moot.
It is worth stating clearly this is not a book of biblical interpretation wherein an angry atheist calls God a jerkface. This is, quite simply, a play-by-play recounting of a very large number of biblical stories we tend *not* to tell our children. Evil spirits are from God. Genocide is condoned by God. Slavery, torture and dismemberment (among so many other things) are often facilitated through God. Fortunately you don't have to take my or Wells's word for it -- it's right there in the Good Book. Finally, we see just how much God takes pride in his killings: "... for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God." Exodus 34:14 (KJV)
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