Deuteronomy
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Injustice
Cruelty and Violence
Intolerance
Contradictions
Absurdities
Family Values
Women
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SAB: Deuteronomy

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Family Values in Deuteronomy

1. At God's instructions, the Israelites "utterly destroyed the men, women, and the little ones" leaving "none to remain." 2:33-36

2. The Israelites, with God's help, kill all the men, women, and children of every city. 3:3-6

3. If your brother, son, daughter, wife, or friend tries to get you to worship another god, "thou shalt surely kill him, thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death." 13:6-10

4. In the cities that god "delivers into thine hands" you must kill all the males (including old men, boys, and babies) with "the edge of the sword .... But the women ... shalt thou take unto yourself." 20:13

5. "But of the cities ... which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth." Kill the old men and women, the sick and the dying, the blind and the lame, pregnant mothers, nursing mothers, infants, toddlers, and babies. 20:16

6. If you see a pretty woman among the captives and would like her for a wife, then just bring her home and "go in unto her." Later, if you decide you don't like her, you can "let her go." 21:11-14

7. Rules for those who have two wives: "one beloved, and another hated." 21:15-17

8. How to treat your hated children. 21:15-17

9. If you have a "stubborn and rebellious son," then you and the other men in your neighborhood "shall stone him with stones that he die." 21:18-21

10. If a man marries, then decides that he hates his wife, he can claim she wasn't a virgin when they were married. If her father can't produce the "tokens of her virginity" (bloody sheets), then the woman is to be stoned to death at her father's doorstep. 22:13-21

11. If a betrothed virgin is raped in the city and doesn't cry out loud enough, then "the men of the city shall stone her to death." 22:23-24

12. If a man rapes an unbetrothed virgin, he must pay her father 50 shekels of silver and then marry her. 22:28-29

13. If two men fight and the wife of one grabs the "secrets" of the other, "then thou shalt cut off her hand" and "thine eye shall not pity her." 25:11-12

14. "Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body." 28:18

15. "Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her." 28:30

16. Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people." 28:32

17. "Thou shalt begat sons and daughters, but thou shall not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity." 28:41

18. "All these curses shall come upon thee ... and upon thy seed for ever." 28:45

19. "And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters." 28:53-55

20. "The tender and delicate woman" will be forced to eat her own children "that cometh out from between her feet." 28:56-57

21. When God gets mad -- watch out! He'll starve you to death, burn you with fire, and send vicious beasts to devour you. He'll "destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs." Not even the helpless and innocent are spared by this psychotic God. 32:21-26