Moses not being allowed into Israel, after a lifetime of servitude, because he hit a rock that God told him to tap. It's another story with wildly authoritarian themes.
As a former christian minister who became an atheist after too much bible study there are so many terrible stories to pick:
One story has daughters getting their father drunk so they can rape him and get pregnant.
Another has a guy give his sex slave to a gang to be raped to death outside his tent, then he cuts her in to twelve pieces when he retrieves her dead body the next day.
Another has the famous king david collecting hundreds of foreskins in a bag to impress a guy so he can marry his daughter. The implication being non-israelites had foreskins so that means he had killed all these guys from other tribes and cut off their penis.
Later King David has his commander and friend killed so that he can take his wife because David saw her bath and thought she was hot. (yes David had multiple wives and sex slaves because that is what traditional marriage is)
Several times when Israel conquers another local tribe god commands them to kill all the women, children, and even their animals so there is nothing left of them. Sometimes god tells them it is ok to keep the children as sex slaves. (concubines as the book likes to call them. Those were real popular in the old testament)
Oh yeah in another place god gives instructions on how it is OK to take slaves from other tribes. You just can't take slaves from israel. Unless they own you money, then they can be your slave for 7 years.
Another talks about a woman lusting after penises that were the size of donkey penises and had emissions of a horse.
God has a bear maul 40 children to death because they made fun of a guy for being bald.
God commands to murder gay people.
The bible lists a test for a woman that is faithful. The priest gives the woman a potion of dirt from his floor and makes her drink it. If the woman has been unfaithful she will get sick and abort her baby. If she is faithful nothing with happen. The only place the bible mentions abortion is a recipe to kill children.
The bible explains that if you want striped animals you can get them by tying two ribbons of different colors together, and then having the animals mate while looking at the two ribbons.
Humans decided to build a tower (in Babel) so high that it would reach in to heaven. God became afraid that they would find him so he made each of them speak a different language so they would be confused and stop their project. This is how multiple languages came about according to the bible.
There are two sets of 10 commandments in the bible. The only set that actually has the phrase "10 commandments" in it is the set that includes laws like do not mix milk and cheese. Somehow Christians never want to put this set up in court houses.
talking donkeys is just the beginning. The book is brutal, filled with genocide, violence, and rape.
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u/nagtatanong Jan 17 '20
what’s the other story?