1 Kings
Introduction

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11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22

Contradictions
Cruelty and Violence
Injustice
Absurdities
Family Values
Intolerance
Language
Women
Interpretation
Homosexuality
Science and History
Sex
Prophecy
Good Stuff

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Intolerance in 1 Kings

1. Note that Solomon is told to stay away from foreign women. Why? Because they have different ("strange") religious beliefs, and God disapproves of mixed-faith marriages. 11:2

2. Joab (David's captain) spent six months killing every male in Edom. 11:16

3. God shows his homophobia by calling gay people "sodomites" and their sexual relations "abominations." 14:24

4. Asa "did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD" by expelling homosexuals (or "sodomites", as the good book calls them). 15:12

5. Baasha kills "all of the house of Jeroboam" leaving none "to breath." This slaughter was done "according to the word of the Lord." 15:29

6. Elijah kills 450 prophets of Baal. 18:22, 40

7. The prophet tells king Ahab that he, and his people, shall be punished for releasing Ben-hadad: "Your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people." 20:42

8. Naboth is stoned to death for blaspheming god and the king. 21:13

9. Jehoshaphat "did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord" and "took" the homosexuals (sodomites) "out of the land," or as the RSV says, "he exterminated" them. 22:43, 46