http://www.evilbible.com/
http://infidels.org/library/modern/donald_morgan/atrocity.html
Ah yes evil bible, a Muslim once linked me to that site.
Darn one thing I hate more than anything is when people copy and past a mass of quotes hoping that it will results in hushing an opponent of islam.
But I shall pick through and try to answer as much as I can.
A question one must ask before criticizing these verses is are they commands from god and are they commandments that are to be continued? They are not. All of it is written record of what has happened, much like a history book. To understand each of these verses you would have to study them in the right context, most I do not have time for.
Answering the massacre that occured in 2 Kings 10:18-27
God ordered Jehu to destroy the house of Ahab, but he does not order Jehu to massacre all the worshipers of Baal.
6 Jehu got up and went into the house. Then the prophet poured the oil on Jehu’s head and declared, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anoint you king over the Lord’s people Israel. 7 You are to destroy the house of Ahab your master, and I will avenge the blood of my servants the prophets and the blood of all the Lord’s servants shed by Jezebel. 8 The whole house of Ahab will perish. I will cut off from Ahab every last male in Israel—slave or free.a 9 I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha son of Ahijah. 10 As for Jezebel, dogs will devour her on the plot of ground at Jezreel, and no one will bury her.’ ” Then he opened the door and ran.
Jehu went agains Gods order, going way overboard. Thats why in Hosea 1:4-5 God declares he will punish Jehu for what he did in 2 Kings 10:18.
In Hosea 1:4-5
4 Then the Lord said to Hosea, “Call him Jezreel, because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel. 5In that day I will break Israel’s bow in the Valley of Jezreel.”
So from this we see that one Jehu was not orderd by god to kill all of the Baal worshipers just Ahab and his line, two God condems Jehu for his actions that lead to the massacre, and three no where in that chapter or verse does it command "us" to kill unbelievers.
In Judges 21 God never told them to do what they did, they didnt seek out the Lord for advice and as the writter remindes the reader in Judges 21:25 "In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit."
It actually mentions that the Elders were the ones who instructed the Benjamites to hide in the vineyards to go take those women.
Judges 21:15-22
15 The people grieved for Benjamin, because the Lord had made a gap in the tribes of Israel. 16 And the elders of the assembly said, “With the women of Benjamin destroyed, how shall we provide wives for the men who are left? 17 The Benjamite survivors must have heirs,” they said, “so that a tribe of Israel will not be wiped out. 18 We can’t give them our daughters as wives, since we Israelites have taken this oath: ‘Cursed be anyone who gives a wife to a Benjamite.’ 19 But look, there is the annual festival of the Lord in Shiloh, which lies north of Bethel, east of the road that goes from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”
20 So they instructed the Benjamites, saying, “Go and hide in the vineyards 21 and watch. When the young women of Shiloh come out to join in the dancing, rush from the vineyards and each of you seize one of them to be your wife. Then return to the land of Benjamin. 22 When their fathers or brothers complain to us, we will say to them, ‘Do us the favor of helping them, because we did not get wives for them during the war. You will not be guilty of breaking your oath because you did not give your daughters to them.’ ”
In Psalm 137, I think the whole chapter explains itself dont it?
Psalm 137
1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept
when we remembered Zion.
2 There on the poplars
we hung our harps,
3 for there our captors asked us for songs,
our tormentors demanded songs of joy;
they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
4How can we sing the songs of the Lord
while in a foreign land?
5 If I forget you, Jerusalem,
may my right hand forget its skill.
6 May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
if I do not remember you,
if I do not consider Jerusalem
my highest joy.
7Remember, Lord, what the Edomites did
on the day Jerusalem fell.
“Tear it down,” they cried,
“tear it down to its foundations!”
8 Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who repays you
according to what you have done to us.
9 Happy is the one who seizes your infants
and dashes them against the rocks.
Its talking about gods people going into captivity and being tortured by Babylon. Its not a commandment to kill babies and no where does god approve of what is in the verse. One must remember that Psalmist recorded alot of things just like a historian, god, bad, and the ugly just like many other writters in the bible.
