The God Insanity

EXTRACT FROM- CHAPTER B6: GENDER AND AGE DISCRIMINATION

FACT: The modern United States does not allow gender and age discrimination unlike the Bible.

The following are the passages that support and decree in favor of gender and age discrimination in the Bible:

Leviticus 27-27:7

In the above passages, the God of the Bible is putting a value on males and females of different ages. In summary:

Male 20-60 years old: 50 shekels

Female 20-60 years old: 30 shekels

Male 5-20 years old: 20 shekels

Male 60 years upward: 15 shekels

Female 5-20 years old: 10 shekels

Female 60 years upward: 10 shekels

Male 1 month - 5 years old: 5 shekels

Female 1 month - 5 years old: 3 shekels

Note that females have less value across the spectrum, adjusted for age; while the younger and elderly have lesser value than adults age 20 to 60 years old. If you notice carefully, in general, females appear to have only 50 to 60% of the value of the equivalent aged male.

The next time you see any politician or religious leader make the claim that the United States is a Judeo-Christian country, you can present the above chart, and the following New Testament passages to that person:

The Status of women in the New Testament does not get much better:

1Timothy 2:11-14:

A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.

The above passages are very clear. Women are to be treated like second class citizens who are not permitted to teach, or be in positions of authority over men. Furthermore, these passages are from the New Testament. Christians cannot write them off as belonging to that pesky Old Testament.

Furthermore, the above passages mean that it is an act of sacrilege for Biblical Christians to tolerate having women as teachers, mayors, legislators, senators, judges, CEO's, managers, or just about any and all positions where they might have power or authority over a man. The gender discrimination in the Bible is clear. Eve is the one who was deceived, and is the sinner. The implications are clear. Adam was smarter. He is without blame. The woman is to blame. The man was formed first, so he has a higher position and authority. The woman cannot have a higher position than the man.

Note also that Eve is referred to as "the woman" in the last sentence. Apparently, she is not respectable enough to even have her name said out twice; while Adam's name is used twice. Also, the way the sentence is worded, it is clear that "the woman" is a generalization applicable across the board to all women.

This gender discrimination is further borne out by the subtle way in which women are to blame for other abhorrent things that happen in the Bible as noted below. We return to the Old Testament for this part:

More on the status of women in the Old Testament:

Women are to blame for having sex with their father-in-law to raping their own father:

Genesis 38:15-19: Judah is given a free pass to have sexual relations with his daughter-in-law Tamar because he does not recognize her. Tamar is apparently to blame because she has her face covered and does not inform Judah about who she is.

Genesis 19:31-38: Lot's daughters rape him (get him drunk, and have sex with him when he is passed out to get impregnated by him). Again, the man is not guilty because in each case "he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up,"a reference to him being unconscious; essentially making this a two daughters rape their father situation:

One day the older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man here to give us children - as is the custom all over the earth. Let's get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father."

That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and slept with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

The next day the older daughter said to the younger, "Last night I slept with my father. Let's get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father."

So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him. Again, he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

So both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father. The older daughter had a son and she named him Moab. The younger also had a son and she named him Ben-Ammi.

So, if the Bible is to be believed, both of Lot's daughters have sex with him while he is passed out (the legal definition of rape today), and produce children. This makes Lot both the father and grandfather to both Moab and Benammi.

If you were to hear a tale like this today, you would be fairly reasonable in thinking that the writer was a deranged, drunk pervert. However, it is a measure of the extreme backwardness of even modern humans that this tale has apparently been passed off for 2000 years in the Bible, and still believed by many modern humans to be the word of a God. Even if you do believe in the existence of the God of the Bible, and Satan, a reasonable person would be more likely to believe that these words are the work of Satan, and not God.