God’s Hit List

There is not a single word in the Bible condemning slavery or torture.

But adultery? An abomination.  And so are those oysters on your plate. Homosexuality? An abomination. As is sacrificing a blemished ox. Bestiality? An abomination. Likewise your butcher’s inaccurate scale. (1)

You say that your brother smashed his thumb with a hammer and muttered the magic words, “God fucking damn it! Jesus Festering Christ!”? Waste him. (2)

And why is that EMT driving an ambulance on Sunday? Waste him, too. (3)

You just happened, purely by accident, to glance in your neighbor’s bedroom window and caught him having a three-way with his wife and mother-in-law? Fire up the gas grill, don your chef’s garb, slather ’em with BBQ sauce, and barbecue all three of ’em–to a crisp. (4)

And you say your rebellious teenager got drunk, ate three cheese pizzas, and then cussed you out? Snuff the ingrate. (5)

It’s what the Lord thy God wants. In fact, it’s what He commands.

That’s well worth remembering–and pointing out–the next time some religious wackjob starts whingeing on about sexual “sin” and the divinely ordained “need” to punish such “abominations.”

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1. See Ezekiel 23:36-37; Leviticus 18:20, 27;  Leviticus 11:10-12;  Leviticus 18:22; Leviticus 20:13; Deuteronomy 17:1; Leviticus 18:23, 27; and Deuteronomy 25:13-16.
2. See Leviticus 24:14-16
3. See Exodus 31:14-15; Exodus 35:1-2; and Numbers 15:32-36
4. See Leviticus 20:14
5. Leviticus 20:9

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–from the pamphlet God’s Hit List: Abominations and Death Penalties in the Bible

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