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Published a list of citations from the Bible, which include justifying sexism, genocide and slavery
Topped the list of the Council of St. Paul to Timothy (2:12), in which the Saint says: "not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over man, but to be in silence". This passage is often used as the grounds for prohibition for women to serve as priests.
Next are of concern string justifying the genocide of the First book of kings (15:3): "Now go and smite Amalek [and ARIMA] and utterly destroy all that he [don't take nothing from them, but kill and slay utterly destroyed all that he]; and do not give spare them not; but slay death from husband to wife, from the child to suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass".
The third is the call of Moses to kill witches in Exodus (22:18): "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."
Another terrible verse, " blacklisted - from Psalm 137, which glorifies terrible revenge: "blessed is he who repays you for what you have done to us! Blessed are those who will take you, and break your babies against a stone.
More controversy causes included in the list reflection of St. Paul about homosexuality in the Epistle to the Romans (1:27), the question that divides the parishioners of the Church of England: "likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, was kindled lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error".
Also the list includes the test of God to Abraham in Genesis, in which Abraham offered to sacrifice his son Isaac; support for women's obedience in his Epistle to the Ephesians (5:22): "Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord"; and the same Council of St. Peter servants in the First Epistle of Peter (2:18): "Servants, with all fear obey masters not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward".
Simon Jenkins, editor shipoffouls.com, explained that the main objective of this survey was to get people to think about how selective quoting the Bible can be dangerous.
The list was unveiled on Christian festival "Greenbelt" in Cheltenham on Monday evening.
The full list of "the 10 most terrifying biblical quotes":
1. The Board of St. Paul to permit a woman to teach a man in Church: "not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over man, but to be in silence" (I Timothy 2:12).
2. In this verse, Samuel, one of the elders of Israel, gave orders about the genocide of the neighboring people: "Now go and smite Amalek [and ARIMA] and utterly destroy all that he [don't take nothing from them, but kill and slay utterly destroyed all that he]; and do not give spare them not; but slay death from husband to wife, from the child to suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass" (the First book of Samuel 15:3).
3. The order of Moses: "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" (Exodus 22:18).
4. The last line of the Psalm 137, which has been turned into a disco hit Boney M, often not pronounced during divine services: "blessed is he who repays you for what you have done to us! Blessed are those who will take you, and break your babies against a stone" (Psalm 137).
5. Another story, which draws the blood, from the book of Judges of Israel. It Israelite deposited in the house of the angry crowd, sends his concubine reassure people: "Then the man took his concubine, and brought them into the street. They knew her and mocked her all the night until the morning. And let her go when the morning. And a woman came before the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house, which was Mr. her, and lay before the world. Mr its got up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house and went out to go his way: and, behold his concubine lying at the door of the house, and her hands on the threshold. He said to her, up, and let us go. But there was no answer [because she died]. He laid it on the donkey, and arose and went to his own place" (Judges of Israel, 19:25-28).
6. Saint Paul condemns homosexuality in the opening Romans Chapter: "and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, was kindled lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error" (Romans 1:27).
7. In this story from the book of Judges of Israel, the Israeli leader Jephthah makes a vow to God that he should do: "And Jephthah vowed a vow unto Jehovah, and said, "If Thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into my hand, then upon my return in peace from the children of Ammon that will come out of the gates of my house to meet me, the will of the Lord, and exalt this for a burnt offering". So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the Lord delivered them into his hand; and he smote them with a very great defeat, from Aroer to Minify twenty cities, and to Abel-keramim, and resigned from the children of Ammon unto the children of Israel.
And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and faces: it was his only one, and not he had neither son nor daughter. When he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, "Oh, my daughter! You've got me, and you are among the offenders of my rest! I opened up [of you] my mouth before the Lord and cannot renounce" (Judges of Israel, 11:30-34).
8. God speaks to Abraham, and orders him to sacrifice his son: "God said, take now your son, your only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee" (Genesis 22:2).
9. "Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord" (Ephesians 5:22).
10. "Servant, with all fear obey masters not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward" (I Peter 2:18).